Months ago this blog went gaga with a Turkish Van for US article. Now I am tickled pink with the careful product placement that took the van to Hollywood.Mavi Boncuk |
Ford's Transit Connect, the car company's new compact minivan landed a major role in the feature film "Valentine's Day". The van is painted pink and serves as the delivery van for a flower company tying otherwise unrelated stories together as Ashton Kutcher plays the flower deliveryman and drives the van, with George Lopez as his coworker and copilot.
In May 2009, a Ford Transit Connect commercial van rolled off the line at the Ford Otosan factory in Kocaeli, Turkey, and up the gangplank of a ship bound for America as the first vehicle in the first shipment of automobiles from Turkey to the United States.
On this side of the Atlantic, there was no fanfare when that first van rolled off the Grand Benelux, the first Turkish-made Transit Connect slipped in largely unnoticed while the industry observers were watching and waiting for the first Chinese-made cars to arrive. But in the following months Transit Connect has exceeded Ford's expectations with brisk sales, with dealers hard-pressed to keep the compact van on their lots.
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