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Lessmore wrote:

MARK VANDERBENT wrote:
In case you didn't know, buick in china is like bmw here. They really like the buicks. Guess the quality must be pretty good and they are a change from the cookie cutter cars found there.

It is the case. Buick is very popular in China. It is a car with great status in China and from what I understand this Chinese view of Buick goes back many decades.

One of our vehicles is a 2007 Buick sedan, bought new in 2007 and I have to say after living with it since then I've changed my mind about Buick's.

I got past the old man's car stereotype after a year or so and I find it to be an excellent automobile. Very quiet, comfortable, capable, reliable and not at all a big, wallowing land barge as many (including me before I bought it :B) seem to think it is.

I have found the quality to be excellent. I originally bought my Buick because I'm a little on the large size at 6'3" + and 245 lbs with bad hockey knees.

I need to drive with my right leg pretty well stretched out and at the time a Buick sedan was about the only car with enough leg room and a firm, supportive seat which would comfortably accommodate me.

If you told me that 10 years before I'd be driving a Buick sedan....I would of been surprised.

But I'm glad I made the choice.

Not to turn this into a Buick thread, but my wife is upper 30's and I am low 40's and we own a Buick. It came time to replace our Impala SS and my wife liked the loaded Buick Lacrosse AWD. I actually was pulling for a Camaro but no dice. Since I don't drive her car much my vote did not count and 18 months later, she still loves the car. Its easy to see why the Buick is becoming more popular, it does a lot of things right. Very comfortable to drive, nice high end touches without being over the top like Cadillac. I think the only thing holding the car back in the USA is the notion that only old people drive a Buick.