1990 Buick Estate Wagon: Regular Car Reviews
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2018
- The last of the family Station Wagons. Buick's Estate Wagon. This one has a 350 V8.
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Those old wagons are just couches with v8s
LOL an accurate description. so true
Mercy main btw
God bless America
My mom owns a 93 Buick wagon and will agree it feels like I'm riding on a couch with wheels
A driftable living room.
American wagons got character mini vans don't.
Payam yazdi ironic considering wagons have no character to begin with
wagons > minivans > crossovers
Payam yazdi and minivans have more character than crossovers
Minivans for soccer moms station wagons for football dads
The astrovan wants to have a word with you
1990 buick estate wagon: the car for the 18 year old who would rather have this becuse he/she will not be seen in a minivan.
I thought teenagers wanted these because of all the room to make out.
@@jessicah3450 I want it ... Then again I like huge boat station wagons with small v8s because I don't care about gas milage
If this was 1982, it would be a different story.
I cant believe someone else feels the same way I do
Nobody with a sliver of self respect would want to be caught dead in a minivan.
This wagon will still be on the road when your fancy 2018 unibody crossover fill with tech is in the junk yard because you can't afford $4k to replace the transmission.
Assuming it doesn’t fall into the hands of someone who doesn’t care about the thing.
And it’s not much cheaper to have a trans put into one of these if you can’t do it yourself.
@@DrewLSsix it's pretty cheap to replace those old GM 4 speeds. They're like 700 dollars to have rebuilt and they're not hard to pull
Brennnan Bauer now your in the realm of DIY. Paying a shop to remove rebuild and reinstall a 700R4 still runs several grand depending on your location and what standards you want to stick to.
On the other end of the spectrum I rebuilt a 700 for my trans am out of a contractors bucket using a kit I bought for $75 form a parts store.
@@DrewLSsix people over exaggerate how difficult it really is. Tedious, yes. But if you have the patience it's not like you need a 10 year doctorates to do
@@DrewLSsix It's actually within the realm of "shade tree" mechanics to swap trannies in these, I did it to a 1977 Electra Limited (essentially, the same car, but a sedan.) in the parking lot of an apartment complex. It CAN be done,LOL!
1990?! That dashboard wouldn’t look out of place in a 1970 car.
The basic platform was introduced in 1977 and mildly updated in 1980...and pretty much stayed the same until they introduced the 1991 Roadmaster....so not much change and you're right....it does scream 1970s.
The dash reminds me of my '73 Riviera...
GM built this car with little if any changes from 1977-1991. It was probably very profitable for them by the late 80s as all the R&D and tool and die had been paid off by then, so the last 3 or 4 years of building them every penny GM got from every sale was pure profit minus the labor time for the assembly workers.
It is a 70's design.
why change it, i think the design is beautiful
That rear facing back seat was real shit tho you cant deny. I especially loved being in traffic jams, with my gameboy color being dead, just staring at the person behind us awkwardly. Wondering if their life was just as vivid and complex as my own. Then I remember my spare double As in my pack, and I go right back to playing super mario brothers
Tossing frenchfries out of the back window at drivers behind, especially convertibles....
Sonder!
I got to experience that rear seat in a car my parents borrowed, I always though it was such a novelty... Until I got motion sick.
As a kid sitting in that rear facing seat man that was fun, I use to love taking drives to the lake.
shafta99 yeah but at least you were too far away to get a quick slap for goofing around...which was good in the short term, but long term, dads blood pressure would simply increase till he yelled THATS IT and the car would jerk to the side of the road and brakes slammed on and you suddenly knew 'oh crap...'
I miss my dads 84 chevrolet caprice classic wagon. accept for the wood paneling it was exactly the same as this. We drove from chicago to san jose in 87. I also miss dad :(
*feels
Aww sorry to hear that man!
I hear you roywhite5
Damn I’m crying now
My condolences 🌹
I know next to nothing about cars, I’m just in love with this man’s voice. His analogies and metaphors are poetry. This is like ASMR to me
The designers of that went into a coma in 1978 and woke up in 1990 not knowing what year it is.
Actually, there were slight changes to them in 1980... at least for the coupes and sedans.
@@DTD110865 You're right, G.M. put the design out for 1977 and it ended in 1990. 1977 - 79 G.M. B Body Wagons are more distinct from each other than the 1980 - 1990 models.
Really?!? If you think that's "bad".....Ford went to sleep in 1978 and woke up in 2011---- TWENTY Fuckin' ELEVEN!!!! (Look up "Panther Platform")...
@@101Volts The 1977 era General Motors "B" platform ended in 1996 not 1990.
@@jamesslick4790 To give the Panther platform *some* credit, its final years of production were for fleet sales, not domestic purchases.
