Some Shite old car adverts

[trigger]

Just scanned these off from a particularly shite 1983 issue of What Car? magazine, Sorry they are a bit heavy on the uploading!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Feel free to add any off your own!

[Guest]

I like the utter desperation of the FSO one. Nice job!

[Guest]

 

Not seen that one before-however I would still take the maestro anyday

[seth]

Lada Riva "Interior adjustable door mirrors".Umm, There's only one mirror on the car illustrated

[Richard]

I remember that FSO advert, I can remember being astounded at the suggestion that the FSO represented the lap of luxury and that the Maestro was going to beat any lap records. The Lada advert is funny, normally car adverts display an attractive price and illustrate it with a car that costs nearly double, it looks like Lada have done the opposite.

[martc]

Ah yes I remember the days when car adverts used to bang on about drag co-efficients - there seemed to be a great rivalry to try and reduce it as much as possible. Extensive bragging about rust protection was also par for the course this is particularly ironic in the case Renault ad........

[trigger]

Daihatsu Charmant, With 8 years Anti-rust warranty!

[Guest]

I've got the booklet for the anti-rust warranty for my Charmant, it's a load of tear-off things for the dealer - think it comprised of free checkups at service time. Not many left in it so presumably they took advantage of it.

[pompei]

Hmmmm. So why didn't they fit an alarm to the Charmant?

[trigger]

Ah yes I remember the days when car adverts used to bang on about drag co-efficients - there seemed to be a great rivalry to try and reduce it as much as possible.

Funny you say that, Ford was trying that one as well in 1984

 

 

[trigger]

Do you think many people took them up on the offer of a new Sinclair ZX Spectrum?

 

[pogweasel]

I bet they did. A Speccy wasn't 'cheap' back then - factor in inflation and compare what stuff can do now and it's astounding. I picked up a new well-specced laptop for less then £300 last week, bet a Spectrum cost the equivalent of £500 or more. I know the one we had my dad paid over £100 for and that was second-hand, and certainly our first PC was well over £1000 (in 1987)

[Split_Pin]

I really like those late Fiat 131's and Argentas Theres something about a fairly old design being modernised a little for a new decade. Ambassadors and Itals have the same appeal I think Great scans - thanks for sharing!

[Pillock]

I bet they did. A Speccy wasn't 'cheap' back then - factor in inflation and compare what stuff can do now and it's astounding. I picked up a new well-specced laptop for less then £300 last week, bet a Spectrum cost the equivalent of £500 or more. I know the one we had my dad paid over £100 for and that was second-hand, and certainly our first PC was well over £1000 (in 1987)

A sub-£300 laptop? PM me when you need it fixing ;)I remember my ma getting me a Speccy 48k one christmas, and then a few years later an upgrade to a 128k +2a. Looking back through adverts, given that the first one needed a telly buying too, she spent nearly £500 on them both. And looking back, they were absolutely shite.... seriously, I'm all for a bit of nostalgia and like getting emulators and whatnot but 95% of the games were utter rubbish.She then excelled herself by being talked into buying me a £750 laptop when I started college; 486 processor, black and white screen, 170Mb HDD. It was slower (by a factor of 10x), lower resultion and has less than 3% of the storage space of..... my mobile phone today.As for the adverts, wow! The prices! £3k for a Panda out of the showroom. And the specification lists are wonderful, "illuminated switches" and "cigarette lighters" all over the shop. Now we get sat-nav and automatic folding door mirrors. I genuinely wonder what will be standard equipment in 20 years time, what technological advances will be commonplace? Of course if anyone knows these answers, the patent office is your best bet

[Volksy]

what technological advances will be commonplace? Of course if anyone knows these answers, the patent office is your best bet

That or Mercedes

[pogweasel]

I bet they did. A Speccy wasn't 'cheap' back then - factor in inflation and compare what stuff can do now and it's astounding. I picked up a new well-specced laptop for less then £300 last week, bet a Spectrum cost the equivalent of £500 or more. I know the one we had my dad paid over £100 for and that was second-hand, and certainly our first PC was well over £1000 (in 1987)

A sub-£300 laptop? PM me when you need it fixing

Well if "you lot" could fix my other one so that it works for more than 3 weeks at a time without requiring yet more surgery I wouldn't have had to....

[andrew e]

FORD - BECAUSE YOU HAVE A BIG COCK

 

Really! Look at all the phallic images

 

[trigger]

Just came across this advert in a 1983 issue of Motor magazine, I never knew they sold these over here.

 

I'm quessing it's some kind of Mitsubishi Sigma rebadged but I thought they already sold Sigma's here so how come they was also selling them rebadged as Lonsdales?.

 

[Betaphile]

That Lonsdale ad is new to me - Sigmas were built here and were quite popular so it's not even like they had a shedload of excess stock they needed to unload. Why they thought loading them on a boat and sending them to the UK was a top idea is one of those 'Unexplained moments in history'-type events.

 

Wiki explains:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonsdale_(car)

 

I had no idea that series of Sigma ever came with a 1.6 litre engine either. As far as I could remember the only one that you ever saw, even when they were new, was the 2.6 Astron...

[Guest]

A clever trick to evade the import quota agreement on Japanese cars of the time. Still never seen one.

[Guest]

Subaru pulled a similar trick in the nineties, because the Impreza was selling so well they had to import Legacy estates from the USA. Convenient seeing as the US Postal Service was apparantly buying RHD examples... :lol:Distinctly remember seeing a light green Lonsdale estate registered J6388 every day when I was a kid, the owner later had a light green mk1 Sierra Ghia estate and now have a blue Kia Rio, both bearing the same reg mark, still at the same house.

[pompei]

That Ford ad reminds me of just how quick XR3i's were for their time.

[hammy]

That Ford ad reminds me of just how quick XR3i's were for their time.

And how horrid Egg Poacher alloys were even in the early 1980s

[pompei]

And how horrid Egg Poacher alloys were even in the early 1980s

LMAO I always referred to them as much more official sounding Cloverleafs!

[fiatdaft]

i love 70s 80s and 90s adds,btw possible us posties had rhd legacys, easier for them to empty mail boxes.

[CortinaDave]

[fiatdaft]

loads of new stuff doesn't have a fag lighter, or an ashtray for that matter,unless you tick the smokers option.

[trigger]

Thought i may as well update with a few more new ones.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest]

Mine came without a "power outlet" that was the one extra I would probably have paid for, if I'd known that it was not a standard fitment.

Appalling! £5 should procure one from Halfrauds/Ebay/etc, but I'd be wary about even the most minor modification/addition to modern Fiat electrics, even if the current Panda is on the whole reckoned to be a pretty decent effort

[Wolseley1660man]

I think anyone who attempted over 80 mph in an FSO had a death wish. Miafiores liked to rust like nothing else.