• BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    10 hours ago

    If Breaking Bad came on the air now, Walter White would be driving the SwastitruKKK instead of the Aztek, which was the ugliest vehicle of all time, at the time.

    I always figured there was an untold backstory of WW getting that Aztek, in which he goes into the dealership, and they instantly pegged him as malleable, so they pressured him into the fugliest vehicle on the lot, that NOBODY else would even look at. But he was too weak to resist the sales pitch, so he drove home in the horrible Aztek.

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      1 hour ago

      I think this would be the car to be replaced by the cybertruck:

      In terms of obnoxiousness and poor taste (plus the humvee branding and quasi militaristic styling during the Iraq invasion), the H2 evoked similar reactions as well

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      7 hours ago

      I’d say ugliest of all time went to another car that was featured on Breaking Bad: the PT Cruiser, appropriately used as a car gift that causes insult rather than happiness.

      Though I’d bet the actual backstory to WW’s Aztek is Pontiac paid them a bunch of money to use it in the hopes that it would boost sales if the show became popular.

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      7 hours ago

      I always assumed he had the Aztek because they didn’t have much money and it was a cheap used car.

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      10 hours ago

      The Aztek may be ugly, but at least it’s functional and practical, at least for the purpose it’s built for.

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        5 hours ago

        It had a tent as a back gate option. Loved that car.

        Wiring harness kept melting itself though, leading to a brake failure on the way back to the dealership.

        Traded it for a Mercury Mountaineer.