Whether or not you're excited by automobiles themselves, the best car ads offer a fascinating glimpse into advertising history. The earliest examples, around the late 19th century, focused on the ...

For almost as long as the internet has existed—or at least as long as it’s been a public utility—people have attempted to sell things through it. And short of the roof over your head, a car is the ...

Long gone are the days when the ad spaces during the Super Bowl were dominated by car commercials. In fact, this year’s big game likely won’t see more than five—and two of those will be from Toyota.

Each year, the auto industry is always involved in the Big Game in a huge way. Car companies have been willing to spend in order to sink their teeth into the Super Bowl ad scene... and it's very rare ...

A few years back, this column was the front-page anchor for The Herald Times' Auto section, which contained pages of ads from local car dealers. Rows of thumbprint photos of cars for sale, their ...

This may come as a shock to younger readers, but television commercials actually used to be entertaining. Sure, they always existed solely to get us to buy things, but until the 2010s or thereabouts, ...

FLORIDA -- A car salesman wrote a blunt ad for a used car laying out the problems with the vehicle and surprise, surprise it sold! In a Craigslist ad and Facebook post, the Florida car salesman gave ...

Electric vehicles currently make up a sliver of the US passenger-car market, accounting for less than 2% of new-car sales as of late last year. But you wouldn’t know that watching the country’s ...