"Ferrari to close down London!"

...Anyone know when they've scheduled to be in NYC?

http://www.grandprix.com/ns/ns18000.html
JANUARY 26, 2007
Ferrari to close down London!

The City of London is to be closed down next month to allow Shell to film a new TV commercial to promote its long-standing sponsorship of the Ferrari F1 team. The advertisement, which is reputed to be the world's most expensive, with a production budget close to £2m, will see Ferrari F1 cars racing through a selection of the world's most famous cities including London, New York and Sydney in order to promote Shell's V-Power high-performance fuel.

 

I had posted about this in the Racing forum, there's a bit more information there... http://ferrarichat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=136506

I believe the london date is Feb 17, I'm more interested in the NYC date...

C

 

Missed that, sorry.

Myself as well. My concern is they'll film a bit in London and CGI Manhattan around some of that.

 

Yeah, that would suck. Although, I figure if they're making the effort to get all the way to Sydney to film, NYC shouldn't be out of the question.

C

 

Any updates on the NYC dates????

 

http://www.autoblog.com/2007/03/22/video-ferrari-f1-cars-taking-it-to-the-the-streets-thanks-to-s/

 

Fantastic! well worth closing down london

 

Sick... just sick. I love it.

 

WOW what at awesome experience that had to be!!!

 

Absolutely.

Although they could have filmed it in downtown Detroit without closing anything down.

 

Yes!

 

i indentified these cities Rome,NYC,London,Rio de jeneiro,Hong Kong but i didn't see sydney there,can someone list all the cities in that video.
By the way fantastic video.

 

what a badass commercial

 

What a cool video Some of those engine sounds were fantastic!

 

Awesome video. Nice to see F1 cars with no wings.

 

I didn't see London in the film. I thought it was cancelled because the news was leaked. :? :?

 

So I was right, they just CGI'd everywhere else? No mention of roads closed over here at all.

Fun that the car that's alarm is triggered is a 612!

 

I don't think so -- see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDEqVPadA8E, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6BU9hH86CA , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMThD5JyQos

 

I saw Sydney in the part where the car is on a raised highway running along the ocean. That's a new road south of the city near the Royal National Park... not exactly downtown Sydney, but nearby.

C

 

I'm so cheesed-off... Of all the ones I'd like to see that's the one.

Any idea when this happened?

 

Looks like all the vids were uploaded in early Feb 2007

edit: yep -- see article: http://www.nyc.gov/html/film/html/news/030107_ferrari_times_square.shtml

 

...If you listen carefully you can hear my teeth gnashing.