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See also: https://lingscars.com/ https://lingscars.com/ Yes, it's a real car leasing company. Desktop version is best but mobile is still great.

belter 5y ago
We take it up a notch... http://www.subgenius.com/newdevivals.html http://www.subgenius.com/newdevivals.html "Become an Ordained Minister" http://www.subgenius.com/index.htm http://www.subgenius.com/index.htm
- npteljes 5y ago
  One I found that's similar is http://9front.org/ http://9front.org/. I scratched my head in disbelief because I was looking for an operating system, and the website looked like I arrived at a kooky conteo place.
sabujp 5y ago
it's gross, i love it
simonswords82 5y ago
I've leased a car from Ling's, don't be fooled by the website. Their back office systems are fantastic and optimise the paperwork process perfectly. Great customer service too - she runs an excellent business. She was on UK dragon's den too! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc1ktZRZ5ZM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc1ktZRZ5ZM
isoprophlex 5y ago
This must be the global optimum for car site freshness, super amazing. https://m.lingscars.com/ghc https://m.lingscars.com/ghc "god hates cars" You can't make this shit up. I hope they can keep this up forever.
- cosmodisk 5y ago
  It's a multimillion pound business- she's been around for ages.
- matthewcford 5y ago
  The copywriting is very fresh and to the point: “ You can take the Hyundai Tucson abroad to any normal destination (usually excluding dodgy places like Albania, etc), but you should apply for a VE103 form from the finance company before you go, which proves to the damn foreign police that you have permission to use the car.”
- ImaCake 5y ago
  > Note to Americans: the £ is like the $, except bigger This is just perfect. I love this website so much. If I lived in the UK I would seriously consider buying from this website. So I guess this advertising works for me.
onepointsixC 5y ago
That's quite something
bqmjjx0kac 5y ago
View source, it's worth it.
- slaymaker1907 5y ago
  I'm kind of sad they minified their CSS and some of their JS. Sure minification saves some bytes, but I really wonder how much we really save assuming the server uses compression. I love being able to see how different sites work and minification makes that a lot harder.
tzs 5y ago
That assaults you with a mix of garish colors and animations, but sections of sanity break through now and there. The site for Yvette's Bridal Formal, sadly now gone but archived [1], lacks the animations, but doubles down on the color assault and doesn't interrupt it with any sanity for arguably more effective inflection of mental damage upon the viewer. [1] https://yvettesbridalformal.p1r8.net/ https://yvettesbridalformal.p1r8.net/
- BTCOG 5y ago
  Mental illness in word usage and web design. Some of the words in there remind me of if a Terry A. Davis was untalented, and did web design instead of write compilers, langs, and OS'.
- rackjack 5y ago
  It even directly downloads a song, too. Incredible.
tgtweak 5y ago
Pretty effective. A great validation that single-page approach to landers actually works really well.
POiNTx 5y ago
This is a work of art.
throwaway984393 5y ago
My god, it's full of gifs.
belter 5y ago
After such an amazing page I am somewhat disappointed with the real thing... https://www.google.com/maps/place/LINGsCARS/@54.9613364,-1.6443363,3a,75y,90t/data=!3m8!1e2!3m6!1sAF1QipNcLfYOuOc40y_L7gABxEHLsfkcjuj_mRfaBAFh!2e10!3e12!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipNcLfYOuOc40y_L7gABxEHLsfkcjuj_mRfaBAFh%3Dw114-h86-k-no!7i2048!8i1536!4m16!1m8!3m7!1s0x487e79e3274315af:0x5d4a4ea018ac2004!2sLINGsCARS!8m2!3d54.9612015!4d-1.6443893!14m1!1BCgIgARICCAI!3m6!1s0x487e79e3274315af:0x5d4a4ea018ac2004!8m2!3d54.9612015!4d-1.6443893!14m1!1BCgIgARICEAE https://www.google.com/maps/place/LINGsCARS/@54.9613364,-1.6...
jrockway 5y ago
There's something very appealing to me about people who name their companies after themselves. Ling's cars, Prusa Research, Linus Media Group. Maybe I'm only remembering the good examples, but when you put yourself out there, it seems like there is a strong incentive to not fuck up your reputation.
- mananaysiempre 5y ago
  The 19th century feel it lends may also be a part of it, and is also not accidental: the naming scheme originates from the times before the modern corporation, where no isolation from liability meant a failed business could easily leave the founder on the street (but loans were also much less accessible). Not much to lose further, then, is there?
- webmaven 5y ago
  > There's something very appealing to me about people who name their companies after themselves. Ling's cars, Prusa Research, Linus Media Group. Maybe I'm only remembering the good examples, but when you put yourself out there, it seems like there is a strong incentive to not fuck up your reputation. So it would seem, but companies can and do survive their founders, and at that point they are no different than any other. Not to mention that founders can be motivated by reputation in an idiosyncratic manner.
  - bartvk 5y ago
    You're thinking McAfee?
    - webmaven 5y ago
      I wasn't particularly thinking of tech companies, more along the lines of Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, Trump, etc.
- N1H1L 5y ago
  Dell is another big one I can think of.
ww520 5y ago
A/B tests led down the uncharted path.
jshmrsn 5y ago
Another fun one: http://www.canliscrabshack.com/ http://www.canliscrabshack.com/ Part of what makes this fun is that Canlis is a high end dining restaurant and generally uses a very modern/professional aesthetic in their branding: https://canlis.com/ https://canlis.com/
slivanes 5y ago
"Made in the People's Republic of China (Ling, not the website... which was handcrafted by Ling, in the UK)" :)
agumonkey 5y ago
archived https://archive.md/xL2iF https://archive.md/xL2iF

belter 5y ago

We take it up a notch... http://www.subgenius.com/newdevivals.html http://www.subgenius.com/newdevivals.html "Become an Ordained Minister" http://www.subgenius.com/index.htm http://www.subgenius.com/index.htm

npteljes 5y ago
One I found that's similar is http://9front.org/ http://9front.org/. I scratched my head in disbelief because I was looking for an operating system, and the website looked like I arrived at a kooky conteo place.

