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07-04-09, 12:25 AM
|  | Cadillac Owners Connoisseur Cadillac(s): 2000 Seville STS (Sterling)  | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: New Bern, NC Age: 19 | | | Re: I celebrated the 4th of July by buying American.
Gorgeous car! Post pics of the interior when you get a chance. |
07-04-09, 12:29 AM
|  | Cadillac Owners Connoisseur Cadillac(s): 1995 Deville Concours; 2000 Eldorado ETC; 2004 Escalade EXT | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Bentonville, AR Age: 38 | | | Re: I celebrated the 4th of July by buying American.
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Originally Posted by Playdrv4me  Well done! The exterior color on this one is MUCH nicer than the Abboud. Adam is going to sh*t his pants! |
No, he'll gloat 
Sorry Adam :-)
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07-04-09, 12:35 AM
|  | Cadillac Owners Master Cadillac(s): Jeep: '05 TJ Sport 6spd BMW: '90 325iC & '92 318iC both 5spd | | Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Middle Georgia Age: 22 | | | Re: I celebrated the 4th of July by buying American.
EXCELLENT!
I agree, the color is really nice. It should provide great transportation for many years to come. Looking forward to a review  |
07-04-09, 12:46 AM
| | Cadillac Owners Connoisseur Cadillac(s): Cadillac 95 STS, 02 SLS | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Midlothian, VA Age: 66 | | | Re: I celebrated the 4th of July by buying American.
Congratulations, I think you'll enjoy the Regal. Remember the Buick Regal is the number one choice of the new Red Chinese plutocracy! Great color combo too! |
07-04-09, 01:06 AM
| | Cadillac Owners Fanatic Cadillac(s): Cadillac cts3.6 Direct Injection | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: live oak FL Age: 22 | | | Re: I celebrated the 4th of July by buying American.
o wow, i actually commented it on your facebook before even thinking of logging on here, but again AWESEOME car man!  |
07-04-09, 01:52 AM
|  | Redneck with class Cadillac(s): 1990 350 Brougham (Its big), 1988 Mark VII LSC (Its fast) | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Woodridge, Illinois Age: 19 | | | Re: I celebrated the 4th of July by buying American.
About damn time!
Congrats Chad. You can blow the doors off my Lincoln at the Chicago meet.
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07-04-09, 01:57 AM
|  | Cadillac Owners Connoisseur Cadillac(s): 1991 Deville x 1/ 1992 Deville x 1/ 1993 Deville x 3 | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Chicago, IL Age: 17 | | | Re: I celebrated the 4th of July by buying American.
Let's all compile our money, so we can buy Chad a Ram Air hood, and give it to him at the meet.
Its only $800! http://www.thrashercharged.com/store_htm/ext_hood1.asp |
07-04-09, 03:04 AM
|  | Super Moderator Cadillac(s): Poor man's STS--> '00 Regal GS. | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Twin Cities, MN Age: 22 | | | Re: I celebrated the 4th of July by buying American.
Thanks guys!
It's definitely fast, but it's very controllable. If you're driving normally, you never know the supercharger is there, but when you get on it, it moves! Until you're at about 2500-3000 rpm, the supercharger is silent, then once it gets past there you hear the whine, which I think sounds cool. The hard part is keeping your foot out of it. I filled up the tank today and reset the trip computer, and so far, it shows that I'm getting like 17.6 mpg, all in the city, with a few WOT's. I took a few friends out tonight to go see Public Enemies and I had a bit of a stoplight drag with an '04+ GTP and we stayed neck and neck, and hers makes more power than mine does (260 v. 240).
I'll post more of a test drive review later. I'm still new with it.
Anyways, I'll be bringing it to the Chicago meet. I wanna see what she'll do at the track. I bet somewhere between 14.9 and 15.2, that's what all of the magazines seem to track it as. I have heard that the transmissions will become a problem if you beat on it, especially if you're doing burnouts or if you turned the boost up (I do wanna do a pulley swap though....), but that's why I bought the extended warranty! I have the inspection records from the dealership, they spent $1600 on reconditioning it and making it ready for the lot, which included a full inspection, oil change, tire rotation, full detail, new pads and rotors front and rear and a new HVAC control module (the old one burned out).
