What is the Weinermobile category called, anyway? Promo cars? Brand cars? Theme cars? Whatever you call them, they’re a ton of fun and always a treat to see. Which makes us wonder why we don’t see more of these things – like, you can put a set of wheels and a place for a driver under just about anything (see: parade floats), and what brand wouldn’t like to draw crowds of happy consumers eager to snap photos for their InstaFaces and Snapbooks and share the brand’s good cheer far and wide?
We are happy for the Weinermobile and other brandmobiles that we do have, of course. Shout out to Ronald McDonald and his literal clownshoe car (which is a Houston thing, apparently?), and props to that elegantly monocled legume Mr. Peanut and his, uh, deeply veined conveyance.
But we want more!
Below, I’ve roughed together a Sharpiemobile, which may be too long and skinny of a subject for a car, but go for it, I say. Maybe it would be better to model one of the super-fat Magnum Sharpies, but the brand is built on the shape below.
Or, the Sharpie people could go beyond just putting wheels on a marker, like Bic did in 1953 with the stunner below. Would daily. The build was commissioned for the Tour de France, and you can see a bunch more promotional Tour vehicles here.
Anyway, we want to know which brands really need to have Weinermobile-like rigs of their own, whether it’s because their product would look good on wheels, or they make stuff related to travel or speed or car-ness, or … something else?
See you in the comments!
LLBean boot truck
https://www.llbean.com/llb/shop/518669?page=the-bootmobile-is-hitting-the-road-again-to-surprise-and-delight-fans
* Any soda maker (bottle shaped car)
* Lie Nielsen (hand plane shaped car)
* Subway (sandwich)
* Dove body soap
* Fleet enemas
* Preparation H
The Sharpiemobile is going to definitely leave a mark if it hits you.
How did you miss this one?
https://www.phcppros.com/articles/14529-the-all-pro-toilet-car
Can’t imagine the employees being picked to drive those embarrassing vehicles…
I get the impression the owner of the company drives it in parades, and apparently the drag strip.
Sure – SM-58 shaped car truck thing.
Audio Technicia – turn table maybe based off a cab over
Ubiquiti – some kind of UFO shaped thing after their access points maybe a Beatle
T-Mobile – big magenta T – maybe some kind of dragster
Verizon – big red V – maybe prowler
Att – broken globe with wires hanging out – just one of their old vans preferably burning oil with paper mache
Xfinity – lit up x with half the lights burnt out with various wires dragging behind throw into the back of rusted out pickup
Xcel, Entergy, national grid – burning coal pile with wires sticking out – just thrown on top of one of their old trucks
Trojan
Shaped like a horse of course!
Get you mind out of the gutter!
Haha, this was my first thought.
Any condom brand would make a much cooler wiener mobile.
Technically, the customer McLaren racing cars were Trojans, so that’s already covered.
Victorias Secret. The possibilities are endless.
Probably not bottomless, though.
Maybe crotchless?
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Maidenform
Cigarette companies can use the Munster’s Dragula.
Trojan, make it have an almost zero inch wheelbase that magically expands to 20 or 30 feet.
Or just make a giant wooden horse, but that seems too obvious
And always have it drive in front of the Weinermobile to help avoid accidents.