During my morning ritual catching up on the latest news from my favorite auto sites, I stumbled across this little tidbit at Jalopnik.com. BMW appears to have something special in mind for “launching” the new 1 series in the US. If you’ll follow the links you’ll see some substantial groundwork for an extensive viral web campaign to build buzz for the new model line I’ll call “Rampenfest.”
This isn’t foreign territory for BMW. You may remember the brilliant The Hire series of films produced by BMW in early 2000, featuring some of Hollywoods finest talents. While “The Hire” and “Rampenfest” aren’t quite in the same league, it is nice to see that BMW continues to embrace “alternative” media, including; a blog, YouTube and Flickr.
It’s really refreshing to see the BMW brand start to take a few more chances. For so many people out there it’s such a conservative acting brand that I can’t help but feel this is what they’ve needed to do for some time.
Glad to see BMW not taking everything safe. I believe in a great many ways that the 1 series is pretty much aimed at a group of drivers BMW really hasn’t addressed for a long time. Give them a thumbs up for this move.
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