And it's got a clean carfax (I'm the 3rd owner, it originally came out of Georgia to a buyer in North Carolina and owned until 2008, then it was bought by someone up here, who had it for 11 months, then traded it in and I picked it up.) It even has three sets of keys and the original window sticker (MSRP was $27,xxx).
Overall I'm extremely happy with it. It's a very nice *REGULAR-BLUE-COLLARED-LUXURY-CAR*. No more expensive specialty parts, no more hard to find Mercedes specialists, no more diagnostic nightmares. Everything is normal GM parts bin stuff, and that makes me feel so much better than an expensive European car. It's funny, I can still feel my dad's '97 Lumina in this car in some small ways, like the way the doors sound when they shut, etc etc. Little details like that. But that's to be expected considering they're both W-Bodies.
I'll have more pics and stuff up tomorrow. I'm off to bed now. Today was a long day.
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07-04-09, 10:19 AM
|  | I guess I've always liked tank tops... Cadillac(s): None | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: West Palm Beach, Florida Age: 38 | | | Re: I celebrated the 4th of July by buying American.
Nice sleeper! Do post those interior pictures soon. Oh and you'd better become a member of www.buickforums.com now. 
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07-04-09, 11:58 AM
|  | Cadillac Owners Master Cadillac(s): Current: '94 STS Past: '93 Eldorado, '98 ETC, '03 CTS | | Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: MyWorldIsEvil, ButAmericanMade | | | Re: I celebrated the 4th of July by buying American.
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Originally Posted by I~LUV~Caddys8792 I celebrated the 4th of July by buying American. | The Regal was manufactured and assembled in Oshawa, Canada.  
Not bad though, my brother used to own a Regal GS. Very comfy interior and a complete sleeper. Buick is a very under-rated brand. |
07-04-09, 12:23 PM
| | Cadillac Owners Connoisseur Cadillac(s): 1995 Deville Concours; 2000 Eldorado ETC; 2004 Escalade EXT | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Bentonville, AR Age: 38 | | | Re: I celebrated the 4th of July by buying American.
I thought for sure my GTP was built in KC...I don't remember seeing GM Canada stickers on it. Of course it was a '99 -- maybe they consolidated mfg. in between. |
07-04-09, 12:39 PM
| | Super Moderator Cadillac(s): Poor man's STS--> '00 Regal GS. | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Twin Cities, MN Age: 22 | | | Re: I celebrated the 4th of July by buying American.
I've got the sticker on the door saying it was built in Canadia. |
07-04-09, 01:21 PM
| | BLING IS AMERICAN RICE Cadillac(s): '04 CTS-V | | Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Just North of Titletown... | | | Re: I celebrated the 4th of July by buying American.
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Originally Posted by hueterm I thought for sure my GTP was built in KC...I don't remember seeing GM Canada stickers on it. Of course it was a '99 -- maybe they consolidated mfg. in between. | I thought all W-bodies were built in Oshawa...
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07-04-09, 01:22 PM
| | BLING IS AMERICAN RICE Cadillac(s): '04 CTS-V | | Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Just North of Titletown... | | | Re: I celebrated the 4th of July by buying American.
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Originally Posted by gothicaleigh The Regal was manufactured and assembled in Oshawa, Canada.
Not bad though, my brother used to own a Regal GS. Very comfy interior and a complete sleeper. Buick is a very under-rated brand. | Yeah, Chad may have bought American. But what did the previous owner buy is the more pertinent question. If he/she bought a Mercedes, it's all moot. |
07-04-09, 02:22 PM
| | Cadillac Owners Connoisseur Cadillac(s): Cadillac 95 STS, 02 SLS | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Midlothian, VA Age: 66 | | | Re: I celebrated the 4th of July by buying American.
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Originally Posted by Rodya234 | Now that Chad is no longer in the Mercedes yoke he can afford to buy his hood scoop! | | Cadillac Discussion Tools | | | 
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