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Buicks are perhaps the favored American car in China.
No thread is complete without this line. As for the US, their biggest sales pitch is that nobody recognizes a Buick, not even the valet guy. Making the grandma make a sales pitch for Buick at a time that they want to get away from the image isn’t very smart either.
My older brother passed last year and we've been trying to sell his LeSabre. Can't seem to give this away. Listed it dirt cheap (needs work on the ABS but otherwise pretty good shape). Pretty much everyone who's looked at it has been under 30 and they all walk away muttering "It's an old person car."
The Buick LeSabre is a completely different vehicle from 30 years ago and yet no matter what they do to it, it's still the vehicle of choice for senior citizens. I could understand when it was one of the cheapest big cars you could buy but now it's the same size as just about every other car on the road. What is it that makes people still buy them in lockstep once they turn 65? Does anyone under that age own them? Will today's young people automatically buy them when they get old? I'm in my 50s and can't even imagine owning one. I'll keep my jeep and still drive it with the doors off thank you very much.
Exactly for the same reason that " I'll keep my jeep and still drive it with the doors off thank you very much".
I believe you answered your own question.....
CAVA 1990 in response to your question does anyone under 65 drive one: I drive a '95 Buick Lesabre and I am well under 65. I am 20 and have owned this car for the past 2.5 years. I like the conformability and the smooth driving. The reason I chose this car was because as a used car it is cheep and reliable. As a college student that is the best I can hope.
I am an old person and I drive a 2001 LeSaber with almost 180k miles. I drive it because it was inexpensive to buy (>$3,500) and operate. It has required some mechanical and body repairs but so would any 15 year old car in the salt rust belt.
The last generation of The Lesabre was a great car. Not a corner carving sedan, but a smooth quiet comfortable sedan with a very reliable engine with a great feeling acceleration. My mom had the Oldsmobile version of the Lesabre. Had the opportunity to drive it a few times. The acceleration was steady and at a constant rate. It gently pressed you into your seat instead of shoving you back for the first 30 mph before a loss of acceleration rate nor did the transmission shifts jerk you around. Shifts were so soft you couldn't hardly notice when it happened. I cringe when I see a Lesabre on the road that's been "pimped out" with 20 or more inch rims and other things that should be illegal to inflict upon any car.
Since I passed 65 I have had a pickup, followed by 3 SUVs in sucession. All have been used to tow travel trailers. Later this year we will sell our trailer and replace the SUV with a convertible. I will not buy a sedan.
Although I have owned 35 cars over the years, I never had a Buick.
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