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Originally Posted by masraum
These last two make me want to cry.
It's kind of like reviving the Malibu and Nova names and putting them on crappy FWD econoboxes. Blech!
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At some point in the 80s, my grandfather got it in his head to purchase a new car. He had a beautiful 1968 Buick Le Sabre. He went down to the dealership and purchased a Buick Somerset. This was around the time GM was trumpeting their Quad 4 engine (Horray! We can make a 4 cylinder engine....just like the Japanese did 15 years before.) That Somerset was the biggest piece of garbage we had ever seen. There was this odd 'tower' that stuck up from the center console that had the radio controls on it. The plastic was so poorly molded that it barely fit together. The anemic 4 cylinder engine would scream trying to pull the car along.
The only upside in this whole story is that I got the 68 Le Sabre. The original 2brl had been replaced with a 4brl, and the car went like stink!