The holidays and cars share a special place in advertising history. From snowy drives through twinkling neighborhoods to families embarking on seasonal road trips, some commercials became cultural ...

Every few years, somebody decides performance cars themselves are the problem. Too much horsepower. Too much speed. Too much aggressive styling. Too many burnout videos. Now the latest target appears ...

Whether it's an advertisement from an automaker or a local dealer spot, there are some weird car ads out there. I'm going with this Brazilian commercial for the Renault Kwid Outsider which features ...

This ad only aired once during the 1984 MTV Awards, and that's too bad because it's so goddamn sick. This song will be in your head all day, I promise you. These people own a house... why are they ...

The final countdown has begun, and the 2024 Super Bowl is set to kick off soon at the Las Vegas Allegiant Stadium. We brought together all car commercials to be aired at tonight's Big Game. Toyota, ...

This is Celia Hirschman for On The Beat. Back in the 60's and 70's, if a band sold their hit single to an ad agency, for the purpose of selling a car on TV, we'd laugh and say their careers were over.

The 2023-2024 NFL season wrapped with the Kansas City Chiefs besting the San Francisco 49ers at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada. While there’s plenty of discourse surrounding the game, you’re ...

While you’re watching the Seahawks-Patriots brawl, we were watching the Super Bowl commercials—specifically, the car ones. I’m what I like to call a “fair-weather” fan when it comes to football. I don ...

When we look back on the decades of the past, they seem to each have a flavor all their own. There's the retro-future vibes of the 1950s and the hippie aesthetic of the '60s. The '70s had disco, the ...

“Are you [bleep]ing kidding me, Nathan? Did you seriously buy a car without asking me?” A 2021 SNL sketch imagined the only logical response receiving a car wrapped in a giant red bow on Christmas ...

Things can certainly change in a hurry in the auto industry. Three years ago, there were nine car company commercials during the Super Bowl, in spite of a debilitating microchip shortage. As you'll ...