When the folks at Buick were ready to launch their latest attempt to lower the average age of a loyal customer base that is ripening faster than blue cheese in the sun, they decided to look to the past to find the future.
The result: It designed the new Lucerne with four holes on each front quarter panel, rimmed in chrome. Back in the day (circa Buick mid-1950s) they were called VentiPorts and were considered a sign of moving on up.
But in 2006, let's just call them ports. They do the trick, transforming, at least from the side, a sedan that could have been mistaken for any number of foreign cars, but not for a Buick.
The holes say Buick. And they are joined by a low nose, raked windshield, and humped rear deck.
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