Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Car ads

America’s Most Toxic Car Ad: Hummer EV vs. H3

By Kea Wilson | Sep 7, 2021 | No Comments

As Americans come down from the sugar high of Labor Day Weekend sales at the auto dealership, we're looking at two bad ads for the same vehicle: one electric, one an original recipe gas-guzzler, both ultra-fatal to vulnerable road users in the event of a crash.

Op-Ed: Is Car Culture Is Getting Even Worse?

By Bill Lindeke | Sep 6, 2021 | No Comments

Cars are their own worst monster, and they will dodge on their last legs like a boxer on the ropes until the very end. No, cars will not go gently into that good night. They will lie, cheat and growl their way to the grave.

What Vision Zero Can Learn from Car Ads

By Tom Flood | Oct 19, 2020 | No Comments

A former car insider reveals the techniques to develop ads to target a broader audience for the Vision Zero cause.

Why Advocates Blast Audi For This Ad

By Kea Wilson | Aug 5, 2020 | No Comments

With one simple image, the German auto manufacturer ignited a firestorm — in more ways than one.

See The Van Moof Ad That's Too Hot for French TV

By Gersh Kuntzman | Jun 30, 2020 | No Comments

Does the company's bike ad create “a climate of anxiety"? The French think so.

Streetsblog 101: Car Culture and Toxic Masculinity

By Kea Wilson | Feb 27, 2020 | No Comments

Our primer on how car ads created the very idea of macho — and why it's killing us.