r/mildlyinfuriating • u/DifferentCoyote4562 • 11h ago

I saw a ducky once Buick brake lights are too low

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Not my pictures, but saw this car today. The brake lights are definitely not where you'd expect them and annoyingly low

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u/Cloud-VII 7h ago

Since GM acquired it Buick has always been marketed as a semi-luxury car positioned between Chevy and Cadillac. A middle class luxury car.

Add-ons make up the bulk of profits on vehicle pricing, so gross margin on a Buick will be more than a Chevy. That alone made keeping Buick around worthwhile.

Pontiac was basically Chevy 2.0. Cut for redundancy.
Oldsmobile was basically Buick 2.0 Cut for redundancy.
Saturn was an economy car a step up from Geo. It wasn't super profitable, despite it's very strong cult following that it developed. However, sales for Saturn slowed because by the end of their life, ONLY their cult following was buying them as regular consumers realized they were just cheap plastic cars.

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u/heavensto_mergatroid 3h ago

Historically Pontiac was their muscle car division. Oldsmobile was their luxury division under Cadillac. Only after oldsmobile was cut did Buick step up as a semi luxury division.

Before that you had the Buick Grand national and Skylark and Skyhawk and Cutlass etc when Oldsmobile had the big olds 98 which was pretty much like a Cadillac and the midsize 88