what car does crews drive!?!? love it!

Does anybody has some pictures of his car from the show? I love that ride.

Crews seems doesn't seem to hang to his rides for that long but I think you are referring to the last one he had, a Buick Regal Grand National. I believe that it was the 1987 model, the GNX, which was the last year they were made. Production was 1982, 1984-1987, no '83s were made. They were all black and fast as ****, a return to the muscle car era. Buick was getting heat from the GM brass because the Grand National, a 3.8 L Turbo V6, could smoke the Corvette so Buick decided to got out with a bang and make a special model for the final year of production. I think Buick made around 2,000 Gns in '87 but of those 2,000 547 of em were sent to McLaren which returned as the GNX, the X meaning Ultimate or Ultra etc. because McLaren put a bunch of sweet parts on them. The stock GN was already fast but the word around the campfire is that the GNX is still considered one of the fastest cars ever made. And they look so awesome. Reviews from the time liked to refer to it as "Darth Vader's staff car".

Your close but not exact, I have all the production #'s and info on these cars and have restored 2 and work on hundereds. I love these cars and was exited to see one on TV, the car he drived has the 84/85 style Grand National wheels on it, which are lighter then the steel chrome wheels found on the 86/87 Gn's.
Also it has an aftermarket front mount intercooler on it which cools the air charge of the turbo down more then the stock intercooler those 2 silver pipes are hanging down just below the front bumper are the tubing to and from the intercooler. The car is also missing the lower front air dams which hang below the front bumper which would bassically hide those pipes.

He drive's or drove a 1987 Regal with a (WE2) Grand National option package.
They made 20,193 Grand Nationals in 1987, 245 HP @ 4400 RPM, 355 ft-lbs of torque at 2000 RPM
They made 5,512 Grand Nationals in 1986, 235 HP @ 4000 RPM, 330 ft-lbs of torque at 2400 RPM
They made 547 GNX versions in 1987 and they were the Grand Nationals to end all Grand Nationals.
info taken from GNTtype.org http://www.gnttype.org/general/product.html

The 84/85 or prior were all hot air cars (ie: no intercooler) and are less desirable over the 86/87 models.

I still have one of my cars a 87 GN, pic of it is in my avatar.

I love this show, I missed the pilot episode but have been wacthing since the 2nd episode, I hope it comes back on soon and for a 2nd season and more after that. O'yea please bring the Grand National back

Yup, yer right 87GN. I was just watching EP.11 on the website again and kept rewinding the car parts (to check out the car parts lol) and noticed the grille was neither stock GN nor GNX and could see the intercooler through it. No GNX side vents either, not to mention the scoop paint. I totally forgot about the "No-Name" Turbo Regal w/GN package since I was so excited that someone was diggin Crews' ride. Hopefully we got some more people interested in the coolest car ever...

What is the car that Charlie drives as his new cop car? They showed it a couple weeks ago at the end of the show. Black and complete wit the red/blue police lights.

It's a Maserati

Bond has one. James Bond. He's not attached to it.

I'm an idiot. Bond drives an Aston Martin.

It is a Maserati Quattroporte from what they show of it and thats its customize its hard say what trim level it is, and yes Bond drove a Aston Martin as of late but to include many others but not a Maserati that I know of.

oh that international was sooooooooooooooooooooo sweeet.

spoiler alert!







glad crew's new ride got "compromised". can you have his new ride be something sick but odd too? like a 1979 Cadillac Seville (customized interior by gucci optional) or maybe you could do a plot line where tidwell's granny has a car just sitting in her garage for Crews to have. it can be a 1980 Volvo GL, blue, mint condition, Crews can take it to his mechanic and they can pimp the shi# out of it! that would be pretty zen and bad as$ (and odd)!!
thanks!

i agree with rebajonez, charlie needs something odd and zen to ride in, i giggled reading about having tidwell's grannie giving her car for charlie to use, that would be great.

Next car needs to be old school muscle car. He as gone from new to 8o's to new, now for some 70's muscle.

just want to ask that charlie please not drive "ted's" flex ever again! i know it's ted car but that horrible abomination of a ride just makes my skin crawl. sorry ford, but the flex is just about the most unimaginative, cliche, frankenstein's monster of a car. i hate it. that is just the antithesis of what i think charlie would suffer riding in. sorry, just my opinion. can you tell i feel strongly about this?
thanks.

