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American Red Cross - Ultimate Service Titan

Discussion in 'Baja Designs' started by Baja Designs, Oct 8, 2018.

  1. Oct 8, 2018 at 2:28 PM
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    Baja Designs

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    If this is what Red Cross is spending money on I will never donate another thing to them.

    Impractical design. Pick what you are going to use it for and design that. This “Swiss army knife” approach is crap. The layout and functionality of the rear space is horrrible. Trying to make a jacked up mobile command unit that can “do” a bunch of other stuff. Just a waste in my opinion.
     
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  3. Oct 8, 2018 at 3:39 PM
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    Donations well used. Nothing like putting money towards a truck like that, which will undoubtably be used more at truck shows and magazines shoots than actually helping people. Just like the Team 5 foundation Tundra... super expensive build... is at all the "overland" expos and have never seen a pic of used for it's "build" intent. Why not spend the thousands and thousands of dollars on people instead of an impractical build like that? But who am I to judge
     
  4. Oct 8, 2018 at 3:53 PM
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    Perhaps the truck and accessories where donated to the Red Cross? :notsure:
     
  5. Oct 8, 2018 at 3:54 PM
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    I can opt in for Red Cross, I cant opt out of fema.

    Donations would be perfectly fine. But I doubt that is the case for this.

    My sentiments exactly.
     
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    Nissan donated the truck to the American Red Cross in South Florida. They also made a $1million donation. Most likely all aftermarket accessories were donated too.

    How do I know this? Read this and this.
     
  8. Oct 8, 2018 at 4:08 PM
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    Well I stand corrected. Maybe just the pessimist in me and seeing what the Govt and charities spend money on over the past 25+ years working for and around some of those wingnuts.

    I still stand by the impracticality of the built.

    Edit. Build not built
     
  9. Oct 8, 2018 at 4:09 PM
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    :rofl:
     
  10. Oct 8, 2018 at 4:11 PM
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    It’s a promotional thing, like a billboard. Commercials, signs, radio ads, all those things are used to draw attention to their cause. Monster Energy doesn’t make monster trucks to deliver drinks. It’s advertising. Charities use advertising just like other companies do.

    Besides, I doubt they had to pay for any of it.
     
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  11. Oct 8, 2018 at 5:52 PM
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    What War Machine said above.

    The Red Cross has actually gotten quite a bit of flack for parading their vehicles around disaster sites for not much more than marketing purposes...I read it on the internet.
     
  12. Oct 8, 2018 at 6:17 PM
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    Yeah, I get it. I’ve seen the Red Cross do some amazing things, and I’ve also seen that exact same org waste money on the dumbest shit imaginable. It’s a group run by humans, like all of them... they have good people and they also have shitbags.
     
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