Take this commercial for a Ford Capri 2.8 from 1981.
During the advert the top speed of the car is listed as well as the tag line "it goes like..." with the ford emblem showing up and a lightingish sound. If this advert was modernized and applied in a similar way. I bet you it would be removed from the air almost immediately by advertising regulators.
Now I never thought when I was growing up that these commercials ever had any effect on me. After all I was growing up in an age when a popular tv show glorified jumping cars over random road works to escape the police.
As well as tv shows about cars with computers in them that shoot laser beams go insanely fast and can leap frog into the air at will.
But never once did I think that these cars ever actually existed or that it was a good idea to jump a car over a road works. Many people from my generation were exposed to the same shows and the same influences.
Shows like these don't really exist on TV anymore. Now they've been replaced by reality TV shows which are generally causing people to cancel cable in droves. But a more modern version of this type of driving influence can be seen on Youtube. Typing in keywords such as arab drift and crazy car into the search box will give you hours of viewing of people doing insane things on public roads. This is where youtube fails, since a lot of younger people will want to make their own movies of the insane things they do. As such we end up with such movies as.
Drive safe folks