My man Charlie has a thing for muscle and exotic. I think the writers ought to have him satisfy his urge for the unique ride by having him eat a pear with Chip Foose and get himself hooked-up with something designed for him alone. The TV Cop-car to end all Cop-cars. With everything a Zen Detective needs in his ride to be Zen'd-out-the-whazoo; and cool as ice -- too!

How about this? Old school muscle. The Bentley Continental Gt was nice, the Buick Grand National was on of the cars I wanted growing up, and the Maserati Quattroporte was sweet until it got lead poisoning.

This wouldn't do. Remember, Charlie needs a backseat

Damian Lewis and the Maserati made TV Guide's 2008 Hot List. According to Rand Ravich, Charlie's going to keep driving it with the bullet holes because it's wounded but still hot - like Charlie Crews! Check it out at the link below:

http://www.damian-lewis.com/

Charlie's car is actually a Maserati Quattroporte S.

Thais is an element of the show I think the writers could have some fun with.
Crews-mobiles!
Charlie does not have emotional attachments to automobiles.
For crying-out-loud ... he GAVE AWAY the Hot Rod Buick!
Ted totaled some other nice set of wheels when he played with the giant tractor.
So, if Crews is so filthy, freakin' rich that he can afford anything from Classic American Muscle-car to Exotic High-line Foreign wheels; I think he should keep-on keeping-on with a whole bunch of different "Crews-mobiles" that he acquires and gets wired-up and set-up with full Police Packages.
Come-on writers ... how much fun would that be!
I thought the strobed-out Gran National was wicked cool!
How about doing strobes all-over and wig-wags in an Olds 4-4-2 or
making a "Charlie-cop Chevy SuperSport."

I could sit on the edge of the sectional, watching the tube, as my man Charlie Crews gets into a Hot Pursuit with some fleeing murder suspects, who are getting-away from the convoy of Uniforms driving Black & Whites, in a carjacked Porsche, while the Fruit-chomping, Zen-cop becomes one with the tricked-out Crews-mobile flavor of the month and roars by the Squad-cars and executes a perfect PIT Maneuver on the low-flying bad guys.
(Unbelievable Car-crash stunt happens here.)

Crews-mobiles; please.
Keep old Charlie outfitted with a stable of custom cop-cars to rival anything ever appearing as a cop-car.

Make his next Crews-mobile a Mustang Fastback like Steve McQueen beat-on chasing the hit men in Bullit!

How about this one.
Lambo is making a Police Package.
Let's get one for Charlie.
Bring him up to speed with the Car's full package of High Tech.

Does this car have a ... ?
Yes. It does.
It even has whatever else you are thinking about, too!



Black. Loaded. Strobes galore. Pimped. Detailed & Dangerous!

With Charlie's penchant for fast cars and all things environmentally "green", Rand Ravich should consider featuring the new superfast, biofuel Bentley as Charlie's next car.

http://blog.wired.com/cars/2009/01/the-fastest-mos.html

Even a line in the article seemed to suggest a connection with Charlie Crews, "The biofuel Bentley the crew from Crewe [name of borough near Liverpool] will unveil at the Geneva Motor Show in March marks the first big step toward the automaker's goal..."

I think a Bentley would be too pretentious for Charlie!

A Bentley was Charlie's first car after he got out of prison. "I am NOT attached to this car!" It was destroyed when it got accidently run over by Ted driving a tractor backwards in the orange grove... Then Arthur Tims made Charlie shoot up his Masserati. Yea, it's pretentious, but I guess it feeds his soul...

While Charlie has had a Bentley before, I think he's enjoying having a bullet-ridden Maserati. I mean, who would dare steal it?! It's advertising his machismo! Not to mention being a metaphor for his psyche.

Maybe if the Maserati were to die - not that I want it to - he might go for the new Bentley. Sometimes I think Crews has really bad car karma, like Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum character. So far this season, though, he's been able to keep this one running.

By having the bullet ridden Maserati, I think Charlie is reminded of the fragility of life, and how little things/prestige/position matter.

I love how the car is a sign of his slow changes back to humanity after being in prison. At first he blew his money on the big empty house, fast women and fast cars. Now he's slowing down a bit and realizing what is important in life.

Maybe it's just due to the recession!

LMAO! Good old Stephanie Plum! Haven't read those books in years...great stories!

The Maserati is a metaphor for Charlie's life. It was something innocent and beautiful that through no fault of its own was torn apart by violence. Despite that violence it refused to simply lie down and die, and now, even though it still runs, it bears the scars of what was done to it.

