Peter Williams, who played Moe the video technician, went on to play Richard Dean Anderson's principal antagonist, Apophis, in Stargate SG-1 (1997).
In this episode MacGyver is referred as " This Phoenix has truly risen from ashes " by announcer.
This episode isn't the first time Kai Wulffs character had to deal with a protagonist who drove a Pontiac Trans-Am. The first two times was on two separate episodes of Knight Rider (1982). Give Me Liberty...Or Give Me Death (1983), and Custom Made Killer (1985).
The footage used for the flashback to Macgyver's crash is taken from the Indy Michigan 500 race in 1984. The crash involved Chip Ganassi and Al Unser Jr. The car we see in the foreground is Chip Ganassi's car. Both drivers survived.