they sell like crazy in China.AggieChemist said:
Hell, we lost Oldsmobile and Pontiac and they both made some badass cars in the day. Nobody is getting nostalgic over an '85 Buick Regal.
Their commercials make me want to puke, and I silently judge everyone I see driving one.
Interesting choice of cars to pick on for a lot of reasons. My dad had one of these and it was actually a nice car. I vividly remember being home on leave from AIT at Christmas 1988 and having several great dates with the older sister of a girl my sister took gymnastics lessons with that, ummm, culminated in the back seat of that thing. So yeah I might actually be a bit nostalgic over an '85 Buick Regal!AggieChemist said:
Hell, we lost Oldsmobile and Pontiac and they both made some badass cars in the day. Nobody is getting nostalgic over an '85 Buick Regal.
Their commercials make me want to puke, and I silently judge everyone I see driving one.
Fine. How about the LeSabre then?LOYAL AG said:Interesting choice of cars to pick on for a lot of reasons. My dad had one of these and it was actually a nice car. I vividly remember being home on leave from AIT at Christmas 1988 and having several great dates with the older sister of a girl my sister took gymnastics lessons with that, ummm, culminated in the back seat of that thing. So yeah I might actually be a bit nostalgic over an '85 Buick Regal!AggieChemist said:
Hell, we lost Oldsmobile and Pontiac and they both made some badass cars in the day. Nobody is getting nostalgic over an '85 Buick Regal.
Their commercials make me want to puke, and I silently judge everyone I see driving one.
That aside the Regal was the platform for this beast and, if you've ever driven one, you would DEFINITELY be nostalgic for this bad boy:
The problem is, its not so much mainstream models like we have here like a Regal or LaCrosse, its small, 1980s/1990s Korean based garbage that wears the shield, also Rebadged Chevy Ventures that sell for 40-80K, and seen as the Suburban/Escalade over there. Can do duty as hotel shuttle, executive transport, etc. Buick in China has a brand recognition like Lexus or BMW here. Any young successful young person will go out and drop $50K US on that Red Buick Regal sitting on the dealer showroom floor. Families end up getting the 1.3L Subcompact deathtrap for $14,000 bucks.Furlock Bones said:they sell like crazy in China.AggieChemist said:
Hell, we lost Oldsmobile and Pontiac and they both made some badass cars in the day. Nobody is getting nostalgic over an '85 Buick Regal.
Their commercials make me want to puke, and I silently judge everyone I see driving one.
LOL. Yeah, much better choice! No nostalgia there. My grandmother might be though. I'll ask her.AggieChemist said:Fine. How about the LeSabre then?LOYAL AG said:Interesting choice of cars to pick on for a lot of reasons. My dad had one of these and it was actually a nice car. I vividly remember being home on leave from AIT at Christmas 1988 and having several great dates with the older sister of a girl my sister took gymnastics lessons with that, ummm, culminated in the back seat of that thing. So yeah I might actually be a bit nostalgic over an '85 Buick Regal!AggieChemist said:
Hell, we lost Oldsmobile and Pontiac and they both made some badass cars in the day. Nobody is getting nostalgic over an '85 Buick Regal.
Their commercials make me want to puke, and I silently judge everyone I see driving one.
That aside the Regal was the platform for this beast and, if you've ever driven one, you would DEFINITELY be nostalgic for this bad boy:
Looks kind of cool, by all accounts it isn't.easttexasaggie04 said:
I honestly had to google Buick. I just assume they no longer sold cars under that brand. That station wagon they make looks kinda cool!
Dealers actually dropped the prices on the Regal Wagons, so you can get one for like 25K now.chimpanzee said:Looks kind of cool, by all accounts it isn't.easttexasaggie04 said:
I honestly had to google Buick. I just assume they no longer sold cars under that brand. That station wagon they make looks kinda cool!
