Toyota has been in the news lately regarding their recall for gas-pedal related issues. The number of Toyota vehicles recalled is above 8 million. Estimated costs for the recall and lawsuits is around 2 billion. Toyota in a newly released commercial essentially says “my bad.” It got me to thinking if this were an American auto company would this receive as much press? I don’t think so… Toyota earned it’s reputation by producing high quality vehicles so to have this happen to an automaker of their caliber is devastating. Toyota wants you to know they are sorry for this situation, watch the video here. Would an American company release a commercial like this?

Yesterday, Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt Tweeted that Hell must be frozen over hinting at Google running a Super Bowl commercial. Blogger John Battelle was correct in that the ad “Parisian Love” would would in the 3rd quarter of the Super Bowl. What did you think of Google’s Super Bowl commercial?

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