Torch, is that you?

This isn’t the bigger issue with this car?

No. No hockey stick, lower roofline, “Hybrid” badge on the door.
The chrome strip on the windows lines up with the Fusion’s.
My images are getting Kinja’d but a google search will demonstrate that it’s a Fusion Hybrid.

I’m in the market for one of these. They hold onto their value WAY better than the TSX sedan, that’s for sure.

Cladding isn’t too bad if it’s well integrated (see: Subaru Outback, Volvo XC 70/ V90CC) but the Buick’s stands out in a way that looks like it was purchased at Wal-Mart and stuck on in the parking lot.

I sat in the Buick and it doesn’t hold a candle to the Volvo. The seats are the aggressively uncomfortable; the look and feel of the interior materials is a least one step below the Volvo, if not two; for its sizable outer dimensions there’s not a ton of usable room inside...and it’s impossible to get it without the…

Hey, now Ford won’t have to spring for a new one.

Runs forever; easy to maintain; can pick one up for beer money and is great transportation for someone not flush with cash.

I give you a C-.

“Corsair” would be a GREAT name for a Mustang based personal luxury coupe/GT car. Can you imagine? The Lincoln Mark IX Corsair...it would be a phenomenal car and I’ll bet you they’d sell at least 12 of them.

Please show your work.

Is his son in a rear facing car seat/base combo? Those things take up a very large amount of real estate.

The Flex literally replaced the Taurus X in the showroom while the old Explorer was being sold; it’s built on the same old Volvo platform with the same drivetrain. The Explorer didn’t move to that platform/drivetrain until, what, 2012?

Freestyle—->Taurus X—->Flex.

Yeah, but the Flex was really the direct replacement for the Taurus X; the Explorer was still a body-on-frame design when the Flex debuted in 2009.

Correct- J Mays; and when you see a ‘98-05 Passat and a Five Hundred next to each other, it’s painfully obvious.

We road trip in our Flex; two adults, three kids, Iowa to Massachusetts, annually.

No way in HELL am I doing that trip in something the size of a Datsun 510. I want my family to like each other when we get there (we did the same trip when there were only two kids in a Volvo S80. It was fine.)

I understand the point completely; GM didn’t when they originally built this car, which is why these can pretty much be had for beer money these days.

Yeah, they’re certainly not common.

Nah. The Cadillac brand carries with it a certain expectation of interior quality along with the speed- that’s why it’s a Cadillac and not a Chevrolet.

Because you’ve got to look at, touch, and use it every time you get in.

If I wanted nothing but straight line speed without any thought to the interior, I’d get a Corvette.

This is a CADILLAC. The expectation is speed, luxury, and quality...which is why they’re supposed to be the top of the line, most expensive GM brand.

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The interior is everything that was wrong with GM in the early 2000s. Hard pass, no matter how fast it is.

If you want this kind of power in a Cadillac, find an STS-V or spring for a second gen CTS-V.