I don't care what you say, that's a badass car right there.
Thank you sir
I'd drive it.
being a kid with a sibling in the rear-facing seats was a blast on road trips... tossing gummy bears or whatever out the rear panel windows that tilted open like those in the back of a pickup truck in the 90's. I think i grew up in the more rounded version of this that was maybe like, a 1996 model, but was effectively the same interior for passengers.
👍 yep, way more handsome than overstyled plastics that pass as a car these days.
It is THE most hideous heap of crap on four wheels. The designer only had a ruler for a start. No curves.
This is the car that Karen, Duchess of Lexus, will never allow to exist again.
The PRACTICAL family car.
^
If only Lexus made an LS wagon. The American lux wagon concept with Japanese execution would be perfect. Too bad they’re all about small SUVs now.
Subaru do four wheel drive station wagons that are fast enough to win rallys. Farmers in Europe buy them so the wife can deliver lunch up to the top field, and you can still cruise to the city at autobahn speeds.
@@TheJacobshapiro And all of them have that hideous hourglass-shaped front end.
How is this more practical than a minivan? Besides being able to fit half-sheets of plywood?
My dad had this same car in the form of a Pontiac Safari (complete with the 2:01 'dad' accessory pack)). I'd insist on the rumble seat for trips to the beach. Cool air from the climate control never made it to the rear so, with the rear window down, I'd subtly wedge a hollow, foam swim noodle with one end under the deflector at the rear of the luggage rack and the other to blow the collected air at my face.
That engineering is brilliant
All the full size GM wagons of that era were the same body, they just had different grills and slightly different body trim.
My dad had the same car with a diesel in it
The official car of every dysfunctional family in every bitter-sweet, family-drama movie. They decide to go on vacation to work their issues and the whole thing looks like a disaster but they end up having a great adventure and they discover how much they love each other. Oh and in the end of the movie the kid fills this car up with boxes and leaves for college while the parents wave from the porch. And his/her voice narrates that whole scene with a bittersweet cliche about family. Credits roll over the scene. Fade to black. The end
On a CRT TV.
A Sony Trinitron. The one with the wooden trim. The really old one.
@@spirosmousouris3908 Trinitron had some crisp image quality
Chevy Chase!
Chevy Chase without any given context sounds like a forgotten Chevrolet pony car cleverly named Chase. "Wooow dude, check this car. Its a 1978 Chevy Chase? Oh man, it has the stripes on the hood, the alloy rims and everything"
I'm not sure why, but big American station wagons like this make me feel things.
I think what your experiencing is called diarrhea.
The American diarreah dream.
O'DOYLE RULEZ!!
You should buy one
Yep, my mom's momobile was a 1977 Dodge Aspen with the straight 6. All my dad did was change the fluids in it until 2008 when it finally died with an insane amount of miles on it, I hated that car as a kid, but long for the simplicity of it now!
I worked in a body shops back then the mini van would fold up & that station wagon would dent . That's it
might wanna look into why crumple zones exist
@@pikaporeon I know why they exist . They could make them so when the car is hit you could cut the bad off & weld on new instead of junking the whole car .
"This car is every road trip to somewhere you didn't want to go." That rant. That cut deep. And I loved it.
I rather have this thing rather than a minivan
Esa826 I would rather have neither.
I dunno man, it was either the B-body Caprice with that tasty LT1 towing package, or a turbo Caravan. Both are very appealing choices.
and now minivans have been replaced with cross-over SUVs
I think I'd rather have a big, hulking beast of a station wagon than some micro mommy-mobile from Japan
The sad thing is that crossovers are worse than minivans.
"You can haul lumber or lay some wood" The missed line
Let's be honest, if you're driving one of these, you're probably not getting laid.
@@DoubleADwarf or getting laid a ton because you have the confidence of a god.
@@DoubleADwarf I dunno. I managed to get laid in the back of my 96 Taurus Wagon. Now she's my wife and the wagon is long gone.
Double A - You sound like a Novice... no offense. But any Ladykiller knows that confidence is the key... I promise you if I drove this vehicle it wouldn't stop me any. If you love the vehicle and it makes you happy, your feelings are infectious and the lady will dig it. Your statement could only ever hope to be true if you were speaking to someone who openly only went for extremely stuck up 10's - which I can tell you now are 100 percent not worth your time anyways.
I've owned a few wagons in my day. Infact,just sold one I owned for ten years.and, I can tell you, love my wagons. They come in handy. Even for love making.👍
It still baffles me that a '14 Corolla with a 1.8L four banger gets the same HP as an older V8
I drive a 2014 Corolla and I will say that it’s faster than you might expect.
Woo! I have an unhealthy obsession with wagons.
Same
Mine convinced me to buy a dodge magnum, still not sure about that one
Here,Here!
