Poll: Your thoughts on 'Chevy Runs Deep'?

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I hate to be one of those guys who rips a new marketing tagline the second it comes out of the gate, but there is just something straight-up awkward about "Chevy Runs Deep." Yeah, I get that it's a reference to General Motors' entrenched connection to American culture. But any hope of me taking this tagline seriously was ruined in 1993, when Ice Cube told America, “My d— runs deep. So deep, so deep, it put her ass to sleep.”

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