Nice rear seat....
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Originally Posted by thunder
but why bother toughening up buick. if GM made an Impala out of the G8 or hell even calling it a caprice like in other markets they would make a profit on police car sales alone
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Life is not all Chevy! And Chevy may not want a big RWD car. Fleet sales must not be all you think they are cracked up to be since no one really seems to want that business real bad. You don’t see Toyota making fleet cars, do you? Sometimes I wonder why GM doesn’t do like Best Buy and Firestone and make a private label brand just for fleets. I’m sure there is some reason why that is a bad idea.
If you give Chevy everything then why keep Buick at all? GM now has 3 car lines – somewhat positioned along the lines as good, better, best. That is kind of how it was back in the good days. Chevy was the main line, B-O-P were considered a step up, and Cadillac was the prestige. GM has banged that all up in the past 30 years, and trying to maintain B-O-P was a big reason, and then add that to the sidetracks known as Saturn & SAAB it just got messy. They just could not make that many different cars/platforms. Now they can get back to their successful roots and stage Buick as the brand between Chevy & Cadillac. They can have a nice mix of overlapped platforms and brand specific platforms. Buick used to make great "businessman's hot rods" - GSX, Grand National, somewhat upscale performance options over the Chevy. Give the guy with a few more bucks that likes that kind of car an option. I am probably the demographic they are gunning for with Buick. GM needs to give me a reason to go look at Buick if they want me to buy more Buicks down the road.
Now Al posted another car that could be Buick bound. That might be cool. And Chevy can then make a new bigger car for the masses, which could include a fleet car offering.