@@Superbouncybubble I always wanted a magnum but they didn't make those with a stick so I decided against it
I really want an Edsel station wagon
How can you not love this car? It screams USA. Not even an f150 is as recognizable to a European than a big old American station wagon with fake wooden sides.
Yet the only companies making wagons these days are German. Thank goodness for Audi and BMW, or wagons would be gone. And they are really nice, too. I suppose there are really rare Cadillacs, too.
Not in Europe. Everyone makes wagons still. Ford, Vauxhall, Volvo, the list goes on and on
@@mattcrooke8321 Even Kia have an estate version of the Optima. The new 2019 GT Estate is apparently a really nice "hot wagon" to throw around.
@@rrpostalagain There were also 204 1975 and 1976 Cadillac Coupe DeVilles that were turned into utes by Traditional Coachworks, they were called the Cadillac Mirage.
ROAD WARRIOR in the past there were many great American wagons.
I almost bought one of these once. I wanted a wagon and it came down to this and an 86 Chevy Caprice. The Caprice was in better condition so I chose that one. The Buick was a little more luxurious but otherwise I couldn't see much difference between them. When I got the Caprice, it had 88,000 miles. I drove it for 15 years and put another 80,000 miles on it before I finally decided it had it, and some guy gave me $500 for it because he wanted it for parts. So I got all that was worth it out of that car. What a beauty. Now I want another one, but they're getting hard to find.
Granted I've never experienced a full-size rwd wagon, but currently owning two compact wagons, I believe that wagons are still practical and cool (in an unironic way).
They fill a gap between sedans+hatch backs & crossovers, and minivans... . In that they have more cargo space and practicality than a sedan or hatchback (and a number of crossovers, from research I've done in regards to cargo); but they retain the handling and fuel economy of their sedan/hatchback brethren.
I'm bonded to you in a very particular way, because I watch videos of you pooping while I am pooping. And that creates a connection like nothing else
Nothing quite like a toilet bond.
I'm pooping right... NOW....NOW..........N..N...NO......NOWWW and .....NOW.
I like that years on, talk of the irrevocable Poop Bond is still occurring. You are all my brothers. You... are my Fecal Family
That steering wheel isn't the only HARD WOOD in that car
Omg the suspension is hilarious - it's like watching a trophy truck eat up the desert bumps except it's on a flat road.
I am DIGGING the "KIX" plate on the front. That would be a band in the playlist belonging to the fine gentleman who would rock a '90 Estate Wagon. 10/10.
She talks Buick talk Buick I can see she talks Buick walk Buick Walk
This is legit my dream car. Any station wagon would do. But this is legit the exact car I think of when I hear the word “station wagon”.
Same man...
Mine's an 80-87 country squire. Deep clean the whole car and swap the parts for better ones. Install a sound system and led lights on the interior roof and you've got yourself the ultimate chill-mobile
I personally think of the 60s ford country squire. They are awesome cars
I think of a 96 roadmaster woody
My favorite wagon is the 71 Ford LTD Country Squire. The 4 door sedan is also good (particularly the Galaxie 500) but the LTD Country Squire has to be my favorite body style of them. 77-90 Estate Wagon is still a pretty neat car, and would probably be my first choice for an 80s car.
'Where are you going with this?'
Literally moved from the East Coast to the West with a 1984 Country Squire with a TBI 302 towing a trailer. Don't sleep on these wagons, they are real work horses and minivans are just depressing. Plus it towed a 3k lbs trailer for all of 2,900 miles. A body on frame wagon is the best of all worlds, with a whole a lot of sacrifices.
They're better than minivans, even the frameless, I've slapped 1/4 ton overload springs on more than one
My buddy has the only minivan that I want a Toyota previa with a supercharger (no it doesn't run) but if I had the choice between the two I'd take the station wagon in a heartbeat
Mod one with a GM 6.5 TD from 1996 - 1999, and you got yourself a fuel efficient thrift boat. You'll be getting anywhere from 24 to 40 MPG in it, and that's not an exaggeration; the 6.5 is stupidly fuel efficient. I was getting 20 MPG with one in my 3 ton 99 Suburban.
As Jeremy Clarkson would say, "a minivan is the kind of car you get when you've done your biological duty and now you are waiting to die".
The Country Squire's (and all its panther brethren) had the 302 which made 155 HP till 86 and then 170 HP from 86. They were torque monsters, unlike the Chevy and Oldsmobile 5 liters.
While not a Buick wagon, I have fond memories of my Great-grandparent’s 1984 Park Avenue! That car was a absolute boat and I remember driving it for a while after their passing while I was trying to get my 1997 Silverado road worthy. My dad had no interest in keeping the car so he sold it to a young couple he knew for $1,700. I still see it around town once in a while.
