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Warner Bros. brings 'Looney Tunes' classic voices to TomTom

By | October 7, 2010, 8:39am PDT

Ever wonder what it would be like to drive with Bugs Bunny? If your answer was yes, then this is your lucky day as Warner Bros. has teamed up with TomTom and VoiceSkins to bring the voices of Looney Tunes to the popular GPS navigation devices.

Rolling out throughout the autumn season, you’ll soon be able to be directed by the exclamations of Bugs Bunny, Yosemite Sam, Daffy Duck, Sylvester the Cat and Pepe Le Pew.

One of the comedic quips you might hear include Yosemite Sam belting out, “Sharp left, ya humpbacked muley. Then go straight on. This ve-hicle ain’t big enough for the two of us!”

Play the video below to get a listen of a few of those familiar voices from a childhood classic cartoon:

All Looney Tunes voices will be available in English, and both Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam voices are ready to download now for $12.95 a piece.

This all sounds really fun, at least for driving with kids or even road trips with friends. While it’s great to see TomTom branch out with memorable voices (like Darth Vader telling you where to make that left turn), I don’t think it would be something I could listen to all the time and take seriously. I wonder how long it would be until such a wacky voice would get plain annoying.

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Rachel King is a staff writer for CBS Interactive in San Francisco. Before serving as a contributing editor at ZDNet in New York City for two years, she previously worked for The Business Insider, FastCompany.com, CNN's San Francisco bureau and the U.S. Department of State. Rachel has also written for MainStreet.com, Irish America Magazine and the New York Daily News, among others. Rachel has a B.A. in Mass Communications and History from the University of California, Berkeley and a M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University, where she served as art director for the student magazine, Plated.

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RE: Warner Bros. brings 'Looney Tunes' classic voices to TomTom
Byterat 7th Oct 2010
What no TAZ???
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What!?! No Porky Pig?
wizard57m@... 7th Oct 2010
I guess that might not be such a good idea, to have your turn by turn directions given with a stutter...
"Tttttturn llllleft one bbbbblock"
"Tttooo llllate...lllet mmme rrrrerrroute"
{;-)
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