Mazda 6 club target a Humvee, witch hunt ensues.
Published by Ashley September 4th, 2007 in Chinese Car News.
China is a funny place - when you buy a car, you get offered the chance to join a club for that particular model or brand of car, its not like joining the bloods or the crips in the aspect that you have to roll up a trouser leg and give out funny hand signals, but its not far off either.
Recently a Mazda 6 club went out for a meeting and found themselves on the Ningbo to Lianyungang expressway, there were 20 Mazda 6s in total, some of them standard models and some tuned up by their owners, at least one of them had illegally added police sirens and lights to the rear of the Mazda 6 grill (China Car Times has a friend with added police mods, its great!)
The convoy of 20 Mazdas found a target to harass, a Humvee. In a style that hasnt been seen since 1840s in the mid west of the USA, the Mazdas surrounded the Hummer from all sides and forced him to slow down to a tortoise like 30kph. The Hummer owner went crazy, honking his horn, trying to force his way out (as you would, in such a situation) the Mazda drivers were relentless, also honking their horns and refusing to let the Hummer out. You can see a video of the incident here.
To make matters worse, the group recorded the attack on video cameras and took pictures, which they later uploaded to the internet expecting they would get rapturous audiences applauding them for their daring antics against the gas guzzling monster. Except they were wrong, an internet witch hunt campaign was started to track down the Mazda 6 owners from their license plates in the videos. Comments came in from all sides on various websites but the comments were mostly against the Mazda 6 drivers, several of the drivers home addresses, telephone numbers, and email addresses have been posted on the net.
Full text here: http://www.chinacartimes.com/2007/09/04/mazda-6-club-target-a-humvee-witch-hunt-ensues/
Published by Ashley September 4th, 2007 in Chinese Car News.
China is a funny place - when you buy a car, you get offered the chance to join a club for that particular model or brand of car, its not like joining the bloods or the crips in the aspect that you have to roll up a trouser leg and give out funny hand signals, but its not far off either.
Recently a Mazda 6 club went out for a meeting and found themselves on the Ningbo to Lianyungang expressway, there were 20 Mazda 6s in total, some of them standard models and some tuned up by their owners, at least one of them had illegally added police sirens and lights to the rear of the Mazda 6 grill (China Car Times has a friend with added police mods, its great!)
The convoy of 20 Mazdas found a target to harass, a Humvee. In a style that hasnt been seen since 1840s in the mid west of the USA, the Mazdas surrounded the Hummer from all sides and forced him to slow down to a tortoise like 30kph. The Hummer owner went crazy, honking his horn, trying to force his way out (as you would, in such a situation) the Mazda drivers were relentless, also honking their horns and refusing to let the Hummer out. You can see a video of the incident here.
To make matters worse, the group recorded the attack on video cameras and took pictures, which they later uploaded to the internet expecting they would get rapturous audiences applauding them for their daring antics against the gas guzzling monster. Except they were wrong, an internet witch hunt campaign was started to track down the Mazda 6 owners from their license plates in the videos. Comments came in from all sides on various websites but the comments were mostly against the Mazda 6 drivers, several of the drivers home addresses, telephone numbers, and email addresses have been posted on the net.
Full text here: http://www.chinacartimes.com/2007/09/04/mazda-6-club-target-a-humvee-witch-hunt-ensues/
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