5 facts about the Suzuki Esteem from Better Call Saul

Posted on 11-02-2015 at 11:36 by sir_smokalot – 23 Comments”

Screenwriter Vince Gilligan has a separate fetish for campy cars in his series. After the Pontiac Aztek of Walter White driving lawyer Saul Goodman in the prequel Better Call Saul in a most humble Suzuki Esteem. Here are 5 things about the forgotten Japanese.

In Breaking Bad is the Goodman upgraded to a Cadillac Deville, but we all have to start somewhere, and for the lawyer, this was in a viesgele Suzuki Esteem, better known as the Baleno. the dented yellow sedan has an important role in the new series, which last Sunday had started and went to the US with 6.9 million viewers and drew.

• The Esteem is in the series only 4 years old

The series takes place in 2002, before Walter White and his meth business in the picture, while the model is Esteem of ’98. With other words: that is not quite so pretty old.

• The Esteem is modeled on an old Ford Pinto

The person who was responsible for the cars in the series, modelled the Esteem in the years ’70 Pinto of a roommate from his student days, complete with red back door. (h/t @ Esquire)

• There were a total of four Esteems drawn for the BCS

Things are going to be once piece, and accidents happen. Therefore, it is useful reervewielen behind the hand. For the creators of the BCS, there are a total of four Suzuki Esteems on hand.

• The car is the world under 5 different names marketed

In Europe, we have ‘m all like the Baleno, but these Tracks, among many more names n the market: as Chevrolet Cassia (Philippines), Suzuki Esteem (USA), Suzuki Cultus Crescent (Japan), Suzuki Baleno (Europe) and Maruti Baleno (India).

• Not only the Esteem, but very Suzuki for the Americans in the past.

Just as Daihatsu in Europe gave Suzuki in the USA recently decided to stop working. A successor of the Esteem get there for the new-fangled fans of BCS.