It was chosen to depict the 'baby boomer', lame and pathetic side of
Walt wants a better car. He doesn't care how much he gets for the Aztec because he doesn't need the money. The Aztec reminds him of his previous life as a loser.
The main vehicle driven by Walt, a crash double also used as a parts car, and a second crash double. The main car will remain on display at Sony Studios. The second crash double was used in the crash scene with Hank, and had severe rear damage; It sold at auction on October 8th, 2013, for $7,800.
around the set of “Breaking Bad.” Fans of the show felt the Pontiac Aztek was the perfect car for White, and consequently skyrocketed sales of the car so they could drive an Aztek themselves. “Breaking Bad” quite literally revived the Pontiac Aztek. , breaks it down.
It belonged to a man scared of Gus Fring, scared of Tuco Salamanca, scared of chemotherapy, scared of cholesterol. So, after taking a long look at his porkpie, he sells the car to the mechanic for fifty bucks — a dollar for each year of his previous life.
It was chosen to depict the 'baby boomer', lame and pathetic side of Walter White. The Pontiac Aztek stood up as a beacon of failed dreams.
145 is a good estimate of Walter White's IQ. That's just above genius level, which is 140.
"Walter White's Pontiac Aztek is one of the most iconic vehicles in Breaking Bad. Breaking Bad producers used three Azteks making the show.
He sits down several feet from the car and calmly calls a cab as he waits for it to explode. Walt does this just to defy his wife Skyler, who has asked him—quite reasonably—to return the car so that it doesn't attract attention to their money-laundering car washing business.
Disproportionate Retribution: Walt setting the yuppie's car on fire just for stealing his parking spot (and being a jerk) does seem a bit extreme (and dangerous as well, as he does it while the car is parked at a gas pump).
In Breaking Bad season 5, Skyler fell into a deep depression when she realized how fearful she was of her husband. Her terror stemmed from the death of Gus Fring (Giancarlo Esposito) at the hands of Walt, which proved the great lengths Walt went with his growing drug empire.
When he was a high school chemistry teacher, Walter White worked part-time at the car wash as a cashier before deciding to quit after learning of his cancer diagnosis. The car wash was later bought by Walt and Skyler White as a money laundering facility for Walt's illegally procured gains.
The Whites buy a car wash to launder money
Later on, after Walt's shifty attorney, Saul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk), suggests a way to launder the drug money, Skyler pushes to buy the car wash where Walt used to work. In the current season, Walt has suggested that they buy more car washes to launder more money.
While driving on a highway, Walter White is pulled over by a police officer for his windshield, which was cracked by debris in the Wayfarer crash.
The Aztek is one of the first vehicles to make its presence felt right in the pilot episode of Breaking Bad — chosen to depict the 'baby boomer', lame and pathetic life of Walter White. The car stands as a beacon of failed dreams and that is why, the use of Aztek seems apt to denote the protagonist's image.
Walter White may be fictional. But the $80 million profit he turned by selling meth in less than a year is a very realistic sum for a true-life drug kingpin.
The Aztek lasted from 2001 to 2005, but its memory lives on in every half-baked “100 worst cars of all time” listicle cluttering up the internet. Aside from the proliferation of the fundamental concept pioneered, if poorly, by the Pontiac, the Aztek has another ace up its sleeve: It spawned the Buick Rendezvous.
Jesse's Toyota Tercel sold at auction for $7,200 roughly 1440% above Kelley Blue Book value for a car with 181,500 miles the stated milage on the car. A deleted scene for "El Camino" reveals that the reason that Jesse and Jane were stopped in the flashback was that the Tercel broke down after making strange noises.
She is highly intelligent and capable at accounting and money laundering, allowing her to deduce Walter's second life with little to no information at her disposal. Disgusted by Walter's moral decline which she has fallen victim to, Skyler is a pragmatist willing to do whatever it takes to keep her family together.
Walter White in 'Breaking Bad'
There's no denying that Walter White is a calculated genius when he isn't letting his ego get in his way.
She shoplifts compulsively—apparently a manifest symptom of kleptomania—a behavior for which she sees a therapist. She appears self-centered and shallow but cares deeply for her husband and her sister's family.
The 1998 Volvo V70 was Gus Fring's car.
The 2009 Dodge Challenger is Walt Jr.'s first car and the first of two Dodge Challenger that Walter purchased for his son.
Later on, Walt himself admitted to Jesse that he poisoned Brock with a Lily of the Valley plant just to keep Jesse on his side in order for them to orchestrate the death of Gus Fring, but by that point, their relationship was already in shambles.