View Poll Results: Is Buick a luxury brand?
Yes, 100% a legitimate luxury brand
5
8.93%
Its not true luxury, its entry level luxury like Acura, Saab. etc...
33
58.93%
No, its not a luxury brand at all
18
32.14%
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Do you consider Buick a luxury brand? (POLL now added)
09-24-09, 06:37 PM
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Current lineup consists of mediocre/dated cars regardless of the subjective categories.
Nice flashback to 1969-70 though.
09-24-09, 07:04 PM
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Sometimes identifying a brand as "luxury" can be tricky as opposed to identifying an individual model as luxury or not.
Is BMW luxury? Of course. Is the BMW 128i? No.
Also, the standard of luxury keeps changing. Today's Honda Accord, for example, is more luxurious than a 20 year old Mercedes in most respects (partly because new inventions keep popping up in cars as well as much improved build quality).
But anyway, Buick is now becoming entry level luxury but in a different way than import entry level luxury. It has been for decades though.
Is BMW luxury? Of course. Is the BMW 128i? No.
Also, the standard of luxury keeps changing. Today's Honda Accord, for example, is more luxurious than a 20 year old Mercedes in most respects (partly because new inventions keep popping up in cars as well as much improved build quality).
But anyway, Buick is now becoming entry level luxury but in a different way than import entry level luxury. It has been for decades though.
09-24-09, 07:10 PM
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I see Buick on par w. Infiniti (though I confess to not having looked at one for a while), they make nice cars though not necessarilly luxury cars.
Also, for the record I consider more entry level luxury cars (IS, C, 3) to be only near luxury.
Also, for the record I consider more entry level luxury cars (IS, C, 3) to be only near luxury.
09-24-09, 07:19 PM
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It's a tweener really. Ford goes Ford -> Mercury -> Lincoln and GM goes Chevy -> Buick -> Caddy. It's a step above the mainstream brands, but it's not quite the company's luxury brand. Now with Caddy going the sportier route and Buick going to comfy luxury route they may both be luxury brands but I haven't had any seat time in a new Buick to really know if it's a full fledged luxury car just yet.
09-24-09, 07:21 PM
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not at all.
i thought they were just another pontiac/chevy alternative until i've read about them recently targetting lexus.
that's not a good indicator for buick.
i thought they were just another pontiac/chevy alternative until i've read about them recently targetting lexus.
that's not a good indicator for buick.
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09-24-09, 07:24 PM
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Absolutely not!!!
09-24-09, 07:31 PM
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09-24-09, 07:57 PM
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I voted yes, but not Tier 1. It's hard... how many "levels" of anything are we going to have now? Sub base (Tata), base (Kia, Dodge, Suzuki), entry one (Honda,Toyota, Hyundai), luxury Tier 3 (Buick, Chrysler), Tier 2 (Acura, Lincoln, Cadillac), Tier 1 (Lexus, MB, BMW) and Super Tier (Maybach, Rolls, Bentley) or what?
Buick I think is hardest... not basic like Honda/Toyota, but not top tier luxury like MB/BMW/Lexus for sure.
Buick I think is hardest... not basic like Honda/Toyota, but not top tier luxury like MB/BMW/Lexus for sure.
09-24-09, 08:15 PM
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buick is still a big step below infiniti.
they're all crap fwd-based, gussied up GM cars which still offer cloth seats & stripped base models.
and they only have 3 models. 1 suv and 2 sedans. and one sedan is old *** tech.... with a huge 3.9L engine putting out a measly 227hp, and a 50 year old 4 speed transmission. only a blind old man would be dumb enough to buy that.
so not luxury. not even close. I would rank them somewhere between Ford and Mercury.
Targeting lexus is good for marketing........ Just as Kia commercials say they outsell Lexus. But that's where the comparisons end.
they're all crap fwd-based, gussied up GM cars which still offer cloth seats & stripped base models.
and they only have 3 models. 1 suv and 2 sedans. and one sedan is old *** tech.... with a huge 3.9L engine putting out a measly 227hp, and a 50 year old 4 speed transmission. only a blind old man would be dumb enough to buy that.
so not luxury. not even close. I would rank them somewhere between Ford and Mercury.
Targeting lexus is good for marketing........ Just as Kia commercials say they outsell Lexus. But that's where the comparisons end.
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09-25-09, 10:00 AM
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It is a Lexus board so I know there will not be much American love, but….
My issue is and it becomes more and more clear every day that people are only focused on a brand name, I know, not surprising.
It’s no different with cars then it is jeans, watches or stereo equipment.
When it comes down to it if you took someone that didn’t know much about cars, placed all these cars in a showroom with no badges what would they say?
My issue is and it becomes more and more clear every day that people are only focused on a brand name, I know, not surprising.
It’s no different with cars then it is jeans, watches or stereo equipment.
When it comes down to it if you took someone that didn’t know much about cars, placed all these cars in a showroom with no badges what would they say?
09-25-09, 11:15 AM
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taking a cheap chassis / slow car and lining it with relatively softer leather does not make a luxury brand.
have you seen the car test videos of the lacrosse? it runs like an elephant.
have you seen the car test videos of the lacrosse? it runs like an elephant.
09-25-09, 11:02 PM
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It really depends on how luxury brand is defined.
Here in SoCal, most Buicks are sold at combo Chevy/Buick sites...they have about as much 'luxury' feel as a Hyundai or Toyota dealership. So Buick could be seen as offering the same network as Hyundai, by that comparison.
OTOH, the new products are much more impressive and competitive, either Genesis or Lacrosse.
Here in SoCal, most Buicks are sold at combo Chevy/Buick sites...they have about as much 'luxury' feel as a Hyundai or Toyota dealership. So Buick could be seen as offering the same network as Hyundai, by that comparison.
OTOH, the new products are much more impressive and competitive, either Genesis or Lacrosse.