First time I seen the 95 Riviera I thought it was ugly! As years went by it gradually started growing on me. Now I consider that car a very well built, unique sleek looking coupe. Awsome car!
The announcer said the 63 Riviera was the 1st personal luxury car. That wasn't correct. The 58 Thunderbird was. The Riviera was GM's answer to the Thunderbird but the Riviera was a superior car in every way to the 63 Bird. Better ride & handling better brakes & 3 seconds faster 0-60. Plus it was one of the most beautiful cars ever built imo. I owned a 96 & still miss it
Vroom vroom vroom! I like the engine. The 3800 series 2 V6 is legendary! The interior is nice, rich and clean, and you can spread out in sedan-like comfort. Its a car. I give it all to GM and Buick. All my love and comfort goes to the Riviera.
When I brought my '97 home in 2005, some people thought it was brand new, and a couple of people thought it was a Jaguar... As I said in a Rivlanta post, though, I don't know why they rushed it for 1995. '96 had OBD II, Series II S/C engine, and new AM/FM/cassette/CD & climate control... thus entailing new dash structure & face plate.
As someone in the particularly unique position of having owned both cars, I can honestly say that the Eldorado is hands down the worst car I've ever owned. Conservatively beautiful, but utterly useless.
@@Browningate Northstar head gasket issues are terribly common and horribly expensive. Buick 3800s certainly do have their issues (nothing is perfect), but common wear issues (like a lower intake manifold gasket rupture) are much cheaper to fix because you're not having to remove the entire front end to get at the problem.
@@nfullenwider The head bolt engineering flaw of the early Northstars is unfortunate, but that doesn't make the car "useless." Today more than ever, not that many Northstars prone to the problem are even still in circulation, as quite a lot of those have been scrapped, (or fixed properly) and then you're left with an engine that approaches the 3.8, in terms of overall dependability, coupled to a transmission that is vastly superior to the 4T65E, rendering the powertrain comparison a dead heat. From there, you're dealing with the same problems that affect most 25-year-old cars (rust, neglect, aging, etc.) more than anything else, so I wouldn't necessarily depend on either model as a daily driver today, but I certainly wouldn't consider any of them to be "useless."
First time I seen the 95 Riviera I thought it was ugly! As years went by it gradually started growing on me. Now I consider that car a very well built, unique sleek looking coupe. Awsome car!
XK8 first generation and this roadyaht - classic of biodesign!
The announcer said the 63 Riviera was the 1st personal luxury car. That wasn't correct. The 58 Thunderbird was. The Riviera was GM's answer to the Thunderbird but the Riviera was a superior car in every way to the 63 Bird. Better ride & handling better brakes & 3 seconds faster 0-60. Plus it was one of the most beautiful cars ever built imo. I owned a 96 & still miss it
Vroom vroom vroom! I like the engine. The 3800 series 2 V6 is legendary! The interior is nice, rich and clean, and you can spread out in sedan-like comfort. Its a car. I give it all to GM and Buick. All my love and comfort goes to the Riviera.
I love mine, and would love to have another.
Series 1 S/C was a pain to get stuff for because no one used it much.
I love mine too, and they only made 5k of them in 98
@@palmtree_04I'm glad to hear. I don't see many of these anymore.
When I brought my '97 home in 2005, some people thought it was brand new, and a couple of people thought it was a Jaguar...
As I said in a Rivlanta post, though, I don't know why they rushed it for 1995. '96 had OBD II, Series II S/C engine, and new AM/FM/cassette/CD & climate control... thus entailing new dash structure & face plate.
Космический аппарат...!!!
This video makes me want one of the lot
It's no Eldorado, but they certainly made an effort at uniqueness.
As someone in the particularly unique position of having owned both cars, I can honestly say that the Eldorado is hands down the worst car I've ever owned. Conservatively beautiful, but utterly useless.
@@nfullenwider In what way? And is the Riviera any less useless? If so, how?
@@Browningate Northstar head gasket issues are terribly common and horribly expensive. Buick 3800s certainly do have their issues (nothing is perfect), but common wear issues (like a lower intake manifold gasket rupture) are much cheaper to fix because you're not having to remove the entire front end to get at the problem.
@@nfullenwider The head bolt engineering flaw of the early Northstars is unfortunate, but that doesn't make the car "useless." Today more than ever, not that many Northstars prone to the problem are even still in circulation, as quite a lot of those have been scrapped, (or fixed properly) and then you're left with an engine that approaches the 3.8, in terms of overall dependability, coupled to a transmission that is vastly superior to the 4T65E, rendering the powertrain comparison a dead heat. From there, you're dealing with the same problems that affect most 25-year-old cars (rust, neglect, aging, etc.) more than anything else, so I wouldn't necessarily depend on either model as a daily driver today, but I certainly wouldn't consider any of them to be "useless."
Cadillac had nothing on that Buick it's in another class 😂
This video was done when GM has 32% of the US market. Now GM has 17% of the US marketshare.
This car took a step back from the previous gen.
The exterior styling is meh but I'll give that interior design 11/10. The dash panel is a work of art
All that yapping about the seats but even the brand new ones pictured have all these irregular wrinkles that make them look tired and worn out.
Don't insult classic Buick
Looked like a stretched Ford Contour
GM sucks today.