Actually, we weren’t even going to drive one, we were just going to fill out the papers and take one home, that’s how much we love the looks of them. Then we decided we should drive one first, just to make sure it would fit our needs. That was when our minds changed. We even ended up driving more of them just to make…

To me a $40k “luxury” car should ride significantly better than a $28k minivan. It should also have a better interior and be quieter. The TourX does none of those things.

I’ll take velour seats and a quiet comfortable ride over the rock hard seats, terrible ride, and sea of plastic that are the new Buicks.

Let me put it this way. We went into the Buick dealer ready to buy a TourX, we ended up buying a 2018 Grand Caravan instead. The GC is quieter inside, rides smoother, and has a more luxurious interior. It also happened to cost $10k less new.

To me the Verano feels like a swoopy late 90s Cavalier with more power/gimmicks.

And while you’re working on getting to the powerband, the stock V6 powered one has already walked away from you..

Plenty of 90s Buicks were great cars.Maybe not performers, but comfortable/reliable cruisers.

That even though they didn’t need the bailout,

If you can get over the terribly cheap interior, terrible ride quality, and horrible road noise. The TourX makes my 92 Caravan feel like a luxury car.

How terrible is the car you’re used to driving?

The Lacrosse and TourX have worse ride, more road noise, and about the same interior quality of my 90s econobox. They are great looking cars, but that’s where the greatness stops.

Lighter and better gearing don’t matter much when you lose 100ft-lbs of torque and have to rev it to the moon to use the power.

A 90s Century is a more comfortable place to spend time than a 2019 TourX to give a little perspective.

I like old Buick. Modern Buicks all feel like cheap crap though, they can die.

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That would be a loss of 5hp and almost 100ft-lbs of torque, the car would be obnoxiously slow with that drivetrain.

And that 4 cyl Mustang is only .1 sec quicker 0-60 than this 20 yo parts bin roadster....

0-60 in 5.6 secs isn’t what I’d call under powered in that era.

Better handling than a Miata, 5.6 secs 0-60, I’d say it performed very well for a late 90s car. It’s only a couple 1/10s of a second slower than the top Camaro/Mustang of the era.

1. The Prowler had better grip than the “coveted” Miata of the era.