GORDON’S ALIVE! AND MARTIN WINS A MEGANE COUPE CABRIOLET THANKS TO RENAULT AND TOMTOM!
Martin Bell from Bearsden will never get lost again after winning one of three prize Mégane Coupé-Cabriolets in a nationwide competition run by Renault and TomTom!
Martin, who works as an office manager with learning disability charity Neighbourhood Networks and also plays bass in the well-known 60s soul group Big Vern ‘n’ the Shootahs, collected his prize car from Arnold Clark this week.
The Mégane Coupé-Cabriolet was the perfect top prize in a national ‘Voice of TomTom’ competition run by Renault and TomTom to find people with great voices for satellite navigation.
To enter the competition, participants were invited to record their traffic stories onto a 30-second video, before putting it up on social networking site Facebook. They could also enter via radio competitions with Heart London and Real Radio Scotland, where listeners had the chance to vote for their favourite voice.
The competition accompanied the recent announcement that actor Brian Blessed’s distinctive and mellifluous voice is now available on TomTom satellite navigation, including Renault’s own fully-integrated Carminat versions of the popular systems.
Best known for his role as Prince Vultan in the film Flash Gordon, he recorded his voice for TomTom after a Facebook campaign called "get Brian Blessed to do a voiceover for my sat nav" attracted more than 25,000 fans. The campaign, started by motorist Richard Gardner from Manchester, is thought to be the first time a product has found its roots in social media.
Martin was hailed one of three winners who have all won themselves the stunning Mégane Coupé-Cabriolet which offers integrated TomTom LIVE navigation system as standard on the Renault Dynamique TomTom range.
Their voices have all been professionally recorded and will be available as free downloads from TomTom in time for April 2011.
Barry Burns, sales manager at Arnold Clark Renault in Glasgow, handed over the keys of the Mégane Coupé-Cabriolet to Martin, and said: “Gordon's Alive! Congratulations to Martin on winning this great prize. It was lovely to meet him and hand over the keys to the Mégane Coupe-Cabriolet. He has a great voice and we’re thrilled to meet someone that, along with Brian Blessed, has had a hand in ‘saving every one of us' from getting lost!”
Martin, a father-of-two, said that his children were thrilled with the car and entranced by the folding roof.
He said: “I was incredibly surprised to be one of the winners of the competition and the car is lovely. It’s a shame though that it was pouring with rain on the day we collected it as we’d planned to take it into the countryside with the roof down for the day!”
A clip of the entertaining recording session is available to watch at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMiLQwKLSQM. Meanwhile, Brian’s recording, which contains gems such as "Toll Charge. Give them the exact money and tell them to keep the change" and "You've reached your destination. Congratulations. Onwards and upwards! To Everest next, and the North Pole,” can be downloaded from the official TomTom website, /www.tomtom.com, for £7.95. Customers should check which devices allow voices to be downloaded on the website.
Carminat TomTom, the industry’s first truly affordable built-in satellite navigation system, was launched by Renault in January 2009. It is now fitted as standard to the Dynamique TomTom and Privilège TomTom trim levels of each bodystyle in the standard Clio, Kangoo, Mégane, Scénic, Laguna ranges, plus the core trim levels of the Kangoo, Trafic and Master van ranges, for no additional cost. The system is also available as a £460 option across most other trim levels, including Renaultsport, of these same car and van ranges.
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- Martin Bell from Bearsden pictured right, with Rosalind Mellon, regional communications manager at Renault UK and Barry Burns, sales manager at Arnold Clark Renault.
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