Mumbo Report: Lexus and the yuppie

Tim Burrowes

June 10, 2010 10:06

In today’s Mumbo Report from Studio 33:

Another government info ad spends big; ice cream in the winter and Harvey Norman’s klaxons
How the Lexus ad harks back to Audi’s dawn of the pinstriped yuppie

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.