GM can't help themselves, on the occasion they don't design a product to fit something like Chinese brand image or a dumb marketing gimmick against Ford, they go and make it hideous, refuse to market it, or kill the model outright.
Getting better. Wish they had't bothered with the Subaru Outback/Volvo Cross Country/Audi Allroad vibe on the wheel wells and extra inch of ride height.1agswitchin4lanes said:Dealers actually dropped the prices on the Regal Wagons, so you can get one for like 25K now.chimpanzee said:Looks kind of cool, by all accounts it isn't.easttexasaggie04 said:
I honestly had to google Buick. I just assume they no longer sold cars under that brand. That station wagon they make looks kinda cool!
GM can't help themselves, on the occasion they don't design a product to fit something like Chinese brand image or a dumb marketing gimmick against Ford, they go and make it hideous, refuse to market it, or kill the model outright.
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Buicks here sell because the over 50ish crowd buys them.
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Buicks here sell because the over 50ish crowd buys them.
Its more like over 65 crowd now. My crowds' parents were conditioned to think that ALL foreign jobs were POS, and the GM ladder of Chevy/Pontiac/Olds/Buick/Caddy actually meant something. Buick was the Caddy jr. or Caddy lite.
That thinking changed, though, with GM's problems over the last decade. Buick will probably be around as primarily an overseas brand.
Lost my handy V card in a mid 90s LeSabre. Or maybe a SkylarkAggieChemist said:Fine. How about the LeSabre then?LOYAL AG said:Interesting choice of cars to pick on for a lot of reasons. My dad had one of these and it was actually a nice car. I vividly remember being home on leave from AIT at Christmas 1988 and having several great dates with the older sister of a girl my sister took gymnastics lessons with that, ummm, culminated in the back seat of that thing. So yeah I might actually be a bit nostalgic over an '85 Buick Regal!AggieChemist said:
Hell, we lost Oldsmobile and Pontiac and they both made some badass cars in the day. Nobody is getting nostalgic over an '85 Buick Regal.
Their commercials make me want to puke, and I silently judge everyone I see driving one.
That aside the Regal was the platform for this beast and, if you've ever driven one, you would DEFINITELY be nostalgic for this bad boy:
WaltonBlanks08 said:
I always love the lifecycle of cars and their owners posts
And here too....TexAg2016 said:
It's the fake hood "portholes" that really finish off the design of the polished turd.
Three blocks long and two lanes wideBurdizzo said:
Daddy had a Buick and Mama loved to ride
Daddy like to drive it and Mama liked to glide
Four white walls constantly in motion
from the Great Smoky Mountains to the California ocean,
Two-tone, rag-top, holes in the side,
Daddy had a Buick and Mama loved to ride.
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It was powered by a 455 V8 that produced 350 horsepower and 510 lb-ft of torque. Yes, you read that torque figure correctly. The GSX produced the highest torque output of any American production car not only for its time, but for the next 33 years. The car that finally surpassed that torque figure? The 2003 Dodge Viper. How do ya like them apples? So clearly we've got one kick ass Buick here that wasn't made for permanent residents of a newly established retirement community down in Boca. In fact, the GSX's output was, not at all surprisingly, likely underrated.
To quote Steve Martin "It's a profit deal!" Take a Tahoe, add some premium soundproofing, better leather seats etc and sell it as an Escalade for $95K instead of $55K while only adding a few thousand dollars to your unit cost. People want premium stuff but for ego reasons they need others to know they bought premium stuff. This is the reason why they won't pull the plug on Cadillac and try to sell gussied up Chevrolet Tahoes for $95K...nobody who is anybody wants to pay $95K for what will be viewed as a mere Chevrolet.Agmechanic said:
I just cant believe in this day of leaning out corporations why the different brands even exist.
Everthing should be Chevrolet.
Everything should be Ford.
Same goes for all the other "premium" brands that are just rebadged corrolas, accords, and altimas. Seems like just a giant waste of corporate money to keep all of them going. Esp for GM.
