Found this tidbit today on the 2007AC Forums, which was posted on 22 September by "Seafang" a.k.a. George:

Caught a BMW ad on very late night TV last night. It never said didley squat about automobiles; it was all about BMW's efforts in conjunction with Oracle for the America's Cup challenge.

Showed the keel of one of the boats being made out of stainless at some German BMW plant. They showed the yacht hanging up in the air with its regular undercarriage. Man are those appendages long and skinny.

It was a very professional piece of work, as you can imagine from BMW....

Not aware that we have had the pleasure of meeting "Seafang" (though the nick reminds us of a rules advisor or two with other AC teams), but we wanted to thank him for posting that. We'll try to track down the ad and see if we can post the video here on the BOB.