Remember the pre-CG car commercials of ten or twenty years ago? No matter the car, the settings were always similar: tree-lined country lanes, desert highways or scenic mountain roads, all utterly deserted except for the single vehicle eagerly eating up the pavement. I always wished the commercials would eventually get more realistic, depicting how comfortable the cars interior is while youre experiencing your car as most drivers do for much of real life: Sitting there stuck in traffic. Instead, of course, the opposite has happened: CG car commercials now show the target auto cruising around an abandoned, vaguely Vancouver-in-the-summer type of city. Well, earlier this week, auto blogs lit up with news of a forthcoming exotic car coming out of Spain (projected for 2014) called the Aspid Invictus. And their commercial takes it a step further—not only is it all CG, but its amusingly scored and edited like its the trailer for something that stars Tom Cruise and comes out in July: Do
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