sabujp 5y ago

it's gross, i love it

simonswords82 5y ago

I've leased a car from Ling's, don't be fooled by the website. Their back office systems are fantastic and optimise the paperwork process perfectly. Great customer service too - she runs an excellent business. She was on UK dragon's den too! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc1ktZRZ5ZM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc1ktZRZ5ZM

isoprophlex 5y ago

This must be the global optimum for car site freshness, super amazing. https://m.lingscars.com/ghc https://m.lingscars.com/ghc "god hates cars" You can't make this shit up. I hope they can keep this up forever.

cosmodisk 5y ago
It's a multimillion pound business- she's been around for ages.
matthewcford 5y ago
The copywriting is very fresh and to the point: “ You can take the Hyundai Tucson abroad to any normal destination (usually excluding dodgy places like Albania, etc), but you should apply for a VE103 form from the finance company before you go, which proves to the damn foreign police that you have permission to use the car.”
ImaCake 5y ago
> Note to Americans: the £ is like the $, except bigger This is just perfect. I love this website so much. If I lived in the UK I would seriously consider buying from this website. So I guess this advertising works for me.

onepointsixC 5y ago

That's quite something

bqmjjx0kac 5y ago

View source, it's worth it.

slaymaker1907 5y ago
I'm kind of sad they minified their CSS and some of their JS. Sure minification saves some bytes, but I really wonder how much we really save assuming the server uses compression. I love being able to see how different sites work and minification makes that a lot harder.

tzs 5y ago

That assaults you with a mix of garish colors and animations, but sections of sanity break through now and there. The site for Yvette's Bridal Formal, sadly now gone but archived [1], lacks the animations, but doubles down on the color assault and doesn't interrupt it with any sanity for arguably more effective inflection of mental damage upon the viewer. [1] https://yvettesbridalformal.p1r8.net/ https://yvettesbridalformal.p1r8.net/

BTCOG 5y ago
Mental illness in word usage and web design. Some of the words in there remind me of if a Terry A. Davis was untalented, and did web design instead of write compilers, langs, and OS'.
rackjack 5y ago
It even directly downloads a song, too. Incredible.

tgtweak 5y ago

Pretty effective. A great validation that single-page approach to landers actually works really well.

POiNTx 5y ago

This is a work of art.

throwaway984393 5y ago

My god, it's full of gifs.

belter 5y ago

After such an amazing page I am somewhat disappointed with the real thing... https://www.google.com/maps/place/LINGsCARS/@54.9613364,-1.6443363,3a,75y,90t/data=!3m8!1e2!3m6!1sAF1QipNcLfYOuOc40y_L7gABxEHLsfkcjuj_mRfaBAFh!2e10!3e12!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipNcLfYOuOc40y_L7gABxEHLsfkcjuj_mRfaBAFh%3Dw114-h86-k-no!7i2048!8i1536!4m16!1m8!3m7!1s0x487e79e3274315af:0x5d4a4ea018ac2004!2sLINGsCARS!8m2!3d54.9612015!4d-1.6443893!14m1!1BCgIgARICCAI!3m6!1s0x487e79e3274315af:0x5d4a4ea018ac2004!8m2!3d54.9612015!4d-1.6443893!14m1!1BCgIgARICEAE https://www.google.com/maps/place/LINGsCARS/@54.9613364,-1.6...

jrockway 5y ago

There's something very appealing to me about people who name their companies after themselves. Ling's cars, Prusa Research, Linus Media Group. Maybe I'm only remembering the good examples, but when you put yourself out there, it seems like there is a strong incentive to not fuck up your reputation.

mananaysiempre 5y ago
The 19th century feel it lends may also be a part of it, and is also not accidental: the naming scheme originates from the times before the modern corporation, where no isolation from liability meant a failed business could easily leave the founder on the street (but loans were also much less accessible). Not much to lose further, then, is there?
webmaven 5y ago
> There's something very appealing to me about people who name their companies after themselves. Ling's cars, Prusa Research, Linus Media Group. Maybe I'm only remembering the good examples, but when you put yourself out there, it seems like there is a strong incentive to not fuck up your reputation. So it would seem, but companies can and do survive their founders, and at that point they are no different than any other. Not to mention that founders can be motivated by reputation in an idiosyncratic manner.
- bartvk 5y ago
  You're thinking McAfee?
  - webmaven 5y ago
    I wasn't particularly thinking of tech companies, more along the lines of Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, Trump, etc.
N1H1L 5y ago
Dell is another big one I can think of.

ww520 5y ago

A/B tests led down the uncharted path.

jshmrsn 5y ago

Another fun one: http://www.canliscrabshack.com/ http://www.canliscrabshack.com/ Part of what makes this fun is that Canlis is a high end dining restaurant and generally uses a very modern/professional aesthetic in their branding: https://canlis.com/ https://canlis.com/

slivanes 5y ago

"Made in the People's Republic of China (Ling, not the website... which was handcrafted by Ling, in the UK)" :)

agumonkey 5y ago

archived https://archive.md/xL2iF https://archive.md/xL2iF