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I LOVE The Disturbed covers they do! The dude's voice is amazing. Sounds of Silence and Land of Confusion are masterpieces way beyond the originals and the originals are masterpieces in themselves. I never knew they made a cover of Tears for Fears' Shout. So...I said to myself...why not?! Surreal seems to like it, I kinda like The Disturbed...it wont hurt to listen to it." But I got to tell you, as soon as I heard the first "shout", something triggered in my brain. Could it be mild spasms? Then the second "shout" came along...and my brain, hands and fingers coundnt react fast enough to end it!!! Anger and frustration and hatred flooded my brain waves. Im laughing about it now. But the dark thoughts were real. Im not kidding you. Something about the song just makes me go bonkers. LOL. And the strangest thing is, as unique and distinctive as David Drainman's voice is and he certainly does NOT sound ANYTHING like Tears for Fear...I IMMEDIATELY thought...Tears for Fears. I may need to see a psychiatrist because this level of animosity towards anything aint normal....

There is the Cadillac CTS-V for that ballsy nature you folk crave for. The Grand National was a Regal, but not a GS. It was a GN. (Grand National) The top dog was a GNX. (X as in experimental as in Grand National experimental) And those were muscle cars. The fullsized GSs of the 1960s were touring cars with gobs of torque. One could say fullsized muscle cars. The Skylark's GS was a true midsizer muscle car. None of those Buicks that I mentioned were sport sedans. Therefore, as a REGAL, a GS Regal, the lineage did really start with the W-Body... And THIS iteration is the best one yet. We WANT to dream that a Riviera GS was a sports sedan. But it was a luxo-barge personal coupe. We want to dream that 1960s and 1970s Century and Wildcat GSs were sports sedans, but they were land-yachts. We have fooled ourselves into believing something that does not exist. A Regal GS is exactly what I posted...ANY GS for that matter are just cars that drive comfortably over long hauls...and GM NEVER hinted other wise with this new Regal. We concocted a tale in our heads. Germany sourced? Buick NEVER advertised that in the open. Never hinted it had German sport sedan Nurburgring lap times as its strengths. THAT kind of thing was openly sold for the V Series Cadillacs. Im just defending this new Regal's honour. I feel like someone has to do it. I think this new Regal GS is unfairly judged. I try my best to do good for it.

Thank-you for enduring me when I got off the rails. Thank-you for creating interesting reads about the automobile. I got most of the new car information through your research and writing. I appreciated you and this site for keeping me informed. Good luck in your new endeavors.

