Comments on: From Zippo Cars to the Peepmobile: 7 Bizarre Marketing Vehicles

By: RedWhite&Brooklyn

RedWhite&Brooklyn — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 19:16:24 +0000

Melissa: “The weinermobile is driven by recent college graduates? If they just graduated college, shouldn’t they be starting a job in whatever field they got a degree in instead of parading around in a giant hot dog?”

In this mess of an economy, they should be happy to find ANY job! Just last month alone, Bush & Co. were responsible for America losing 51,000 jobs.

By: Erica

Erica — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:55:20 +0000

@ Anna: I’m not entirely sure where the picture came from. I’m guessing a Google Image search.

But I can assure you that the Peepster is very real. I wrote an article for Philadelphia Weekly about the Peeps factory last Easter and got to see the Peepster up close and personal after my tour!

By: Anna

Anna — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:34:27 +0000

Where did that picture of the Peepster come from? Is it real?

By: Max

Max — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:01:27 +0000

One day in Manhattan the weinermobile pulled up at a red light as I was crossing the street. The driver gave us pedestrians little plastic wienermobile whistles!

By: Val

Val — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:22:35 +0000

Does anyone from the Midwest remember the Ducky Love Chicken car?

By: Karen

Karen — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:03:47 +0000

There was an exterminating company that had drivers running around in a VW Beetle that looked like a mouse. I used to see them all over Virgina, but haven’t seen them in a while.

By: Leslie

Leslie — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:47:46 +0000

The local Food City has an enormous grocery cart that they drive in parades. It’s so huge that the driver sits in one corner of the child seat. It makes me wonder why we can’t have self-propelled grocery carts.

By: Lindsey Casper

Lindsey Casper — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 02:25:39 +0000

An Ikea recently opened up here in SLC, and for about a month before the opening of the store, there were fully furnished, see through rooms being pulled around by a truck.. Ikea trailers?
That has really stuck with me as a very clever marketing device.

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 02:17:35 +0000

Earlier this summer, there were at least 2 Weinermobiles in St. Paul, in the parking lot of the Embassy Suites in downtown St. Paul. One looked more like the picture here, but the other was built on top of a Mini Cooper.

By: Jill Harness

Jill Harness — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 22:56:58 +0000

The weinner mobile was at Comic Con, I was so excited, I took pictures of it. It looks very sleek now