Just spent a week running around China on business. Was amazed at the number of Buick badged GMs running around. Most of them were models I had never seen.
The way that place is growing and building, maybe there IS hope for GM.
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April 15, 2009 12:41 p.m. NOHOME New Reader
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April 15, 2009 12:47 p.m. ronbros New Reader
also buick was named as a #1 for reliablity in usa, things are changin, but maybe to late. , someone said that corvette is a good car, they won a lot of races!!
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April 15, 2009 1:02 p.m. aircooled SuperDork
The Chinese consider American cars in general as "high end" cars and the Buicks are the most luxurious (kind of like Mercedes in the US). Because of this it seems highly unlikely Buick will disappear, maybe in the US but not worldwide.
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April 15, 2009 1:30 p.m. John Brown SuperDork
I heard a rumbling that if Saturn gets its split from GM and Buick is also threatened to get the axe that Buick Asia will request seperation and operate as its own entity.
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April 15, 2009 1:33 p.m. Xceler8x Dork
Philip Morris aka Altria sell the most of their cigarette product in India and China now.
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April 15, 2009 2:08 p.m. poopshovel SuperDork
"Why do Chinese people have cataracts? Because they don't rike Rincolns!"
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April 15, 2009 4:54 p.m. Appleseed Reader
Too many 70 year olds love the BuFord for it to go anywhere.
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April 15, 2009 6:33 p.m. TIGMOTORSPORTS New Reader
Buick's best selling car was the LeSabre-and GM axed it.
I say-bring back a RWD Buick 2dr, black only in Grand National style, with a turbo LS motor
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April 16, 2009 10:44 a.m. aircooled SuperDork
Appleseed wrote:
Too many 70 year olds love the BuFord for it to go anywhere.
Yes, certainly true, but how many 70 year olds are buying cars?
This I suspect is exactly the reason why Cadillac has gone all "boy racer". They figure their "typical" buyer is now so old, they aren't really buying cars much anymore.
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April 16, 2009 10:48 a.m. Cotton Reader
TIGMOTORSPORTS wrote:
Buick's best selling car was the LeSabre-and GM axed it.
I say-bring back a RWD Buick 2dr, black only in Grand National style, with a turbo LS motor
That would be awesome
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April 16, 2009 10:46 p.m. gamby SuperDork
I have a Chinese-made "universal" car cover on my garage queen that has a picture of a Buick-badged (whatever the Chevy Leceti is in the States). I thought that it was interesting that there is a subcompact Buick in China.
Meanwhile, my wife is driving my father-in-law's 2007 Buick Lacrosse while her (192k mile) 99 CR-V is in the shop getting the evap system troubleshooted so it can pass inspection. She says it rides like a livingroom and that the gas and brake pedal have a very strange spacing between each other.
I dunno. All I know is the damn thing is BIG. It just fits in the garage (my workbench takes up a few feet of depth--not an issue w/ a Civic and a CR-V in the garage).
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April 16, 2009 11:21 p.m. neon4891 SuperDork
gamby wrote:
I have a Chinese-made "universal" car cover on my garage queen that has a picture of a Buick-badged (whatever the Chevy Leceti is in the States). I thought that it was interesting that there is a subcompact Buick in China.
FWIW, the old "reasonably priced car", the Suzuki Liana was sold here as their Aero. The Lecetti is, according to the all knowing wiki, the Suzi Reno and Forenza.
