SAVANNAH, GA CAR DEALER BLASTS CONGRESS, CAR MAKERS, CONSUMERS

If you live in the Lowcountry, you may have already heard the ad. “One thing I wanna ask you, with those Japanese cars. Even when they are brand new, how come they don’t smell like a new car? They are rice ready, not road ready.”

That’s just one line from one of five sweet new ads that began running Saturday on radio airwaves courtesy of a very heated Savannah, Ga. used car dealer named O.C. Welch.

“I don’t think it’s going too far. It’s reality and I think we need a reality check,” Welch told WTOC today.

Welch has no apologies for his latest radio ads. “Right now, it’s running a 96 percent approval rate,” he said.

“All you people who buy Toyota and send your money to Japan. When you don’t have a job and can’t make a payment, don’t come crying to me,” Welch says in, “Wake Up America.”

“I’m just really sick of our government, what is happening in Washington,” Welch said. [WTOC]

I’m a big fan of Welch’s approach, here. Whenever things are going badly, blame everyone else.

Wal-Mart? Why not? Consumers? Of course. Congress? Absolutely. Automakers? Umm, well… no, they haven’t done anything wrong.