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== Advertising ==

* Parodied and inverted in this banned [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GR2NCQf8XbY Volkswagen advert].

* At the beginning of [[The Eighties]], a remote starter was still a novelty that might turn up in mail-order houses in the back pages of periodicals like ''Popular Science''. No one knew why they "needed" one. In an attempt to be clever, one advertiser promoted a "Remote Bomb Igniter" — finally, something for our gangster customers, long neglected as the gadgetry vendors tended to other clients. No more sending fearful, hapless underlings to "go start the car" (and possibly get blown away in the style of ''[[The Godfather]]''): just detonate the vehicle remotely and business continues as usual.

* At the beginning of [[The Eighties]], a remote starter was still a novelty that might turn up in mail-order houses in the back pages of periodicals like ''Popular Science''. Even if the blueprints had existed for at least twenty years, no one knew why they "needed" one. In an attempt to be clever, one advertiser promoted a "Remote Bomb Igniter" — finally, something for our gangster customers, long neglected as the gadgetry vendors tended to other clients. No more sending fearful, hapless underlings to "go start the car" (and possibly get blown away in the style of ''[[The Godfather]]''): just detonate the vehicle remotely and business continues as usual.

== [[Comic Books]] ==