Difference Between Buick and Cadillac?

[bnsd60m9200]

speaking of luxury cars... this is mine. 84 ford country squire... and like kenkart said in the early part of the thread "
1 Bench seat
2 floating quiet ride
3 steering that can be turned with one finger
4 room for 6 big men (mine can seat 8 with the optional back 4rd row seats, which im on the hunt for)
5 NO CONSOLE!! as in a true big car.
6 every known option,including the ones you can not get such as automatic headlight dimmer.... and vent windows!!!
7 examples of TRUE luxury.

my wagon does all of that and love driving her.... her name is "towanda" from the movie fried green tomatoes..

 

[arh1953]

Gorgeous Country Squire!

Are you in the Station Wagon Forums by chance? They're loaded up with Country Squires, Colony Parks, you name it! Here's my baby again  

 

[s31463221]

Will

That is indeed a lovely wagon....I LOVE the name! So fitting!!! I have always liked those big comfortable cars, my daily driver right now is a 2001 Ford Crown Victoria LX, I also have a 2003 CV LX, but it has over 200,000 miles on it, where my 01 only has 70,000 miles on it. With me driving 140+ miles per day commuting back and forth to work and a bad back on top of it, I HAVE to have a vehicle that won't have me doubled-over in back pain by the time I get to work! (Hence why I no longer have that little Trans AM sports car I used to own) I've never owned any wagons in my life, but we've had Crown Victoria's starting from 1983 on up!

 

[kirbysthebest]

Difference between Buick and Cadillac

About $15,000. The Caddy may be a little more posh, but under the hood it's s Chevy.

 

[rugsucker]

$$$ difference

That relates to the old joke-What's the difference between a vacuum cleaner and a 'Home Cleaning System'?About $1000.00 dollars!--The 90s must have been when Chevy Caprice,Buick Roadmaster and Cadillac Fleetwood were most similar.

 

[electrikbroomgu]

Today's Buicks and Cadillacs

are actually very different vehicles. I see little to no similarity with Cadillac using there Art and Science vs Buick's current lineup which consists of an Opel sourced Regal, an Epsilon LaCrosse, a Lambda Enclave SUV and the smaller sized FWD Verano which is one of the few FWD premium compacts other than the Acura ILX.

Cadillac's new ATS is built on a new RWD/AWD Alpha platform, the RWD/AWD CTS is built on GM's Sigma platform and the SUV Escalade uses a GM 900 truck platform which Buick does not even have. The only one sedan platform shared between both divisions is the Epsilon extended FWD/AWD platform which houses the LaCrosse and new XTS sedan. There exterior styling and interiors could not be any more different, they only share one engine with the Cadillac getting a new 3.6 SIDI twin turbo V6 with well over 400 HP which won't be offered on the Buick. Cadillac also has a CTS coupe and wagon which Buick lacks and plans are on the way for a large full sized Omega Cadillac sedan.

Even many of the drive trains are different between the two marques. Buick uses a 2.4 direct injected 4 cylinder in both regular and eAssist form on there Verano and Regal with powerful turbo options. The LaCrosse has the EAssist setup with a 302 HP V6 option. This engine also powers the Enclave. Cadillac has a 6.2 liter V8 in there Escalade, turbo 4 cylinder in there new ATS, V6 and V8 power in the CTS and V6 and V6 twin turbo in the XTS large sedan. I would say that these are two divisions with different focuses. Cadillac to take on the German Margues like BMW, Mercedes and Audi and Buick to take on the lower end luxury marques like Acura, Lexus, Infinity etc. So far this strategy seems to be working as month by month sales see increases across the board on key models.

 

[suckolux]

I believe upcoming in the new GS will be the twin turbo also, prob called Grand National I think?

 

[cocoaboo48]

Buicks and Cadillacs

I have owned a 1967 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham and what a gorgeous car it was! It was navy blue with a white padded vinyl top and a light blue leather interior. It had heating ducts in the floor for the rear seats. I miss that car. Got 14 miles per gallon on the highway with a 429 cubic inch engine and 375 horsepower. In those times who cared? I also had a 1968 Buick LeSabre with the 400 transmission. It had a rust problem but rode great and had pep! The first new car I bought was a 1986 Chevrolet Caprice Classic Coupe. Very poor workmanship on the interior. Transmission had to be rebuilt at 47000 miles and never shifted right. The A/C was bad. GM used to have the best A/C in their cars but not in my Chevy. Strange though My 86 Caprice got phenomonal gas mileage. It ran like s__t. The 80's was a bad time for american cars. People were buying Japanese cars because they were better. Buicks and Cadillacs were both nice cars. The Buick had class and it was cheaper.