Quick one for the car-culture corner of the outdoors desk: if you've ever watched Lucifer and wondered about that gorgeous Corvette the Devil himself tools around Los Angeles in, Yahoo Autos confirms it's a classic Chevy Corvette, which is about as deliberate a casting choice as the actor sitting behind the wheel. The source doesn't pin down the exact year or generation, so I won't either, but "classic" is doing a lot of load-bearing work here and I'm fine with that.

The thing is, a classic Corvette looks fast standing still and knows it, which is basically the whole character brief for Lucifer Morningstar. Showy, charming, a little vain, secretly capable. You don't cast the Devil in something sensible. A beige Camry would've been a very different show.

What I like about the choice is that they didn't give him something modern. A brand-new mid-engine C8 would've been the lazy casting call, all angles and aggression. An older Corvette has actual charm. It's a car from an era when you still felt the road through the wheel and the exhaust note came up through the floorboards, and there's something fitting about an immortal being choosing the version with the most soul. Old things, kept running well, tend to be the ones worth keeping around. I've made roughly this argument about Volvo wagons and I'll make it about an old Vette too.

And the car does real work in the show. It's where Lucifer thinks, sulks, and occasionally has entire emotional breakthroughs in the driver's seat, which anyone who's ever sorted out their life on a long drive will recognize. Some of my best decisions have happened somewhere past mile 200 with the radio off. Some of my worst, too, but that's a different article.

Practical note, since I can't help myself: if a classic Corvette ever lands on your own dream-garage list, know that the honest ones cost real money. The cheap ones are cheap for a reason, and with cars of that vintage the surprises tend to hide in the structure you can't see from the curb. Bring somebody who knows these cars before you write the check. Ask me how I know. (I don't own one. I watched a friend find out the hard way.)

Anyway. A fictional character's car shouldn't matter this much, but the good ones always do. The General Lee, the DeLorean, KITT. A classic Corvette in a leading role fits right in on that list.

If you need me, I'll be over here pretending my Subaru has the same screen presence.