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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I just watched the extended commercial, which I've never actually seen on tv. I do think the older man is the father of the woman driving. Her daughter has just gotten married and he's sharing with her how it feels when your little girl gets married, since they have now both had that experience, he when she got married and she when her own daughter just got married. The wife/mother/grandmother has passed away so there is that little bit of sadness thinking of her on this happy day, thus the toying with the ring. 
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Yeah, I just saw the extended version too (followed the linked ad automatically on youtube), and I agree that it does not seem to support the PPs' interpretation.  The younger man seated in the front passenger seat turns to say "great speech, Mr. B," to the Dad - indicating he is *not* a family member.  So who is that guy?  Could be the groom with the bride/daughter in driving seat, but that remark seems a little formal for a son-in-law.  Perhaps he's the Groom's brother - driven by mom/ mother of bride?  I like your interpretation that driver is Dad's daughter, who just married off *her* daughter.  But again, who is the passenger seat guy?  Unclear![/quote]

Uh, no. The guy with the beard is the dad, the woman driving is his wife. They have just left their daughter's wedding, where the dad gave the speech he was seen writing earlier. The young guy in the backseat is probably their son, and the young guy in the front passenger seat seems to be the son's partner. Despite the dad having a gray beard, that actor can't be older than about 50. He most certainly is not meant to be the grandfather of the bride. The part where he was writing in a notebook at a lighthouse, at the beginning of the extended commercial, was him writing and practicing the speech/toast he was going to give at his daughter's wedding. The scene of everyone in the car was them driving home after the wedding. The fiddling with the ring was part of the whole reflection on his own marriage, and wistfulness of he and his wife having just sent their "little girl" off on that journey herself.

On a more subtle note, we're supposed to notice how comfortably the car seats grown adults in the backseat, plus some big flower arrangements in that third row, and hey look how intuitive and easy it is to navigate the controls built into the console to select this one awesome song that will play out of these perfectly-located Bowers & Wilkins speakers![/quote]

I agree. If you look closely at the camera pictures on the display, the bride is quite a bit younger than the woman driver. Everyone is also dressed as if they just left the wedding. The dad or msn w beard is wearing same suit and tie also in the camera pictures. [/quote]

I don't think the woman driving is the bride, I think she is the mother of the bride (although she must have been a teenager when the daughter was born, because she looks pretty young). The man in the back seat is the father of the woman driving and the grandfather of the bride. Maybe the MOB is a widow or divorced. It's not unusual for an elderly person to sit in the backseat since that is a safer place in the car, so that's why the grandpa is back there. The grandpa gave a speech at the reception about when his little girl got married and now his daughter is watching her little girl get married. It's the circle of life theme. [/quote]

The guy in the back is clearly the father of the bride. His wife is driving the car. Simply having gray hair doesn't make you elderly.[/quote]

What's throwing everyone off - why is the driver's husband is not sitting in the front next to her?[/quote]

Right, he's old enough to be the grandpa and he's sitting where the grandpa would sit. A husband would sit in the front passenger seat, next to his wife. That man is way too old to be married to the woman who is driving. It makes sense that she'd be driving her dad home from the wedding and that they'd be feeling reminiscent.

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Part of the point of the commercial is to show that the back seat is so roomy in this car that even Dad will sit there.[/quote]

Well, that's kind of a silly point. And so subtle as to be essentially non-existent.  
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