{"id":20180,"date":"2011-04-28T12:00:41","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T11:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=20180"},"modified":"2023-01-24T14:07:31","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T14:07:31","slug":"the-beetle-pitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/blog\/the-beetle-pitch\/","title":{"rendered":"The Beetle Pitch &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"\" class=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aT3UOsQJFNQ?rel=0&#038;showinfo=0&#038;controls=1&#038;enablejsapi=\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Cars don&#8217;t come much more iconic than the Beetle. Love em or hate em, no automobile has represented the ideals of everyman motoring more than the original &#8220;peoples car&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not surprising then that some stratospheric stars have represented the brand \u2014 From Paul Newman to Marty Feldman and even Buzz Aldrin of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RMINSD7MmT4\">Apollo 11 mission<\/a> \u2014 have chosen to lend their image to this most basic of family cars.<\/p>\n<p>To put this into context back in 1970 Aldrin, along with numero uno Moonwalking astronaut <a href=\"http:\/\/starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov\/docs\/StarChild\/whos_who_level2\/armstrong.html\">Neil Armstrong<\/a>, was perhaps the most famous celebrity on the planet.<\/p>\n<p>To get an idea of the brand value of the Astronaut&#8217;s face, he was paid a cool $300,000 dollars for endorsing the car. Forty years ago that was an almost unimaginable money for an endorsement of a car campaign.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/buzzaldrin.com\/biography\/\">In choosing a man that walked on the moon<\/a> &#8211; an individual with a doctorate in Astronautics from MIT as well as an epoch-making claim to fame &#8211; was association of forward thinking tech way before Audi dreamed of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phrases.org.uk\/meanings\/vorsprung-durch-technik.html\">Vorsprung Durch Technik.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And this for a car designed originally in Nazi Germany in the thirties.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s difficult not to mention the Werner Von Braun connection. 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