Tropes from luxury car commercials riddle the national rail provider's latest ad.

This is Celia Hirschman for On The Beat. Back in the 60's and 70's, if a band sold their hit single to an ad agency, for the purpose of selling a car on TV, we'd laugh and say their careers were over.

Tesla built one of the world’s most recognizable car brands while largely skipping the most traditional tool in the automaker playbook: the big-budget television spot. Instead of crowding the airwaves ...