# New Chinese Made Buick, Coming Soon! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 12, 2016, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chinese-made-buick-coming-soon/751971 "2016-04-12T03:46:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2016, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chinese-made-buick-coming-soon/751971/21 "2016-04-14T03:59:00Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Ahhh yes, the mighty B-210. Something almost as nasty as the Pinto it unceremoniously catapulted onto the ash heap of history. > > I never had one but I knew people who did. Vile vehicle. Chris McCandless (_Into the Wild_) drove a B-210 and it served him very well. Even after it was caught in a flash flood and he abandoned it, when the sheriffs found it, it started right up. It only needed a boost. The cops used it for many years, over 130,000 miles. About Buick in China, the info in this thread explains why I see so many Buicks in Shanghai when I go (I’ve been twice). It was uncanny how many there were there, relatively. As an aside, Shanghai is the only place I’ve seen the new (2008+) VW Scirocco. Wikipedia’s page: [Volkswagen Scirocco - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Scirocco) ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2016, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chinese-made-buick-coming-soon/751971/22 "2016-04-14T04:48:41Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Ahhh yes, the mighty B-210. Something almost as nasty as the Pinto it unceremoniously catapulted onto the ash heap of history. My Pinto was great! My Dad bought it, my older brother learned to drive on it, I learned to drive on it, and took it from 120,000 miles to 150,000 miles with only a clutch job as the single major repair. It was an awesome low cost, piece of shit, keep on ticking vehicle. Dollar per mile by far the greatest vehicle my family has ever owned. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2016, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chinese-made-buick-coming-soon/751971/23 "2016-04-14T06:45:49Z")
I’ve never owned a Buick, possibly because I always thought of it as the kind of car that you were only allowed to drive while wearing a hat and going 20 mph to an appointment with your geriatric physiotherapist. But all three entries in their crossover/SUV lineup look like damn nice cars and one of them might be a candidate to replace the present aging beast. Not sure if I’m quite adventurous enough to spring for a Chinese import, though, at least not without some solid supporting quality and reliability stats. And not if that fugly imitation-marble or whatever the hell it’s supposed to be dashboard decoration is going to be standard. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2016, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chinese-made-buick-coming-soon/751971/24 "2016-04-14T13:20:25Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > As an aside, Shanghai is the only place I’ve seen the new (2008+) VW Scirocco. > Wikipedia’s page: [Volkswagen Scirocco - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Scirocco) There are tons of them in the UK. I desperately wanted one when I was buying my current car, but the grey market import cost (to the US) was prohibitive so I bought a Golf. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chinese-made-buick-coming-soon/751971.md?page=1)