It's literally the perfect car for a Saturday afternoon trip to Yard Birds in Chehalis, with plenty of room for all your flea market finds, and nostalgia from the time when this enormous boat was a real car, and that enormous box was a real store.
I remember Yardbirds!
@@smilinscandinavian Make Yardbirds Great Again!
"Accentuated Whiplash" is 100% my new band name.
This is one of the best reviews in a long time, I really like you talking more about the type of person that owns it rather than the tech of the car or the era. Sticking to your roots, thank you.
Amen. Especially since Mr. Regular doesn't know that much about cars and more often than not gets things very wrong.
And he cannot drive very well.
Plus, he's too lazy to do proper research.
He is a literature major, after all.
@@HanSolo__ he might know a bunch about the car industry, but not about cars. Especially european cars.
ya this one is one high quality regular car review
He definitely described my pops with the "heavy beer drinking but thinks weed is a gateway drug"😂😂😂 he had a Buick electra 88 back in the day when I was a kid
That's because there is no Tech in that era
My aunt and uncle had one of these things. I lived with them freshman year (long story as to why) and that rear facing bench seat was an absolute blessing. They would take me to dates I managed to land and the ride home was always great because it was dark and tough to see exactly what was going on back there.
I perfectly get it. My grandparents left me a 1994 Cadillac Fleetwood, and I used to joke with my friends that you don't 'drive the car through town' but rather you 'sit on a sofa and watch the town pass by you.' Modern cars are great, but hard, stiff, and plastic. When I saw those padded chairs on this car, I longed for that Cadillac, it gave something my modern BMW never can.
fuck irony, a v8 powered wagon is always awesome
I'll take a wagon over a minivan any day. Both are a sign that your glory days are behind you, but if you drive a wagon you don't have to admit it ;)
My minivan has been up mountains, into wilderness, and north of the 60th parallel. Whatever you say about “giving up on life and fun”... lol.
Either that or you love being a kid, like me with my 1990 Mercury which looks a lot like this Buick. Big difference is mine doesn't have the seatbelts on the _doors_ that could eject you if the door opens in a wreck.
Austin Lucas I've honestly always wanted one of the old Ford wagons because my grandfather had one and I thought it was the coolest thing ever.
The German euroboxes have always kept the fire alight even with family duties. Once the kids are dropped off and the before the groceries need purchasing, that's when you can have your special time. Even the Fords and GM offerings of Australia have kept the wagon interesting for the family man. Even the JDM offerings have allowed the working family man to keep the blood pumping with the Stagea or Galant VR4. Only the poor neutered chastised US consumer has been missing out on the joys of the Swiss army knife tool of a hot wagon.
I own a sedan WRX (2004) but I would have loved to get the wagon version
The truest version of a "war wagon." The way man was meant to ride.
I had a 87 Olds version of this, with positraction
I noticed light noise in left turns. Both motor mounts were broken, which cost almost nothing to fix.
Even after my wife drove it about 12 miles with the coolant light on, it still ran fine.
I only got rid of it because I could then afford a newer car.
Hands down, sexiest car to ever grace this channel
I distinctly ordered the Antarctic blue super sports wagon with the CB and the optional rally fun pack
"Dad, this is not the car you ordered."
"Take it easy, Rusty. [to salesman] Ed, this is not the car I ordered."
It’s a damn fine automobile, beats the hell out of the sports wagon in my opinion.
" *Davenport!* Get Mr. Griswold's car back out here!"
[wheels out flattened Vista Cruiser]
I thought you were going to get the little sports thing?
My 87 Mercury Colony Park has a splitter on the antenna wiring so that I can connect a CB radio to it so that I don’t have to drive with the ridiculously long wobbly one on the center of the roof.
When I was a kid I saw one of these things in the movie 'Adventures in Babysitting' and it became my dream car for some ungodly reason.
I'm now 31 and own a Caprice version as a daily driver.
"wagons are cool now, in a kind of ironic way"
You made my 240 cry
Wait i dont have a 240
Fml
I had a 740 turbo and man that thing would fly with its 2.3L 164 HP engine. Id still have it if it wasnt for the fact the wiring to the fuel pump decided to die
Station Wagon Enthusiasts who *aren't* Ironic exist, although their numbers are few. I'm one of them.
@@mannequinfukr The wiring in Volvos is a goddamn nightmare. It's why I got rid of my 240.
@@TheRealColBosch i remember once looking at the wiring under the dash (speedometer went out and would sometimes work) and decided to not touch the panel again after putting it back on
To be fair, these old wagons are an engine swap away from being fuel efficient. A buddy has a 1988 Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser (exact same wagon but with Oldsmobile emblems) and he dropped in a 5.3 GM vortec with a towing spec cam and tune. That thing gets 28 mpg highway and can still tow his 5000 lb trailer and drag car combo (not at the same time). It's completely stock otherwise.
