was FAR SUPERIOR than ANY of the other GM cars as far as riding, handling & weight distribution. & other Full Size Buick car offerings)& the GM intermediates only had a 2 speed auto. Pontiac with their Hydro-matics, Olds with their SlimJim autos, Caddy with the same Hydro as Olds, (BUT the '64 Cad, had the 1st. The brakes & steering were the same on most of the Ford offerings. Along with most of them only having a 2 speed auto trans. WAY over boosted along with the P/S way too sensitive. Mopars were too wishy wasey & the brakes were horrible, you look at the brake pedal & your head would be into the windshield. was far more superior in the outright performance areas of most ANY of the others. ( IF I bought a 'Vette I would probably not be here today) In actuality the Riv. over the others? I had the choices of an Impala SS, the GTO, the Olds 442, any of the Chevelle's or even the Corvette. I drove ALL the various GM cars, full size & A-Body's. ![]() Too bad it was too early for the Skylark GS as I might have ended up with one of those. because it rode & handled so much better than ANY of the others. & only new car I've eve bought, I shopped around at Ford, worked at a Ford dealer for a few years, Lincoln, Merc. When I was out looking for a new car at the age of 18, 1st. Picture of the 1963 Cadillac LaSalle concept. The turn signal grills at the front of the fenders are representative of the original LaSalle grill. They sold exactly 40,000 in '63 but fell short in '64 and '65. Hence, they planned on limiting the production numbers to 40,000. Buick sales had slipped from 3rd place in 1955 and Buick won the rights to the car hoping that the Riviera would draw customers into Buick dealerships just to view it and walk out with a different Buick. There are pictures of it as a Pontiac, Oldsmobile, the Cadillac LaSalle, and the Buick Centurion - with only a single headlamp in the grill. ![]() In its concept form, XP-715 was originally designed to be sold by Cadillac as the LaSalle. ![]() The Avanti was more of a sports car and the Chrysler 300 could be had as a 4 door. Thunderbird was the only other four seat personal luxury car. That was GMs aim all along a competition for the Thunderbird. In some of the pictures of the Riviera as a concept, it's pictured with a "Squarebird" Ford Thunderbird.
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