What Brands Could Have Really Cool ‘Mascot Cars’? (You Know, Like A Weinermobile)

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!

Top graphic image: Oscar Mayer