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- WestonP, on 12/17/2007, -5/+73Excessive. Use. Of. Periods. Is. Really. Annoying.
- j0hneb0y81, on 12/17/2007, -2/+34didn't you hear? People in the US don't like radical designs.. they like old, recycled designs from the 60s/70s!
- wiggles, on 12/17/2007, -0/+25Beautiful car, but it would never sell in the US. First, it's way ahead of its time style-wise. Also, Buick in Asia is NOT Buick North America. Here in NA, Buicks are for old people, pimps, and Tiger Woods, or whoever else they pay to drive them.
Although I do wish they'd bring out a new Grand National. That would be bad ass. - capiCrimm, on 12/17/2007, -1/+23foreign, radical? I've forwarded your message to CIA.
God Bless America! - EvanVolm, on 12/17/2007, -1/+23I'm happy with my '92 Century. It even has a cassette player!
- jbmcb, on 12/17/2007, -0/+21How vehicle design works in the US:
1 - WE WANT THE NEW BUICK
2 - GM Caves, deploys the new design in the north American market
3 - About two thousand sell, total
4 - Everyone complains about the new design
5 - GM Stops making it
6 - A decade later, people lament how GM pulled the plug on the cool old Buick design
Lather, Rinse, Repeat - wearenotsickmen, on 12/17/2007, -0/+17that's pretty nice looking
- Berkana, on 12/17/2007, -2/+16That kind of thinking is why American car makers are losing market share to foreign auto makers who aren't afraid to adopt radical designs.
- inactive, on 12/17/2007, -0/+10"they like old, recycled designs from the 60s/70s!"
Just like our movies. - benchwarmer, on 12/17/2007, -4/+13Chinese concept... It have crash test ratings on par with a paper cup?
- manfrin, on 12/17/2007, -1/+10That's not really true though... Toyota has no radical designs to speak of. Neither does Honda. Nissan looks great, but it's pretty much just updated modern designs. BMW is the same. In fact, most cars nowadays, with the exception of the obvious, are pretty conservative in their stylings.
- kil0byte, on 12/17/2007, -1/+9Bring back the Grand National, then we'll talk...
- ClunkClunk, on 12/17/2007, -1/+9Buick never made a 4.2L V6, let alone one at 185 horsepower. Perhaps you're thinking of the 4.2L I6 in the Ranier, which makes 275hp (Vortec 4200). Or perhaps the 3.8L V6 in the Regal/Century/LeSabre/Park Avenue, which makes 205hp (3800 Series II). Or perhaps the 3.8L V6 in the LaCrosse which makes 200hp, and is a SULEV (3800 Series III). There's a bunch of other engines used in the last 15 years, none of which are a 4.2L V6 with only 185 horsepower.
You may not like your Buick and that's fine, but for a person with the moniker "fastcars," you certainly don't know them too well. - epilonious, on 12/17/2007, -2/+9You forgot step 2.5: They price it way too high.
The new Buick will be $3000 less than an M6, what a bargain! - KanosWRX, on 12/17/2007, -2/+9Doesn't everyone know yet that the best American cars aren't even sold in America. Ford Mondeo, Ford Focus RS, Chevrolet Lumina (We get the Pontiac G8, which looks hideous), Holden (GTO in America, Holden cars look much better). For some reason the "Big Three" don't like selling good looking cars in America, we get junk :(
- inactive, on 12/17/2007, -2/+8Problem is your buick was built in japan and your honda in america.
- inactive, on 12/17/2007, -1/+7Bring back the Grand National!
- Chakat, on 12/17/2007, -0/+6The US has higher emissions standards, by and large, than europe. As a result, the auto makers have found it cheaper to detune the car for the US than to sell the same tuning to the entire world.
- tonicboy, on 12/17/2007, -0/+5You wouldn't think it, but Buick is the best-selling foreign car in China. They consider it a very high-end import car. Not surprisingly, a lot more design and development dollars are going into Buick China than Buick America where only old people buy Buicks.
- Pinkertinkle, on 12/17/2007, -1/+6you fail at the funniez.
- krets, on 12/17/2007, -2/+7I was going to say: Worst. Use. Of repeating periods ever.
- m4sterofmurd3r, on 12/17/2007, -0/+5cause old people don't buy new buicks
- Nougat, on 12/17/2007, -2/+6Is half the paint peeling off in sheets?
- lharrod, on 12/17/2007, -1/+5The whole Japanese-cars-rule-over-American notion is no longer rock solid true as it once was. There is so much interrelation between automakers, so much cooperation and sharing of technologies and manufacturing facilities, that all lines are blurred.
