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Novaload: Uh, yeah. Of course. The exotic chick has never seen an automobile before, so she's startled when this dull, square, uninspired beast lumbers through ... more »
Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet: The babe can haul on my lanyard anytime she wants. The Eurosport was way too little, way too late. I don't think I'll be returning that call. #euros... more »
Murilee Martin: Forgot to mention that I've got one of The Snake's Childs & Albert connecting rods, courtesy of a friend who drives the oil-recycling truck that hits ... more »
HoonThatFerrari: The main thing I remember about these cars is that in one of their ad campaigns they used the insidious & thoroughly annoying Harry Nilsson song: ... more »
Alfisted: This is one of the most attractive Mitsubishis ever. That is not a compliment. #celeste more »
Novaload: OMG the cutaway was to Steve Lawrence and Edie Gorme! Interesting how this Arrow actually looks like a little Javelin/AMC/Eagle mixed up with a Japa... more »
Maxichamp: Either the guy in the video is 7' tall, or that Arrow has zero headroom. #celeste more »
that ain't the way to have fun, son: I liked, and still do like, the later version of this car with a four-headlight treatment. Gotta love a 2-door car with not only the requisite A- and... more »
Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing: They called it 200-SX so we Americans would think of sex... Had they kept it Silvia, we'd have pictured Sylvia Miles from "Midnight Cowboy"... #1979 more »
DrLemming: GM's legendary but rather old-school styling chief Bill Mitchell hated small cars. He once said that styling them was like tailoring a midget. The J... more »

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Listen To Your Heartbeat In A 1988 Celebrity Eurosport
What does it take to charm the exotic 80s woman off her pirate ship? Eurosport! More »
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The Snake Wants To Put You In A '78 Plymouth Arrow!
Don "The Snake" Prudhomme did pretty well with his Arrow… and somehow the success of a vaguely Arrow-shaped Funny Car implied that the street version of the badge-engineered Mitsubishi Celeste would also be, you know, not too slow. More »
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Very Much Unlike A Turtle With Bad Knees: 1977 Datsun 200-SX!
Did you notice the hyphen in the name of this car? That's because Datsun's marketers wanted you to think about SEX when you thought about the North American version of the Nissan Silvia. More »
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1977 Datsun King Cab: 11.3 Cubic Feet Of Cab Space!
You want a vivid demonstration of how much small pickups have changed in the last 30 years? More »
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1979 Offered Tough Choices: Cutlass Supreme, Cutlass Calais, or Cutlass Brougham?
Oldsmobile got whacked by The General earlier in the decade, but there was once a time when Olds had the best-selling midsize car in the country: Cutlass! More »
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1983 AMC Eagle: Too Far Ahead Of Its Time?
Who in their right mind would buy a station wagon with four-wheel drive? That's probably what the competitors of doomed AMC had to say back in the Late Malaise Era. More »
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All-American 1981 Plymouth Horizon Stomps On "World Car" Ford Escort
Yes, what could be more American than a Volkswagen-engined Plymouth based on a Simca design? Actually, big spenders could get the '81 Horizon with Chrysler's new 2.2 engine, which upped the American-ness to some extent. More »
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1967 Opel Kadett Was Such A Mini-Brute, It Had To Be Washed By Elephants!
One can only imagine the brainstorming sessions that raged among Buick's marketing execs when they tried to sell the Kadett to Americans. Why not use elephants? Everyone likes elephants! More »
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The Best Thing About The 1983 Skyhawk Was The Interest Rate
Here's evidence that the Malaise Era really did persist until 1983; after the relentless inflation, oil crises, and general economic gloom of the previous ten years, 8.8% interest on a car loan sounded incredibly good. More »
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Jalopnik's 9 Favorite Vintage Mazda Commercials
When an automaker builds a car named the Cosmo Big Run Genteel, you know they're going to make some good television advertisements. Yes, we're talking about Mazda here! More »
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Our Favorite Vintage Porsche, Mercedes-Benz, and BMW Commercials
We shared our favorite vintage VW ads a while back, but what about the other German car companies? More »
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Jalopnik's 14 Favorite Vintage AMC and Jeep Commercials
AMC may be long gone, and Fiat owns the Jeep brand nowadays, but classic AMC ads will never die! More »
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Roger Moore's Daughter Confounds The Baddies In Her '89 Oldsmobile Trofeo
Oldsmobile apparently had a policy of hiring the daughters of famous actors for their ads of the Bush I Era; there's Julia Nimoy in this '91 Silhouette ad, and here's Deborah Moore in the Trofeo. More »
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It's 1979, And You Must Choose Between The Chevette And The AMC Spirit
That's sort of how the mid-Malaise Era went; you could opt to swap your rapidly-eroding dollars for the already obsolete Chevrolet Chevette, or for a much larger car made by an obviously doomed manufacturer. More »
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Jalopnik's 9 Favorite Vintage Citroën Commercials
It's a shame that the Citroën brand never really made it big in North America, because nobody does weird ads like Citroën. Post-apocalyptic scenarios, brain-scrambling animations, and- of course- the giant robot head of Grace Jones! More »
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Put Your Money In The Bank, Not In The Tank: 1979 Datsun 210 Hatchback
35 MPG city, 47 MPG highway! Compare that to the numbers on the '09 Nissan Versa FE, which manages just 28/34 MPG. More »
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Jalopnik's 12 Favorite Honda Commercials
Want to see a Civic tear Jodie Foster's skirt off? Incomprehensibly Japanese animations? CRX worship? All this and more, after the jump! More »
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The Dilemma Facing British Car Shoppers In 1951: Alvis, Bristol, or Land Rover?
