For those watching the big game, the ads gracing the TV screens in the United States may have fallen a little short this year, but leave it to those wacky Canadians to create a truly entertaining commercial. AutoBlog found this little advertising gem online and felt that its awesomeness was worth sharing with US audiences. Shaw Exo is a Canadian communications company and this commercial serves to introduce the company’s new offerings, like the best in class picture, HD channels, and video on demand. This commercial pits Shaw (the Cadillac CTS-V) against the competition (Ford Crown Victoria) in an action sequence taken straight from a movie.
On top of each of the cars is a potential communications consumer sitting in a recliner in front the frame of a HD television set; basically Shaw Exo picture is so great it is on par with being in midst of action in the comfort of one’s own living room. Starting off the commercial are a bunch of shady characters making some sort of illicit deal when police sirens blare and the these characters run from law enforcement. As the camera angle widens viewers are treated to one of the strangest car chases to ever grace a television commercial.
Of course the disclaimer across the bottom of the screen advises viewers, “This is a dramatization only. Professional driver/stunt actor on closed road. Do not attempt.” Sure, you should not attempt attach a recliner to a CTS-V and attempt to ditch the cops in real life, but it makes for a great commercial. It also proves that the CTS-V plenty capable of out performing the Crown Victoria Police Interceptors, not that we are advising anyone to attempt to test this hypothesis…