We recently highlighted the iconic cars of the ’70s and the magazine ads that sold them, so it only makes sense to do the same for the ’80s. The cars of the ’80s may not have had the boat-like flash ...

Ah, innocence. How sweet it is. This ad was put out in the early days of GM's infamous X-Cars, when all Chevrolet thought they had to was convince buyers why a compact front-wheel-drive car was a good ...

International Harvester Scouts rolled off IHC's assembly line in Fort Wayne, Indiana, from 1960 through 1980. Throughout that period, the marketing wizards did their best to pitch the boxy little ...

Perhaps one of the best pieces of the Summer of Nostalgia we’ve been having at POWDER is digging up old ads from previous issues of the magazine. In a time when so much of ski marketing is nice photos ...

I have a solid collection of automobile magazine ads from the 1950s and '60s, back when advertising was art and people like Art Fitzpatrick and Van Kaufman created dramatic car illustrations. One of ...

“It was fun, innocent and yes, sexy as hell,” the designer tells PEOPLE of working with this week's cover star Brooke Shields on that iconic Calvin Klein Jeans campaign Tracey Harrington McCoy is a ...

I don’t like football and am usually immune to the charms of Super Bowl commercials. So I caught up with RadioShack’s spot — which you can watch in the player above — only after the game was over, ...

Nicknamed 'Golden Greek' and later (to his displeasure) an 'Original Mad Man,' Lois was among a wave of advertisers who launched the 'Creative Revolution' that jolted Madison Avenue and the world ...

The 1980s may not have been the best decade for cars —not for starters, at least—but it was a great decade for car ads. The malaise era was drawing to a close and the economy was picking up speed.

The 1980s brought us some brilliant car ads—and a few that were pretty awful. The 1980s may not have been the best decade for cars —not for starters, at least—but it was a great decade for car ads.