How bout that Buick Lucerne

[passiveoptimist12]

pretty sweet eh?

[Carrera_gtcrazy]

Not my cup of tea.

[SSNISTR]

Not my cup of tea....but it gets nice reviews for the money.

[Auraraptor]

I dislike the majority of Buicks. Personal taste...their driving dyanmics are not to my taste.

[JSL]

Haven't seen one personally however, the commercials look pretty good to me. At that price point, same as the Honda I just bought my dad.

[iceburns288]

I have no idea where in the Buick line the Lucerne is, but the Lincoln Zephyr looks like a really nice car too!

[FriscoRays]

My Great-Grandfather really loves his Lucerne.

[Korr]

Cheap interior, cheap seats especially, bad value for the money. GM needs to do a lot better than this car if it plans on staying around for a while.

[Bullfighter]

Originally Posted by passiveoptimist12

pretty sweet eh?

This?

[Teenferrarifan]

Guys the designer is a member of f-chat and owns a yellow 430 spider!!
Erik

[Bullfighter]

Originally Posted by Teenferrarifan

Guys the designer is a member of f-chat and owns a yellow 430 spider!!
Erik

I think I like his personal car better.

[UroTrash]

What will the depreciation curve look like?

Do you think they will eventually offer $3000 rebates thereby instantly dropping the value of all current owners cars by $3000?

[David_S]

What's with the name? Lucerne to me is either a hammer or a dairy product. With a Buick badge on it - mediocre cheese comes to mind before anything else.

[Korr]

Originally Posted by UroTrash

What will the depreciation curve look like?

Do you think they will eventually offer $3000 rebates thereby instantly dropping the value of all current owners cars by $3000?

Bad, just like every other GM car.

3k off? The car is overpriced to the tune of 10 large, dropping the sticker by 3 is a start.

[Auraraptor]

Originally Posted by Teenferrarifan

Guys the designer is a member of f-chat and owns a yellow 430 spider!!
Erik

The designer of the Tbird's exhaust is also on FC, that doesn't make it a good-sounding car.

Great designers can be strangled by bureaucracy.

[Teenferrarifan]

Originally Posted by Auraraptor

The designer of the Tbird's exhaust is also on FC, that doesn't make it a good-sounding car.

Great designers can be strangled by bureaucracy.

Omar, the only point I was making is that hopefully he will chime in and say that maybe as a result of other factors he/design team had to alter or change to make the car economical. I wasn't trying to halt the discussion simply point out that there is a chance he will chime in.
Erik

[Auraraptor]

Originally Posted by Teenferrarifan

Omar, the only point I was making is that hopefully he will chime in and say that maybe as a result of other factors he/design team had to alter or change to make the car economical. I wasn't trying to halt the discussion simply point out that there is a chance he will chime in.
Erik

Yea I got that, I just wanted to point out that you can have great designers but the 'higher ups' will kill even great designs. It is sad really, but the nature of the game.

[Teenferrarifan]

Originally Posted by Auraraptor

Yea I got that, I just wanted to point out that you can have great designers but the 'higher ups' will kill even great designs. It is sad really, but the nature of the game.

I am with you 100% on this bud
Erik

[Korr]

Originally Posted by Auraraptor

Great designers can be strangled by bureaucracy.

Strangled, beaten with a tire iron, then bricked up behind a wall in the basement and forced to watch Roseanne Barr pornography on a black and white television.

Bureaucracy pinches out hallmark designs such as the Pontiac Aztec.

[Jack Russell Racing]

Originally Posted by David_S

What's with the name?

Actually, Lucerne (Luzern) is a beautiful city in central Switzerland. I lived there for what seemed like an eternity, at the Hotel des Balances and Hotel Palace. Worked down the road 40 miles in a wee little hamlet named Dagmersellen.