First, singing hamsters. Now, singing outlets. You can't make this stuff up, except that the crew at Nissan's ad agency -- TBWA.Chiat.Day, Los Angeles -- did.
On Sunday, the all-electric Nissan Leaf was one year old in terms of its on-sale date in the United States. The spot debuted on Sunday and aired during NBC's Sunday Night Football game between the New York Giants and the Dallas Cowboys.
When the Leaf was released, Nissan gave a target of 10,000 sales for 2011. As of November, more than 8,700 Leafs had been sold in the states, according to the Automotive News data center.