1988 Chevrolet Caprice promotional video

[NINETY EIGHT REGENCY]

 

[Drew Dowdell]

Salesperson: "I think the main buyer is in the 35 - 50 year old range"

Video producer: Well, the only customer we can find to say nice things is about 117 years old, so that's what we gotta use. 

[David]

😕 Clearly the video producer has no clue to what they should have been focused on.

I do agree with one thing they cover over and over is the head, hip and leg room.

WTF is the Person thinking in saying customers are 35-50 years old and yet everyone interviewed talk about retirement. 

Brougham should have NEVER been allowed on a Chevy. That should have been Cadillac only.

[Robert Hall]

33 minutes ago, dfelt said:

😕 Clearly the video producer has no clue to what they should have been focused on.

I do agree with one thing they cover over and over is the head, hip and leg room. 

Which would have been pointless, since those dimensions wouldn't have changed since 1977..

[Drew Dowdell]

22 minutes ago, dfelt said:

😕 Clearly the video producer has no clue to what they should have been focused on.

I do agree with one thing they cover over and over is the head, hip and leg room.

WTF is the Person thinking in saying customers are 35-50 years old and yet everyone interviewed talk about retirement. 

Brougham should have NEVER been allowed on a Chevy. That should have been Cadillac only.

You could get a Brougham on practically everything from GM (and Ford) at the time.  It was like the "Limited" of the time. 

[Robert Hall]

1 hour ago, Drew Dowdell said:

You could get a Brougham on practically everything from GM (and Ford) at the time.  It was like the "Limited" of the time. 

Yes, was a hallmark of '70s-80s trim levels...Chevy, Pontiac, Olds, Cadillac, Ford, Mercury all had Bro-hams at different times..  Some had multiple incl. midsize ones.  Oddly, Buick didn't get in the game..they could have an Electra Limited Brougham Park Avenue or something like that.

[Drew Dowdell]

6 minutes ago, Robert Hall said:

Yes, was a hallmark of '70s-80s trim levels...Chevy, Pontiac, Olds, Cadillac, Ford, Mercury all had Bro-hams at different times..  Some had multiple incl. midsize ones.  Oddly, Buick didn't get in the game..they could have an Electra Limited Brougham Park Avenue or something like that.

Yeah, everything Broughamy at Buick was a Limited. 

[Robert Hall]

And Limited has become some what wide spread---Jeep, Ram, Ford, but not Buick nowadays..

[David]

37 minutes ago, Robert Hall said:

Electra Limited Brougham Park Avenue

Talk about a Mouth Full! 

[Robert Hall]

1 minute ago, dfelt said:

Talk about a Mouth Full! 

Or would it be Electra Park Avenue Limited Brougham...

[David]

I do hope that Buick comes out with an Electra Park Avenue for an EV!

1 minute ago, dfelt said:

I do hope that Buick comes out with an Electra Park Avenue for an EV!

Just realized if they did intials, Buick would have the first EPA auto! 

[Drew Dowdell]

26 minutes ago, dfelt said:

I do hope that Buick comes out with an Electra Park Avenue for an EV!

Just realized if they did intials, Buick would have the first EPA auto! 

[smk4565]

"Customers that buy a Caprice will always buy a Caprice, they won't buy any other car"   That is until 8 year later when Chevy kills the Caprice due to low sales.

And our boy Harold who has owned a Caprice for 22 years is about 88 years old, meaning he was collecting social security before he bought his first one.

Wait.... Carburetor in 1988?!?!?!?  

[Drew Dowdell]

10 hours ago, smk4565 said:

"Customers that buy a Caprice will always buy a Caprice, they won't buy any other car"   That is until 8 year later when Chevy kills the Caprice due to low sales.

And our boy Harold who has owned a Caprice for 22 years is about 88 years old, meaning he was collecting social security before he bought his first one.

Wait.... Carburetor in 1988?!?!?!?  

The carb in the GM 307 lasted until 1992