Head crushing comes standard on Ford SUV

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Is it good publicity or bad publicity when your product crushes somebody’s skull? That’s the question Ford executives must be mulling in the aftermath of the final Sopranos episode. As brand-conscious viewers surely noticed, the camera lingered over Ford’s “Blue Oval” badge on the grille of the Expedition SUV in which Tony Soprano nemesis Phil Leotardo was sitting right before he got shot (and before the SUV administered a coup de grace by rolling over his head).

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