6 gallons per mile

😂😂😂😂😂😂

Yeah but gas was like 50 cents a gallon back then so no one really gave a flying fuck about fuel economy...because it was cheap.

0to 60 in 10 gallons!!!

@@RingoYote I remember this being the reason my dad said Honda would never make it. "Who cares about 30 mpg when gas is so cheap." So he shorted Honda alot.....dumb thinking

Dean Churchman good one ☝️

A Tesla With huge, hairy balls and a 410 v8

It's a Koenigsegg Regera

Tesla: 0 - 60 < 3s; Buick LeSabre: 0 - 60 : yes

Tesla - 0-60 in 3 seconds LeSabre - 0-60 in 3 gallons

That is called Smilies per Gallon.

@@wobblysauce Or "Why the hell did I buy this?" if you expected more.

Or 'Oh, you know its economy' as you like a cigar with a 100dollar bill.

Oh,come on now,let's not exaggerate - it most likely got about 8 mpg in stop and go driving,and about 12 - 14 mpg highway if you kept your speed down.These cars also needed regular tune ups and carburetor maintenance to get their best fuel economy...

@@frankgiaquinto1571 He's full of shit. These cars got on thr mid teens on the hwy. Christ, my 61 Lincoln 430 gets 14 on the HWY. Buick wouldn't have been able to compete.

WoodstaS I love this, thank you, I'm stealing it

I Like Ike!

Eisenhower was out of office BEFORE this car was built!

@@TheOzthewiz True, But the driveline is based on 1956 technology.

@@TheOzthewiz ya but all of the hooplas seeds at middle east planted at his time.

Nope, those Dynaflows are HUGE and made of cast iron. They just aren't very long, that's all.

Nah. I've got a '64 Le Saber Sedan. Same frame, but with a 425 and a Turbo 400. Same floor. Three gears in the tranny make a difference. I've gotten as much as 17 miles per gallon in what is basically the same car. Same doors, same glass, slightly different fenders, hood, trunk lid and quarter panels. I cheated, though. The engine and transmission are out of a 79 Cadillac. And I did some major frame cutting to move everything back so that most of the engine is behind the front axle. I also put modern front disc brakes on it using a bracket kit from Scare Bird. Front brakes are basically 1999 two wheel drive Chevy half ton pickup truck rotors with 79 Cadillac El Dorado calipers and pads and the soft lines off of a 76 Buick Skylark. It looks mostly stock, except for a massive skid plate in front of the oil pan and a big Griffin aluminum radiator you can see through the grille.

@@johnbutler1323 Le Sabre

@ Joel Sanford Le Sab _er_

@@Bartonovich52 Google it

I see you're trying to compete with a cruise liner...

You mean gallon per feet

@@AnonyDave They didn't call these cars "land yachts","land barges" or "boats" for nothing.

Buick Lesabre, the car that makes brown town discoloured

Itz_ Fez-Tex They gonna play in the mud!!!

So that's what it was, having those problems rn, so that sounded familiar.

Naw we only drive Deuces. F-- that LeSabre

Actual CVTs have been in cars since (just) before the dawn of the 20th century though.

And the benefit with this over a real CVT is that even though you're getting horrendous fuel efficiency, it's not gonna break as easily (looking at you Nissan)

@@boheyoYes. The first one in a production car was made by the Dutch DAF company.

It sucked and cvt sucks. Nobody has a good thing to say about them they r junk

​@@claytonator3437nissan and Toyota makes good CVTs

when shifting to low wasnt automatic

Chevy had the turboglide - similar to the dynaflow as an upgrade from the powerglide

torqueflite: now your just pushing my buttons!

The Dynaflow actually had two forward gears which were identical to those in the Powerglide. The difference was the Dynaflow couldn’t automatically shift. Buick designed it this way for smooth acceleration with no perceptible “shifts” but had to use that fancy torque converter to allow for a 1:1 ratio from a standing start. Shifting to L changes it to the 1.8:1 low gear. The torque converter stator positions are only affected by throttle position.

dynaflow with the nail head was a great combination as long as you kept up the maintenance on it.

Skydrag.V60 kept ya waiting with that metal gear reference huh?

except that wasn't venom snake in the hospital, it was his body double the medic

King Bones yeah. Venom Snake

King Bones Venom Snake was the one who took all the shrapnel for Big Boss, thus they put him in a coma for 9 years, gave him plastic surgery and transferred Big Boss’ memories over. The joke is that the power steering‘s so light that Venom Snake, weak as hell from just waking up from his coma, could steer it

​@@Skydrag.V60 edit: god damn it now you're messing me up

Tesla has one gear.

