Word: javelin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...economy theme is just as pronounced in the Javelin ads. Aimed at the burgeoning youth market, they tackle Ford's successful Mustang head-on with the pitch that the Javelin, while similarly priced (about $2,500), offers such values as contour bumpers, bigger engines and more leg room. To dramatize the car's jumbo gas tank (19 gallons v. the Mustang's 16), one television commercial shows a gang of toughs-"Hey hood, look at the hood!" their leader shouts-siphoning petrol from a parked Javelin. A magazine ad goes even further in highlighting the Javelin...
...just saw that secret new sports car American Motors built." With that, a sharply pointed pole sails out of nowhere, embedding itself in the speaker's chest. Sinking to the ground, he gasps: "It's called the Javelin...
Using 20-second television teasers to pique interest in its brand-new Javelin specialty car, American Motors Corp. last week launched a nationwide advertising campaign designed to put the company on the road to recovery. To plug its 1968 models, the automaker is relying on 18-month-old Wells, Rich, Greene, Inc., which was already Madison Avenue's hottest new ad agency (other clients: Braniff airlines, Benson & Hedges 100s) when it picked up A.M.C.'s $12 million account last June. The full measure of the agency's upstart audacity will become evident by the time its client...
First on display in the 1967 parade of new car showings was American Motors (TIME, Aug. 25) with its Javelin. Next came the Lincoln-Mercury Division of Ford and Chrysler. By last week, General Motors had shown most of its line. This week there will be unveilings by Chevrolet and by Ford-which plans to display 1968 models, strike...
While the Javelin is supposed to help the whole line by luring customers into the showrooms this fall, A.M.C. plans to add an even jazzier car to the bait next winter. Called the AMX, it will be a two-seat, high-performance sports car that, says Luneburg, will compare "in every way" to the Corvette-except that A.M.C. plans to sell it at a markedly lower price...