Your just confused than. The info about the Turbo Buicks is all over the web. Please look it up and than see if your statement is silly ( I have provided many already). I spent the time to read up on the 500e and it looks to me as if it was an excellent car (better be for 80K) but still was NOT AS QUICK as a Turbo Buick T type , GN or GNX True? All the Turbo Buicks drive pretty much like REGULAR Buicks. Any links to prove otherwise? QUOTE "
The Buick Grand National harkens back to a time when American cars sucked fat donkey testes. Not only were they incredibly unreliable, looked boxy and awkward, and were wholly unsafe, they were ssssslow. Out of the Cadillac Cimarrons & Plymouth Sundances came the 1986 Buick Regal Turbo & its all black exterior cousin called the Grand National. It stood for luxury, performance, and technology. Featuring a 3.8 Liter V6 Turbocharged and Intercooled, the Turbo Regal was regarded as one of the only bright spots in terms of Domestic performance in the pre-OBD-II but post California Smog Legal era. Car and Driver reported a 4.9 second 0-60 *BONE STOCK* and the Turbo Buick was deemed the "Fastest US Production Car of 1987." Efficiency in the form of a vehicle, also known as the American Dream.
In the best car review (April '86 of Automobile Magazine) ever written, noted libertarian P.J. O'Rourke wrote, "The GN is not heir to the muscle cars, those stripped econmy coupes jammed with raw engine. Instead, it's a descendant of the great luxury performance monstrosities, like the 4000-pound 1964 Buick Wildcat with 401 cubic inches of V-8." The cars had power everything options in addition to eight speaker concert sound, PowerMaster brakes (they were better at the time), and a fuel economy approaching the mid-twenties on the freeway"