Chevy snapped up five costly Super Bowl spots in 2011, a big jump from just one the previous year, with its new ad agency Goodby Silverstein & Partners. Goodby had won the account without a review when then-global CMO Joel Ewanick moved it from Wieden & Kennery in May 2010.

Four of the Chevrolet ads in 2011’s game were for specific brands: "Status" and "Misunderstanding" for Chevy Cruze, "Discovery" for its new electric car brand Volt, and "Tommy" for its Silverado truck. "Al’s Chevy" was originally supposed to co-promote for the third "Transformers" movie using the Chevy Camaro, the alter-ego of shapeshifting robot Bumblebee, but "Miss Evelyn" ran for Camero instead.

A bevy of directors were on board: for "Status," Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (the duo behind the indie feature film "Little Miss Sunshine"); for "Discovery," Filip Engstrom; for "Misunderstanding," Stacy Wall; for "Tommy," Josh Gordon and Will Speck.

Chevrolet trimmed its Super Bowl order the following year to a still-impressive three ads, including the memorable "2012." Ewanick left GM later that year snd Goodby's run as Chevy agency wrapped in spring 2013. 

Directors: Josh Gordon, Will Speck. Production company: Furlined. Director of photography: Toby Irwin. Executive producer: Dave Thorne. Line producer: Martha Davis.

Executive creative directors/associate partners: Rick Condos, Hunter Hindman. Associate creative director: Chris Roe. Art director: Nick Luckett. Copywriter: Rob Calabro. Executive producer: Hillary Coate. Producer: Michael Damiani.

Music: Beacon Street Music. Editorial: Arcade Edit. Editor: Paul Martinez. Assistant editor: Dean Miyahira.

VFX: The Mission. Creative director: Rob Trent. Compositors: Justin Blaustein, Chris Moore. CG supervisor: Piotr Karwas. VFX Producer: Ryan Meredith. Executive producer: Mike Pardee.

BRAND: Chevrolet

YEAR: 2011

AGENCY: Goodby, Silverstein & Partners

SUPERBOWL: XLV

QUARTER AIRED: Q1