- noots, on 12/17/2007, -2/+5how elite of you
- cawpin, on 12/17/2007, -0/+3Um, no.
- erocklodge, on 12/17/2007, -0/+2I saw very similarly styled Buick concept cars(except they had suicide doors) at the Detroit show in 2002. So, don't give all the credit to Buick of China.
- dinobot, on 12/17/2007, -0/+2I actually prefer the Chinese Park Avenue much better
- MrFoof82, on 12/18/2007, -0/+2Buick, IIRC, is one of the most prestigious brands in China. A lot of Chinese government officials use Buick heavily, if not exclusively. In the Chinese market, GM would be foolish to not keep pushing hard. I believe GM has the largest share of the Chinese market (with Buick being one of, if not the, top luxury marque), followed closely by Volkswagen
But you see this in other markets. Ford is respected in the European market for building competent vehicles. Why don't we see these cars here? Easy, in those configurations and trim levels, they'd price themselves too far ahead of the competition. That's why we get the lower-grade interior materials and don't necessarily have vehicles using new platforms right away, or using the best componentry for those platforms.
It's a shame really. Chinese-market Buicks are quite nice, and the Eurofords would bring a welcome change here.
And last, never underestimate emerging markets such as China and India. Biggest influence of the last Civic's interior design? The chinese market's demands. - heartcoldfusion, on 12/17/2007, -2/+4Looks like a G37 got busy with a Z4 roadster and produced this bastard child that still looks hot, but that everyone knows will never amount to anything.
- Markpdotcom, on 12/17/2007, -0/+2What? Were you even looking at the same photo as the rest of us?
- cantaraluna, on 12/17/2007, -0/+2mmmm sexy
- elmmx5, on 12/17/2007, -1/+2Dug down for bizarre punctuation.
- lharrod, on 12/17/2007, -2/+3Or how about the chubbybubba car, that runs on high-octane racism.
- dimitrisokolov, on 12/18/2007, -1/+2You'll die from the lead paint.
- mtekk, on 12/17/2007, -0/+1and with that the promise of the original version for next year if this watered down version sells well enough.
- NSMike, on 12/17/2007, -1/+2Built by pretty much any other auto maker, and I'd be considering it for my next car.
- trollick, on 12/19/2007, -0/+1Nice. Except gullwing doors - they are neither functional nor good looking
- bundwallah, on 12/17/2007, -2/+3That is a gorgeous car. Finally a North American design that's fresh and stylish. Aggressive, but not overstated. It's a shame that it might never see the light of day in NA. New car designs are so conservative over here. There's no reason the big three couldn't make beautiful cars that people can afford and are built solidly.
- patpl22391, on 12/18/2007, -0/+1Are the small squinity slits for the sideview mirrors some kind of racial indictment of Chinese people!?!?
- SiNN4R, on 12/17/2007, -0/+1Its funny you say its ahead of its time. Personally I think its very retro looking. It reminds me of sort of a mix between art deco and classical American car design with some modern elements thrown in to make it look unique. It also looks good in a photograph but I'm not sure how I would feel about it on the street.
- Arkz, on 12/17/2007, -0/+1that Chinese show that first showed this off along with these piccies was back in like august, bit...late?
- zeejay, on 12/17/2007, -1/+2Um, it's not a North American design. It was designed in China.
- dickybrown, on 12/17/2007, -1/+2i enjoyed his funniez
- Markpdotcom, on 12/17/2007, -0/+1So, after all that, you agree with epj3? :D
- decker12, on 12/17/2007, -0/+1The majority of concept cars never make it anywhere except the auto show floor room. So this car isn't coming to the United States, Europe, or anywhere else. Besides the annoying punctuation, I'm going to bury this for being inaccurate. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concept_car - russellnation, on 12/17/2007, -2/+3you forgot on no.2 GM caves with watered down version that has crap for mileage and weaker performance.
- dickybrown, on 12/17/2007, -1/+2Clunk you're right.
and I'll add that the 4.2L I6 in the rainier is not representative of the brand - it's just a rebadged Olds Bravada. the 3800 series engine was one of the best ever made. I had an 86 Lesabre that got 30mpg and had plenty of power to get out of it's own way - and that was a full size car getting 30mpg in the mid 80's
unfortunately, GM has let the brand suffer. build quality is decent, but the interior design has really lagged the competition. The Enclave looks like a step in the right direction, but time will tell - superfuxxorr, on 12/17/2007, -1/+2CTS V is the Z06. The National is the ***** National.
- wicketr, on 12/17/2007, -0/+1Where the ***** did you two people learn the English language?
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