Whether you like it or not, the things we buy can say a lot about us (or, at the very least, can be used by others to make assumptions). And there’s perhaps no item more symbolic of an owner’s personality than the car they drive. Creative types seem pretty keen on interesting cars. So, with all the switcheroos in the automotive space at the moment, we thought it was an opportune time to launch a new section on StopPress that aims to showcase some of the vehicular proclivities of those working in the marketing, advertising and media sectors (and will presumably cement the general public’s view that this industry is infested with rich wankers). Every few weeks we’ll be asking someone in the biz to tell us about their steed and first up is TBWA\’s chief creative officer Toby Talbot and his Volvo P1800.

Dodge released its first Anchorman 2-related ads in early October. They were awesome. And Ron Burgundy’s back with some more brilliant ads, including a very hard sell, entertaining mispronunciation and some awkward dead air.

There are a lot of words in a newspaper, most of them spelled right and grammatically correct. But a few grammar nerds were up in arms on Twitter yesterday after the Herald committed a cardinal sin and used the words ‘might of’ in a headline.

A group of entrepreneurial young Westlake Boys students are doing their bit to prove that businesses with a soul can help make the world a better place. And Liquid Change, a bottled water business with a charitable twist that started off as part of the Young Enterprise Scheme, has gone further than most of its student ilk: into the fridges at one of the country’s biggest oil networks, Z.

Hallenstein Brothers has collaborated with Coca-Cola and Will.i.am to produce a range of eco-friendly suits targeted at millennials that are manufactured from up to 25 recycled PET plastic bottles.

Pepsi tried to give Coca-Cola (or, due to copyright reasons, ‘Cola-Coca’) a burn with its Halloween ad. It got some pretty good social media traction as a result, although some were confused about the message and thought it was showing its rival as a super hero. And while it’s not clear if this witty response is a legitimate one from Coca-Cola, maybe it should be.

According to the ever-reliable Wikipedia, New Zealand has the 45th highest rate of per capita tea consumption, with an average of 0.65 kg downed by each person every year (well behind the English on what is almost certainly a made up number of 68.69 kg per year, although the UK Tea Council gives the top spot to the Irish). Bell Tea is hoping more of that will come from its two factories and to help do that it’s launched a new 60 second TVC via Whybin\TBWA that celebrates the long history of the brand and the performance-enhancing properties of tea.

Our weekly wrap of good things, strange things, funny things and other things from inside the intertubes.

Standard inflight safety videos are in danger of extinction, with Delta and Virgin America the latest airlines to follow in Air New Zealand’s quirky footsteps.

Taste magazine is following in the footsteps of its Bauer stablemates Cleo and Metro with a new web presence. The new site is set to tap into the growing global hunger for information about food and cooking.

Moving away from their standard, clean-shaven pastry visages, Pie Face has added a cartoonish moustache to their pies in an effort to help raise funds for men with health issues.

Our American counterparts have turned Halloween into a huge commercial resource that can be tapped into annually. This year, the ad agencies across the Pacific have once again illustrated how far the simple premises of horror, costumes and bucket loads of treats can be stretched.