Get Those Buick Badges Ready…

by Edward Niedermeyer

Published: February 2nd, 2011

Here comes the Opel Allegra, the forthcoming European market city car, and (CARB willing) maybe even Buick’s next CAFE-buster. A Buick on a shortened Opel Corsa platform is madness, you say? Let’s see your old Roadmaster get 35.5 MPG combined…

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Buickman on Feb 03, 2011

if they do this I will begin to pray that GM goes out of business so someone else can take control of Buick.

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Armadamaster on Feb 09, 2011

My Roadmaster wagon may not get 35.5 MPG, but it will hold probably three of those in the cargo area.

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