Enough with the personal stuff. It goes in the landfill. PM if you want to bicker or get a room.
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“this is AMG saying its current lineup has too many cars that don’t look like AMGs, don’t drive like AMGs. Where have we heard that before?”
Well this escalated quickly from the last mod intervention
no they’re not. they’re nice bodies filled with MB-AMG guts. and a top of the line 911 is a supercar.
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Ah…just noticed the post you reference. Post should be flagged if it hasn’t been already. Indeed last night I finally nav’d over to the Mod Guidelines page:Guidelines for Moderation
where I learned this interesting little tidbit:
“Note that all users can flag inappropriate posts. Posts flagged by multiple users are automatically hidden and deleted after three days.”
But I still won’t consider a Buick premium…wife actually wanted a Buick Century in the early 1990s, and we all know how those turned out. We went with an Olds Cutlass…and we all know how THOSE turned out!
What, you didn’t get a Cutlass Supreme? That’s premium lol
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So premium, that they (thankfully) don’t even exist! I doubt their rarity improves resale much. LOL
Medium ‘Maui’ Blue…ah the memories.
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I like this quote I found online.
“Once upon a time, American muscle cars were considered supercars in some quarters, but nowadays, nobody is going to confuse a comparatively humble Ford Mustang with a [Ferrari F8 Tributo]. Similarly, a Porsche 911 is significantly more common than a Ferrari Portofino, which will lead some to call the 911 a sports car and the Portofino a supercar due to [limited production numbers]. What’s under the hood also plays a role, of course — but the point, again, is that there is subjectivity in the term.”
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There was nothing wrong with Olds / Pontiac / Buick except for the fact that there were 3 brands making the same car with slight variations that never made any kind of sense. Late 80s Olds was such an overabundance of Velour and peeling paint… memories … 
GM’s corporate structure was a disaster for those brands. Pontiac was your “excitement” and “performance” division… yet nobody could make anything that might hurt the Corvette. Buick was supposed to be luxurious, but not too luxurious or you might hurt Cadillac! It’s kind of a mystery how Oldsmobile managed to last as long as it did, although they did kind of use it to beta test newer products like the Silhouette when it was time to roll out a minivan.
Ahh yes, the 6000 was very exciting 
And then there was boneville, the egg shaped boat with the same engine as everything else in the line up, although I think one trim did come with a supercharger. Exciting I never understood the Firebird / Camaro thing either, although personally I preferred the look of the firebird.
Olds did try at some point with Aurora, Alero and Intrigue but if I remember correctly the reliability sucked across the board and by that time the writing was on the wall
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There was so much cannibalism Armie Hammer would have loved working there.
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LOL! Took that Cutlass in for basic service, was returned to me with a huge flake of blue missing from the passenger door revealing grey primer. Turns out there was a small door ding, and the yard boy had used a pressure washer to wash the car before customer return. They didn’t tell, me, I found out a few hours after getting home. I brought it back, and the ahole service manager tries to convince me it was ‘old’ paint already flaking away, and it was not covered under any warranty. I drive home, call bank and cancel check, about $600 for the service. A few days later, I get a furious message on my answering machine, ‘how dare I cancel a check on them’, but they will pay to have the door repainted, in that glorious Medium Maui Blue. Created my own warranty.
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Tell them to get in line at Costco, behind an ancient wrinklie, watch and wait. And wait.
I was in engineering school in the mid-80’s, of all my friends that interned at GM in the summer, nobody wanted to go work there after graduation. One of my friend that did work there (he never interned there) quit after 2 months after someone puts a note on his Sentra to tell him to move his car from employee lot to the visitors lot.
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The note came from Nissan legal department
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Catch me if you can! Let me know if you need help with your new fangled iPhone!
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Buying a used luxury car, even though they have depreciated to the price point of a new premium car espesially Infiniti as I know at motor trader, are still going to carry the same high dollar service and maintenance requirements. Unless you can truly afford a luxury car and just want to buy a used one to save yourself the depreciation vs buying new, you shouldn’t purchase one just because they’ve hit a price point that is in your budget.