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I think that looks like a good layout.
The name "Verano" doesn't hit me very well; I'd like Excelle better. I'd place Verano right there with Lucerne. as a name.
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No more than if you bought a Toyota lexus of infinity. :P
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Don't forget to dye your hair greyish blue.
Seriously, a leather jacket and some shades do me fine :shades:
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No, but you have to agree to drive no faster than 15 mph under the speed limit, always drive in the left lane on he interstate, and keep your left turn signal activated at all times. A "We Are Spending Our Children's Inheritance" bumper sticker is optional, but strongly recommended.
Mine: 1995 318ti Club Sport-2020 C43-2021 Sahara 4xe-1996 Speed Triple Challenge Cup Replica
Wife's: 2015 X1 xDrive28i
Son's: 2018 330i xDrive
If your head is higher than the steering wheel you can only have probationary Buick status.
Is it me or as Buick is coming out with better vehicles they're giving them worse names?
I got these for Christmas:
Hopefully an M car is next...
Mine: 1995 318ti Club Sport-2020 C43-2021 Sahara 4xe-1996 Speed Triple Challenge Cup Replica
Wife's: 2015 X1 xDrive28i
Son's: 2018 330i xDrive
Can't ya tell?
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While Verano is nothing great, Lucerne still reminds me of milk containers. Link that with Buick's image and it is the kiss of death in my mind.
If this vehicle is a new premium small Buick, then also pick a great name and perhaps the reputation starts a climb upward (for other than current fans). I'd agree that while Verano is not offensive, it has no positive appeal for me either.
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I started working for a home improvement company doing sales earlier this month. I still respect Acura, but am a bigger GM fan now than ever!!! We have enough kick butt products in the GM line-up, I don't really desire anything from another car maker. If I won the Megamillions (damn it I forgot to play last night :P ) I'd maybe buy a 1994 Ferrari 512 TR or F-355 Spyder as a toy!!! The new Saab 9-5 with XWD and a stick would be my daily driver though and trust me that damn car would be taken to a tuner shop and modified to the point one would think they were on a Saab jet aircraft!!!! :shades:
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-Rocky
-Rocky
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That Chow Chow likes to subdue our 20-lb. Pomeranian by neatly placing her mouth around his neck and clamping down. Meggy May's a doll!
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I know you realize there's a big difference between a set of driving gloves and a whole car as a Christmas present?
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I wonder if we are similar in demographic data. Over 39 (by a lot) and that is why the name Verano doesn't affect me. I wonder if they did market research on that name and found a younger demographic liked it.
To me Verano sounds too much like Murano, a car whose styling I really dislike.
As for my preference of the two mentioned in the article, Excelle may be similar to a Hyundai or Kia name.
I have to admit, thought, as much as some of us Buick fans have felt good about old Buick names like Electra 225 and Park Avenue and Super and Special, there may be a need for a new name that says "WOW" to a younger set. I suspected the Lucerne name was picked because it had some connection to leSabre as a word. I don't know if that may have helped sales or hurt sales.
Just as Honda picked Fit for their tiny car name, I would like to see a short name that carries a good value in the name: Verity might be good.
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
I think instead of driving a Wii, he's looking for something that will make him say "WHeeeeee" when he's driving it.
I recall the Cadillac commercials for the CTS? about "Does your car turn you ON?" I think Roadrunner wants a car that turns him on instead of his turning _it_ on like a Wii.
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To me, the name "Verano" sounds like a gigolo character out of "The Real Housewives of the Joisey Shore" or something like that! I never did like "Lucerne" either...to me it conjures up images of that diet ice milk crap my grandmother used to buy in the 1970's when she was trying to lose weight.
I'm glad they brought back the name "Regal", and the car it's being used on seems to be pretty good. Regal was probably the least-tarnished of Buick names in more recent years, as it tended to be the most youthful of Buick's sedans. My Dad bought his used '03 Regal when he was 57, and at the time that was the average age of a Regal owner. At the time, the average buyer age was more like 70 for the Century, Park Ave, and LeSabre! I think Buick also did a better job at keeping the Regal out of rental fleets than they did with the Century and LeSabre (although Dad's is a former rental car)
I wonder what the average buyer age is for the LaCrosse and the Lucerne?
I think some old Buick names would work well. Wildcat is one but it would have to be on the right car. Electra could still be a go - put it on a hybrid!
I'm in my early 50's and agree with you on the name situation.
I also like Verity better than Lucerne or Verano.
But of course the most important thing is the car looking that good everywhere else, and driving that well also. It does seem that GM now understands what they need to do, the issue is execution.
You can wait until the second generation comes out so you can drive around in an xRunner2. :shades:
Not sure how well the ABC's have worked out for Scion.
(yeah, I know Toyo Taco fans would yell).
That's the best name Idea I've seen!
The numerical suffix could be based on ampere-hours of the battery packs.
Electra 4025
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
Mine: 1995 318ti Club Sport-2020 C43-2021 Sahara 4xe-1996 Speed Triple Challenge Cup Replica
Wife's: 2015 X1 xDrive28i
Son's: 2018 330i xDrive
Might be to the next generation what 409 means to ours.
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
I agree, that would be a great name for a Buick using Volt tech.
Buick had some cool names...bringing them back won't hurt. Everyone doesn't have to abide by the alphanumeric fad.
There has got to be a great sounding name of something in France, Switzerland that would sound great, be classy, imply luxury and be elegant. "Buick" has none of these qualities and instead sounds dopey, dorky. Think of names Lexus, Infiniti and Acura as examples of brilliant name branding.
From 1962 onward they called them all Electra 225, and the nicer models would be Electra 225 Limited, Electra 225 Park Ave, etc. In some years, the cars probably were a bit less than 225". In 1961, for example, all of GM's big cars except for Chevy got shrunken a bit, so I'm sure a '61 Electra might've come in around 223-224". And by 1975-76, an Electra 225 was around 233"!
I forget now when they dropped the 225 designation, but I believe it persisted for a few years on the downsized C-body, even though they were "only" around 221" long!
When the shrunken 1985 C-body came out, the terms Electra 300, Electra 380, and Electra 430 were used briefly, in reference to the 3.0 and 3.8 V-6es they used, and the Olds 4.3 Diesel. So you could have cars like an Electra 300 Limited or an Electra 380 Park Avenue, etc. They dropped that 300/380/430 stuff pretty quickly though.
Buick Electra 230(mpg of course ) :P Sounds good to me.
Chevrolet is the name of early race car driver Louis Chevrolet.
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...or on the number of miles you can go without using the gas engine.... "The Electra 123!".
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I think you could still get by with four seats though. A luxury four seater with good Buick styling, and hey I think some of the Buick styling is good now, good gas mileage and a bit more premium to go with the premium price.
Yeah I can see them selling a good number of those.
I'd disagree. My hypothesis is that there are a lot more potential customers who DON'T like GM than there are who long for past GM names (especially Buick as the demographic is very old). Move the old reminders out of the way and come up with some new names that provide an impression that GM and Buick are "really different now". That's also why I would support GM renaming the entire corporation, even a slight variation to distance them from the GM pre-bankruptcy. If you already like Buick you aren't going to not buy if the vehicle name changes. If you don't like Buick you don't want anything to do with a say... Park Avenue (which screams "old people" to many), but a much more modern car with a totally new name may interest them.
No need. the leather is grippy enough, AND.......it comes with a heated steering wheel!!! :P