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Buick Reatta a design flop?

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The Buick Reatta a design flop? That’s what a University of Michigan professor told The Wall Street Journal recently. Really? The Reatta is the one car that he could find to pick on as an automotive design flop? certain, the high-tech coupe was overweight and underpowered, overpriced and under-appreciated. But a design flop? I think most of us would agree there are uglier, slower, more poorly-made cars in the history of automobiles. Our Dan Roth even called it a Future Classic not too expanded ago.

The story is part of a larger collection of design studies that looks at everything from blue

jeans to concrete saws. One other automotive element of the series is a gushing story and video about Buick’s Invicta concept car. whether the piece is to be believed, the LaCrosse that may be based on the Invicta, will surely never assemble it onto a list of design flops.

So by that logic, fake, plastic portholes insure design success, but sexy, restrained style doesn’t.

[Source: The Wall Street Journal]

 

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