Buying a Car at CarMax is Like an Acrobat in a Mattress Store

Steve Hall

Feb. 01, 2011
1 min read

If you give a mouse a cookie. Yes, that’s the direction in which this Car Max commercial heads. I feel like a kd in a candy stroe. I feel like a geek at a robot convention. I feel like a mermaid at a swim meet. I feel like an acrobat in a mattress store. And so on.

It’s humorous with just the right amount of odd for the brand.

Steve Hall

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