1981 Buick Skylark Is the Perfect Car for You and Your Clones
When General Motors introduced the innovative front-wheel-drive Chevrolet Citation as a 1980 model, each of the other North American GM car divisions (except Cadillac) received their own versions.
Pontiac had the Phoenix, Oldsmobile got the Omega, and Buick applied the beloved Skylark name to their snazzed-up Citation. Here's a magazine advertisement for the second-year X-Body Skylark.
Yes, with the rugged Iron Duke engine shaking away under your Skylark's hood, fuel economy was good enough to banish those painfully recent memories of the Ayatollah's gas lines (though the 2.8-liter V6 drank just a single extra mile per gallon, city or highway). No wonder there had been a shortage of 1980 Skylarks!