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Ford India Apologizes For Ads
- Detroit Bureau, Monday, March 25, 2013 10:30 AM
Ford Motor Co. is having to explain a series of ad in India showing caricatures of several celebrities behind the wheel of a Ford car with three women bound and gagged in the cargo bay. With critics declaring the campaign offensive and misogynistic, Ford and its global ad agency, WPP, have quickly backtracked, apologizing and admitting the campaign “should never have happened.”
