Why Am I Now Seeing So Many Of These In Great Condition?

"FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com" (alphaass)
12/20/2017 at 09:30 • Filed to: Pontiac Aztek

Every other GM car from that era is a total beater now if it hasn’t gone to the junkyard yet. But in the last year perfect Azteks are popping up all over. Did people just hide them in their garages out of shame for 15 years and decide now it is time to drive them?

DISCUSSION (24)

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com
12/20/2017 at 09:40

It must be the cladding.

Ash78, voting early and often > FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com
12/20/2017 at 09:44

Breaking Bad.

LOREM IPSUM > FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com
12/20/2017 at 09:55

They sat untouched on dealer lots for approximately a decade before being sold.

Tekamul > FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com
12/20/2017 at 09:56

‘Greta condition’ is kinda relative. I feel like they came off the lot with the bar set so low, there’s little variance over time.

e36Jeff now drives a ZHP > FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com
12/20/2017 at 10:04

Well, it’s got plastic covering all the spots that the rust monster usually takes hold, so my guess would be that it makes them relatively resistant to rusting out. That and lack of driving due to shame of being seen driving one.

FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com > Ash78, voting early and often
12/20/2017 at 10:10

I thought this, but didn’t Breaking Bad end a while back? Maybe its just one of those things where it made them cool but people didn’t have money to buy right away.

Klaus Schmoll > e36Jeff now drives a ZHP
12/20/2017 at 10:11

My guess is that they are rusty under the cladding, you just don’t see it. Schroedinger’s rust?

Captain of the Enterprise > FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com
12/20/2017 at 10:14

Ive noticed this too.

Ash78, voting early and often > FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com
12/20/2017 at 10:19

Very possibly. Breaking Bad has a long tail of viewers who are still just dicovering it on Netflix, etc.

carcrasher88 > FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com
12/20/2017 at 10:26

For me, it’s the same...but also Cavaliers, Grand Ams, and S-10 Blazers of the same era are popping up in similar condition as well.

There’s also one perfect condition early 90's Buick Skylark running around as well as a droptop Sunbird.

HondoyotaE38: A Japanese and German Collab...wait a minute > Ash78, voting early and often
12/20/2017 at 10:28

I saw somewhere that they were reviving it. Might be wrong.

jimz > FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com
12/20/2017 at 10:37

it genuinely has something of a “cult” following. A lot of people hated the Aztek, but there is a small niche who absolutely love it. there’s a house in the city I live in where- at one time- there were five Azteks parked in the garage and driveway.

FIVE!

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > Klaus Schmoll
12/20/2017 at 11:04

Yup. My car is the same way. Although the sideskirts are body color, I know they are hiding rust. Im too scared to take them off.

FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com > jimz
12/20/2017 at 11:19

On a totally unrelated note, are you the same Jim Z that comments on the car articles over on Ars Technica?

Straightsix9904 > Ash78, voting early and often
12/20/2017 at 11:26

I have wanted to start watching breaking bad for years! But I just started this week. Random. I know.

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > HondoyotaE38: A Japanese and German Collab...wait a minute
12/20/2017 at 12:28

I know there’s a spinoff series about the lawyer. I am barely into the third season now, after slowly working through them about once a week since my wife insisted we do it.

SpeedSix > FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com
12/20/2017 at 13:46

If it was more like the concept and less like the plastic clad monstrosity we got, I wouldn’t mind owning one.

FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com > SpeedSix
12/20/2017 at 14:22

Fair enough. I do hate the wheels on the concept, but overall it is a lot nicer looking. It is amazing how close the production Aztek is in concept and execution to the CUV’s that are everywhere these days once you get over the awkward styling cues.

CaptDale - is secretly British > FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com
12/20/2017 at 14:28

BECAUSE

Kinja'd!!!

ranwhenparked > jimz
12/20/2017 at 23:19

IIRC, when they were still in production, they had some of the most loyal owners of any American brand cars. A lot of early Aztek buyers ultimately traded them in on new Azteks. Unfortunately for GM, they were a very small group. Much like Saturn and Saab loyalists, really.

ranwhenparked > LOREM IPSUM
12/20/2017 at 23:22

Not too far off - GM was still reporting sales of “new” Azteks like 3 years after production stopped.

pip bip - choose Corrour > FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com
12/21/2017 at 06:25

you’re noticing them coz you want one

FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com > pip bip - choose Corrour
12/21/2017 at 11:39

Nooooooooope

theloudmouth > FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com
12/23/2017 at 06:08

Old people. They own them and love them, because they don’t commute to work every day they don’t drive on the roads when there’s lots of salt, they don’t get dinged up in parking lots because they shop when everyone else is at work, etc. It’s like those all weirdly good condition Buick’s.