The 1980s brought us some brilliant car ads—and a few that were pretty awful. The 1980s may not have been the best decade for cars —not for starters, at least—but it was a great decade for car ads.

It’s hard to understate how much advertising has meant to automobiles. Iconic ads over the decades have propelled people-movers and workhorses like the VW Beetle, Ford F-150, and nearly every other ...

Mini recently unveiled its next-generation F66 Cooper and though I am already a Mini fanboy, when the latest Mini ad campaign came up on my Instagram feed, it genuinely excited me. Car ads used to be ...

A few years back, this column was the front-page anchor for The Herald Times' Auto section, which contained pages of ads from local car dealers. Rows of thumbprint photos of cars for sale, their ...

Every year, the Super Bowl brings an action-packed lineup of ads to our screens, many of which come from leading automakers intent on promoting the latest models. Are they speeding toward brand ...

This may come as a shock to younger readers, but television commercials actually used to be entertaining. Sure, they always existed solely to get us to buy things, but until the 2010s or thereabouts, ...

A new Smart car ad shows it carrying a Ford Exhibition. Oct. 17, 2012 — -- What do you get when you put a 7,000 pound SUV on top of the frame of a sub-2,000 pound two-person Smart car? Apparently ...

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You may reason that adverts are a necessary evil of living in the 21st century. Whether it be banners while browsing the internet, promos baked into operating systems, or pop-up ads appearing on just ...

CINCINNATI — With new cars so expensive, and the cost of auto insurance constantly rising, wouldn't it be great to get paid to drive your car? That's the lure of car wrap advertising. But before you ...

The 1980s may not have been the best decade for cars —not for starters, at least—but it was a great decade for car ads. The malaise era was drawing to a close and the economy was picking up speed.