Even the Weinermobile is downsizing! Now based on a MINI Cooper S!
The Oscar Mayer Weinermobile is one of America's automotive icons. The giant hot dogs have rolled around the country since the original appeared in 1936 promoting the brand's products. There have been numerous generations over the last seven decades built on a variety of truck and motorhome chassis. It now appears that rising fuel prices have even forced the weiner to shrink. The newest Weinermobile is built on top of a MINI Cooper S and an ABC news crew got it on camera this week. Unfortunately, ABC hasn't caught on to that whole embeddable video thing so you'll have to head over there to check out the video report. See more images of previous Weinermobiles in the gallery below.
Gallery: Weinermobiles
[Source: ABC, via MotorFile]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
94 Taurus owner 8:07PM (3/16/2008)
Hmm it went from looking like A bulldog to a dachhund.
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john riley 8:29AM (3/17/2008)
That is not a Weinermobile. That is just a car with a big orange thing glommed on top. On a real weinermobile, it is mostly weiner; you can hardly see the vehicle.
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studemax 10:29AM (3/17/2008)
So now the Weinermobile is a Vienna Sausagemobile.
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Drachen 11:41AM (3/17/2008)
Shrinkage! Just like a frightened turtle!
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Clarence Williams 6:46AM (3/18/2008)
Wow!...this isn't even a Vienna sausage--it's a "Li'l Smoky"....with wheels! Hillshire Farms should jump on this one!
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kevin 7:47AM (3/18/2008)
I'm just wondering...... I know the weinermobile is 72 years old.So,if you put viagra in the tank will it go back to its original size?
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jayne 8:01AM (3/18/2008)
Oh no, not the weinermobile! I moved to the suburbs I used to get in my car to drive everywhere, and I put on 10 pounds. I just took up walking and bought a great pedometer and a pair of smartsoles that tone muscles and cause you to burn more calories with every step. (http://www.smartsole.com)
I also stopped drinking the energy drinks that have way too many calories. Oh yeah and I eat reduce fat weiners!!
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Bill 8:08AM (3/18/2008)
Thats really sad you would think that something as American as the hotdog they would at least put an American made car under it. SHAME ON YOU GUYS!!!
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janjan527 8:14AM (3/18/2008)
Another great American icon goes by the wayside. I still have my weiner whistle and my Dick Tracey decorder card. I'm 100% pure baby boomer!
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Casey 8:28AM (3/18/2008)
The one truth mentioned in this article is: "It now appears that rising fuel prices have even forced the weiner to shrink."
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dude 8:57AM (3/18/2008)
Rising fuel prices force my wiener to shrink too!!!
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niki 9:22AM (3/18/2008)
I just wanted to say all those comment are so funny, true, but funny. Especially the American hot dog on a foriegn car.........go figure
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Tim Orris 9:25AM (3/18/2008)
I almost took the ob of driving the vehicle 30 years ago. They have more than one. If you have to spend summer driving across the country event to event I sure wouldn't want to spend it in that matchbox toy. You also have to carry your clothes and promotional supplies. Origonal had room for relief driver to rest
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Scott 9:48AM (3/18/2008)
It's a sad sad day when we are forced to realize that the outrageous price of fuel has caused our weiners to shrink.
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Stan 9:47AM (3/18/2008)
Should of left it alone! every one remembers the original. This one don't come close.GET RID OF IT! and go back to the original or scrap the whole idea.
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gamma 10:16AM (3/18/2008)
at least i still got my little matchbox car of the real weiner moblic, guess the taken just about everyting that american make away from us, we baby boomer r not going c american made anymore. we r going to go to our grave in foriegn made.
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Tina 10:15AM (3/18/2008)
They should make Elliot Spitzer drive this weiner as punishment for his stupidty and his crime against the law. It will let everyone know he's small again.
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Tina 10:14AM (3/18/2008)
Hey they should have used a hybrid car or a car that runs on bio fuel. It could the corn dog vehicle back to it's prime size.
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kay 10:15AM (3/18/2008)
Yet another icon 'Fun Sized'!
What is the world coming to?
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Matt Peckham 1:16PM (3/18/2008)
Oscar Meyer was german, guys. It's just going way back to it's german roots.
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