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Please reference those, then realize that if you put the front end of a Continental GT onto another car, it will suddenly begin to look remarkably like a Continental GT. Without the faux-grille applique on the front, this car looks almost completely unlike anything even remotely close to a Continental GT.
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Hey, this trick worked well for Chrysler with the 300C, er I mean, poseurmobile.
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I am a child. On to more important things.
"...it could be just the car Buick needs."
Really? Another boring FWD almost-luxury midsize? I kind of thought Buick needed something to remind the planet that it still exists.
Don't get me wrong, I love the Enclave, and actually even loved driving it, but there's nothing in the lineup that's going to make anyone go, "Wow! That's a Buick?" If you think this is "just the car Buick needs", I think you either need a shot of adrenaline, or you need to get out more. This is another generic spot-filler when GM needs to roll out something exciting.
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Okay, so what's the engine drivetrain? Does it get the 6.2L V8 and RWD? Is it a high-boosted V6 with a RWD-biased AWD setup? Nothing? Okay, then, what about the materials inside? Is it luxurious, sumptuous, comfortable, with fantastic materials and brilliant execution, or is it more GM syntho-materials that almost but not quite look completely unlike whatever they're imitating?
Look, I'm not GM-bashing. With the CTS, they've proved they can make a fucking awesome luxury car. With the G8, a killer euro-style muscle sedan. With the Malibu, a Camcordima slayer. So who does this go after? Your only argument is poseurs, and a little bit of mockery takes care of that market. I am the target demographic you speak of, and I'm not even interested.
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Buick doesn't need a Corvette or something attention-grabbing, it needs a handsome midsize sedan at a moderate price that is comfortable and performs well. Essentially they need a Enclave but in 3 box and slammed to the ground
Look at the XLR it does nothing for Caddy, it looks nice and it is fast, but Cadillac really makes their money on CTS sales, and the CTS does more to make people say "that is a Cadillac?" as they actually are on the roads, and the people can actually afford to have one (and en prime it is useful for them so they can actually use one)
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Thanks for the info! I think I'm projecting my own wants a bit into the situation (I would love the G8 V6 w/ a manual trans.
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Personally, though, I'd say get the GT. If you're sensible on the throttle, in my testing the GT got better gas mileage than the V6 did, and you have the added benefit of huge gobs of power when you need it.
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My point is that this will not be "the car that Buick needs", It is sensible, nice, and reasonably well-built. But it's certainly not going to breathe any new life into the Buick brand, and it offers precisely nothing over, say, the Acura TL, which is one of the few other low-priced luxury cars available. Seriously, look at it that way, it's going up against the MKZ, which has all-wheel-drive (kinda), and the Acura TL, which, I believe has their SH-AWD system now. How is this vanilla almost-luxury FWD generic jelly-bean going to win the day?
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Well, you're half-right.
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Brilliant, AGAIN, coffee, keyboard, etc etc.
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