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Old 07-06-2009, 05:26 PM   #66 (permalink)
stas peterson
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Re: Next Buick Excelle = Opel Astra?

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Originally Posted by Eric77TA View Post
From everything I've heard, we'd probably have the Chinese Park Avenue NOW if it weren't for the fact that Buick dealers said they didn't want it - that the Lucerne was more what their buyers wanted.
And you wouldn't have wanted it as it would have appeared back then. It would have had a 3.4 or 3.9 High Feature (ie Obsolescent) underpowered wheezer. It would have been mated to an 4-speed automatic, the same as the "performance" 4.3 liter Athmastic V-8. Performance? 0-60 in a weekend. But it would have given you "respectable" mileage of 17 city 20 highway; yes just what you would have desired!
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