@@calvinnickel9995 i think he means because it has very bad fuel economic. I don't know why that is good considering this car is super slow

@@catinthehat5140 yeah I own a 1963 Chevy 2 with a 2 speed and it’s slow, you go about 30 up hill with your foot down

@@calvinnickel9995 Yep!

@@The.jokes.on.you1997 The Chevy Powerglide was essentially the same concept as the Buick Dynaflow. Chevrolet and Buick were more "brothers in blood" mechanically (in the days when GM divisions had more individual control) than they were the rest of the General Motors line. Buick and Chevy had OHV engines for YEARS while say, Cadillac and Pontiac were STILL flatheads, for years Chevy and Buick employed the enclosed torque tube dive shaft, ETC. Buick was the foundation of General Motors, So it makes sense that the "base" brand (Chevrolet) should be that tightly connected to the "founding" brand, Louis Chevrolet WAS a race car driver for...Buick!

While the Regera only has one gear, there is no torque converter being used, unlike with the Buick.

no1DdC The whole point of Koenigsegg Direct Drive is that 'Why didn't anyone think about just using a torque converter?' And so he did with the assistance of two electric motors. One at the motor, the other at the axle.

@@no1DdC it has a torque converter, there is even a video of Christian Von Koenigsegg explaining it.

@@Looptydude I thought it was using a clutch-like system to emulate the function of a torque converter.

Speaking of "distilled", have you seen my windshield washer fluid reservoir?

and the reality that the boomers ruined everything.

No lowballers I know what I've got

Gonna have to take u up on that offer buddy 1 speed is good enough for me

Come on man give me Atleast 3 gears :(

I have one speed, one gear... _go._

One gear automatics make my little boy saluting to gen eisenhower

It's even less than the M35A2 Deuce and a Half, and that's a giant truck.

ahem its a 2 speed...

car doesn't get 6mpg stock. idk what world they are living in. in fact nailhead powered cars usually got the best mpg compared to the other makes from gm. 16-18 mpg highway was possible.

Imagine the heat this thing generates

Forget diesel, a gasoline 454 truck would get 8 LOADED

Hoooly shit. About 8x more distance per drop of fuel. Insane

Better then what they have now. Damn electric hybrid

it will dinosaurs were really big lots of oil out of them in the earth's bountiful vagina.

@@joshuaherpolsheimer3541 Not at all even.

Algae, not dinosaurs, but yes, that was certainly the attitude at the time.

@@consoleconceptshd6371 The only thing that I have had go wrong on older cars outside of normal maintenance was points and carburetor needs to be retuned. The other stuff happens to modern cars too, such as alternators, water pumps, etc

Similar to the "Fordomatic" in the "mini-bird", normally starts in second and shifts to third, except when flooring it at standstill then it drops into lo!

it's a Super-Turbine 300 with autism

Kyle Soler same here. I thought the Powerglide was as low as you can go but we’ve been proven wrong.

Yeah This is news to me as well, but what did I know? I still have my dad's 1998 version of this car.

1953 C1 corvette ?

It is

I can’t imagine thee engine noise!

There was a fire in the Hydramatic plant in 1950 and a bunch of Cadillacs got Dynaflows put in them. The only one I ever saw had a self winding clock in the bottom spoke of the steering wheel. I think that is so you can tell it had a Dynaflow, at least that is what the guy that owned the junkyard said.

1953 is when that fire occured.

​@@NickTwisp80 I saw one of those cars in a Junkyard back in the 1980s and thought it was odd to see a two-speed shifter in a Cadillac. It's too bad the car got scrapped; despite it's inferior performance, it had an interesting history.

lostinthemasses it’s a good time

My 68 LeSabre had one, with the floor pedal ebrake. Effortless stuff and I miss it to this day (my hs car in the 80s).