84impalaguy Getting the computer to mesh is a nightmare, no?
Nah, you would just use the computer from the new engine. Only trouble would be mounting it and running the harnesses.
So a 5.3L motor in a 5000lb shipping container nets 28mpg? Doubt it. Either way, 28 mpg is not fuel efficient, no matter what Scott Pruitt says.
Yeah but WHY?
My bronco gets 18 if your lucky, 28 is godlike
Wagon coolness is not ironic.
I don't know... Maybe this will be 100% cool in a couple years.
Yolo Submarine
Depends on the stationcar (wagon).
If it’s an Audi RS6 Avant, or Merc E63 AMG Touring, it’s cool by default.
But this?!
It’s a 1970s car built in the 1990s.
I think the irony factor comes into play when considering that no person under 30 would have wanted to be caught dead in one, until maybe five years ago.
Of course it's ironic. Check the leagues of hipster douchebags buying them up and slapping stickers all over the ass of 'em.
I've always wanted a good wagon, just not a malaise era example. Picked up a 67 Galaxie wagon a couple years ago, am 30 now. I'm genuinely happy with it, it's cool to me, and to hell with what the internet voices are trying to tell me to think : P
I grew up in a 1987 Buick Electra estate wagon that I still own thank you for this long live wagons
Wow... That was the first car I bought new! But a white one. Had every option, including a tow package AND extra heavy duty suspension... Toured playing music at the time... After the warranty was up, dad n I took it into his shop and hotrodded the Olds 307 a little. It ended up running GREAT. Also installed the old GS style, 3 spoke aluminum steering wheel and a set of TruSpoke 60 spoke wheels with old 2 prop Skylark spinners... What a great car that was! I stupidly traded it in for a 95 Roadie wagon. One little thing after another went wrong with that car... But, boy...it ran like a scalded dog... But I'll always miss that '90.
A minivan doesn't have a double hinged tailgate! Hah!
what's a double hinged tailgate good for when it's in the way no matter which way you open it? .. I mean it looks cool..
Or power tailgate window
My grandfather had one that was modified to come clear off, so he could haul fridges and large kitchen appliances.
For whatever reason...
I thought Ford had the patent on that
or 4' of uninterrupted width
That’s a Olds 350. It’s completely different than a SBC 350. It doesn’t share one single part with the Chevy 350. And it even has a different bell housing bolt pattern.
Where did he get Chevy??? The air filter says" OLDS"...It came with a 307 OLDS,NOT A CHEVY 305!!!
Yep. The old rocket 350.
"dropped in" implies it's been replaced. The owner very well could have put an SBC in it.
Aperson156 Thats an Olds engine. See the oil fill right in the valley? Plus it makes sense as they share a common bell housing (B-O-P, Buick Olds Pontiac). You need an adapter to mate a Chevy to a BOP transmission.
Its an olds 350. The owner is one of my best buddies. Its stock otherwise from a cam and aftermarket exhaust manifolds.
I really wanna own something like that because I feel like it would be the ideal couple's road trip vehicle. There's so much space, you can fold down all the seats and have the closest thing to a queen sized bed you can get in a car. I could totally see me and my boyfriend cuddled up in the back of one of those, in the middle of absolutely nowhere, looking at the stars through the back window and stuff like that. Plus it's such a comfortable car to drive. I wonder what would happen if you swapped in a more modern and fuel efficient V6 or I4 into one of those.
I dunno if I'm just strange, but I love this wagon! It looks like it would be so fun to drive! Big glorious boat squawking the tires. I'd daily drive this anywhere and would love to take it on long road trips. To be honest, I don't really care about "impracticality" which is why I daily drove a 1972 Plymouth satellite for a while. Actually I daily drove old cars all year round for awhile. Even winter. I guess I just want to have fun and drive my old car. I mean, it's what people did back then.
I would totally get one, if u can build it it’d be like an awesome couch muscle car lol
"lighting his nikes on fire"
Thats when I reallized this wasnt the old videos ive been catching up on for the past 2 weeks.
You sure it wasn't "KNEE BRACE POOP PARTAAAAAAY"?! Or "knee brace poop I'm sorry"...
I miss station wagons in the road
If you squint every Subaru outback wagon is a wagon
GM just put out a Regal wagon tho.
Don't worry, there are plenty of station wagons in the road. Rust makes sure of that!
Come to Europe
Regal TourX, Jetta allroad wagon, and Subaru Outback ;) people need to buy these three wagons. to entice car companies to make them again...
All of my cars, except three, were station wagons. They were perfect highway cruisers. I cannot say the same for vans, crossovers, and SUVs.