I feel for you as a fellow (former) GM lifer. (I say former because I put my money where my mouth is and my last few car purchases were NOT GM cars, so if I was honest about this whole GM lifer thing, I cant call myself a GM lifer since I havent bought any GM cars in a while...) But...to compare market share from the 1940s-1970s to today's world is not a very good metric on how good GM, or in this case, a Regal GS is... And this is where my ranting is directed to all who wanna diss on the new Regal GS... I posted something similar a couple of pages ago, but all of you just prefer to go an a pissing rant about the GS WITH NO MERITS...and ignore me. Well...I aint going away!!! You all want a GS...a REAL GS whatever the phoque that means?! THIS was the last "REAL" AMERICAN Regal GS Yes...GS. THAT is what a GS has stood for since the late 1980s early 1990s. Beccause the last GS before that one was A W-Body front driver... This new one is a million times better in EVERY way. No. No it does NOT have 400 horsepower with 400 ft/pounds of torque. But Ill tell you what else it doesnt have. No cheap interiors of the W-Body kind. Could be better, but really not that bad. No squeaky interior. No badge engineered siblings No torque steer No transmission failures due to the transmission not being able to sustain multiple jack rabbit starts. It does not have 240 horsepower. It does have 310 horsepower. It does have 2 ft/pounds of torque albeit higher on the RPMs... Ya 'll bitchin' about an old 3.6 liter V6 that GM uses it on everything yet the last real Regal GS had an even OLDER design (from the 1960s...)and GM put THAT one in everything too...actually, that ole 3.8 was used in MORE models than the 3.6 inluding on ugly dustbuster minivans. It was stated that the new Regal GS is a great touring car. It aint a sport sedan. Does it have to be a sport sedan? It aint the "GS" nomenclature that states it to be a sport sedan/coupe because the W-Body is anything BUT... I know...I had a 2005 Impala SS. 2005. Not a 1997. GM dragged THAT cat until 2006. And in 2006, that Impala SS was EXACTLY how that 1997-2004 Buick Regal GS was. The Impala SS just took over the Regal GS. This Regal GS is miles ahead of what old GM was pumping out. Yet, we GM lifers reminisce about the good ole days? The W-body Regal? Buick of the 1990s/2000s/2010s are NOT Audi competitors. GM/Buick NEVER intended Buick nor ever marketed Buick as such. Pontiac tried to be a BMW competitor towards the end. Oldsmobile WAS a foreign car fighter towards the end. Buick remained Buick in North America. And what is that? THE GREAT AMERICAN ROAD BELONGS TO BUICK Floaty ride on endless stretches of STRAIGHT HIGHWAYS!!! The new Regal GS is a fantastic touring car. THIS IS THE BUICK SEDAN FOR THE GREAT AMERICAN ROAD!!! What possesses you folk to think otherwise is beyond me!!!

But...I think this dissing of the Buick Regal (GS or not) is taken too far. No...it aint a KIA Stinger as in its not a RWD vehicle. Yes, it could have used the XTS' twin turbo V6 and a tweaking of that torque vectoring AWD system with a more aggressive transmission tune along with a more sporty suspension set-up. 2 things wrong with that approach...for Buick. 1. Buick has never been a sport sedan brand. It had...2 muscle cars in its history. Just 2. The A-Body from the early1960s was luke warm at best. In 1970 though, it became something worth talking about. Then the muscle cars from Buick ceased to exist. Until the Grand National arrived in the 1980s. That muscle car lasted even shorter of a time than the original GS of the 1st generation A Body to the 2nd generation. The rest of the hot Buicks were indeed, luxury touring cars. Personal luxury luxo-barge coupes. 2. The XTS TTV6 probably does sell well, but the other RWD V Series sport sedan Cadillacs dont. Even if Buick offered a more sport sedan Regal GS...few takers would be the result. Guaranteed. We shouldnt be that harsh on the Regal. We should just look at the positives of what it is rather than look at the negatives of what it is not and what it could be. It could have been a very capable vehicle that could have done battle with Audi's offerings, even if the interior falls short. But it aint an Audi competitor. Not it terms of price point. Not in terms of niche. Not in terms of image. Not in terms of anything. Buick just needs to be Buick. Nothing more. What is that? Well, I think the Regal GS is in the perfect direction it needs to be. Buick should "GS" their CUVs (with better interiors) JUST like the Regal is and all will be well for Buick. The 2018 Buick Regal GS is probably the best all around sporty and luxury Buick since the 1980s... Remember, the Grand National and the GNX were not that luxurious...nor did they handle all that good They were not bad handlers as far as GM cars of that era went, but pitiful really as compared to...lets say...BMW of that same era...and you dont know how much I hated saying that just now...I gotta wash my mouth off with soap... But yet, we wanna give it flack for whatever reason...

Hey...give me some of that credit too. Ive had run ins with them too. But, the other guy that got banned, Casa had probably more heated run ins than you and I together with him. But yeah...not a Ford guy you are. Not a fanboi of any brand Id say.

And I would agree with this 100%!!! I would own a Hellcat/Red Eye first. Or a Scat Pack. A Mustang GT, any engined convertible, GT350 in second place and Id skip the Camaro entirely. Maybe Id do a Trans Am 455 SD from Trans Am Depot in 3rd place instead of an outright Camaro.

