1970's Cars - The Art of Advertising

The late 1960's and the early 1970's were an age ofsuch as popular British singer Petula Clark when she
muscle cars, and in this age advertisements ruled thewanted you to "Look What Plymouth's Up to Now."
consumer market. 1970's cars were all aboutFord used the slogan "The Lively Ones" on sportier
marketing, the more marketing a company did, themodels, and then sponsored a television show with
more chance they would get one of their productsthe same name.
sold.The muscle car market had two sides, one was very
The thing is, manufacturers knew that not everyoneperformance and speed related, and automakers
wanted a muscle or pony car, but they advertisedyearned to sell to that market. However, some
those types of vehicles hoping that it would leadmanufacturers decided that they should relate their
consumers to come into a showroom, not looking toadvertising to the other side, the side that focused
by a sports car, but knowing they wanted to buyon the youthfulness of that era. Plymouth, for
from that specific company. They would advertiseexample, found a way to do this by created a color
the fancy muscle-cars in their lineup to attract musclepalette for their 1970's cars that had very cartoonish
car enthusiasts, and they hoped that by word ofand crazy colors, to appeal to the pop art loving,
mouth, these enthusiasts would tell theirBeatles listening consumer, and also the consumer
non-enthusiast friends about the company, so thatwho wanted the raw power of a Plymouth muscle
the non-enthusiast friends would buy 1970's carscar.
from that company and not its competitors.These old muscle cars are being restored present
Automakers used multiple tools in their advertising today. The era of muscle cars in the late 60's to early
attract consumers to choose a car from their lineup70's is being restarted with the restoring of these
instead of one of their competitors. Many slogansclassic muscle and pony cars, and every muscle-car
were created to catch the consumers' interest, andenthusiast should know this.
some slogans were spoken by a famous celebrity