Talk:Buick Riviera

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I incline to reject the accented European spelling of coupe as added in the last edit. The word is never spelled or pronounced that way in the U.S., and the Riviera had no significant presence abroad. Barring good arguments to the contrary, I'll probably revert. RivGuySC 17:29, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I agree - such spelling is out of place in a U.S. model. --SFoskett 00:51, Jun 6, 2005 (UTC)

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ArgentLA's last revisions have done a good bit to clean up and organize the article, but I have a couple of doubts. I don't think the '71-'76 run constitues two generations. The only major difference that occured in '74 was the substitution of the notchback roof for the boat-tail. And I'm not sure that the '86 should be said to share the Regal chassis. The Regal didn't go front-drive until '88. RivGuySC 17:46, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

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The infobox is good, but there's some confusion as to the competition. I don't think the Cougar is a good choice--it was either a pony car or an intermediate personal luxury car, not in either case competitive with the fullsize Riviera. The Chrysler LeBaron was also too small. There were really ever only five fullsize PLC's - Thunderbird (before '77), Riviera, Toronado, Eldorado, and Mark. Those are what I think should go in the box. RivGuySC 23:47, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

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Who uses newton-meters? seriously--Nytemunkey 17:10, 4 October 2006 (UTC)