That's really interesting about Red Riding Hood; I'd never noticed those details. I did see them towing the muscle car away in one of the episodes, but never made the connection.

It's one of the advantages the series has over Fables: the comic takes fairy tale characters and gets its intrigue out of trying to predict out what's going to happen to them when they're slammed into the modern day. Once Upon a Time can milk a lot of intrigue out of showing you characters in the modern day and letting you figure out who they are in the fairy tales.