If it was an expense-and-snap-up thing, they must have some dumb producers on that show.

Hmm. Me too, now that I think about it. Maybe because of the whole “grandma bought a Buick, stuck it in the garage, and only takes it out to go to church” phenomenon stretching their poor, unfortunate lives.

I’m inclined to agree. They clearly know what they like and don’t let anybody tell them otherwise. They’re not hurting anybody besides giving me mild nausea when I drive by and I’m not willing to rob them of a good time just for that.

Even better, a clapped out one that was falling apart. He barely had any Esteem, self or Suzuki!

Didn’t they move him to a Charger later, after he got the promotion, too? Still a crap car, but new and sort of flashy, and definitely “aspirational cop.”

It wasn’t a great show. A little derivative; I felt like it was a cross between CSI and Dexter but not deep enough to do either justice. I could see how it wouldn’t hook you. Loved the car, though.

I don’t think you could get the settings wrong. There’s only one button that cycles through three follow distances. Honestly, based on your description, you were in a situation that you really shouldn’t have been using it. 100ft at 70mph slightly less than 1sec. That’s way too close.

I’m willing to bet that even the perpetually activated option won’t be transferrable to subsequent owners. You buy a car off lease and you’ll pay for the options just like the previous owner did. BMW gets to collect on it twice. And again when you resell it.

It’s interesting that the you felt the car was leaving too much space even on the closest setting. My dad’s ‘21 Impreza had it and my wife’s ‘18 Forester does too. They both follow reasonably — to me — on the middle setting. The longest setting has it picking up cars half a mile away and the closest setting has you…

Oh. Makes sense.

Given the number of people who blissfully leave the default ringtone on their phones, even when regularly confused by proximity to phones belonging other people who have the same phone and thus the same default ringtone, I’m going to say it’s not a leap of logic to assume that you’re right that the average person…

Your choice will probably work better in casual conversation. I’ve just been calling them “stupid” and it hasn’t been working out for me.

As much fun as I think it’d be to make your car make whatever dumb noise I’d like, I understand that the low speed sound isn’t like a ringtone for your phone: it’s a safety feature. You can’t leave that kind of stuff up to the average idiot who will invariably pick something that just won’t work for the intended…

Hard agree. I hate those artificially sunny noises cars have been making lately. My mom’s Outback makes this sort of “sparkly” sound. It’s the epitome of Subaru’s marketing slogan crap. “Love: It’s what makes a Subaru a Subaru?” Fuck you. That sound makes me want to drive the car over an anti-tank mine.

Oh, I absolutely agree. The beige Aztek is perfect for Walter White because it’s distinctive and memorable, yet crappy and offputting in ways that are hard for the average person to articulate. “Oh. He drives one of...those.”

The part that really struck me about that was that it seemed like such an odd choice. Your typical watcher of that kind of drama series would just recognize it as “an old truck” or maybe something they or a relative had as a kid. They could have used almost anything else in that category. Any moderately functional…

I’m going to vote for Harrow, only because of complete lack of realism. The main character drove his father’s Fiat 124 Sport Coupe out of nostalgia. Thing is, he’s shown successfully getting from place to place in it without breaking down, even once. I was flabbergasted. They do show it burning to the ground at one…

Can you even still call that a car “chase?” I mean, they’re in cars for sure and chasing one another by the dictionary definition of such, I suppose. I just feel like it’s a stretch in the same way an advancing glacier is “chasing” the landscape during an ice age...

I dunno. That clapped out 928 that they turned backwards was pretty cool.

You never saw an Aztek before seeing Breaking Bad? That’s impressive. They were everywhere for a while and, since they’re peak turn of the millennium “Chevys run badly longer than most cars run at all” crap, I still see them from time to time despite living in the salt encrusted shithole of North Hoth.