This car would make a great replacement for the legendary Park Avenue.

Barry is right. It’s a different view on a different market. The Chinese economy is growing at a phenomenal rate at the current moment, and people can afford *more* expensive cars. They most likely view them as big, American sedans, like alot of people around the world probably view Americans- Fat, rich pigs.

Does that mean we’re all like that? No.

I think GM has finally realised that it is possible to design a vehcile that attracts both middle aged and older demographics. It’s a new philosophy, the difference between it’s “good enough” and “we want to be the best”.

Living under a rock, are we? Do you think that GM likes to move production and R&D dollars overseas? NO! I am confident that if the UAW would let them, they would rather keep things here. They need to be global in order to survive. They can not afford to keep appeasing the UAW by doing things only for America at an exceedingly high price. That puts them at a disadvantage. You call them GarbageMotors, but then scorn them for doing what is NECESSARY for their survival. Ignorance is bliss…

Bring the Chinese Park Avenue over to replace the Lucerne and call it… wait for it… the Buick Roadmaster – big, powerful, rear drive sedan.

Keep the Lucerne because despite what some think it is a nice car. Rename is the Buick Park Avenue – big, comfy, front drive sedan.

Kill the American LaCrosse and bring the Chinese LaCrosse, rename it the Buick Regal – larger midsize competitively priced sporty sedan.

Bring this Excelle over and name it the Buick Century, hell maybe even the Skylark or the Electra – affordable, well equipped, entry level sedan.

Build the Velite with cues from the Riv concept and name it, well.. the Buick Riviera, duh! Two door, personal luxury coupe/hardtop convertible.

Finally keep that beautiful Enclave just the way it is. And there you go, Buick has a complete, competitive lineup.

Buick should execute their management and design teams.

They can bring the China built cars to the US, but they’ll have a lot more work to do with the image of the brand before they’ll sell as well as they do abroad.

jJay: your rundown is about right. I’d say the chevrolet sedans have been boring since the ‘96 Impala. Godd enought to rent, but too boring to own. The Saturn Aura is one of the two best four-door family cars, but it doesn’t do anything for me.

garbage: I think the foreign workers get more room to roam with their imagination. Here, people don’t want to step on the bosses’ toes. We get the half-assed HHR

So it’s Saturn stuff from Germany, Pontiacs from Australia, future Cadillacs from Germany and now future Buicks from China. Mix in the Mexican Chevys and what does that say about our own home grown products?

Does GM even care about their precious American worker anymore? Half the xxxx coming from oversees? Are we just completely inadequate?

Not all of GM’s cars are pitiful. For the past 10 years GM has come out with boring, under competition vehicles, until recently. GM’s improved a lot of their vehicles greatly, making them just as good if not better than their Japanese counterparts.

I’ve personally sat in a few of GM’s redesigned vehicles.
The Chevrolet Tahoe’s a much fuller looking car- when I mean fuller looking, I mean windows don’t look like simply pasted black stickers, things fit together soundly, interior’s nice. It’s an enormous improvement from the last generation Chevrolet Tahoe.
The Chevrolet Silverado is a much improved truck- the interiors very nice, the ride is comfortable and very stable, fit and finish is well. The one thing I noticed though, compared to other trucks I’ve driven, it has an extremely nice ride and quiet interior, better than most sedans I’ve driven. Once again, HUGE improvement from the last generation.
I don’t have much to say for Chevrolets Sedans- I haven’t really driven or sat in any of them.
I can’t even begin to describe how much of an improvement the GMC Acadia is from the Envoy- It looks great, feels great and I wouldn’t brag about interior, but it’s not bad at all. It’s getting great praise and safety ratings. Same goes for the Saturn Outlook, and Aura.

But Buick, Hummer and Saab… I can’t say any more than “improve” for either of them. The Buick Enclave is the only good thing I see coming from Buick currently. Saab needs to get it’s quality and interiors up (note, I didn’t say performance or safety though). Hummer needs to come up with a car that captures what the H1 did, but make it better equiped for the road without loosing off-road qualities, have active fuel and cylinder management, and run on alternative fuels- and market it for these qualities! Buick needs a sort of halo sedan right now- I see GM doing rigorous work on their SUVS and bread and butter offerings, but not the median of the two markets (premium markets, that is).

If they bring the Holden based Park Avenue over here, while your at it possibly bring other Holden offerings over for either Pontiac or Chevrolet. I agree with what Roadmaster96 says- make it styled like the Velite show car, upgrade ALL interior components, and it would be a hit.

The interior of this Park Avenue is stunning and is what Buicks should be in America. The exterior, IMO, needs a bit more of the beautiful Enclave treatment. I am very excited for the Alpha platform here in the states. Before Buick, I think Pontiac needs an inexpensive, high-performance RWD sedan, based on Alpha. Give the luxury Alpha to Caddy in the BLS. BPG dealers do not need competition on the same lot.