Bret Michaels Is the Newest Endurance Test for Nissan's Commercial Vans in Viral Clip

Glam rocker racks up 1.5 million views in a week

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This fun clip of glam rocker and reality TV star Bret Michaels performing a high-octane take on the '80s ballad "Endless Love" as a paean to Nissan's commercial vans is approaching 1.6 million YouTube views in its first week.

Putting an aging star in a wacky b-to-b truck ad recalls Jean-Claude Van Damme's mega-viral Volvo outing from late last year. Here, however, Michaels doesn't attempt to do a split between two Nissans (and, conversely, we're probably lucky that Van Damme didn't sing).

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