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Yes, it's a real car leasing company. Desktop version is best but mobile is still great.

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/

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'.

It even directly downloads a song, too. Incredible.

This must be the global optimum for car site freshness, super amazing.

https://m.lingscars.com/ghc

"god hates cars"

You can't make this shit up. I hope they can keep this up forever.

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.”

> 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.

It's a multimillion pound business- she's been around for ages.

View source, it's worth it.

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.

After such an amazing page I am somewhat disappointed with the real thing...

https://www.google.com/maps/place/LINGsCARS/@54.9613364,-1.6...

Another fun one: 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/

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.

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?

> 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.

You're thinking McAfee?

I wasn't particularly thinking of tech companies, more along the lines of Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, Trump, etc.

Dell is another big one I can think of.

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

We take it up a notch...

http://www.subgenius.com/newdevivals.html

"Become an Ordained Minister" http://www.subgenius.com/index.htm

One I found that's similar is 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.

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

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

My god, it's full of gifs.

archived https://archive.md/xL2iF

A/B tests led down the uncharted path.

That's quite something

This is a work of art.

it's gross, i love it

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