For the past month or two, BMW has been running fairly constant commercials featuring an older man and his wife looking at a long-ago picture of themselves with a BMW 2002 parked in front of some mountains; their son overhears it and decides to take a family roadtrip to the same location in newer BMWs.
Question is, where is the spot where they park for the photo? My guess is somewhere in California and a Google search supports that, but I'd be interested in learning of a more specific location. I figured if any forum has a member who might recognize specific roads from a TV ad, it'd be this one.
Anyone have a link showing the ad?
Here. Sorry. I thought the ad was so ubiquitous by now that I just assumed everyone had seen it.
I want to say the Big Bear area but I'm not convinced the background is 100% authentic the entire commercial. I'll have a look again when I get to my computer.
There are a few areas in the eastern Sierra west of US 395 that look somewhat like that, south of Mammoth Lakes and north of Lone Pine. The canyons are generally much narrower by the time you get up to the elevations suggested, though; that's more a "valley" than a "canyon". I certainly don't recognize it and agree with "Max"'s thought that it could be fake.
We've had plenty of car commercials shot in recognizable real locations around Lake Tahoe; you see CA 89 above Emerald Bay and, occasionally, US 50 at Cave Rock on the Nevada side.