1980 Ford ThunderBird Commercial

Commercial of the 1980 Ford

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Autos & Vehicles

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• 1979
• 1980
• Ford
• Thunder
• Bird
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[Silvertrine]

Fact is Japan had and still has a homegrown monopoly. They used that monopoly to sell cars in this country at cost or at a loss to steal market share.

[beatricemaude]

This is a very under-appreciated automobile. Ford took a bold leap forward in technology with their cars in 1980. Personally I love the late 60's and 70's generations, but a decked out early 80's T-bird is plush and rare. Comely in that formal fashion of the times. A friends mom had a lipstick 82 with digital and white leather.

[89gasper]

@tdelamont 108,000 miles on my 82 Thunderbird Town Landau.

[tdelamont]

@Doobie1975 They aren't on the road today because they were so cheaply built none of them ran much past 75,000 miles. Seriously, 1979 to 1983 was the absolute rock-bottom of the US auto industry.

[Doobie1975]

I never liked the styling of this era of the T-bird's/Cougar's and it's not difficult to see why very few of these cars are still on the road today, my favorite era of the T-Bird's is the 1964-66's with the 1967-71 T-Bird's close behind

[CamaroAmx]

@moulons 85mph wasn't its top speed. the speedo stopped at 85mph. It was a goverment deal. The national speed limit was lowed from 65mph to 55mph in the late 70's, so the goverment didn't see the need for any car to have a speedo that went above 85mph. by the end of the 80's, legit speedos were back. My 86 bronco II had an 85mph speedo and I got it there and broke the little stop-peg and spun it around back to 55mph. So 85mph was not the vehicle's terminal speed.

[Srd1126]

@yorgle11 Pretty much every car had front disc brakes well before 1980. I do agree the 1980s were when North American cars became more harmonized sizewize with other parts of the world. It was not the best time for cars as idea like fuel injection and computer controls were on cars but not perfected yet.

[CEOkiller]

There's no thunder in that 'Bird.

[jvarela965]

@auaiao9 I think also the economy was a mess from 80-82 after the revolution in Iran oil prices spiked which did not help car sales. But these 80-82 T-Birds and Cougars were just butt ugly.

[auaiao9]

@alanisgirl2010 Yes, a few did. Do you think they advertised this car and not a one of them sold?

[auaiao9]

@jvarela965 That bodystyle T Bird wasn't popular at all that I can remember. It looked too much like a dressed up Fairlane. The best thing about them was the hideaway headlights.

[esau93631]

@Silvertrine No, they just build better cars.