Best Commercial Ever – Shell Ferrari F1

To celebrate 60 years of collaboration between Shell and Ferrari, the marketing geniuses at Shell decided to pay homage to Ferrari F1 cars by creating a commercial that has to be the best car-guy commercial of all time.

The sights and sounds will blow you away as Ferrari F1 cars from past to present blast through the streets of London, Rome, Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo, New York, and Sydney. Ferrari F1 test drivers did the driving except in Sydney, where a Ferrari customer reportedly did the honors. Shell reports that the commercial is the most expensive advertisement ever made – worth it.

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