I’ll nominate the Buick Cascada. It picked up the place the Sebring left off. Which…why? Why do these mushy, shitty near-luxury convertibles must live on? Is it execs that keep in mind coke-fueled weekends in South Beach? Did they get their first lay within the entrance seat of a Chrysler LeBaron? It’s gotta simply be for fleet gross sales, proper?
After the heyday of droptops within the ‘80s & ‘90s (when you could even get a softtop Pontiac Sunfire if you wanted to die in a 15 mph collision), your choices for semi-premium family coupe convertibles had dwindled to just two – the Sebring and the Toyota Solara. Ah, yes, the “exciting” Camry.
Then there was the VW Eos. Remember the Eos? It had a hardtop. And the Cascada looks an awful lot like the Eos, which makes sense because the Buick is actually an Opel, and Opel’s design route for the final 20 years has been “we’ll do whatever VW is doing, but worse.”
To me, that is worse than the CrossCabriolet or the SSR, as a result of a minimum of these automobiles have been attempting. This…isn’t attempting in any respect. It’s such a condescending automotive, and GM has made some fairly patronizing automobiles through the years. It’s a “hey, I’ll be 60-year-olds at the Hertz counter in Tampa will eat these things up, ‘cuz they’re old and stupid, har har”, besides these choices are most likely being made by 60-year-old white males in a boardroom in Detroit, so I don’t even know anymore. Again, why does this exist? Thinking about it hurts my mind.
I respect the Cascada as a result of so far as convertibles go, it was on the cheaper finish. Everyone deserves to have a convertible. They are merely the superior technique of transportation.
Submitted by: dbeach84
Source: jalopnik.com