Buick was making money. Buick almost always makes money. Take a Chevy, put some cheap leather and chrome on it, and charge a 45% mark up, hits a target age group is a group that actually has money. So yeah, Buick almost always makes big money.  Not even counting the Chinese market.  Car guys don’t get that because…

So build retro versions of sport tourers, adventure bikes, small bikes, dual sports, etc.   These young hipsters like retro—they typically don’t like $20K bagger cruisers, though.

In 2001, I was driving a 1986 Chevy Celebrity Eurosport. In retrospect, maybe I should have held off on getting my license. Kids today might be smarter than I was...

I read all the comments—I see why folks are upset about the Lowe’s trip, but where are the comments about the TAILGATING? The perspective on that pic may be a little bit deceiving, but that’s some pretty serious lack of following distance.

If you don’t build a car I want to buy for a price I am willing to pay, I don’t buy your car. If nobody builds a car I want for a price I am willing to pay, I don’t buy any car. That IS how capitalism works.

It wouldn’t hurt if the Colorado were about 20% smaller, either.

I’m okay with being the problem then. I’m not spending new-car money on a compromise. Build what I want, and I’ll buy it—that’s how capitalism works.

Will American buyers be willing to go smaller for better value?

The new Blazer makes the old Tracker look like a BEAST!

I understand this reply in that there are lots of keyboard drivers around—I’ll stand up as a guy who has money and is ready to buy a new car, but I can’t find anything remotely interesting that’s being built.

This car has convinced me that Cadillac only exists to make Buicks look better.

I always find these to be “runner up” to the Riviera in the styling department. (Shown with Toronado in red, Riviera in blue)

I love Buicks.

I read all the recommendations, and I read all the comments--I reject all of them in favor of the 1969 Corvair. 

The colors were great in the catalogs and in the show rooms— but it was the mid-70's, so as soon as you pulled off the lot, the race toward discoloration between crappy paint deterioration and atmospheric particle deposition was on!

Only one question: where is the two-door (regular cab) version? I would buy it in a heart beat.  On the other hand, I will never own a four-door truck.

This is more annoying looking on motorcycles than on cars, at any price.

My Honda CB1100 has a displacement of 1140 CCs. 

This question cannot be properly answered until we have more detailed information about your Mercury.  Is it, perhaps, in shooting brake configuration?  Is it brown?  Does it have faux wood siding?  Is it a manual? 

Sounds like you need a 1970 Buick Estate Wagon with a 455.....