1 hour of old car ads 50's/60's

They were somehow more genuine, well don't know if that is correct word, but if we put technological development aside, somehow I can watch them with pleasure, unlike modern car ads where I get annoyed, maybe because cars do look worn pieces of soap or something

I like it, I'm sure many don't as there is not nice cgi or anything else, but those old farts might find it worth to take look at

More genuine? At 52:20 I see a Ford flying through the sky and the announcer saying that it is as quiet as a wisper. It's a convertible!

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More genuine? At 52:20 I see a Ford flying through the sky and the announcer saying that it is as quiet as a wisper. It's a convertible!

At least there was a car in first place

VAG Adverts are always the best.
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Its the puns, and the cleverness thats in the things they say, its not like Ford or Vauxhall who just seem to mess about and not get to the point.

I wouldn't say genuine. More like more straightforward. In those days, TV adverts were in their early days, just looks how bold and long these adverts are, they repeat their message twenty times in a minute. Today it's sometimes hard to know what is the advert actually advertising, and for me these adverts feel they think the spectator was stupid and that didn't know they were trying to sell something.

The market research that advertising agencies do actually shows them that most people are, in fact, cripplingly stupid and easliy-led (source: a good friend who just finished his doctorate in marketing). That's why most ads look as though they're targeted at idiots - it's because they are. There are always exceptions, of course, like those clever ads that end up on those "World's Cleverest Ads" shows (but it boggles my mind who would sit and watch a wholse show of commercials interrupted every 7 minutes by more commercials). Generally though, advertisers purposely aim low on the IQ scale to ensure the maximum possible amount of people understand their core message of "you need this thing, buy it now or your life will continue to suck". If you feel like your intelligence is insulted by advertising then you should take that as a positive

It's hard to believe those were actually real...

Advertising aside, watching this makes me think: It's mind-boggling to consider how they actually could go so far out of their way to design cars that poorly w/r/t F1 cars, LM cars and European sports cars of the time--and then I remember it still hasn't changed a bit...

I have seen a mustang 2005 (ehm...the latest one, i dont remember the year it was made) advert a few month back. 5 minutes long.
It was somehow a bit stupidly patriotic at first, you know the American dream propaganda and stuff like that, but then it got better and better...just like a short movie... I loved it.
The plot was that a young man comes back from some war (Iraq?), he's awaited by his Mom and brother, bla bla bla.When he's at home his dad comes back from the shop, in his '67 Mustang Fastback, bla bla bla, dad never gave his son to drive the '67 Mustang...bla bla bla, offers to take a ride, and shows his son a present - a brand new Ford Mustang, while saying - almost as beautiful as mine...

great commercial....I just told it short not to spoil it completely...


also new VW GTi had SUPERB commercials
the "GTi FAST series", and the "Unpimp das Auto" series...

Genuine was my odd humour btw

It is like honest car dealers in thos commercial presenting their products in honest manner, it can't be true, nobody will not believe that, but one thing I find attracting in those, that is those old cars and how cars are just what they were in show rooms.

Now we have cars that transforms to robots and dance, I don't like to have car that will turns to robot at random bases when loud music is played (and it was evil fwd)

One car salesman told that his station wagon is biggest you can buy, that I would like to buy, I need to carry lot of s**t with me so I could use bigger trunk (and it was godly rwd which is only option for proper car, 4x4 is allowed but not silly awd and full time crap of fwd sometimes bit more.)

Check out Plymouth road runner and Pontiac GTO commercials from late 60's, those are quite funny

It was interesting to watch those commercials when you know how succesful (or not) some of those car models were to become.

I remember that e.g. the Ford Edsel become quite a flop. In those commercials they used words like elegance etc. In the end people hated the vertical round shape in the center of the front grill. Calling it for example a 'toilet seat'.

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It was interesting to watch those commercials when you know how succesful (or not) some of those car models were to become.

I remember that e.g. the Ford Edsel become quite a flop. In those commercials they used words like elegance etc. In the end people hated the vertical round shape in the center of the front grill. Calling it for example a 'toilet seat'.

