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.

Chrysler Corporation appeared doomed as the 1970s came to a close, kept on life support by federally guaranteed loans squeezed out of Congress by Lee Iacocca. Few wanted to buy bloated Cordobas or ...

While Chrysler's Plymouth and Dodge divisions were moving iron like crazy during the middle 1960s, the cars bearing Chrysler badges tended to be thought of as old-fashioned stodgemobiles by many ...