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newVideoPlayer("/80_Pinto_476.flv", 506, 423,""); How about the Bauer family, with its ten Pintos in 1980? Hard to believe, but Pintos were once as common a sight as the Taurus is now. With 38 very optimistic highway MPG, these multi-Pinto families could thumb their nose at that damn Ayatollah and his gas-price-jacking hijinks!
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newVideoPlayer("/84_LTD_494.flv", 506, 423,""); The Fox-based '84 Ford LTD really did handle pretty well… if you checked the boxes for all the suspension options that came on the cop version when you bought one, that is, and for some reason that bit of info doesn't get much play in this ad. This ad would have been far more entertaining had Mr. Bondurant taken the base version out for some door-handle-scraping racetrack action. Why, some madmen even autocross the Fox LTD!
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newVideoPlayer("/70s_Ford_Capri_Germany_494.flv", 506, 423,""); When you're jumping off a cliff while strapped in your German-flag-colored hang glider and clad in the finest of polyester duds, you don't want your special lady to pick you up in some jive-ass tape-striped Opel. You want her to roar down the mountain in a high-performance Ford Capri! Thanks once again to Franzouse for the tip.
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It was mighty nice of Ford to wish GM a happy 100th birthday by strategic window-blind arrangement on their office building, but things weren't quite so friendly back in the days before the imports grabbed a huge slice of the car-sales pie. Back in '66, when the Mercury Division was gearing up to release the Cougar, they projected a huge Cougar ad… on the side of GM's Detroit headquarters! GM could have retaliated by using gasoline to burn a big Camaro ad into Henry Ford II's lawn, but they took the high road. Thanks to Mark for the tip. Image credit: CoolCats.net .
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newVideoPlayer("/82_Ford_Granada_Germany_494.flv", 506, 423,""); Now, you might think German men would be at a disadvantage when trying to score with the ladies in Paris, but she'll be saying "Ja, ja!" when Hans rolls into town in a brand-new Ford Granada. No, not this kind of Granada - we mean the European Granada ; Ford thought the name was so good that they needed to assign it to two totally different vehicles. Paris-based Franzouse gets the credit for sharing this one with us; we can assume he's now heading to Berlin to see what kind of effect his Mehari will have on the women there.
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newVideoPlayer("/90s_Ford_UK_476.flv", 506, 423,""); Apparently everyone in Britain has seen this ad thousands of times, thanks to the original lyrics by Queen guitarist and astrophysicist Dr. Brian May , but we didn't hear about it until tipsters Stephen and Franzouse pulled our coats. Unlike Jim Morrison, who refused to let The General make a "Come on Buick, Light my fire" ad, Dr. May wasn't such a stick-in-the-mud about repurposing his compositions. You can see how Ford's torture testing and racing hoonage led straight to such world-beating machines as the Orion and Sierra.
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newVideoPlayer("/83_Ford_FSeries_476.flv", 506, 423,""); Ford made the good ol' 240 and 300 inline sixes starting in 1964, and they had the torque and longevity to be great truck engines. By 1983, however, pushrod sixes were going the way of the vinyl LP- quick, get a metric designation on that thing, so buyers will think it's one of those newfangled V6s! We're a little skeptical that a Late Malaise F series pickup ever got 30 MPG highway, but maybe that test was done at a "highway speed" of 42 MPH, using a liquid measurement known as "Ford Truck Gallons," which are equal to 1.5 regular gallons.
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newVideoPlayer("/85_Mustang_Breakdance_476.flv", 506, 423,""); So you think the Cocaine Factory '85 Duster Ad was the most Eighties car ad you've ever seen? Maybe so, but you're tapping a rich vein of 80s-ness when you add some low-end moonwalking and vaguely break-dance-esque music to an ad for a Turbo Mullet Era Fox Mustang. And only $6,885... for the car with the 88-horsepower 2.3 liter four-cylinder.
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newVideoPlayer("81_Mustang_HotStuff_476.flv", 506, 423,""); When you're a six-foot-tall, 80-pound 1981 babe, the list of things you need for a hot night on the dance floor is pretty short: 1) Cocaine. 2) Absurdly high heels. 3) A Ford Mustang. 4) Cocaine. 5) Cocaine. Ford was eager to provide Item #3, and the 88 HP four-cylinder engine lets you save your money for you-know-what!
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newVideoPlayer("55_Crown_Vic_476.flv", 506, 423,""); When was the last time you saw a car ad with some geeky intellectual explaining how the styling builds the "feeling of motion" into the shape of the car? It's impossible to imagine a present-day Ford being pitched with the line "When the design of a car expresses its function forcefully and imaginatively, of course we derive more pleasure from owning and using it!" The '55 Ford really was a good-looking car, and it sold in greater numbers than its Chevrolet rival... but which one starred in Two Lane Blacktop ?
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newVideoPlayer("86_Taurus_476.flv", 506, 423,""); Now there is a personal car that has exactly exactly what we've been looking for... and what a relief! Folks in the mid-80s were tired of im personal cars- or at least ones with sharp angles- and so the "melted-bar-of-soap" styling of the first Taurus came to be the standard for just about everything to come out of Detroit for the next decade or two. Taur us!
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newVideoPlayer("EscortRS2000_476.flv", 506, 423,""); Back in the Malaise Era, Europeans could buy a rear-drive Ford Escort equipped with the Pinto 2.0 liter engine, and it was a pretty good performer by the standards of the time, racking up plenty of rally wins. Fast-forward to the early 90s, and Ford figured they'd cash in on the RS2000 name by sticking the 150-horse DOHC four-cylinder engine out of the Sierra into the little front-driver. Cue the Rocky theme!
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newVideoPlayer("81_Ford_Escort_SS_476.flv", 463, 387,""); It's hard to believe there was ever a time without Ford Escorts in North America, but the '81 was the very first (and, miserable as those early Escorts were, they were much better cars than the Pintos they replaced). The SS was the top-of-the-line Escort for '81, with a whopping 65 horsepower driving the front wheels. Thanks to a short flash of a baseball score (and super-obsessed baseball geeks ), we know this advertisement was aired on May 23, 1981.
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newVideoPlayer("91_EscortGT_476.flv", 463, 387,""); With its crypto-Billy Idol soundtrack and jiggly graphics, this ad for the '91 Escort stands with one foot in the Eighties and the other in the Nineties. Check out that extraordinarily plastic-looking grille, which warned the unwary of the 127 horses under the GT's hood. Perhaps Team Make:Way is onto something with their choice of an early-90s Escort as their 24 Hours of LeMons entry!
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newVideoPlayer("86_Mustang_476.flv", 463, 387,""); Since we've been seeing so many 80s car ads lately , might as well keep the string going with this more-eighties-than-Max-Headroom ad for the 1986 Ford Mustang. Do you have Mustang Attitude? Sure, 7.9% financing ain't so hot, but an '86 Mustang convertible with 5.0 and 5-speed is still a pretty decent car today (and 500 pounds lighter than the current Galaxie-size Dearborn pony).
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