2005 Buick LeSabre Custom: Regular Car Reviews

From the GM fleet comes your chariot of childhood memories: The Buick LeSabre Custom. It's your parent's car you get to use for the first time to go bowling with your friends!

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[RyanMoran]

This one hits home. I’m an Aussie, but did a semester of uni (college) in North America. I bought one of these, an ‘01, for $1100 in Canada and it was ruuuusty. Had a hole in the chassis! I was a naiive 19 year old with no idea roads got salted. It was too late though, so I paid some Egyptians for a safety certificate, in the promise it was going to the scrapyard when my visa ran out. Drove it all the way to Key West FL, then back up to Nashville, finally to New York. 15k miles in 6 months. Packed it full of tents and clothes and cookers and junk. Wheel bearing went in Raleigh NC and got it fixed for like $90. The mechanic offered to buy the car, but I still needed it. Ended up breaking my promise and selling it (with full rust disclosure) for $350. That 6 months was without a doubt the best time of my life. And I miss that car dearly 😢

[aaronswink]

2005 Buick LeSabre Custom: The Official Car of "When Grandpa dies, this'll be yours!"

[danhughes]

It breaks my heart that Buick will never build a car this good ever again

[lol]

The way, Mr. regular describes youth makes me nostalgic for a high school experience I didn’t have.

[hemichanga]

These G platform cars with a 3800 will run like shit longer than most cars will even run.

[Eric_Hunt]

I heard that when Tommy Fenstermacher rides the bus, he has to mime putting on a non-existent seatbelt when he sits down, otherwise his body thinks its on the toilet.

[DrSanchezMD]

Literally going to look at 2002 park ave later today. This is a sign, I'm buying it

[chkndnts]

*didnt bash on the car for 30 minutes straight
*Is actually a regular car
*didn't circlejerk toyota
*no obnoxious jokes

Wow this feels like a classic one!

[chez]

This is the first non gold one I have ever seen in my life.

[johnnychen]

Every 30-40 year-olds that went to highschool in North America knows this feeling, but very few could describe it with words in this way.

[Scootas.way]

My grandma just passed away 2 months ago and I’ve been driving her LeSabre for the time being. Great highway cruiser car and only 167k miles.

[kristopherhunter]

I sold these new and there was a consistent line of elderly people who would bring in their 10-20-30-40 year old Lesabres and trade right into a new one. I had a grandpa with a Lesabre with 350, 000 miles that looked brand new and a grandma with a 70s Lesabre that also looked brand new. Some if the nicest people you could ever meet.

[djcybernate]

Thank you for the flashbacks to when I was 17, working at McDonald's, playing Brock Hampton through an fm transmitter in my mom's Corolla. Thank you, Mr regular, for reminding me of a summer I never grew out of. A moment right before the pandemic upended my senior highschool year. When I would show all my car friends your "Impreza RS 2JZ swap" video and rejoice when they would laugh as hard as I did the first time I saw it. You make my monday lunch breaks the most refreshing part of my day. Now it's monday morning and I'm enjoying a paid vacation day I took because I knew I was DJing until 2AM last night, and who doesn't want to play TF2 all night after playing the club? I hope you make it back to Bradenton Florida someday so I can shake your hand. I'm gonna go listen to the all the Saturation albums again while I trim my horrendously overgrown hedge. Once more, thank you, Mr. Regular, never stop being yourself. You are loved.

[SplashMountain_EpicSave]

Came for the car review, left with existential dread

[zenoooooo]

I still drive a 92 LeSabre, it is still beloved. No music but cassettes, no hurry, an awful slushy 4 speed automatic, but I love it dearly. I've never been more comfortable in a vehicle.

[masterfulmuffin]

Wonderful video. 2005 fell right on the heart of my teenage years and rolling around in these boats with friends to catch cheap movies, wander the mall, headbang in basements, and smoke shitty weed was how we found our way.

Yet another reminder that Mr. Regular and The Roman, even 10 years on, are among the best writers this platform has on offer.

[kevinrams]

Great writing on this one, the nostalgia with the yearings of the later years. Thank you RCR!

[blahmooblah]

I literally drove this car with my grandpa who couldn’t drive anymore smoking his cigar in the back. A car to make memories with your pleasant grandpa, he’s the most comfortable with you which is why you drove him around that summer, his last gesture to you, a cutout cartoon from the Sunday Funnies for your college dorm door. I still have it 😉

[jasondiaz]

My next door neighbor and the last WW2 veteran I know had one of these as his last car. Pat Malvone a barrel chested NYC goomba. He worked the Rail Road in Boston Massachusetts in the depression was drafted in 1940, was in Operation Torch the Invasion of North Africa, hated the French for shooting at him. He was a 2.5 deuce and a half truck driver He later fought in Sicily where he hit a mine. All he remembers is waking up with his steering wheel in his hand on the side of the road. He raised two kids Robert and Janet after the war with his wife Agnes. He drove for the MTA NYC Bus and retired in 1982. He played 18 homes of golf even after hip surgery and died in November 2021 from Cancer at 101 Years old. He js buried in Calverton National Cemetery with his wife.

[harrisonthorburn]

That story at the beginning got me today. I'm about to turn 30, and that is exactly what teenager-hood felt like. Untethered from jobs, mortgages, bills, and adulthood. I'm always amazed at how good you guys are at bringing together cars, nostalgia, philosophy, and just life. Cheers gents.