The last round of print ads from old issues of Autocar was a lot of fun, so I've scanned another batch from 1951. We've got everything from the Rover 75 to the Rolls-Royce Silver Dawn. More »
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The Jalopnik Favorite 48 Classic Ford, Lincoln, and Mercury Commercials
We've already honored our favorite Mustang commercials, but what about all those other FoMoCo vehicles? We've got 48 of them for you! More »
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British Postwar Car Ads
Not long ago, one of the 24 Hours Of LeMons perpetrators gave me a big box of Autocar magazines from the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. Talk about your great British print car ads! More »
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Jalopnik's 16 Favorite British Leyland and Rootes Group TV Commercials
Some of you observant types might notice that British Leyland and the Rootes Group were totally separate corporations, but we ~~like to fill up tables~~ think their ads go together quite well! More »
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When Ugliness Was a Volkswagen Virtue
These days, Volkswagen's marketers would sooner dump ground glass down their lederhosen than pitch their products as no-frills utilitarian transportation, but their predecessors had different cars to work with. More »
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Some Of The Classic British VW Commercials We Missed Last Week
We had the predictable uproar about all the great VW ads we overlooked in our 20 Classic Volkswagen Commercials post last week, because VW has always done great advertising and you can't possibly cover everything. More »
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Jalopnik's 20 Favorite Classic Volkswagen Commercials
The Datsun ads were fun, as were the Toyota ads, but it was Volkswagen that first made an art form out of the automotive television advertisement. More »
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Honda Honda Honda Honda! Madness Goes JDM To Pitch The '83 City
What's the best way to sell the 1983 Honda City Hyper Turbo? Honda's Japanese-market admen figured that the ska popmasters of Madness would be just perfect for a series of super-frantic TV spots. More »
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1982: It's A Malaise-O-Rama $2188 Sale At Bert Weinman Ford!
Now, Bert Weinman Ford in Chicago was sacrificing those new '82s at below dealer cost, but who cared when you could pick up an air-conditioned '77 LTD Country Squire 9-passenger wagon for $2,188? More »
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From The World Rally Championship To Your Driveway: 1987 Peugeot 505 Turbo
Back in 1986, car shoppers looking to buy a hot European sedan didn't necessarily head straight to their nearest BMW dealership for a 325i. No, some of them bought Peugeot 505 Turbos! More »
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Big Fins, Dual-Quad Carbs, Seats Nine: The 1957 Plymouth Suburban
Could the '57 Suburban be the greatest family hauler ever made? It got better gas mileage than present-day monster SUVs, while seating more passengers and looking orders of magnitude more attractive. More »
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Ten Worst Car Commercials Of All Time
Curious why automakers are struggling? Look no further than these ten terrible car commercials. Celine Dion, suicidal robots, and contagious catchphrases combine to make us want to never buy another new car again. More »
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Is Your Butt Knocking? Gulf No-Nox!
Back when Super 8 movie cameras often fell into the hands of 10-year-olds- say, 1965 to 1985- the stop-motion "invisible car" movie was a classic genre. Here's Gulf's higher-production-value 1968 version. More »
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Pontiac Unleashes The '84 2000 Sunbird Turbo: Oh Yeah!
In the mid-80s, there was no word more magical in automotive-marketing circles than TURBO! In the '84 2000's case, the turbo "pumps in huge quantities of air… and pumps out one hundred fifty horsepower." More »
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50 Classic Pontiac Print Ads
Pontiac made some pretty good television ads, but we mustn't overlook the print ads. Franzouse has found a treasure trove — here are 50 Pontiac classics. More »
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If You Can Stand It This Hot: The 1990 Pontiac Grand Am
How could The General bring himself to axe Pontiac, with a history like this? We'll admit the N-body Grand Am wasn't Pontiac's finest hour, but it was orders of magnitude better than the execrable Phoenix! More »
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The 1932 Ford: As Many Ball Bearings As Cars Costing Four Times As Much!
Les Firestine Ford disappeared from Oakland's Auto Row many decades ago, but this promo film- apparently shown in theaters around the East Bay- makes the Deuce Coupe seem like a pretty good deal, even now. More »
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Nissan Bluebird-U Makes The Ladies Crave Your Essence!
We think Nissan should drag the admen who made this series of Bluebird commercials out of retirement and put them to work on their current product line. Yes, they're that good! More »
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Insufficiently Festive Festiva Doomed To Crusher By Québécois Quality-Control Team
When you're inspecting cars fresh off the line, what do you look for? Well, if you're working at the Van Nuys plant building third-gen Camaros… well, no need to go there, eh? More »
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The Jalopnik Top 10 Vintage Ford Mustang TV Commercials
More than any car we've seen, the Mustang has always been marketed as a product that can transform its owner's entire life. A Mustang buyer becomes somebody different, according to Ford. More »
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The Jalopnik Top 20 Classic Renault TV Commercials
Even though Renault never had a big presence here in North America, we can still admire the TV commercials for their cars. Spanning the spectrum from salacious to surreal, Renault ads rarely fail to entertain. More »
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Big In Japan: When Western Stars Make JDM Commercials

The money's great, babe, and they'll never see it back home. Yeah, but then came the internet, and now those agents' promises to their clients have turned out to be lies. More »
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The 1980 Porsche 924: Kicks Ass At Le Mans, Hauls Your Scuba Gear
Here's what appears to be a late-night German infomercial for the 1980 Porsche 924 and 924 Turbo. Outdoorsy young Porsche owners, dedicated Porsche factory workers, and Porsche Le Mans racers all make appearances.
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