When I was 11 months old, my parents bought a 1982 Estate Wagon. It was our main family vehicle for the rest of the 80’s. We were the iconic 80’s family with a Starcraft pop-up in tow on the weekends, heading to a nearby campground. Great time to be a kid.
As a European I didn't really get what was said in this review, because to Europeans, station wagons are what pickup trucks are to Americans. I live on a small dead end street and out of 8 houses on it, 4 of the families own station wagons. My dad has a station wagon. My brother has a station wagon. We don't have minivans. They're too big for what they are. They never integrated. We have suvs now, but they're not a big as American ones, but if you have kids and you're a family man, you buy a station wagon. If you're a small business owner, you buy a station wagon. On a highway, if you count cars, every fourth car will be a station wagon.
At the same time we never lacked space to such an extent that we were forced to really microsize the cars we drive, like Japan for example. So we never really got the tiny sports car market. The only affordable sports cars in europe were hatchbacks, which lets be honest, IF YOU DONT HAVE REAR WHEEL DRIVE I DONT WANT TO KNOW YOU, and anything else was expensive sedans like audi or mercedes.
The rare cases like the AE86 and some nissans, toyotas and mitsubishis were all we could really go for. I really wish the world had more small 2 seater sports cars that did not have 700 bhp and didnt cost over a 100k. Europe fucking gave up on itself and the fiat panda layout is essentially what ruled the entire region for like half a century. America always used its most abundant resource which was SPACE to build some ridiculous, huge and blocky garbage. Japan was the only country that kept mixing things up year after year, coming out with cars that were meant to be affordable to the average consumer.
The word sport in europe was almost synonymous with luxury.
and In america it was synonymous with only power.
Japan was the only region where the word sport was about fun.
Today the trend is finally changing back and we got some small, quick and affordable cars, but they are still not as affordable as they should be. The word sport still carries a made up 20% mark up price tag for no reason other than "its a sports car so we gotta charge more".
If you really think about it, sports cars should be cheaper than usual cars because youre stripping out a bunch of features and making the car smaller and lighter, less practical, and in general just worse. So why do you have to pay more for less?
And you guys got the best wagon maker in your backyard. Volvo
you have to be a family of 6 to justify a van. we did. it was a vito 109D and in hindsight, an asthmatic piece of shit.
Drove it once, i understand why they got rid of it when i moved out. it really had a hard time keeping up with traffic, the gearbox was mushy at best. i had to hammer the brakes to make it slow down. probs the most ankward handbrake i've even operated too. always wanted to come loose.
Smaller wagons have lived on and continue to have a decent sized niche following the US (my daily is what you would know as the Golf Variant, but it's called the Golf SportWagen here because CamelCase is AlwaysBetterApparently). But the "full size" wagons from GM and Ford outlived their welcome for most buyers by the early '80s and yet stayed around into the '90s, and the reaction to those (Minivans) and the reaction to the reaction (truck-derived SUVs) and the reaction to the reaction to the reaction (crossovers, which are just awkwardly tall wagons) are still ongoing. The suppression of wagons in the US continues in part because the regulatory climate lets manufacturers get away with more if they call something a "truck" than a "car," hence Subaru taking the Outback from being a trim level of the Legacy wagon to being a crossover that basically fills the same niche as the Forester.
Americans love their wagons, too. They're just lifted and have more vertical height rather than length. And they're called SUVs.
I feel like at least one character in an American horror, thriller, or detective movie has one of these cars
TechPassion It's always the unsuspecting person who owns station wagons.
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Lol my parents drove one of these cars when I was real young. Loved the rear-viewing seats.
I had one of these then sold it for a 94 Roadmaster with the LT1. Thanks for the trip down memory lane while I can still remember it :)
P.S. since I strap a kayak to the roof the fact that it was lower then a minivan is the reason I purchased them.
Most crossovers are just jacked up wagons with higher rooflines. CHANGE MY MIND.
hmm, crossovers are minivans with hinged back doors
Note that they're often far shorter and have less trunk space than a medium sized wagon.
Kyle Soler Crossovers aren't jacked up wagons with higher rooflines. Crossovers are jacked up wagons with higher rooflines, unnescessarily big wheels, less practicality, shorter wheelbase, and uglier, more bloated styling.
Look up the AMC Eagle. You will understand how true that statement is.
@@michaellorah9051 Yes the Eagle is technically a crossover, but it is way more wagon. Also, one thing being an exception is different than it being the status quo.
Buick Estate Wagon = V8 with a dad bod
I was laughing until you mentioned the knee brace. The fact that I'm currently wearing a knee brace wiped that smile right off my face.... getting old sucks
Very cool watching this just a couple of weeks after taking my 1988 Cutlass Cruiser through an West Coast road trip. 6 thousand km`s and the only breakdown was a seized AC compressor.
