Cars.com's Super Bowl Ad Stars a Man and His Excitable Appendage

Guy's 'confidence' grows after visiting site

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What can you really say about Cars.com's 2012 Super Bowl commercial, posted in full below? Created by DDB Chicago, it features a man who has grown a second gleeful head—a large tubular appendage with his own face on the end that's singing a sexy, soulful tune, because he's feeling so "confident" after visiting the selection of cars on the site. The only thing that would make it more suggestive is if it grew out of his abdomen instead of his upper back.

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