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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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!!"
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