They're awesome and that's coming from someone whose only experience with a floor-mounted dim-dip was a 1978 Ford F600 where your left foot managed not only the beam but the washers as well (via a rubber bladder!) and of course the clutch with its 200-pound return spring which demanded you wear the safety belt lest any attempt to declutch instead lead you to simply stand up. But it was a great truck, with its 3+low "Rock Crusher" transmission and its 7.10 gears and air-over-hydraulic brakes which, in contrast to the clutch, have 1/3 pedal travel that does almost nothing, a threshold that if incautiously crossed will cause you to again experience the necessity of the safety belt as four tons of truck stops in its own length. The only time you get the pedal below 1/2 way is when the brakes fail (and the do) and, in the immortal words of C.W. McCall, "Pedal went clear to the floor; staid right there on the floor, sorta like steppin' on a plum". Fortunately you are provided an emergency brake, a charmingly railroadesque Johnson bar that will put you in mind of "The Wreck of the Old 97" as you bring it under control with the rear drums alone. The extremely low gearing makes a brake failure much more manageable than in other vehicles I have had it happen in, however. So you could say it kept the left foot busy. I really don't understand why, in light of the proliferation of the automatic gearbox, some duty hasn't been given back to the left foot, whose idleness is often explicitly accepted by virtue of a little footrest in the wheel well. The old-timey floor-mount dim-dip was troublesome if it rusted out, because it was a hole through the body (it existed in the first place because it saved the cost of a hardened relay able to switch the full battery current, which was an extremely specialized piece of equipment in those days, and very costly, if it was available at all) but nowadays it could easily be a simple rugged switch that sits above the floorboards and vapor barrier and whatnot, but car manufacturers continue their love affair with stalks as if they have the world's most insatiable stiffy for a D&D Beholder which remains stubbornly erect because there's nowhere to stick your dick on one of those things...

My 88 F150 has one.

Yes, bring these back! Maybe we could start a trend of modding modern cars with these floor switches

4th gear is usual 1:1, but yeah... Ouch

Not really, the torque converter gives more torque at the wheels when it's slipping (it converts slip to torque (and heat)). A slipping clutch only produces heat when slipping, it doesn't change output torque.

Yeah but as they said, it's the equivalent for a manual.

Poor family planning at it’s finest.

I suppose a handful of boomers were conceived in those.

And it even has enough room to entertain them 'sturdy gals' too.

And enough room to doggy a chubby girl on a drunken night stooper

Baby boom ended when cars lost their bench seats.

300 mph Buick Le sabre.

Somehow get a way to put a tesla motor in there, and you'll get a Ghetto Regera lol

@@falafel2964 use the GM eCOPO Camaro engine instead.

May I complain about his pronunciation of "nucular"?

Came to say this. L is a separate gear on a planetary but needs to be manually selected. Definitely 2 speed trans.

@@cyclonejohnny1 Actually 4 speed because both D and L had passing gear. Put it to the floor and passing gear would kick in and last to around 70. It would put the 283 cars to shame without passing gear. You could keep up with them with plenty of pedal left, and then gracefully pull away and wave goodbye. All with one smooth grear. Want to put the hammer down and floor it, hold on to the steering wheel (no seat belts) and let the passing gear work. To make it into a drag car. Drop it in low, stand on the brake, put the gas pedal to the floor, release th pe break. Low will be in passing and when it upshits you have to shift to drive. Drive will be in passing. Around 70 passing will kick out. Yes, I have burned the clutch packs out.

what? the similar number is 15.3 15.3 MPG ~ 15.3 l/100Km

Blake you got the almighty heart from Mr. R. Feel inspired. 😂

Dude, that's true! XD

Best sounding lawnmower I've ever heard.

Probably makes similar power numbers to.

@@nathanmcdonald610 yeah if a Briggs makes 300 hp 410 ft lbs at the crank

That's because Koenigsegg put thought into their design.

@@deusexaethera you really missed the joke there pal

thank you somebody knows

Enjoy being technically correct, because it has no real world meaning. The car is effectively a single gear machine, the same way you dont consider a truck with a 2 speed T case to have a 6 speed because its paired to a 5 speed manual. People actually try that BS with the 4wd Civic transmission sometimes, claiming its a 6 speed. Its a 5 speed with a low gear for off road driving. You can't realistically drive the car shifting through all 6 gears.

Except that you can shift this transmission at speed and quite easily. The 4WD low range comparison is meaningless. A more meaningful one would be the Corvette 4 + 3 since you can use the inline overdrive to create more gears. Just like you can split ratios on a semi or use different ranges on the crank of your bicycle. It’s still an 18 speed or a 21 speed even though you can’t easily row through the gears in order of ratio.

