Video: Toyota Prius Super Bowl Advert featuring the Sobotkas from The Wire | Car Talk - Car News Feb 2017

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Here we have both parts of the Toyota Prius Super Bowl Advert featuring the Sobotka family from the classic HBO series, 'The Wire'.

The advert is a tongue-in-cheek protest aimed at the slow, cuddly, and boring image that is often associated with the Toyota Prius.

When the advert was aired, during the 2016 Super Bowl, fans of the The Wire were pleasantly surprised by the seemingly quite random - yet perfectly executed - appearance from Frank Sobotka (Chris Bauer), Ziggy Sobotka (James Ransone), and Nick Sobotka (Pablo Schreiber) starring as bank robbers.


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