Most commercials are filmed in the “thirty-mile zone” (that’s what TMZ was named for!) around LA outside of which unions require bonus pay, which means that for most car commercials I know not only where they are but how much the actual location does not remotely fit the aesthetic they’re evoking

Someone in the know tells me that there is, at the edge of the TMZ, a village full of McDonalds restaurants of all currently active styles, for the purpose of shooting commercials. Like there used to be western towns. This is amazing.