That reminded me from modern Audis, but today even crap looking car will sell

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That reminded me from modern Audis, but today even crap looking car will sell

That's due to some silly new German law about pedestrian safety and blunt bumpers... (then I guess they just had to do something with all that flat space)

I'd rather get hit by a good-looking car tbh

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That's due to some silly new German law about pedestrian safety and blunt bumpers... (then I guess they just had to do something with all that flat space)

I'd rather get hit by a good-looking car tbh

I don't think that ugly enormous front grille had much to do with pedestrian safety, engine bay is badly designed if it won't get enough cooling from smaller or less visible holes.

90's audi grilles were appropriate sized.

Maybe I will get next something with insanely sized V8 with 135hp

Yeah; I meant they had to expand (flaten?) the frontal area to comply with the law, and then it left them scratching their heads as to what to do with it all the extra space/flatness... gee, make the grille bigger! :doh:

Actually, if you see the new and old side-by-side, you can see that the grill is no (well, isn't much) bigger; there's just black under the license plate instead of a real bumper.

Here's one that's been "fixed" with some kind of kit:

Before:


Better, but no dice... there's just something about the top of the grill which always arches too high or something... and the metal border...

Plaaaah. Old farts complaining how good everything was back then on the good old days. I guess it's just another phase when you get old and your bones start to hurt. :rolleyes: I fear that day.



Thought those commercials again at work and came to a conclusion that they are actually pretty much the same as today. Only the way they try to get your attention is changed. People are not interested in simple moving pictures or witty songs about some Alcan run anymore. You need something weird to catch peoples eye, see, you probably remember that the spider/heffalump/giraffe SUV commercial was about the Nissan Cashgay. They achieved what they wanted.

Anyway, to stir the soup I say that the cars today are the best ever made.

^^ Troll alert

Old days are coming, will take only 15 or so years from you to start feeling it


Ouch my feets, their killing me But try walking 12hours in a day and talking same time for few weeks

But think about it. Modern cars are more advanced, safer, easier to drive, more reliable, more powerful and more efficient than ever before. Of course, for a motoring enthusiastic that migh equal boring. But it's not like the public roads are for fun, they are for getting from A to B. For that the cars we have are the best ever built, well for the average consumer. Some might say that they are too good, and there is some truth in it.

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But think about it. Modern cars are more advanced, safer, easier to drive, more reliable, more powerful and more efficient than ever before. Of course, for a motoring enthusiastic that migh equal boring. But it's not like the public roads are for fun, they are for getting from A to B. For that the cars we have are the best ever built, well for the average consumer. Some might say that they are too good, and there is some truth in it.

Depends quite a bit from car too, can't be true with that Chinese SUV...

Also modern cars don't give you feeling what is under the tires, you can't feel black ice way I can feel it in old car so I won't even end up to accident in first place, unless some idiot with his new vacuumcleanerplasticeconobox happen to lost control and spin to my nose, because lack of skill and none or marginal feedback from car.

You need to replace more suspension parts more often in modern cars, also when those get older there is nothing to do to them, just put in crusher, no parts made and modern electrics are too complicated to be fixed by yourself.

If you are loaded, sure new car is nice, quiet, etc. just replace it between 5 years and kill the planet in process as damn things are not made to last 20 years which should be minimal life for a car to be friendlier to enviroment...

Use once and throw it a way is there with new cars too, unfortainely.


Manufacturing is then of course quite incredible process, it is amazing how little material is needed today compared to old days.

The ads were quite interesting, but before our time, JTBO! Guess you're an old fashioned bloke.

Some of the hooks were funny- like the VW beetle one (now with a bigger rear window!) and the ad where the woman bought the car because she enjoyed how the doors shut properly! :doh: (I'm sure it was a major concern of the times...)

Ahh, yesteryear. :geezer:

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The ads were quite interesting, but before our time, JTBO! Guess you're an old fashioned bloke.

Some of the hooks were funny- like the VW beetle one (now with a bigger rear window!) and the ad where the woman bought the car because she enjoyed how the doors shut properly! :doh: (I'm sure it was a major concern of the times...)

Ahh, yesteryear. :geezer:

Yep, some might say I'm bit old fashioned indeed, I do prefer lot of things how they were 50's and 60's, it seems then it was easier to be connected to life, than today's artificial world (not literally artificial).

Also I prefer family from back then, where kids actually had parents or at least one of them, now they have adult zombies instead.

Things seem to have changed, some are better some are worse :P