1986-97 was 12 model years. The Aerostar also folded like a cheap tent in accidents.

As someone who owns every AMC brochure from 1966-87, as well as a bunch from Buick, Imperial, and other companies here and there... I can confirm. The one brochure I wish I hadn’t lost was for tue 1995 Alfa 164.

By your description, I wonder what you’d think about Buick going to an updated version of one of their pre-1959 logos...

What an original joke.

Why won’t you ever buy one?

Comparing a loaded Equinox or Terrain with a base Envision or XT4 is missing the point. A huge chunk of Buick’s sales volume is toward the upper end of its price scale. Thus the creation of the Avenir sub-brand. GM sells the Equinox and Terrain to rental fleets as well as higher-end versions.

Mercury’s problem wasn’t its position between Ford and Lincoln. It’s that Mercury was literally just rebadged Fords sold at no more than 5% markup. Max.

GM imported the Opel Omega as the Cadillac Catera. It flopped.

Buick sits between Chevy and Cadillac in the price scale. From a business perspective, Buick takes high-volume, low-margin Chevy platforms and refines them to the point where they can charge customers at a much more profitable price point.

I think the word is out already. The “come here to visit, but not to live” sentiment has run its course since the Tom McCall Era. Oregon is the cheapest place to live on the West Coast and, in my view, the prettiest. Hard to blame people for wanting that.

You think so? I don’t. Either way, Cannon Beach is only the most accessible-to-Portland beach with giant, gorgeous geologic formations. The Oregon Coast is all public land and has 83 parks on it, stretching 360 miles.

That still isn’t from the Oregon Tourism video. It’s from the Ghibli film.

Did you go to Cannon Beach, Crater Lake, the Wallowas, Steens Mountain, or the myriad forests we have? The video really is only slightly exaggerated over reality in those places.

If you come back, try Southern or Eastern Oregon if you like drier climates. You’ve only seen 5% of the 9th biggest state in the nation.

It’s not cheap to live here, but it’s much cheaper than California. Homes in Portland cost 1/3rd on average what they do in the Bay Area, and 1/2 what they do in LA. Cheaper elsewhere…

The CT6 is already an in-betweener. It’s priced a lot like the BMW 5, but is 7-Series sized.

They found a way for the first two generations of CTS to sell for ATS money. They’ll probably return to that formula for the CT5. 3-Series pricing, 5-Series size.

They found a way for the first two generations of CTS to sell for ATS money. They’ll probably return to that formula for the CT5. 3-Series pricing, 5-Series size.

That reminds me of the time I had a class with a woman who called her Plymouth Breeze a “luxury sport sedan” and talked all the time about how well it held corners.

So it’s basically a new-wave IHC Scout, then?

Yes, but the CTS’s size replacement will be priced like an uplevel ATS, while the RWD small car will be priced like who knows?