It may be shameless, but it is pretty cool.
We are currently in Thailand on the launch of the latest Ford Fiesta. During a break in the drive programme we stopped at the brilliant Thai Elephant Conservation Centre, where we witnessed this shameless, but thoroughly brilliant piece of promotion – an elephant writing the word “FORD” with a paint brush and , appropriately, blue paint.
Perhaps the worst part of all of it was how unsettlingly the elephants penmanship was better than mine…
To find out more about this fantastic organisation and what they do for the magnificent elephants of Thailand, check out their website at www.thailandelephant.org.