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Hiding in Plain Sight: Buick's Mini-Fighter
Hiding in Plain Sight: Buick's Mini-Fighter
Cadillac May Get B-Segment Premium Car, Too October 02, 2009/ By Todd Lassa From Motor Trend: http://www.motortrend.com/auto_news/.../photo_02.html Say what? A Buick Mini fighter? The set of Buick Avant design study illustrations recently revealed at the General Motors Lab Web site showcased several styling directions a new premium Buick small car might take. But the closest representation of the new Buick so far (the vehicle is as yet unapproved) is a rakish, coupe-like two-door hatchback like the clay model shown for less than three seconds during a video at thelab.gmblogs.com (see below) with GM’s new advanced design chief, Andrew Smith. And the car's development is much farther along than you think: it has been in the works for at least two years without being assigned to any single GM division. The GM Lab masked this car's advanced state of development by wowing us with pie-in-the-sky...... Buick Avant Concept Photo: The Torque Report 
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10-02-2009, 05:38 PM
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Re: Hiding in Plain Sight: Buick's Mini-Fighter
Works for me.
Just don't rebadge one into the ATS.
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10-02-2009, 05:48 PM
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Re: Hiding in Plain Sight: Buick's Mini-Fighter
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Buick is fine...Cadillac...let's not.
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10-02-2009, 05:59 PM
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Re: Hiding in Plain Sight: Buick's Mini-Fighter
Do I have to say it?
This is Motor Trend we're talking about. The same magazine that proudly proclaimed a few months ago that the STS was being reskinned and would be out in 2 years. .
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10-02-2009, 06:29 PM
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Re: Hiding in Plain Sight: Buick's Mini-Fighter
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10-02-2009, 07:15 PM
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Re: Hiding in Plain Sight: Buick's Mini-Fighter
So, when is Buick getting a cargo hauler to compete with the Ford Transit Connect?
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10-02-2009, 08:23 PM
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10-02-2009, 09:00 PM
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10-03-2009, 08:49 AM
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Re: Hiding in Plain Sight: Buick's Mini-Fighter
I hope that's not the one they are going with. There is another good-looking coupe in the series of concepts I like much better. I DO like the wheels though!
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10-03-2009, 09:43 AM
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Re: Hiding in Plain Sight: Buick's Mini-Fighter
Nice features, but wow...what will that do to the price of this little ride? If it goes beyond $25K, it won't work. I like the ideas, but perhaps these are somethings that need to be in larger cars, that can support the price. Keep it simple, for the small cars..true, have edge cutting designs, and up-to-date engines and transmissions, but keep the special doors, and moving seats to the very expensive models.
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10-03-2009, 10:04 AM
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Re: Hiding in Plain Sight: Buick's Mini-Fighter
If they actually build the vehicle in that video I for one would be shocked! It would be a giant leap forward for GM and would be great, but............
I doubt it ever resembles that with those features.
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