Tina from Turners took two hours to create

Tina from Turners took two hours to create
You know Tina from Turners, she loves cars. Beep, beep! With Todd Hunter – from Turners, too. (Image: Turners Automotive Group)
Rebecca Stevenson
“Tina from Turners is a skinny white guy from Titirangi.” Tina from Turners – no, not Tina Turner – got her name from creative adviser and former Saatchi & Saatchi NZ chairman Kim Thorp, who had the “germ of an idea and a rough script”, Turners general marketing manager Sean Wiggans says. The skinny white guy from Titirangi is Darryl Parsons, the “voice” behind 42 Below Vodka’s irreverent ads, who took Thorp’s idea after he had to pull back from the campaign – and r...

More Markets

NZ sharemaket up 0.1% despite 'volatile' markets
Markets Market Close

NZ sharemaket up 0.1% despite 'volatile' markets

The S&P/NZX 50 Index closed at 12,338.57, up 18.38 points or 0.15%.

NZX-listed companies take stock in wake of US tariff moves
Economy

NZX-listed companies take stock in wake of US tariff moves

Wine makers, manufacturers and others mull what trade wars will bring.

Analysts struggle to find upside from Trump tariffs
Economy

Analysts struggle to find upside from Trump tariffs

‘They've forgotten the lessons of the Great Depression,’ one analyst said.