Super Bowl LIV Car Commercial Live(ish) Blog

Chris Tonn
by Chris Tonn

It’s that day – Super Bowl Commercial Sunday!

I’ll be sharing the automotive commercials as they appear during the game. Keep refreshing this post so you can stay up-to-date.

First Quarter

Well, so far we’ve had car-adjacent spots for Fast 9 and for the Daytona 500. Still waiting for something good.

Porsche – we saw this one for the Taycan early last week. Still cool.

Second Quarter

Well, that was an eventful first quarter..of football. Commercials – not so much.

Hyundai – a bunch of annoying Bostonians upset that Tom Brady isn’t playing tonight.

Genesis – Chrissy Teigen and John Legend show us the luxury of the new GV80.

Weathertech – I guess it’s automotive-adjacent. It’s just a damned cute dog.

Chris Tonn
Chris Tonn

Some enthusiasts say they were born with gasoline in their veins. Chris Tonn, on the other hand, had rust flakes in his eyes nearly since birth. Living in salty Ohio and being hopelessly addicted to vintage British and Japanese steel will do that to you. His work has appeared in eBay Motors, Hagerty, The Truth About Cars, Reader's Digest, AutoGuide, Family Handyman, and Jalopnik. He is a member of the Midwest Automotive Media Association, and he's currently looking for the safety glasses he just set down somewhere.

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  • Mikey Mikey on Feb 03, 2020

    Thank You ....TTAC.... Up here in the Peoples Republic of Canada we are only allowed to view Canadian content ads for fear of us being exposed to "American culture". The parent company of TTAC would be Vertical Scope , 60 percent owned by Toronto Star ,AKA Pravda . I'm shocked at Tor Star for even allowing this . The censors were asleep at the switch ? Hmmm.. perhaps that may explain the tech problems we've been experiencing?? I guess I better remove my tin foil hat.

  • ToolGuy ToolGuy on Feb 03, 2020

    Something I just caught on the Porsche ad: The "bad guy" Taycan is very very fast in Reverse gear (because it's electric) - which explains why the driver can and does back down the city street.

  • ED I don't know what GM is thinking.I have a 2020 one nice vehicle.Got rid of Camaro and was going to buy one.Probably won't buy another GM product.Get rid of all the head honchos at GM.This company is a bunch of cheapskates building junk that no one wants.
  • Lostjr Sedans have been made less practical, with low rooflines and steeply raked A pillars. It makes them harder to get in and out of. Probably harder to put a kid in a child seat. Sedans used to be more family oriented.
  • Bob Funny how Oldsmobile was offering a GPS system to help if you were lost, yet GM as a company was very lost. Not really sure that they are not still lost. They make hideous looking trucks, Cadillac is a crappy Chevy pretending to be fancy. To be honest, I would never step in a GM show room now or ever. Boring, cheap ugly and bad resale why bother. I get enough of GM when i rent on trips from airports. I have to say, does anybody at GM ever drive what everyone else drives? Do they ever then look at what crap they put out in style fit and finish? Come on, for real, do they? Cadillac updated slogan should be " sub standard of the 3rd world", or " almost as good as Tata motors". Enough said.
  • Sam Jacobs I want a sedan. When a buy a car or even rent one, I don’t want to ride up high. I don’t want a 5-door. I want a trunk to keep my stuff out of sight. It’s quieter, cars handle better, I don’t need to be at the same height as a truck. I have a 2022 Subaru Legacy Touring XT, best car ever, equipped as a luxury sedan, so quick and quiet. I don’t understand automakers’ decisions to take away sedans or simply stop updating them — giving up the competition. The Camry and Accord should not be our only choices. Impala and Fusion were beautiful when they were axed.
  • Spamvw I think you need to remember WHY the big 2 and 1/2 got out of the car business. Without going political, the CAFE standards signed into law meant unless you had a higher gas mileage fleet, you couldn't meet the standards.The Irony is that, the law made sedans so small with low roof lines, that normal people migrated to SUV's and Trucks. Now we get worse mileage than before.
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