That's in Montreal!!!

Montreal is a beautiful city. Not more than any other city on this planet. But Montreal is unique. It has English and French architecture. Its got both old world European flair with modern American panache. Cuisine? Montreal always had world quality restaurants. Las Vegas, Boston, Houston are some North American cities that have equalled and perhaps surpassed Montreal in that area..but...Montreal, along with NYC still remain surprisingly relevant. What makes Montreal (and especially NYC) that great in all these areas? Montreal (and NYC) are trully real cosmopolitan cities. For a couple of centuries now. Food is where this shows. Walk the streets of Montreal in the summer and then you get to see how cosmopolitan Montreal really is. its just not the architecture that is stunning, just how NYC stuns you with its high rises....its how the people interact with each other. All the colours of the ethnics...how each is represented in the city. Its great!

Yes! Yes and YES!!!

Maybe you should take a visit up here and see for yourself. You know, Montreal is not Lancaster... in that the Province of Quebec with its Crown Corporation Hydro-Quebec actually produces a good chunk of the world's hydro-electricity. At a fairly cheap price for us Quebeckers to consume... Its too bad you dont believe. Please, come take a visit. Ill take you out on a date to entice you. We'll catch a Habs hockey game while we're at it. The Penguins or Flyers? You choose.

👍 (I care a little less for the manual transmission part. But the rest of what you love about it, I love also) (Ill just add the actual 'retro-reminiscent' adolescent names that the various Challenger comes in along with the silly adolescent logos. Hellcat, Demon, Red Eye, Scat Pack, R/T... Just like Superbee and The Judge and Trans Am and of course Demon and Roadrunner with the silly cartoon character graphics) (Let us not forget the wide array of awesome, eye catching exterior colours with just as an interesting interior too.)

Roger Goodell or Gary Bettman? Who gets the loudest, longest boos between them? LOL

Tesla Model 3s are very very popular here. I see several every day. 5-6 every day. And no, they arent the same ones.

I do not know what is worse. 1st gen Versa or Tear for Fears. "shout, shout. let it all out...these are the things I could do with out...c;mon. Im talking to you..." Shyte...Ive ALWAYS hated those lyrics from the first day I heard them when I was like 10 years old. With that god awful voice the singer has... To this day I burn up Inside everytime I hear that group on the radio. My brain, hands and fingers cant react fast enough to change the damned station!!! THANK GOODNESS millennials havent taken to Tears For Fear. They got one thing right at least! You know what? Gimme the Versa until I die if I dont have to listen to that shytty group ever again!!!

Is it a case of us wanting it to BE a sports sedan. Mistaken identity, perhaps. As per your assesment, its a great grand tourer, and perhaps THAT is what Buick was aiming for to begin with yet us, WE wanted it to be a sports sedan. Kinda like the way we thought the Ford Fusion Sport would be an Audi S4 competitor JUST because we saw AWD, turbo V6 and "Sport" nomenclature on it...but alas the Fusion Sport makes for a poor sports sedan but an excellent V6 turbo, family, hauling, family sedan. And we chastized it for being a poor sports sedan yet we failed to praise it for what it reaaly is. A V6 family sedan. In derfense of Ford, Ford NEVER made that connection, we did. Ford just slapped on "Sport" on it and WE went with the wild fantasy thoughts. Does Buick market this as a sports sedan? I do not know this answer. But maybe Buick just wants the Regal GS JUST to be a grand tourer. Its kinda like I mean, all these years and I thought the Toyobarus had a Toyota 4 cylinder under the hood...for real. Just a thought that I had.

