Porsche Super Bowl Commercial

How'd I miss that commercial during the SuperBowl? The commercials are why I had it on! (Yes, I know I live in the Bay Area and should be a 49'ers fan: I'm from Denver...the Broncos.)

The images of Heppenheim look lovely! I know I'll be stopping in Frankfurt again on one of my wish list trips. Heppenheim looks like a great little stopover, thanks for pointing it out!

This commercial had a real bad feedback in Germany - of course produced for the USA.

It transports a picture of Germany following the mistaken "Autobahn is a race track" reputation; also very unsocial and irresponsible.

That is the Schwarzenbach dam. I certainly don't interpret this as "Autobahn is a race track", more of "Porsches are fun cars and fun people like to do fun things with them". The only reason this is set in Germany is that makes it a logical way for a group of people to get access to all these famous cars.

DJ

Yeah, I didn't get the impression that this commercial meant "Come to Germany and drive like a maniac" at all. Simply a mini-heist movie set in the automobile's home country.

Heck, there's even a "making-of" video that's about 10 times longer than the actual commercial:

https://www.motor1.com/news/396325/porsche-super-bowl-ad-bts/

I'm probably going on more than I should about this commercial, but it was just such a pleasant surprise to see Heppenheim of all places, a town that I could see every day when I looked out my window when I lived in Germany, make an appearance during the Super Bowl.

Thank you for posting the locations! The commercial most definitely caught my eye for that very reason, not sure I could have recalled the sponsor had you not mentioned it though, lol ... but I sure do have visuals in my mind of the wonderful locations ... with a few cars flitting about.

I did not recognize the town, since I have never been there, but first thought was, "looks like any one of a thousand Fachwerk towns in Germany".

I did not recognize the town, since I have never been there, but first thought was, "looks like any one of a thousand Fachwerk towns in Germany"

I would rate Heppenheim maybe in the top 20. Taste is subjective, but I give it bonuses for the Atlstadt being somewhat larger than average, the buildings being a bit more grand, the Gründerzeit and Jugendstil neighborhoods outside the Fachwerk core, the very scenic location nestled at the foot of the Odenwald mountains, the view of the castle from the Markt (and vice-versa), the local wine, and the fact that it's so easy to reach from the airport that most visitors to Germany will arrive from. And also because I lived very close by during a particularly happy period of my life, I probably view it with a certain degree of nostalgia.