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Old Apr 18, 2007 | 09:19 AM
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More Riv pics. Yuck!

http://www.automochatter.com/forum/s...=1819#post1819




Old Apr 18, 2007 | 09:36 AM
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Total Recall?

i-Robot????



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Old Apr 18, 2007 | 09:37 AM
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I like it. It's definetly a departure for normal Buick cars. But I think it works. If GM is aiming Buick to take on Lexus, it works nicely.
Old Apr 18, 2007 | 09:38 AM
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I dont know, I kinda like it. Its nice to see GM taking some styling chances, especially with buick.
Old Apr 18, 2007 | 09:49 AM
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I think it's kind of cool.
Old Apr 18, 2007 | 09:55 AM
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With the exception of those air intake thingys under the headlights, the car actually looks pretty good.



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Old Apr 18, 2007 | 10:00 AM
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I'm with Charlie on this one.
Old Apr 18, 2007 | 10:09 AM
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Old Apr 18, 2007 | 10:15 AM
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It's not awful (it's not great either), but it really really doesn't say "Buick" to me, much less "Riviera".

It looks like someone tried to build an Aston clone on a Dodge Charger frame. The proportions are a little weird.
Old Apr 18, 2007 | 10:18 AM
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It is a bit overdone, but i'm pretty sure it would be toned down a bit as a production car. I like it as is...and I think it would look VERY nice toned down a bit!
Old Apr 18, 2007 | 10:23 AM
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I like it for the most part. Then again, I never ran, or floated, with the conservative land barge crowd.
Old Apr 18, 2007 | 10:24 AM
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If you take it as it is (a styling exercise I assume), it looks pretty good. It's got some good curves and some interesting design themes. Overall, I like it and I'd like to see what cars come out as a result of it.
Old Apr 18, 2007 | 10:26 AM
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Actually looks fine to me other than the non-matching head and tail lights. That's really strange...

So long as the performance and quality matches the futuristic looks. If it's just a porky POS that looks like that, it'll be all talk and nothing to back it up and it'll get laughed at.
Old Apr 18, 2007 | 10:50 AM
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Well, I think it's simply awful. I suppose it's meant to appeal to the fashion sense of the Chinese though, which in my personal experience is - umm, different than ours.
Old Apr 18, 2007 | 11:05 AM
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Actually looks fine to me other than the non-matching head and tail lights. That's really strange...
I think the reason they don't match is that it's just a hunk of metal and nothing works. Instead of going through all the trouble to put in the hideaway headlights, they just made it with one up, and one down so you could see how it looked both ways. Same thing with the rear lights I think. It might have supposed to have the reverse and brake lights as one unit with a lens that will change color or something. I don't think they are silly enough to make two sides of a car not match.

Just my opinion.



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