Hydramatic
07-11-2007, 08:43 PM
Enjoy!
http://www.leftlanenews.com/buick-riviera-concept.html
http://www.leftlanenews.com/buick-riviera-concept.html
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DanO
07-11-2007, 09:15 PM
sweet!
not my thing.. but cool to look at
not my thing.. but cool to look at
98redM6
07-12-2007, 12:35 PM
That looks like it'll eat a Lexus and shit out a Bimmer.
2000Hawk
07-12-2007, 01:30 PM
Yeah its a pretty good looking concept from GM, but we all know they will never make anything like that. The world can say it looks fantastic, and they will make some underpowered ugly piece of shit.
-Joel
-Joel
DrkPhynx
07-12-2007, 03:42 PM
Wrong company.
Yet another example of GM schizophrenia under it's head schizo, lutz.
That car (or more to the point, a car that looks like that, with performance to match), belongs in the Pontiac, if it goes ANYwhere. It's just like giving saturn a roadster. :bang:
Buick really shouldn't even be still around.
Yet another example of GM schizophrenia under it's head schizo, lutz.
That car (or more to the point, a car that looks like that, with performance to match), belongs in the Pontiac, if it goes ANYwhere. It's just like giving saturn a roadster. :bang:
Buick really shouldn't even be still around.
Hydramatic
07-12-2007, 09:38 PM
Wrong company.
Yet another example of GM schizophrenia under it's head schizo, lutz.
That car (or more to the point, a car that looks like that, with performance to match), belongs in the Pontiac, if it goes ANYwhere. It's just like giving saturn a roadster. :bang:
Buick really shouldn't even be still around.
Bah....
Buick needs a Halo car, be it a Riviera or Wildcat, WHATEVER. They just need something better than the Lucerne Ultra....
Yet another example of GM schizophrenia under it's head schizo, lutz.
That car (or more to the point, a car that looks like that, with performance to match), belongs in the Pontiac, if it goes ANYwhere. It's just like giving saturn a roadster. :bang:
Buick really shouldn't even be still around.
Bah....
Buick needs a Halo car, be it a Riviera or Wildcat, WHATEVER. They just need something better than the Lucerne Ultra....
Tainted
07-13-2007, 04:04 AM
it wont ever make it. jsut like the rest of gm's shit
Mr.Powers
07-13-2007, 10:16 AM
If Buick want to bring performance back...
PLEASE MAKE THE GRAND NATIONAL...
PLEASE MAKE THE GRAND NATIONAL...
Hydramatic
07-13-2007, 01:29 PM
:) If Buick want to bring performance back...
PLEASE MAKE THE GRAND NATIONAL...
+1 a new Turbo six could be much more powerful than the old one, what with all the advances in technology...
That'd be absolutely beautiful....a beefed-up 3500 V6 with a twin-scroll turbo :)
PLEASE MAKE THE GRAND NATIONAL...
+1 a new Turbo six could be much more powerful than the old one, what with all the advances in technology...
That'd be absolutely beautiful....a beefed-up 3500 V6 with a twin-scroll turbo :)
DrkPhynx
07-13-2007, 08:57 PM
:)
+1 a new Turbo six could be much more powerful than the old one, what with all the advances in technology...
That'd be absolutely beautiful....a beefed-up 3500 V6 with a twin-scroll turbo :)
Ok, I'm not being argumentative for it's own sake, and the fact that I've never liked Buick isn't relevant here. I just have a question - why?
What I mean by that is, this isn't the 60's anymore. Too many assholes buy foreign cars with a smug leer on their face and actively try to kill the domestic OEMs through word of mouth campaigns and other means. The end result is that there simply isn't the market share to have each brand be a full line car maker.
Olds should have survived in favor of Buick. And being a HUGE Olds fan, I love the 442, but I couldn't support a new one being made if they were still around.
Cadillac was the luxury division, chevy was the entry level "everyman" division, Pontiac was (is) the performance division, and Olds and Buick were different tiers on the way to Caddy.
Then Saturn was meant to woo import buyers, and GMC makes high end trucks typically more luxurious than the chevy counter parts. Great.
They axe Olds, re-formulate Caddy into the technology leader and make almost all their stuff luxury-performance, basically going after BMW and Audi. Saturn gets a total remake and is given a sports car it should NEVER have and who knows what the hell chevy is supposed to be doing (as in a sense, Saturn really is the entry level now). That leave Pontiac as the real performance division, and they are growing in that capacity with a re-newed vigor (even if hamstrung by top level schizophrenia).
Where does Buick fit now? I mean seriously. Do they become the new pure luxury vehicle? Do they go after non-performance oriented Lexus and Infinity markets? Do they continue to be Cadillac Jr.?
Truthfully, there's no reason for them to still be around. But if they remain, there is absolutely *nothing* that could make any LESS sense than giving them a performance car.
That's not a bust or a flame. GM doesn't have the mindshare it needs to be giving every division performance cars. If you want a high tech performance car with luxury leanings, that's what the CTS-V is for. Or the XLR-V if you need a coupe.
+1 a new Turbo six could be much more powerful than the old one, what with all the advances in technology...
That'd be absolutely beautiful....a beefed-up 3500 V6 with a twin-scroll turbo :)
Ok, I'm not being argumentative for it's own sake, and the fact that I've never liked Buick isn't relevant here. I just have a question - why?
