Cheesy 80's car ads

[Jim Prower]

Okay, for some reason these vids are only playing for two seconds and then cutting out. Also, no sound.

EDIT: Youtube-wide. at least, for me.

 

[Barracuda]

Okay, for some reason these vids are only playing for two seconds and then cutting out. Also, no sound.

The same thing happens to me, but why it happens nobody knows. Even youtube doesn't know why it happens, or at least that's what I read. How you solve it is to have the Firefox add-on that allows you to switch over to IE in Firefox. Videos will play fine when you switch over to IE, you just have to put up with IE's crappy slowness.

That is of course if you're using Firefox.

 

[Jim Prower]

yesh, I <3 the Fierfawx, but this is an interesting development. Lemme dig up the ol' IE install.

EDIT: I'll wait for it to fix itsself. Good word, IE's crappy slowness is NOT worth it.

 

[Tornado]

I've found that completely exiting Firefox and coming back to the video in question solves the problem.

 

[ROAD_DOGG33J]

I want a Pontiac now.

1987 Pontiac commercial


edit:

1980 VW Scirocco S

 

[Tornado]

They couldn't pull that add off today now that they have no cool cars anymore.

 

[Jay]

"I love you Skyline"





Random man "It's a real powerful car"
Paul newman "I know, it's a Skyline, it's terrific"







Not 80's but still amusing.

 

[bergauk]

i'm really not liking the whole "I can't watch youtube videos because they only play for 2 seconds" thing.. I wanted to watch cheesy 80's ads since 11AM. All I can say is wtf youtube wtf.

 

[Jim Prower]

Uh....*supertwitch*

It's not really from the '80s...but it IS bad.



It's still Skyline...

But it's in Space!!!!

 

[exigeracer]

In 25 years, "That's a Saturn!??!?!" will be occupying most of this thread. Those ads are so lame.

 

[Jim Prower]

This is an annual promotion for two local car dealers that still exist, albeit, now owned by the Uftring group. This one's particularly bad.

 

[Beerz]

Renault 5 does San Francisco...


Fiat Uno FTW!!!1!!!one!!

 

[Pupik]

Who needed MTV in the 1980s, when you had TV ads?

¡En fuego!



I was looking for the stupid Amerikajin Justy ad, found the stupid Nihonjin one instead:



Very quick from 0-50.



Anything lamer than a quarterback hawking a scooter?



Vel-vet!

 

[Tornado]

Was "Rich Corinthian Leather" a 70s thing?

 

[Duke]

Yes. From Ricardo Montalban's introduction of the Chrysler Cordoba. He adlibbed the part about "rich Corinthian leather" off the top of his head, because he wanted another opportunity to roll the Rs. The marketing guys loved it so much they ran with it.

 

[Pupik]

It continued on into the '80s, although I can't find a YouTube video to back that up.

 

[Leonidae]

Thread revival!

 

[Jim Prower]

That may be the first publicly acknowledged example of underbody lighting. Ever.

 

[RedTransAm]

More cheesy goodness - '86 Trans Am

 

[Jim Prower]

Girlplz :B

Oh, wait, there was a car in that commercial? I never noticed...

 

[Sniffs]

boy, this one musta escaped my attention....

note to Euopeans: the "merkur" commecial is how Ford Europe tried to sell the US the Sierra and (i believe) the RS?

 

[Duke]

Girlplz :B

Oh, wait, there was a car in that commercial? I never noticed...

Funny Pic Thread much?

 

[Jim Prower]

Sorry, didn't mean to offend...