1991 Buick Regal Gran Sport | Retro Review 

Beautiful high quality cars brother

Of course it is!!! You CAN'T kill a 3.8!!!!!!

The 3800. One of the best things to come out of Detroit. Did you write a check for that milk? 😎

​@@a.person7825haha yes!!😂

Oh wow that’s impressive

I don't understand the Legend as a competitor. Acura is a premium brand. The Regal was a competitor to the Taurus, Spirit, Accord and Camry, etc. I think even those days it was probably a 3rd or 4th place among those. The Accords and Camrys of those days were just reliable plane Jane cars. I believe when Camry went large in 92 or 93, it just was levels above the competition in refinement.

Acura Legend was the TLX of today....a fancied up Accord.

Believe it or not I had both a 92 Legend LS (5 speed) sedan and much later I had a ‘93 Buick Regal sedan with the 3800 engine. I definitely will say they were not comparable. But the Buick was much better than I expected it to be. I bought mine with 70k miles and 8 years old as a train station car. I ended up keeping it for 6 years and 40k more miles. Mostly trouble free I might add. As a bonus, the regal with its skinny tires and weight mostly up front made it unstoppable in the snow.

@@chriscornelius2518 Buick was a "near luxury" brand, as was Acura. What Buick was to Chevy, Acura was to Honda. Even though the Legend was Acura's flagship car, it competed more closely with an entry point Lexus ES300 than it did the flagship Lexus LS400.

@@milfordcivic6755 The Legend had its own platform and a completely different powertrain layout from the Accord. The Vigor used the Accord platform.

@JDns-we4fw interesting, Commodore is large size here but probably similar size as mid sedan in US? I reckon if US got our VP, VR rest of series you love GM brand more? Don’t get wrong I don’t mind square looking, high spec interior features but GM US cars were showing their age compared to rest GM world cars.

It was a heavy solid door. The seatbelt was inside the door itself so that gives an extra sound. Nothing cheap about these cars man! Three times the quality back then compared to now.

The later ones were supercharged. The turbo 3.8L didn't make it past 1989,, though it was an underrated engine that GM didn't like to use much after the Grand National/GNX went away.

@@FoDaddy Yes that's right!👍

LITER***

Apple got their inspiration here 😮

You've clearly never touched one of them doors. Much more solid than imports of the time

My father's regal was sidestepped on the freeway when I was a boy in the backseat. All it needed was paint! I remember the woman who hit us showing up at our home with her husband later, her car was crumpled all up the side. Very solid body for its size

In person they read just fine, got a 94 with the same dash 🤷‍♂️

All seatbelts on GMs were door mounted

No Buick V6 not Northstar, It is a derivative of Buick/Rover V8.

It’s a very simple understressed engine that has a cam in block and not much to go wrong. I believe it’s been produced in one form or other since the early 60’s. Anyone I know who’s owned one only had praise for them

​@@RobertSmith-le8wpOriginally developed by Buick for a downsized (By 60's standards) engine. It was rough and didn't sell well so they sold the machining to Kaiser-Jeep. Who used it in their trucks and Jeep Wagoneer. I think they also built and sold the engine for other manufacturers. When GM wanted to build a new V-6 some engineers went to an auto salvage yard to pick up various engines for testing. They found an old Jeep 231 V6 and realized it was their old design. Eventually GM bought back the tooling that AMC, who owned Jeep at the time, had put away in storage. The original 3.8/3800 prototypes were built using that equipment. I assume GM eventually made new tooling when it was approved for mass production. It should be noted that the GM 3.8 shares displacement and many parts with the 3800, and have a common lineage, there are enough improvements that the 3800 is often considered a separate engine. It was the next generation 3800 (1995?) when it really began to show it's potential for both smoothness and to withstand upgrades in power.

Hmm disagree 🤔

No the second gen cars were far better...I had both

@JDns-we4fw So true…🤔🤨