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So, if some of you don’t know, I was able to live through most of the past decades and I was able to witness the automotive landscape past and now present. I believe we are in a reincarnation of the 1980's of the way cars are marketed with Turbos and more unique branding. Some people forget or are too young to remember Turbo Toyota's such as the MR2 and Toyota Truck
We recently did an organization of one of our rooms and my husbands old magazines where in there and we gave them a look through.
Below I have upload a few pics of the some of the ads for everyone to peruse through and enjoy.
I think there is a profound difference between and magazine ad in print and one that is just on the Internet. These are best viewed on a large screen computer.
I hope everyone appreciate the ads and I hope everyone will enjoy.
Last edited by Toys4RJill; Apr 7, 2018 at 01:03 PM.
Ah yes, this brings me back when I was growing up. Got nostalgic and pulled out some yellowed C&D, R&T, MT magazines
Jill, P.S. I fully recall all those ads and especially love the '92 ES one. What a looker even for today's standards. My favorite ES of all time. But I digress...
The MR2... my first love... !
And some others below remind me of the best era of affordable sports cars (ok, maybe not so much the Capri!)
Ah yes, this brings me back when I was growing up. Got nostalgic and pulled out some yellowed C&D, R&T, MT magazines
Jill, P.S. I fully recall all those ads and especially love the '92 ES one. What a looker even for today's standards. My favorite ES of all time. But I digress...
The MR2... my first love... !
And some others below remind me of the best era of affordable sports cars (ok, maybe not so much the Capri!)
Awesome ads. Thanks for sharing. Do you feel modern times are similar to those of the 1980s?
Do you feel modern times are similar to those of the 1980s?
You're not asking me, but I'll give my 2c anyways.
The '80's were some of the worst years for car enthusiasts. We suffered through terrible "performance" based vehicles. My first new car purchase was a 1986 Camaro IROC-Z. It boasted 190HP V8! 0 to 60 was in the mid 7 second range. That said, who knows where I would be if I had access to the HP that's available today. Young and stupid is more than just phrase. So, I see no resemblance to the 1980's in today's vehicles.
You're not asking me, but I'll give my 2c anyways.
The '80's were some of the worst years for car enthusiasts. We suffered through terrible "performance" based vehicles. My first new car purchase was a 1986 Camaro IROC-Z. It boasted 190HP V8! 0 to 60 was in the mid 7 second range. That said, who knows where I would be if I had access to the HP that's available today. Young and stupid is more than just phrase. So, I see no resemblance to the 1980's in today's vehicles.
Yeah. Didn’t ask you. Got that. Lol. I am just kidding. Thanks for your thoughts. Didn’t mean the quality of cars was similar to the 80s. More so the marketing and how it seems to me we are seeing more turbos and more Japanese vs American vs German designs. Those are my impressions. But you are 100%, the quality of the cars is vastly superior today.
i think it used to be called toyotareference, but pretty much any ad / brochure you can think of from toyota / lexus and increasingly more are available. it's where i got stuff like this,
well there was the supra, skyline, land cruiser, LS / celsior, mr2, nsx, acura was just born, there was the nintendo and sega, sony made the first CD player, the digital SLR, the laptop, flash memory, the LCD tv, and there's probably even some other things
so as some as these inventions would suggest, it wasn't a roll of film... they were past that already lol
i think it used to be called toyotareference, but pretty much any ad / brochure you can think of from toyota / lexus and increasingly more are available. it's where i got stuff like this,
I was already well into adulthood (early middle age) when that period rolled around....and had been driving and reviewing cars for some two decades. IMO, the ads for the then-new Subaru XT sport-coupe were probably the corniest ones produced back then. Subaru, back then, established a marketing problem that dogged the company for years. In fact, when first saw the father/son add, I was able to figure out the punch line even before the end of the ad itself.
I was already well into adulthood (early middle age) when that period rolled around....and had been driving and reviewing cars for some two decades. IMO, the ads for the then-new Subaru XT performance-coupe were probably the corniest ones produced back then. Subaru, back then, established a marketing problem that dogged the company for years. In fact, when first saw the father/son add, I was able to figure out the punch line even before the end of the ad itself.
1980s/1990s Ad Thread