When I was a kid we had a '72 Estate Wagon, with the clamshell tailgate and the beastly 455 motor.
that car dates back to 1977. you'll never see car designs that span 13+ years ever again.
Crown vic
been dead since 2011 so i think the parents comment is still on point. no design lasts a fully 13+ years. there is always at least a 5 year mid refresh. sometimes for the worse (im looking at you camaro)
Chevy Express van hasn't changed a bit except for engine options since 2004.
Toyota Land Cruiser 200 series(the model we get in the US) has been the same since 2007, not sure when a new one is coming out
Toyota Land Cruiser 70 series(never sold in the US) has been the same truck since since 1984, old school workhorse beast that replaced the 40 series Land Cruiser(the 1960's/70's convertible model)
Mercedes had a real good run with the gelandewagen, that came out in the late 70's, but I think there is an all new one for sale as a 2019 or 2020 model.
Nissan Frontier? The current USDM model has been in production since 2004 with the same engines/transmissions and only a minor body update for MY2009. Honorable mention to some FCA products like the Challenger/Charger/300 and Jeep Grand Cherokee which have been going since 2011 and use underpinnings developed by Mercedes in the 1990s.
Gtr
The dash actually looks surprisingly good for an american car. I also like this whole intrusive "coziness" of the interior.
We had two of these when I was growing up and they were the best and was perfect for the family with four kids
Last time I was this early, GMs had "Body by Fisher". Wait...what the fu-
Fisher Body is now a hole in the ground.
Grand Master Bobby Fischer
@jdslyman Fisher Body wasn't in Detroit. It was in Lansing and I pass it's grave most weeks. It was the kind of put to death with the ending of Oldsmobile which was founded in Lansing. When Fisher Body closed it essentially killed the side of town it was on. They closed a high school because if the economic decline.
My 1986 Buick Skyhawk had “Body by Fisher”
My neighbour has a 2018 C-Class wagon and my other neighbour has a Roadmaster wagon. I'm more jealous of the Roadmaster owner XD
Hamilton Dashcammer the dont sell c class wagons in America though.
This is actually the best video you guys have ever done!! Everything from the Foo Fighters riff to facts about American couples before the millennium are perfect nostalgia for my aching soul! Thank you!
Your commentary is so awesome and nostalgic. I love this video and I want a station wagon
I would ask GM for a new Grand National but I saw what they did with the blazer 😬
IT'S A FUCKING MAZDA!!!
The new Blazer is built in GM's C1XX platform. It is not shared in any way, shape or form with anything from Mazda
It looks exactly like a CX-5 or CX-7 so, yeah, it's a Mazda. The American people wanted a compact offroader. 5 seats, good suspension and good power. We got a fucking SUV-looking MPV.
Leave the GN alone.....please.
@@thelonelywolf88 Ok we will leave GN alone, but we aren't going to forgive GM that easily.
Some good old fashioned home cooked burnouts, just like mama used to make if you had that kinda mom.
russetwolf13 who the hell had that kind of mom?
My father used to have one of these when i was a kid. such comfort and you dont feel any hostility from any other drivers. you drive and live in your own little world in the buick estate wagon.
honestly, i am really heart broken to see it gone.
My 1977 Ford LTD station Wagon has given me more attention than I ever thought I would get. I can’t go anywhere without somebody making a comment about it and I’ve had some pretty nice two doors in the past that were even older
As far as MPG goes, back in 1990 gas was .95¢ to $1.10 a gallon and nobody cared too much about mpg's. That would equate to about $2.10 a gallon today and would mean zero fuks today! and think about it, in general people made the same or close to the same money today in 2018.....something ti think about?
18-20 MPG's still not so unreasonable compared to some new trucks available _now._ Granted they're not the same animal.
daredevil7442 And wages were so much lower. Minimum at the time was 3.25 I think, right around there
my parents had a chevy malibu wagon when i was growing up; similar to this beast, a rolling fortress and the promise of distant road trips all in one. one such trip was an overnighter, from kansas to Minnesota, and we fit my family and my cousin's as well, and we were still comfortable with us kids flailing about in the back seats. that was my first experience, driving through unlit midwestern fields, of seeing the splendor of a dark night sky for the first time. I remember it to this day; even the faint shooting stars that no one else saw, but I did because I couldn't look away. it was an ungainly beast, but i miss it.
Just saw this car at my work, never knew I worked with him. Awesome video and awesome car!
I love these old wagons... I still own one. Mine is a 1985 Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser Station Wagon which is very much like the wagon on your video except mine is an Oldsmobile instead of a Buick Wagon. I have fun driving my old wagon. Mine has a 307 V8 but I was going to do a 350 swap but I couldn't find a machine shop to rebuild the 1971 Olds 350 V8 I wanted to use. So I bought a used rebuilt 307 V8 with 40k miles from a salvage yard and swapped it into my wagon
These B-body boats are beasts. Buick, Olds, Pontiac, and Chevy all had them.
