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BMW Advertises Diesel Cars in Super Bowl

For the second year in a row, a German luxury carmaker used the Super Bowl to push "clean diesel" powered cars.

BMW's ad in the big game on February 6 contrasted the clean burning, performance oriented engines with those of sooty tractor trailers and diesel cars of yester-year. Music for the Super Bowl spot is David Bowie's "Changes."

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Mercedes-Benz Launching Super Bowl Race and Ad

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Filed under: Luxury Cars & Autos

Mercedes-Benz, which is advertising on the Super Bowl this year, is hoping to drive engagement with something called the "Tweet Race to the Big Game."

Beginning four days before the Feb. 6 game, four racing teams led by four celebrities (Serena Williams, Rev Run, Nick Swisher and Pete Wentz) will make their way to Cowboys Stadium outside Dallas from Chicago, New York, Los Angeles and Tampa in specially equipped Mercedes vehicles, competing in a series of challenges along the way.

The winner isn't who gets there first, but who gets the most points-determined in part by which team generates the most Twitter activity (what Mercedes is calling "Tweet Fuel") along the way.

The teams are competing for a pair of 2012 C Class Coupes, so the stakes are high. Mercedes ad chief Steve Cannon says, "We think the combination of our advertising and the Twitter Race will create the type of 'living' advertisement that engages people in new ways."

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