Even if the car is eventually repaired and it looks as good as new, inside it will always bear those scars. What Charlie needs to remember when he looks at the car is that despite what was done to it, it's still basically a good car. A little worse for wear perhaps, but then he would know all about that, wouldn't he?

Blackfel

I thought that bit at the end of "Mirror Ball" was pretty cool, with Charlie arranging the rendezvous with the girl he impulsively gave his Buick Grand National to last season. I thought the paint job she gave it was a bit much, though.

Helllllllllllo car!!!

At first, I thought Charlie's first car should be a something similar to the Coyote X like a Enzo. As Charlie's pick in cars got worse I email the suggestion Cadilac Cien. Charlie's last car he calls a "Hob Knob" is the worse by far, and since he likes small cars I now think the best car that would fit his strange personality is a SEV. Does anyone have any idea what car Roman should be driving?

I am wondering who on the show is the gearhead. That GNX is an awesome car, not some Hollywood replicar, evidenced by that huge intercooler and plumbing up front. Somebody on this show has some real class not often seen. Don't get me wrong, I mourned the Bentley, and the Masi was very nice, but when I saw the Buick I new this show had a little more class then your average Hollywood fare!

It was fun to see Charlie back in his beloved Grand National and the scene with the electrical outage was entertaining and funny. I have a medical background and I've learned to ignore the abundant medical mis-information presented as scientific fact on TV programs (if I hadn't I'd probably have to give up watching anything other than documentaries!) I've come to accept that "it's fiction and it's just a TV show." The writers have a short period of time to advance the story and entertain the audience so they take licence and short cuts and they make stuff up - and most viewers don't really care about electrical wiring, the nuances of painting a car, or about medical fact! Just laugh and enjoy the program and don't worry about it.

I actually liked the irony of the paint job destroying the blue tooth connection. As a former test engineer, it's
realistic but as Zen - heh, those flower-ghosts were Not Going Quietly. Everything was NOT connected.
I would have liked to see Maldito's and El Repeato's expressions when The Man showed up to get the flower
paint job taken off.

It is a nice car, regardless of the paint job.

Come on people, Charlie is a weird dude! Charlie needs a concept car that's weird, and my newiest suggestion is a Volkswagen Viseo Concept or the GM Ecojet Concept . Even Don Johnson from Miami Vice drove better cars than Charlie, and he never pretend to be rich.

I always thought Charlie's rides were reflective of how he was feeling.
I'm glad he's got the MUSCLE Car back.

I just wish the writers would put some Muscle in the scripts.
If they don't start exploring the past with some RETRO episodes ... this show is going to turn into a boring 'nuther Cop Show.

Bring me back in time ... every now and again.
GoTo: The Bank Job.

Extrapolate the stories.
Burn BOTH ends of the candle.
We know what Charlie is looking for ...
Let's go see what happened and if he's on the right track.

Someone above mentioned zen, green, environmental. I vote for the Tesla. Of course, they also made a good point, a cop needs a back seat for perps.



http://www.teslamotors.com/

Mike

Good choice, but I would chose the EcoJet or the Cien from the people who build Cadillac cars.

Why should Crews go old school? Let see Crews get futuristic with those new concept rides that are Eco-friendly.

I think all the suggestions for Charlie's next car Sucks! I also think the cars Charlie drove Suck! Charlie needs a four door car with back seats for those people he needs to place into custody, but the car needs to reflect his high class status. My suggestion (if Life gets a third season) would be the Hybrid Fisher Karma which is the best concept car for the future. The only thing the Fisher Karma would need after purchase is to make the windows and body bulletproof for Charlie's needs.

Cool car! I can totally see Charlie driving it.
But - I have to say - the Maserati was a 4 door.

Speaking in Poker Language:
I'll see your Maserati and raise you one Lamborghini Estoque

Estoque beats your out dated Maserati, and it can be Eco-friendly. Hopefully, Life will get a third season, and if it does I hope to see Crews in a Eco-friendly Estoque.

Well for some reason the forum will not let me start a new topic?

But watching Conan the other night they did a skit with Cruise's GN it was not the same car wrecked in the finale.

Watch the car in Conan's skit from 10:39 minutes untill 11:35 minutes here http://www.tonightshowwithconanobrien.com/...es/#vid=1129744

This means NBC still has the car, not sure what that means but I guess its a good thing if we can get this show another shot on another network

I couldn't find the skit you were hinting at, but if you are a fan of Charlie's "rides" from the show then I think you should go to more car shows. Everyone in this section has a better pick for Charlie's next car while hoping the Maserati gets blown up, but we respect your opinion so keep posting.