Our Favourite Car Ads Vol 27

[warren t claim]

We haven't had a car ad thread for a few weeks now so I thought I'd start this one.

 

Feel free to contribute your favourites from the past and present.

 

Here's an example of a typical African Fiat owner.

[Junkman]

My favourite of all time:

 

[Shep Shepherd]

The Citroën CX ad featuring Grace Jones is a perennial favourite of mine:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdT9oURGtTc

 

I've always thought of Grace as the human version of the CX

[phil_lihp]

Got to be this wonderfully dated and cheap advert for British Leyland:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr2Wa4i1vVw

 

Cavalier Mk2, better by design:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjiHuLnVcAs

 

And for all those modern TV adverts that barely show the car at all, this one for the Xantia is a superb example of how to do it properly.  I even kind of want one now.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIUMh_Pv3LU

[Pillock]

 

Ford admitting that the Mk3 - Mk4 Escort change was pretty much some lights, a new dashboard, and placca bumpers.

[Negative Creep]

 

Ford admitting that the Mk3 - Mk4 Escort change was pretty much some lights, a new dashboard, and placca bumpers.

 

 

So does C103 GWN qualify for both the Early and Late Registration Madness threads?

[ProgRocker]

A very Autoshite advert:

 

 

[twosmoke300]

I'm on my phone and not smart enough/cba to post a link but I always liked the mk3 cav crash test adverts with peter Gabriel's sledgehammer.

[Jim Bergerac]

Here:

 

Another Cavalier one:

 

Love this:

 

And surely the best advert for a slow selling car:

[Vin]

I remember a newspaper spread about this ad at the time said Volvo wrecked 19 second hand 340s making it...

 

http://youtu.be/nf2ATS44osA

[Vin]

http://youtu.be/H8GHiY6jmR8

 

All over the telly at the time. I remember Jasper Carrott doing a version of it on his show at the time,  involving a front door mat, a matchbox superkings and lighter fluid or similar...

[sheffcortinacentre]

me too

[pshome]

There are some very nice 504 ads from Argentina:

 

Watch the jumps!

 

 

Ok, you can drive her through the salt water.... body then gone after 2 years instead of four...

 

 

This one is for the "shameless... " category

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTCtQS4mpEo

[brickwall]

Cannon and Ball  99 quid deposit.

 

[brickwall]

Rangie

 

[garethj]

Love this Defender advert

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEf0pKdyeyg

[RedSparrow]

[Wilko220]

Here:

 

 

 

I love how that advert, which markets the Cavalier as being a good buy on the basis of its GR8 safety equipment, ends with a disclaimer pointing out that half of it doesn't actually come as standard!

[philibusmo]

I know the car isn't very Autoshite, but when I first saw these three adverts when I was twelve they left a big impression.

Still don't want the car though.

[UmBongo]

 

Shame the MK 5 was so terrible.

 

 

[chris1991]

 

[chris1991]

 

Not biased at all  

[Parky]

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oC3GwqIg0Os

 

Not sure if this will post properly but this one is proper odd!

[brickwall]

Wow! I remember that one.

[D-Dubya]

the advert that is stuck in my mind from my youth was this -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_93lYLzGHo

[D-Dubya]

and sort of car related was this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxaqFvX649Y

[Wilko220]

Sorry - but if we're talking oil adverts, then it has to be this one. 

 

Autoshite comes alive!

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2MiR3E4ng4

[chris1991]

[brickwall]

Who the hell were they trying to kid?