From 2008 to 2013, the popular AMC drama “Breaking Bad” broadcast 62 episodes spread across five seasons.
Bryan Cranston played Walter White in the television series. White is a high school chemistry teacher who, after learning that he has lung cancer, starts making methamphetamine. In his breakthrough performance, Aaron Paul played Walt’s former classmate Jesse Pinkman, who introduces him to the drug trade. Other series actors were Jonathan Banks as the henchman Mike Ehrmantraut, Anna Gunn as Walt’s wife Skyler, and Bob Odenkirk as “criminal lawyer” Saul Goodman.
Dennis Milliken, the supervisor of transportation, collaborated closely with Vince Giglian, the creator of the series, to assign suitable vehicles to each important character. The resulting fleet of vehicles ranged from completely unnoticeable to ostentatious, loud, and spectacular. “I’ll send [creator Vince Gilligan] dozens of pictures, and eventually we narrow it down to what he thinks the character should be in,” Milliken told Entertainment Weekly in 2012. In order to concentrate on the most stylish cars and SUVs that the protagonists drive on a daily basis, we’re leaving out the notorious Fleetwood Bounder RV that Walt and Jesse utilize as a mobile meth lab for this piece.
The Pontiac Aztek was revitalized in part by Walter White.
Walt was initially assigned a drab Pontiac Aztek in an effort to portray him as boring and downtrodden, right down to the mismatched rear wheel and fading paint. The wonky SUV was regarded as ugly when it was first introduced in 2001, and the Pontiac Aztek was called a failure by many. The car’s odd styling landed it on a Time list of the 50 worst cars ever made, but the Aztek may have simply been ahead of its time.
Three years before the “Breaking Bad” pilot aired, Pontiac discontinued the low-sales model. However, the model’s leading role gained some new fans for the much-maligned Aztek. According to Edmunds, by the third season in 2010, the Aztek had the highest proportion of buyers aged 18 to 34 of any other used car in the country at 33%. For four of the following five years, it remained in Edmunds’ top ten vehicles for millennial car buyers. The series does not conclude with Walt’s Aztek. Walt decides to sell the Aztek to Benny, his mechanic, for $50 because, after being involved in the most recent of a long list of mishaps, it is nothing more than a constant reminder of bad times.
Walt buys a Dodge Challenger SRT for his son. More information can be found at
Walt sends his namesake son, RJ Mitte, to a dealership shortly after selling the Aztek, and the two go automobile shopping. Walt Sr. selects a black Chrysler SRT-8, but his son goes with a red 2012 Dodge Challenger with HEMI engine in the same trim level. It resembles Walt’s Challenger SE Rallye from Season 4, Episode 6 almost exactly. He only had the automobile long enough to get home, where Skylar informs him that a meth maker wouldn’t make such a visible purchase.
She also doesn’t like the second Challenger purchase, especially since it seems to make her son more aggressive. Skylar and Walt continue to be at odds, even though Walt tries to persuade her that the two new leased vehicles fit their story as successful owners of multiple local car washes. However, Walter Jr. is granted ownership of the vehicle, which is the model that Kelley Blue Book currently values at approximately $17,000. Jesse’s acquisition of a 4WD Tercel wagon demonstrates his development. Jesse drives a red Chevy Monte Carlo lowrider with hydraulic suspension at the beginning of “Breaking Bad.” He drives a less noticeable Toyota Tercel station wagon for the remainder of the series after it is damaged in a shootout. It’s a model with all-wheel drive that first came out in 1983. Jesse’s wagon is either from 1983, 1984, or 1986, depending on the source, but it is clear that it is an automatic transmission model and not a six-speed SR5. In Season 5, Episode 9, “Blood Money,” Jesse is able to throw his money from the moving car because he can drive with one hand. After the show ended, Aaron Paul had a chance to take the car home with him, but it ended up in other hands. According to Jalopnik in 2013, the same car that he drove on the show was sold on eBay by Albuquerque’s Mike Faris Auto Wholesale, with a portion of the proceeds going to a non-profit that runs drug treatment programs. Complex claims that Chieh Huang, CEO of Boxed.com, won that auction with a $4,700 bid. Perfect with its wood-paneled interior, Skylar’s Grand Wagoneer For the entirety of the series, Skylar White drives a beautiful red 1991 Jeep Grand Wagoneer with pristine wood-grain paneling and trim covering most of the sides. The Jeep that Skylar is driving is from the final Grand Wagoneer model year. After that, it was put on hold until the model year 2022. Skylar’s 1991 model is a great fit for her straightforward demeanor and daily responsibilities, which include keeping the house in order while her husband channels “Scarface.” Skylar’s Grand Wagoneer, in contrast to Walt’s Aztek and Jesse’s Monte Carlo, was unharmed throughout the series. MotorTrend reported in 2013 that the SUV used in the show was going up for auction on ScreenBid for $7,125, complete with paint flaws and oil leaks. When inflation is taken into account, Skylar’s Grand Wagoneer sold for $11,250, which is approximately $15,000 today. JD Power estimates that model to be worth between $16,200 and $53,800, depending on its condition. Saul Goodman’s white Cadillac is rich and lousy simultaneously Saul Goodman drives a white 1997 Cadillac Sedan DeVille with the vanity plate “LWYRUP” all through “Breaking Bad.” Because Saul and the ’97 Caddy both straddle the line between style and substance, this may be the best car-character pairing in the series. Even though Saul has no morals and wears ridiculous clothes, he does a remarkable job of defending the guilty. The 1997 DeVille had a new plan all around and progressed for-the-time highlights like street surface identification, however at its heart was Cadillac’s mind boggling and risky Northstar V8 motor. We find out in the prequel series “Better Call Saul” that the Caddy was Saul’s replacement for Jesse’s Monte Carlo-like fateful 1998 Suzuki Esteem. Jason Torchinsky of The Autopian asserts that a friend of his bought Saul’s Esteem for $4,000—more than $1,000 more than Kelley Blue Book’s fair purchase price for the 1997 De Ville. That’s a shocking turn of events for Saul’s two vehicles, but it’s less surprising when you consider that the $4000 Esteem was a film car from the early season and not the bullet-ridden later model. El Camino, directed by Todd Alquist, inspired a Breaking Bad sequel. In the fifth season of “Breaking Bad,” Walt hires Jesse Plemons’ Todd Alquist, a neo-Nazi exterminator, to help him and Jesse rob a train of 10,000 gallons of methylamine. In Season 5, Episode 14, “Ozymandias,” Todd takes Jesse captive after replacing Jesse as Walt’s cooking partner. We get a few glimpses of Todd’s 1981 Chevy El Camino, a coupe/pickup hybrid that was first introduced in 1959, during this section. Jesse kills Todd in the “Breaking Awful” finale and takes the El Camino to escape the Nazi compound. “El Camino: a Breaking Bad Movie” tells the story of Jesse and the car, and Todd is shown in a series of flashbacks. Old Joe, Jesse’s friend and owner of a salvage yard, played by Larry Hankin, finds a tracking device on the El Camino in the sequel, indicating that the police are probably on their way. After that, in a haste, Jesse and his former meth-dealing friends Badger (portrayed by Matthew Jones) and Skinny Pete (portrayed by Charles Baker) swap vehicles so that Jesse can flee to Alaska. We see Todd and Jesse use the El Camino to get rid of the body of Todd’s murdered housekeeper in one of the movie’s flashbacks. This shows how much of a psychopath Todd is. While the fate of the fictional El Camino is up to the viewers’ imaginations, Jesse’s murder of Todd and theft of his prized work of art are fitting acts of retribution against the man who kidnapped and tortured him.