What I mean by that is, this isn't the 60's anymore. Too many assholes buy foreign cars with a smug leer on their face and actively try to kill the domestic OEMs through word of mouth campaigns and other means. The end result is that there simply isn't the market share to have each brand be a full line car maker.
Olds should have survived in favor of Buick. And being a HUGE Olds fan, I love the 442, but I couldn't support a new one being made if they were still around.
Cadillac was the luxury division, chevy was the entry level "everyman" division, Pontiac was (is) the performance division, and Olds and Buick were different tiers on the way to Caddy.
Then Saturn was meant to woo import buyers, and GMC makes high end trucks typically more luxurious than the chevy counter parts. Great.
They axe Olds, re-formulate Caddy into the technology leader and make almost all their stuff luxury-performance, basically going after BMW and Audi. Saturn gets a total remake and is given a sports car it should NEVER have and who knows what the hell chevy is supposed to be doing (as in a sense, Saturn really is the entry level now). That leave Pontiac as the real performance division, and they are growing in that capacity with a re-newed vigor (even if hamstrung by top level schizophrenia).
Where does Buick fit now? I mean seriously. Do they become the new pure luxury vehicle? Do they go after non-performance oriented Lexus and Infinity markets? Do they continue to be Cadillac Jr.?
Truthfully, there's no reason for them to still be around. But if they remain, there is absolutely *nothing* that could make any LESS sense than giving them a performance car.
That's not a bust or a flame. GM doesn't have the mindshare it needs to be giving every division performance cars. If you want a high tech performance car with luxury leanings, that's what the CTS-V is for. Or the XLR-V if you need a coupe.
Hydramatic
07-14-2007, 01:45 PM
Ok, I'm not being argumentative for it's own sake, and the fact that I've never liked Buick isn't relevant here. I just have a question - why?
What I mean by that is, this isn't the 60's anymore. Too many assholes buy foreign cars with a smug leer on their face and actively try to kill the domestic OEMs through word of mouth campaigns and other means. The end result is that there simply isn't the market share to have each brand be a full line car maker.
Olds should have survived in favor of Buick. And being a HUGE Olds fan, I love the 442, but I couldn't support a new one being made if they were still around.
Cadillac was the luxury division, chevy was the entry level "everyman" division, Pontiac was (is) the performance division, and Olds and Buick were different tiers on the way to Caddy.
Then Saturn was meant to woo import buyers, and GMC makes high end trucks typically more luxurious than the chevy counter parts. Great.
They axe Olds, re-formulate Caddy into the technology leader and make almost all their stuff luxury-performance, basically going after BMW and Audi. Saturn gets a total remake and is given a sports car it should NEVER have and who knows what the hell chevy is supposed to be doing (as in a sense, Saturn really is the entry level now). That leave Pontiac as the real performance division, and they are growing in that capacity with a re-newed vigor (even if hamstrung by top level schizophrenia).
Where does Buick fit now? I mean seriously. Do they become the new pure luxury vehicle? Do they go after non-performance oriented Lexus and Infinity markets? Do they continue to be Cadillac Jr.?
Truthfully, there's no reason for them to still be around. But if they remain, there is absolutely *nothing* that could make any LESS sense than giving them a performance car.
That's not a bust or a flame. GM doesn't have the mindshare it needs to be giving every division performance cars. If you want a high tech performance car with luxury leanings, that's what the CTS-V is for. Or the XLR-V if you need a coupe.
The way I see it is this:
Cadillac should be bumped up to compete with Mercedes S classes and Maybachs.
Buick should have been bumped to where Caddy is now.
Olds should have been where Buick is now....
I agree with you 100%
What I mean by that is, this isn't the 60's anymore. Too many assholes buy foreign cars with a smug leer on their face and actively try to kill the domestic OEMs through word of mouth campaigns and other means. The end result is that there simply isn't the market share to have each brand be a full line car maker.
Olds should have survived in favor of Buick. And being a HUGE Olds fan, I love the 442, but I couldn't support a new one being made if they were still around.
Cadillac was the luxury division, chevy was the entry level "everyman" division, Pontiac was (is) the performance division, and Olds and Buick were different tiers on the way to Caddy.
Then Saturn was meant to woo import buyers, and GMC makes high end trucks typically more luxurious than the chevy counter parts. Great.
They axe Olds, re-formulate Caddy into the technology leader and make almost all their stuff luxury-performance, basically going after BMW and Audi. Saturn gets a total remake and is given a sports car it should NEVER have and who knows what the hell chevy is supposed to be doing (as in a sense, Saturn really is the entry level now). That leave Pontiac as the real performance division, and they are growing in that capacity with a re-newed vigor (even if hamstrung by top level schizophrenia).
Where does Buick fit now? I mean seriously. Do they become the new pure luxury vehicle? Do they go after non-performance oriented Lexus and Infinity markets? Do they continue to be Cadillac Jr.?
Truthfully, there's no reason for them to still be around. But if they remain, there is absolutely *nothing* that could make any LESS sense than giving them a performance car.
That's not a bust or a flame. GM doesn't have the mindshare it needs to be giving every division performance cars. If you want a high tech performance car with luxury leanings, that's what the CTS-V is for. Or the XLR-V if you need a coupe.
The way I see it is this:
Cadillac should be bumped up to compete with Mercedes S classes and Maybachs.
Buick should have been bumped to where Caddy is now.
Olds should have been where Buick is now....
I agree with you 100%
JBsZ06
07-15-2007, 09:29 PM
I like this new buick.
Looks sharp.
They could do a lot worse..
Looks sharp.
They could do a lot worse..