Road & Track has some cool VW Bug black & white ads from the 1950s up today.
Students of modern advertising learn all about Volkswagen’s legendary 1950s and 60s ad campaigns, which highlighted everything unconventional and backward-seeming about the car—its size, its thrift, its stalwart dedication to humble minimalism in an era when American automakers were redesigning their cars yearly to be bigger, wider, and more flamboyant.
King Rose Archives maintains a fantastic YouTube channel of vintage video footage from throughout the many eras of the automobile. The Archive just uploaded a plethora of original Volkswagen ads, spanning both the Type I era and the later Super Beetle. Here are some of our favorites.
