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Junkyard Gem: 1978 Buick Skylark Sedan

Checked seat fabric with big square buttons! The base engine in the 78 Skylark was the 3.8-liter Buick V6, rated at 110 horsepower. GM had invested in a new crankshaft design for this engine the year before, so it no longer had the odd-fire cut-down V8 crankshaft that shook the fillings out of so many drivers teeth in earlier years. An assortment of low-compression V8s from Oldsmobile, Chevrolet, Pontiac, and Buick were available as optional equipment as well, eventually leading to the Chevymobile lawsuits of a few years later. The base transmission in this car was a three-speed manual (I m not sure if you could still get a three-on-the-tree column-shift manual Skylark in 1978, but a three-on-the-floor manual was available for sure). The very last three-on-the-tree car Americans could buy was the 79 Nova and its Olds Omega/Pontiac Phoenix siblings, while the final three-on-the-floor cars were the 81 Malibu and siblings. This car has the optional three-speed automatic.

Tested: 1980 Cadillac Seville Elegante Diesel Oozes Luxury

Tested: 1980 Cadillac Seville Elegante Diesel Oozes Luxury Larry Griffin © André LaRoche - Car and Driver From the Archive: Slow and plush as it may be, Cadillac s new Seville embraces sybaritic excess. From the March 1980 issue of Car and Driver. Consider thumbs. The Cadillac Motor Car Division of General Motors Corporation surely never expected its new Seville to become heavily involved with thumbs, but it has. For instance, there are those who say the new design is all thumbs. Every one of us, in fact, is peering past the artistic thumb of his mind s eye, attempting to judge the visual perspicacity, or lack thereof, that went into this amazing apparition. It is stunning. On that, everyone agrees. But stunningly good or stunningly bad? And, beyond appearances, has Cadillac been sitting on its thumbs (there they are again), backpedaling away from the necessity for still further reductions in size and weight? Does Cadillac perceive us as sucking our thumbs a

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