“The Walking Dead” is easily one of the most successful zombie franchises ever, and while the TV series lost its audience as it progressed, it helped spawn an ever-expanding universe. The show follows a group of survivors as they try to carve out an existence at the end of the world. The zombies are more of a MacGuffin than anything else, as they drive the plot, while other groups of survivors are the real enemies.
Throughout the series, the characters drive various cars they’ve found lying around after the collapse of society. In most scenes involving cars, the vehicle in question is a Hyundai, often in pristine condition. This is the zombie apocalypse, and years into it, not only does gasoline still work, but the cars everyone drives are beautiful new Hyundai models apparently released after the fall of humanity.
It takes the viewer out of the experience because the cars create questions about how they’re running, why they look as if someone just drove them off the lot, and how they’re maintained and washed without using vital resources. Understandably, Hyundai didn’t want its cars featured as zombified, destroyed wrecks, but it kills any scene they’re in.
