Rob Keil's newly released, 200-page retrospective colorfully tells the story of automotive advertising superstars Art Fitzpatrick and Van Kaufman.
Here are a whole bunch of brilliant automotive ads over the last 50 or 60 years. It shows that the art of copywriting in advertising isn't what it used to be,
Imagine you’re in charge of 20th century Volvo marketing. The key selling points are durability and safety—how in the world, you ask yourself, do you make practicality sexy? Short answer: You don’t. Instead, you build a sensible brand that’s likable. Its seems the family-oriented vehicles in vogue today are determined to be something they’re not. […]
Imagine you’re in charge of 20th century Volvo marketing. The key selling points are durability and safety—how in the world, you ask yourself, do you make practicality sexy? Short answer: You don’t. Instead, you build a sensible brand that’s likable. Its seems the family-oriented vehicles in vogue today are determined to be something they’re not. […]
When it comes to vintage print ads, literally no one even comes close to the brilliant and creative copy the advertising execs working for Porsche came up
When it comes to vintage print ads, literally no one even comes close to the brilliant and creative copy the advertising execs working for Porsche came up
We keep thinking that speculating on cars is some new event. It's not. People have been doing it for years. But we'd forgotten that we were encouraged BY THE MANUFACTURER to do so. "Gold, Schmold. Buy a Z-Car as a hedge against inflation!" Holy cats!
Few artists are respected over the course of their natural lives. Fewer still manage to achieve iconic status. Artist, illustrator and car designer Art Fitzpatrick – who died at his California home yesterday at the age of 96 – didn’t have that problem. An inspiration to at least three generations of design professionals, Fitzpatrick designed beautiful cars for ‘Dutch’ Darrin and Packard, produced stunning artwork and developed a series of relationships with industry to create compelling advertisements that drove sales […]
This documentary about the history of the MGB, and to a lesser extent the history of MG as a whole, covers the development of
Waldorf-Astoria Ballroom, 1955
One of the worst things about car culture in general is that it still tends to be a boys' club. That's been changing rapidly on several fronts as more and more women get involved in everything from auto engineering to motorsports, but it still has a long way to go.
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(first posted 1/29/2016) More of an update than a full-on road test, this one is of the much-improved 1985 C4. Courtesy of R&T’s 1984 December issue:
The Soviet Union produced millions vehicles every year in the 1950s and '60s. In a collection of advertisements for them, there are some that border on fine art, like the art deco poster above. Then there are some that just invite mockery, like ads of the era from all over the world. Consider this ad for the Ukrainian LuAZ 969-M.It's supposed to evoke an image of the hardy outdoorsman, as he drives his LuAZ into the wilderness for a day of hunting. The wild boar is obviously pasted in, but they carved hi...
Today I am posting twenty-one ads from my collection, and the subject is Opel, mostly from the eighties, a few later.
American cars of the 1960's can be summed up in one word: big. Big engines, big hoods, big windows, big benches, even big headlights. The American road was strewn with these glimmering metallic behemoths throughout the sixties, but across the pond, things were quite different. There were British com
This is one of the best advertising campaigns I have seen for a range of cars. I think it makes these awesome cars even cooler that their PR team was so bold. I kinda want to go buy one now...
Late last year, our counterparts at Audi Naples, VW of Naples, and Naples Acura acquired a new family member in NAPLES INFINITI. We knew that could only mean one thing: soon we would delve into the…
Ad for 1964 P1800 Volvo
(first posted 11/19/2015) Art Fitzpatrick, who along with his partner Van Kaufman created the most memorable automotive commercial art in the form of renderings for GM, passed away recently […]
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Saab had het ook in de jaren zeventig al moeilijk. Dat bewijst dit bij voorbaat al kansloze prototype: de Saab 98.
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A teardrop-design 1938 Talbot-Lago Figonio et Falaschi won European Best of Show and a 1929 Stutz Lancefield took American Best of Show.
Car designers tend to use a limited number of shapes, but these twenty models bear more than just a resemblance to each other.
Australian magazine ad for the 1969 Jensen Interceptor coupe, available from Monaco Motors in Sydney. The ad actually shows the Jensen FF coupe.
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