The 10 BEST 1980s Car Commercials You Will Love | Decades Of History

[@donovanlong648]

I had a 73 firebird with a factory speedo of 160, I remember when they passed the law about 85 mile an hour speedometers being in those cars, 😂😂😂😅

[@Mike51CFD]

James Earl Jones doing the voice over on the Chrysler Laser XE commercial, perfection.

[@drooskeedoo3388]

"Make it plow understeer in the rain and get on camera!"

[@KCFlyer2]

Those trucks are about half the size of trucks today. Today's trucks don't carry any more, but they are twice the size. Heck even todays "small" trucks are bigger that the full size pickups of the 80's

[@jessejames7757]

The 1980s where fun.

[@LongIslandMopars]

Yes. I never knew how good it was until I started looking back.

[@mikeweizer3149]

​@LongIslandMopars If you were talkin' bout c a rs nothing beats the 1960s!!!!.

[@Juan-ll6sf]

But 1985 Ford Tempo was a lemon 🍋 nightmare.

[@bawintermage8351]

The 90s Tempo was no better!! Hahaha

[@getsmarter5412]

I had a late ‘80s white Ford Taurus. Loved it! Closest thing to the front seat of a cop car I’ve been!

[@TheRealDrJoey]

"Have you driven a Ford lately" was an old ad slogan that Ford revived. I believe they used that slogan in the 30s.

[@yeddeong2545]

NOSTALGIA!

[@robertdiehl9003]

Like a rock: Chevy

[@arthurcrunden6107]

Had both an 87 Taurus and an 85 mr2 Taurus was a great car lasted 11 years and the mr2 was like driving a car on rails it handled fantastic

[@robertdiehl9003]

Pontiac: We build excitement

[@youtubecarspottersguide1]

love the 83-84 mustang convertibles @1:13 with the white interior now its all black , grey, or black and grey with black

[@ronaldbutler9687]

Those were the worst mustangs good times but worst cars. I literally drove that car into submission.

[@youtubecarspottersguide1]

@@ronaldbutler9687 they where my area of growing up

[@jimmyday9536]

The best part of these commercials wasn't the vehicles, it was the commercial itself. They had music, energy, upbeat excitement. Today's car commercials are about cup holders and kids in the back seat staring at their phones.

[@rondrake3720]

Surprised to find that today’s GM suv has less interior room for stuff than those in the good ole days

[@nonleftist]

You show all these performance cars from Ford, Chrysler and GM. But every car you showed got their ass kicked by a black car powered by a lowly turbocharged v6. The quickest car which George Thorogood must have agreed with Buick that it was BAD to the BONE. How you missed that is unforgivable.

[@TheSleepingonit]

The Grand National?

[@petertornabeni602]

Excellent bud, one commercial missed ; QUALITY IS JOB 1 Ford series ads

[@stephaniebooth6169]

The 1980s car company's made crap cars,but I will say one thing I bought a new 1986 Ford E250 Econoline van and drove it over 10 years it by far was and is the best Econoline van I have ever owned to this very day

[@cmoore7700]

Wow I remember that Honda commercial voice. Thanks

[@wakeboarder9180]

Unfortunately I think you really missed the mark. The best car commercials of all time (covering the late 80s to early 90s) was Chevy's "Heartbeat of America" campaign. Patriotic, upbeat, the country was heading in the right direction, they were making better products, and all of their commercials reflected this

[@robertdiehl9003]

Quality is job #1. Ford

[@romanianisraeli]

My favorite was the Civic sedan.

[@robertdiehl9003]

1985 Laser wad hotter then fire back in the day. Revolutionary in style & technologically innovative.

[@jessejames7757]

America's truck is built ford tough

[@TheSleepingonit]

Aluminum bed now

[@JensSchraeder]

So after Return of the Jedi, Darth Vader started doing Chrysler commercials. If you didn’t buy one he would choke you with the force.

[@philojudaeusofalexandria9556]

The "Have you driven a Ford lately?" commercial was during the Found On Road Dead era... Ford was telling the consumer: "Yes, I know you THINK our cars our crap, but have you tried one LATELY? Maybe we started making them better... No way to know unless you come by for a test drive!"... It just sounded very desperate to me... "We are not going to actually say our cars are better, or why... BUT, if you drive one, you MIGHT just randomly find something you like about it!!! And we could actually make a sale, for once!!"

[@johnstratton7470]

That's what I thought about my 84 tempo I named it sparky and after that I said I would never own another Ford then I got my 95 escort wagon I got 3yrs out of it and only gave $600.00 for it

[@theexorcist2605]

Volkswagen commercial with the song Pink moon

[@paulromsky9527]

At 1:01 I didn't see a stop or yield sign, but there was a stop line on the road. The car made a "Califorina Rolling Stop" though the intersection... not something you should do (breaking a law) in a commercial.

[@michaelcoffey7362]

Nice 😊

[@gregoryparkes1589]

Wait, where’s the Joe Isuzu campaign???

[@bawintermage8351]

Did Mr Jones day 0- 50? Who measured zero to fifty?

[@erickriebel4366]

I remember all the way back to when they were singing about see the USA in a Chevrolet anniversary old lady that made Burt Reynolds Dinah Shore that goes way back did Burt went and made her

[@afterhourshotrods6882]

If the stereo sound in the Corvette is outta this World then how do you hear it¿

[@TheSleepingonit]

Lol

[@MrJoeltrain]

No contest

[@netowork3d]

👍

[@8corymix8]

God Bless the 1980s