In the dream-like commercial, set on an automotive speedway, the 300ZX Turbo outpaces a motorcycle, race car and jet plane as its driver murmurs: "Some have to dream.
"It's the first time anything like this happened," Tom Glynn, owner of the speedway.
"To me there are more pressing things on people's minds these days than who made the pace car for the Indianapolis 500," said Tony George, president of the speedway, at Chrysler's press conference yesterday.
There was speedway on ice and American all-in wrestling, too, and every night two entire channels are devoted exclusively to rock videos.