Our favourite car ads.

[Pillock]

 

Vauxhall Nova. Hot MILF get frustrated at roadworks making her late for a dogging session so makes a mockery of health and safety laws by blemming it across a building site. Bonus Horizon at the end....

[Louise2cv]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmB7HdexNtk

[ProgRocker]

Brazilian VW Santana.

 

I'm loving the synthesisers on these '80's adverts.

Commen Sie Bittern und listen to Kraftwerk.

[Magnificent Rustbucket]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmB7HdexNtk

This is completely mesmerising, but my favourite is the 'Get up to more in the new Maestro 1.3L'

 

This was well known at the time.

 

 

It is amazing how many people view these on Youtube. Twenty five thousand people watched an old ad for the Triumph Acclaim!!

[pompei]

I have no love for Novas but love that advert!

[Phrancofile]

My introduction to this site and my personal favourite. Great to be here, folks:

Crazy ad, but what a lovely car!

[garethj]

My introduction to this site and my personal favourite. Great to be here, folks:

Crazy ad, but what a lovely car!

 

Welcome, but that's already been posted a bit earlier

 

Here's a great advert for the Tatra 603. A car you couldn't buy at the time

 

Part 1

Love the high speed drifting in front of a police rider at 2:10, and the girl giving a lovely smile. When you try this for real, she's in a screaming panic....

2:45 when you could advertise a car's virtue of being faster than the police bikes

The blue and white police car is a very rare (even by Tatra standards) T600 van

5:20 onwards, drifting it through narrow cobbled streets. I'm surprised the driver can walk properly with the massive balls he's got. Whitewall crossplys, NOT GR8 4 GRIP

 

Part 2

1:10 Fire up the petrol heater, the council are behind with the gritting again

3:30 She's still cool as a cucumber despite being 1% away from a huge oversteering accident. I'll have a dose of what she's on

And after all that, they were demonstrating it for the police. What a bunch of kidders

[Madman Of The People]

In 1985, American Motors (then owned by Renault) chopped the roof off the Wisconsin-built Renault Alliance (Renault 9) and used this film to launch it.

 

Warning: this advert contains mimes, breakdancers and other assorted '80s cheesiness. "When the heat hits the street", indeed!

 

 

 

Cheers,

Madman of the People

[Madman Of The People]

Here are some other American ads for Renault during the 1980s. Despite AMC/Reanult selling quite a few examples of the Alliance (R9) and Encore (R11), you never see these cars on the road anymore.

 

1983 Renault Alliance, 1983 Motor Trend magazine Car of the Year!:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1_4o_kYJtg

 

 

1984 AMC/Jeep/Renault "Super Success" sale!

 

 

1987 Renault Alliance GTA 2.0 piched by actor George C. Scott (General Patton!):

 

 

1985 Renault Alliance:

 

 

Renault Encore (R11):

 

 

1981 Renault LeCar (R5):

 

 

More of the 1985 Renault Alliance Convertible!:

 

 

George C. Scott also helped launch the 1988 Renault Medallion (R21), introduced just as Renault bailed out of North America.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-H4GdHTL9k

 

 

Cheers,

Madman of the People

[Pete-M]

[kevin 900]

Passat 'drop' ad mentioned earlier -

 

Golf Mk2 'squeaking' - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6EvhCTGYVg

 

Two Ronnies British Leyland -

 

Ford Sierra -

[Shep Shepherd]

Launch ad for the Capri 2.8 Injection, with voice over by Patrick 'Protect and Survive' Allen:

 

 

The 1982 Ford Cortina - More than ever, a car above comparison, or so says John Hurt:

 

 

I'm surprised that FoMoCo didn't end up in court over the Cortina ad, as I believe that no Cortina - not even the final one made - ever had factory-fitted electric windows, sunroof and mirrors

[Pete-M]

Well, if it's time to be dropping 'celebs' in, have a go at

. Quality.

[Shep Shepherd]

Well, if it's time to be dropping 'celebs' in, have a go at

. Quality.

 

Judith bloody Chalmers! Come back, Sir Robert Mark, all is forgiven!

 

In all seriousness, GT70s were great tyres. I had a set fitted to my mark 3 Fiesta in the late-1990s, just before they were superseded by the Club

[kevin 900]

Hahahahaaaaaaaaa - What the f**k does she know about tyres!?

Priceless.

[Pete-M]

I'm surprised that FoMoCo didn't end up in court over the Cortina ad, as I believe that no Cortina - not even the final one made - ever had factory-fitted electric windows, sunroof and mirrors

 

Some very late ones had electric mirrors. Mates dad had a gorgeous, light JRG, Y plate 2.0 GL which had 'em. I was full of envy when I spotted 'em. Mate was full of despair when he broke one and had to pay £85 odd to replace it before his dad found out.

[Shep Shepherd]

I'm surprised that FoMoCo didn't end up in court over the Cortina ad, as I believe that no Cortina - not even the final one made - ever had factory-fitted electric windows, sunroof and mirrors

 

Some very late ones had electric mirrors. Mates dad had a gorgeous, light JRG, Y plate 2.0 GL which had 'em. I was full of envy when I spotted 'em. Mate was full of despair when he broke one and had to pay £85 odd to replace it before his dad found out.

 

I stand corrected! It must have been really something to have electric mirrors in a Cortina. I imagine that they either filtered down from the Granada range or were reverse-engineered by the boys at Dagenham from kit intended to be fitted to the forthcoming Sierras, in order to make the run-out models which weren't Crusaders or Ghias more attractive to prospective buyers. I would have also wanted central locking, electric front windows, a digital display AM/FM radio-cassette with four speakers and the 'S' pack, though

[garethj]

Passat 'drop' ad mentioned earlier -

You're a star, thank you!

[Timewaster]

Passat 'drop' ad mentioned earlier -

You're a star, thank you!

 

Is that David Cameron?!

[Guest]

[Shep Shepherd]

 

Toyota GB should have used that!

[Shep Shepherd]

The CLASSIC 1987 VW Golf ad:

 

 

[Shep Shepherd]

The amazing 'cocaine factory' ad for the Plymouth Turismo Duster (a car based on the Chrysler/Talbot Horizon), as shown during the commercial break of the first MTV Music Awards in 1985, and possibly the best car advert ever made:

 

 

I've been looking for a good quality MP3 of the song in the commercial for years, without success

[Richard]