really? I always thought it was a Toyota 4 banger. All these years, and I was walking this earth with the false idea like that? Ive talked to 2 very good clients of mine who own them. One guy has the Subaru and the other the Scion. We waxed poetic about how wonderful handlers they are. And how a more powerful engine under the hood would just spoil the perfect driving characteristics of it... So...all this time...I had false impressions... What a doof I have been...LOL OK...Ill try to save it. I do really wish it had a TURBO Subaru boxer engine under the hood. The same one as the WRX STi... I know where my falsehoods began. BECAUSE Subaru did NOT offer the TURBO WRX STi engine, I immediatley confused THAT with the Toyobarus having a Toyota 4 banger... I repeat: What a doof I have been. LOL

Not quite. The 86 would be a Subaru if the 86 and the siblings would have a Subaru boxer under the hood. Im perfectly fine with the engine choice just to be clear, but as is, the Toyobarus are in fact, more vanilla Toyota then anything else. PS: I like very much the Toyobarus. A tad small for my tastes, but I like a lot. I would love if Subaru boxer in the BRZ, but hey, you cant always get what you want. I think Jagger said that once... 🤔

I wanted to make a funny. But I wrote what I wrote. (but now edited. only the dancing dude is still alive in that post. I tried for it to be funny. But alas, it was not funny. I tried and failed. I am at your mercy now. 😥

LOL Like..in the video. He IS from California, you know. I wanna know, how many can this guy actually win. Its fantastic what we are witnessing with Tom Brady. I grew up watching and loving Dan Marino with the Dolphins (I was always a Cowboys fan though.) I was mesmerized with Joe Montana. HE was the greatest before Brady. Then Steve Young comes along and I liked him. Of course Troy was my favorite though Then there was John Elway and his late comebacks. Fascinating to watch on a Monday night. But 'twas Joe Montana to Jerry Rice or Steve Young to Jerry Rice that captured my heart and I thought Id never see that again. (Minus the 3 Superbowls of the Dallas Cowboys in the early 1990s. Those were great. HOW 'BOUT 'DEM COWBOYS!!!) 👌 Until Tom Brady came along... That Superbowl victory a couple of years ago, the one you mentioned. It might have been heartbreaking for many fans, like youself, but if you are a fan of the game, it was just...just...pure magic to see him work. And THAT is why I wanna see how many can this guy,with Belichik, win... I mean, its rare these kinds of things. And when they do happen, I wanna ride that ride as long as we can. I wanna see how far they can go before it really, trully ends. THAT plus what is going on in Boston the last 20 years is just incredible too. The Red Sox have 3 World Series or so, the Celtics have 1 or 2 Championships, the Patriots have, Ive lost count...the Bruins have 1 Stanley Cup. And many finals appearances coming in 2nd place. Gimme the keys to the cah. Im going to Bahsten to pahk in Hahved Yahd. Gonna eat some clam chowdah while Im at it!!! I HATE the Red Sox. I dont like the Patriots all that much. Im indifferent to basketball so I really dont care for the Celtics... I am a Bruins fan though as I HATE Les Canadiens. Proud of my citiy's 27 or so Stanley Cups, 24 of them belonging to the Habs, but yeah... To see Brady and Boston do this...is just great in my eyes! He IS from California... He is just the quarterback you 🤬. (Just to quote the video) ( a beautiful Dallas Cowboy GIF...just for you!!!)

I dedicate this to all of you. Just before the Superbowl. I saw this browsing on Youtube and I figured...why not post it. Tom Brady...you are THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME!!! I hope you win another!!!!

^^^ That is a neat idea. Id buy one yesterday and I woudnt care which country of origin the maker comes from.

Yup! I never thought of that. Awesome observation! Ill just add this because there is another point I wanna make: And then Acura took over in that spot in the 1990s, taking market share away from Pontiac AND Oldsmobile. Which brings me to this point I wanna make: Instead of thinking this Regal GS is like an Audi lite, Im thinking this is a better successor and much better looking 2009-2014 Acura TL.

I googled her. She aint as dumb as we think she is. She settled out of court and I think got enough money to buy herself a Toyota... Unless the links of her information is an April Fool's joke just like what her manager did as a stunt for that contest...she beat the system...