GTP Cool Wall: 1991-1996 Buick Roadmaster

[Jahgee]

1991-1996 Buick Roadmaster nominated by @Custom878

Engines: 5.0L V8 (L03), 5.7L V8 (L05), 5.7L V8 (LT1)
Power: L03: 170 hp; L05: 180 hp; LT1: 260 hp
Torque: L03: 255 lb-ft.; L05: 300 lb-ft.; LT1: 330 lb-ft.
Weight: Sedan: 1910 kg; Wagon: 2070 kg
Transmission: 4-speed automatic
Drivetrain: Front engine, rear wheel drive
Body Styles: 4-door sedan, 4-door wagon
Additional Info: "The wagon shares more body panels with the Caprice and was available with wood trim."​

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Sedan:

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[Slash]

Uncool; initially.

Fake wood panels and crappy luxury where going out of style with bland 90s styling, but the fact you can build a wicked sleeper out of one of these without anyone thinking otherwise is enough to bump it to a meh.

 

[SomePlayaDude]

What saves it from being on the highway to hell is that it has a V8. But it's not cool. At all. It's an insult to trees.

 

[RandomCarGuy17]

I'm going with uncool. It's generally just a boring 90's GM station wagon and fake wooden paneling is just always blahh to me. I will say one thing I do find cool about it, you can have one with a LT1 V8 engine.

 

[Spacegoat]

The Roadmaster wagon is one of my automotive guilty pleasures. I'm a sucker for wagons with a V8. An easy cool.

 

[LivingWithGames]

Meh is best vote I can do on this one. Could do cool but..eh.

 

[Jahgee]

Wood Panelling = Insta Sub Zero if it's from the 20th Century

 

[Doog]

The Roadmaster wagon has always struck me as being much too wide in the rear. The fact that these cars are so low in person does nothing to aid the cartoonish proportions. The wood paneling reminds me of the god awful wood treatment that was so popular on wagons in the seventies. Without the fake wood, these were vastly more attractive cars. Personally, I find the sedans to be superior namely due to their more restrained proportions, but I'm sure my sedan bias sways the opinion some. What I can say about all Roadmasters is that with the LT1, they offered pretty solid (though unremarkable today) performance for what they were. One of my favorite attributes about these B-Bodies in general was that with the towing package, they could haul up to 7,000 lbs. That's competitive with midsize SUVs and trucks in something that definitely was not a midsize SUV or truck, say what you will about that body on frame construction.

 

[Leonidae@MFT]

Seriously Uncool.

 

[SVT Cobra GT]

SU because of this;

powerful 180-horsepower 5.7 litre fuel-injected V-8 engine.

 

[niky]

I want one badly. But I'm capricious.

Which is sort of like the Caprice, only it doesn't share names with a half-dozen dime-a-dozen pornstars.

Sub-zero. Especially with the tacky wood trim.

 

[AudiMan2011]

Wood is better off on the inside of cars, not the outside. Uncool.

 

[Celicaas]

SU because of this;

L05 Engine was gutless and was around for 2 years
1992_1993

But you can have the best one the LT1 5.7 Which was sourced From chevrolet corvette C4

And it did 260 HP And it ran from 1994_1996

 

[Liquid]

 

[GTP_Ingram]

For some reason I have a soft spot for large, bland, mid-nineties American cars such as this. Don't judge me.

Still isn't cool though.

 

[Stotty]

SU

 

[Wiegert]

I don't dislike them, I'll admit. Even though the estate is probably the most '90s' people mover ever designed, while the saloon is more like the sort of thing a retired PI would have driven back then.

Not that it can save it from being seriously uncool.

 

[cjr3559]

Awful. Can't believe they were still making these after being "lampooned" 10 years prior:

 

[TheCracker]

I always quite liked its long, low and wide stance with the partially covered rear wheels, and it's (un-intentional) 'ironic' wood paneling. But as ccaranna pointed out above, you'll always look like Clark Griswold if you drove one. Uncool.

 

[Tornado]

Whale


Uncool

 

[Cano]

I have always always liked these thing, specially in wagon form. The fact that they were never sold here makes them even more lust worthy.

Still, they are impossibly uncool

 

[Adamgp]

Love these things, plus LT1.

Cool.

 

[SlipZtrEm]

I want one badly. But I'm capricious.

Which is sort of like the Caprice, only it doesn't share names with a half-dozen dime-a-dozen pornstars.

Sub-zero. Especially with the tacky wood trim.

Nickel for your thoughts?

Seriously Uncool. If you're driving it ironically, it's not cool. If you're not driving it ironically, people assume it doubles as your house, and your roommate is the crazy cat lady that yells at road signs.

 

[Cano]

your roommate is the crazy cat lady that yells at road signs.

that would almost make it cool.

 

[Wolfe]

Wagons can be cool, but an enormous lazy-engined lardass, with a wallowy suspension and braindead '90s automatic, from a dubious company during their most dubious era...that's several kinds of Uncool.

 

[All Your Base]

Very, very fugly. FR brings it to uncool.

 

[AlvaroF]

I kinda like the wagon to be honest, but god is it uncool!

 

[yabiggoose]

I like it, but it is uncool, borderline seriously uncool.

 

[niky]

Nickel for your thoughts?

LT1. Hur hur. Wagon. Hur hur. Automatic transmission smoky burnout. Hur hur. Me am Roadmaster. Hur hur hur.

Honestly, it's seriously uncool, but my brain switches off when I see words like Roadmaster. A smarter company could have made a mint off of that name and kept it going for eternity.

Give the SSR five doors and wood panelling... call it the Roadmaster X... it might have lived.

Give the Pontiac GTO five doors and wood panelling... call it the Roadmaster Junior... it might have lived.

Give the Camaro a wagon back and...

Hold on...

 

[yabiggoose]

Holy door length, Batman!