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.

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Ah, innocence. How sweet it is. This ad was put out in the early days of GM's infamous X-Cars, when all Chevrolet thought they had to was convince buyers why a compact front-wheel-drive car was a good ...