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How bout that Buick Lucerne

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  1. passiveoptimist12

    passiveoptimist12 Formula Junior

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    pretty sweet eh?
     
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  2. Carrera_gtcrazy

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    Not my cup of tea.
     
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  3. SSNISTR

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

    Auraraptor F1 World Champ Lifetime Rossa Owner

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    I dislike the majority of Buicks. Personal taste...their driving dyanmics are not to my taste.
     
    Auraraptor, Mar 25, 2006
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  5. JSL

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    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.
     
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    I have no idea where in the Buick line the Lucerne is, but the Lincoln Zephyr looks like a really nice car too!
     
    iceburns288, Mar 26, 2006
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  7. FriscoRays

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    My Great-Grandfather really loves his Lucerne.
     
    FriscoRays, Mar 27, 2006
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  8. Etcetera

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    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.
     
    Etcetera, Mar 27, 2006
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  10. Teenferrarifan

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

    Bullfighter Two Time F1 World Champ Lifetime Rossa Owner

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    I think I like his personal car better. ;)
     
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    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?
     
    UroTrash, Mar 27, 2006
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  13. David_S

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    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.
     
    David_S, Mar 27, 2006
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  14. Etcetera

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    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.
     
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  15. Auraraptor

    Auraraptor F1 World Champ Lifetime Rossa Owner

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    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.
     
    Auraraptor, Mar 27, 2006
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  16. Teenferrarifan

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    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
     
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    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.
     
    Auraraptor, Mar 27, 2006
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  18. Teenferrarifan

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    I am with you 100% on this bud :(
    Erik
     
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    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.
     
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  20. Ricambi America

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    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.
     
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  21. Dino Martini

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    Lucerne is the name of my Safeway dairy products. weird. Cant say I like it really, but as a family car it cant be that bad.
     
    Dino Martini, Mar 27, 2006
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  22. TopCloser

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    Call me crazy, but I like it.

    However, you can also call me biased, since I'm a sales manager for a Buick-Pontiac-GMC store! :)

    The Lucerne CXS is a nice car. Worth the money (imho).
     
    TopCloser, Mar 27, 2006
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  23. otaku

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    Thats what I was thinking!

    Well its the best buick I've seen. I've known one person (female cousin) who owns one, she is in her twenties but acts like an old woman-car fits her perfectly. I hate buicks. And caddilacs. Don't much like linolns either. I love riding in these cars sortof-very comfy and big and have a smooth ride but other than that no fun in terms of driving or looking at or anything.
     
    otaku, Mar 28, 2006
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    Is that the Buick that looks kinda like the QP ?
     
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