I dunno, this one still works;)

Correct. The engine RPM provides the radial force and the turbine is always moving the same RPM as the engine. The stator receives the power with fluid coupling and sends the power to the driveshaft. The “switch pitch” stator design will change the stall speed by slipping the coupling rate which increases torque multiplication. There is 2 gears. Drive is 1:1 direct and Low selection is 1.8:1.

Maybe you could make your own ethanol still for long trips...

@@SupaFlyJedi Hey, people used to cook their lunch on a car engine with a little "cook box" kit or whatever it was, probably attached to the exhaust manifold. Get your bacon in there, and maybe 35 minutes later, stick some eggs in. 10 minutes after that, get your bread and onion out and have an egg bacon and onion sandwich at the rest stop.

Same here brother.

Got that right! My Dad had a black '62 Electra loaded with power everything. Badass car powered by the 401 nailhead. Bulletproof!

I don't like 6 mpg and filling up unleaded plus. I'll take a plastic car making 35 mpg on regular today.

Oh go back to watching Mannix and don´t wind yourself up over the stuff your doughter keeps buying you.

The 1962 Buick Lesabre Has the Same Type of Transmission You'd Find in a Koenigsegg Regera

Jalopnik is still too busy filming JDM imports in SWVA or making another awful "lets see what's parked on the streets of NYC" video...

Cancerous site.

'When I'm driving in my LeSabre, its easy to get right inside her. I say baby, scoot over please, and then shes right there on top of me'

Can you name the truck with 4 wheel drive, smells like a steak and seats 35? It drives real slow with the hammer down, its the country fried truck endorsed by a clown. Canyonero.

@@Boemel 2 yards long, 2 lanes wide, 65 tons of American pride! Canyonero! Canyonero! Top of the line in utility sports, Unexplained fires are a matter for the courts! Canyonero! Canyonero! She blinds everybody with her super high beams, She's a squirrel-squashin', deer smackin' drivin' machine, Canyonero! Canyonero! Canyonero! Whoa, Canyonero! Whoooooaaaa!

MCBAIN!

I have an F1 engine

it doesn't

I don't think this example runs all that well.

The nailhead sucked, but so did all of the original emissions motors. It was the great twin skidmarks on the underpants of automotive history. Oh well. Let's be glad that twin injection has begun.

The Chinese actually buy Buicks unlike the entire rest of the world.

Chinese built Opels with Buick badges if you want to be accurate.

Ha us too 😆

Do you realise that at 9000 rpms your S2000 is pulling the same amout of air as the 401 at 2700rpm

@@MrTheMiguelox that's definitely weird to think about lol.

The Life Of Riley nice

actually, "no" would make more sense

My grandfather bought a pink and white 1956 Buick Special Riviera [hardtop] 4-door which I drove a lot, so I'm very familiar with Dynaflush and nailheads. He was afraid of power steering, so the gigantic white steering wheel gave leverage to the incredibly slow and heavy steering. It was like watching someone operate a windlass. And my 4'10" grandmother drove the car too. She could parallel park it! By the way, the 3800 V6 sounds very similar to the nailhead.

My brother had a 63 LeSabre 4 door sedan with the 401 4V in the late 60's. What a fine road car!

@@robertchandler2573 I love taking it on road trips. It eats potholes. It may be slow from a stand still but it really shines on the highway.

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I had a 1966 LeSabre,we never did Christen the back seat,front seat worked just fine!! Total whore buggy?!😂😎

Nope

I got 7-10 mpg.

No

@blackandgold51 I own a 77 continental and get about 8-10 pmg. I don't know in what universe they got "decent mpg"

@blackandgold51 and?

My Lincoln has a 3 speed and so is my friend's Cadillac. Still, we get gallons per mile.

Eh, more like up to 76 (GM) and 78 (Ford.) I had an 84 Caprice, they're not all the same from 77 - 90 but mine had the 305 and an Overdrive trans. I almost always got 20 MPG in it (give or take a little) in rural Pennsylvania driving.

Is this some horse head on the bed kinda thing ?

@@C4H10N4O2 Aah. Aaaaahhhh. AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH.

you should send him the owners manual that states that it's a 2 speed

Are fixies still a thing? They were popular 10 years ago, and that is more than long enough to go back out of date.

I daily drive a 61 it's not that bad

Claudio Bizama a 25 gallon fuel tank

You see this car, diesel brodozer owners? THIS is Prius Repellant.