The Midnight Ride of Cheap Gas – Volkswagen
2 Comments Published October 27th, 2006 in 70s, cars, Commercials, gasI have a Volkswagen. While I don’t plan to buy another anytime soon, this one is pretty convincing, or at least it was…
At today’s prices, that’s like seventy something miles per gallon. On the other hand, assuming this commercial was made before 1979 ( I bet it was – If someone can date please leave a comment), it ain’t that great. I found this site, that only goes back to 1979. It’s the earliest I could find, probably because I am just to lazy to look more. According to it, the price of gas then was around 75 cents a gallon. At three cents a mile, that comes out to 25 miles per gallon. My Ford Focus gets close to 35, so that don’t sound so great. I know prices were higher right before 1979 due to the big oil embargo, but I bet this commercial predates the embargo. So what’s up with this????
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Thanks for the inspiration for a post on my blog! As a wife of a long-time VW fanatic, I had a great time perusing YouTube’s old VW ads.
This string caught my attention, but still a little surprised there isn’t as many comments as I expected. I’ll keep checking back since this is a hot topic for me personally.