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Article: Park Avenue: tony address // Posh Buick a smooth cruiser // Flashback: 1995
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- Chicago Sun-Times
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- March 23, 1997
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This review originally appeared Aug. 5, 1995. The average
retail price of a 1995 Buick Park Avenue is $20,925-$23,425.
"It was a magnificent car; it could hold the road like a boat
holds on water. Gradual curves were its singing ease."
- Jack Kerouac, On The Road
Kerouac was writing about a 1947 Cadillac limousine in his
classic book, but he could just as well have been describing the big,
luxurious 1995 Buick Park Avenue sedan, which also does well on
gradual curves.
One high point of the $27,236 Park Avenue is its standard
205-horsepower V-6; it is essentially an all-new engine, compared
with the 170-horsepower base V-6 in the 1994 Park Avenue.
Buick is really proud of the new V-6, ...