And they were all pretty much the same. I grew up in a 87 and 89 Caprice wagons.
Pontiac B Bodies weren't manufactured for 1982 or 1990. 1990 B Bodies have seat belts on the doors _again,_ I'm surprised RCR hasn't touched on them much when they did pop up (they also showed up in the Corsica video.)
Ford and Mercury also had their versions that were mostly the same but 90-91 had air bags. Carbed Fords and Meruries were 1979-1982, TBI 1983-1985 and Port Fuel Injection 1986-1991. GM had carbureted wagons for the entire run, 1977-1990.
Austin Lucas that's an interesting bit of trivia on the Pontiac B-body
You're welcome. 1983-89 Pontiac B Bodies are thought of as just a Caprice clone. 1977-81 models look much more like Pontiac. Actually, 1977-79 models of all the G.M. B Bodies look much more distinct from each other.
I fixed an error in my post. 1979-89 Fords and Mercuries had no air bags, those are 1990-91 specific.
If you think these are big, you should have seen the 71-76 Buick Estate and Olds Custom Cruiser wagons!
Come on Boys. We’re going to a Dubya See Dubya show.
Damn Right! Cooder! We only want to see Rick Flair and Hulk Hogan.. Not that fast pace flippy shit.. O_o lol
I had an 81, looks exactly the same.
I was rear ended at a stoplight by a plastic 90's Chrysler Lebaron.
The Lebaron was a total loss and the driver hospitalized.
The Buick was damaged but I drove it home. No broken glass and the taillights still working.
I didn't have a scratch either.
Out of all the reviews rcr has put out, this is the one I come back to the most. Between the writing and pacing and ball jokes this approaches art
Body By Fisher. Memories of seeing that every time I got in to my Omega.
and Rusty Jones or Ziebart 😅
This car has the same front clip as my 78 Electra 225. My first legal car
"First legal car"
That sounds like you had a very eventful youth right there.
9:19 Based off the caprice. This car was already on the same platform as the Caprice....so....
Yes, they all had the same wheel arches and taillights. The grills and badging were the main differences.
Fun fact I had to drive a parents station wagon for my driving test. The stearing was off, the breaks were bad, and the antifreeze leaked. And I still performed the perfect parallel park.
5:33 I smiled harder than I should have.
That's the Right reaction hahaha!!!
@@71plymouth. glad you made it bud.
I was going to go to bed since it's 3am here, but what delaying it another 10 minutes. All in the name of my lord Mr. Regular
I have a fond memory of driving my parents' 1980 Caprice Classic diesel wagon on a frozen lake in northern Vermont, with a car-load of passengers, doing donuts on the bare ice. I was 12 or 13, I think, and the car was nearly new. The ice was 3 or 4 feet thick.
I saw a built matte black one run 11s at the track. EVERYBODY cheered for it.
I really love the way this car looks, unironically. It just looks really cool to me.
Another GEM of a review, mr Regular. Especially from about 6:50. Absolutely brilliant. Thanks.
My dad bought a GOLD Oldsmobile version of this wagon from an old man in roughly 2003 and it kicked ass. Maybe the motor for the rear glass was dead and the third row was stuck, but I thought it kicked ass and everyone in marching band with my sister loved this car because they could pile in with all of their instruments for the drive down to the field. And because of National Lampoon, my dad referred to it as "The Griswold".
As a Roadmaster Estate wagon owner, I already love this video! The Roadmaster was a bit more with the times vs the 77-90 Estate obviously.
Better shocks and maybe some centerlines...give it a little of what the young kids call "stance"...i'd be proud to be blasting def leopard on my realistic or audiovox hi-fi sound system in that!
I myself don't drive a station wagon, but I drive a 21 year old sedan, and once I was stopped at a stop light and the car next to was playing some kind of really popular rap song, so before the light turned green I turned on southern girls on max volume and hit the accelerator when the light turned green! It took me about 10 seconds to actually move but I made the guy next to me jump and that's what counts. :)
And you wouldn't have to spend a lot to make it go like stink. Just spend a lot of time removing all the heavyweight non functional trim and crap. Holesaw all hidden inner panels. Remake bumpers, fenders and hood out of glassfiber. Hell you could double the top speed and halve the consumption.
how about if it was electric
I'm in love with this car. Just the right amount of odd and old.
Love the channel. Love the Mr. Plinkett channeling as well.
That burnout had my laughing out loud in my office. Reminiscent of the British Leyland Special on old new Top Gear.
Fucking hilarious.