The Acadian vehicles is one of the GM (General Motors) entries the open record knows by name and by date — in 1962, and by little else. That is not nothing: a name in the catalogue is where a car's story starts to be recoverable.
How it came about
Acadian is a make of automobile produced by General Motors of Canada from 1962 to 1971. The Acadian was introduced so Canadian Pontiac-Buick dealers would have a compact model to sell, since the Pontiac Tempest was unavailable in Canada. Plans originally called for the Acadian to be based on the Chevrolet Corvair, which was produced at GM's Oshawa plant; however, the concept was moved to the Chevy II platform to be introduced for 1962. The brand was also offered in Chile, with models built in Arica.
Family and rivals
Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Ferrari 250 GTO, the Alfa Romeo Giulia, the Maserati Quattroporte — show what else the money bought that year. Its GM (General Motors) stablemates include the 1955 Chevrolet and the 1957 Chevrolet.
What it costs now
There is no federal ownership record for the Acadian vehicles — it predates the complaint database or was never sold in the United States — so MotorJury publishes no running-cost figure for it. For a car of this age the price is set by the collector market and the condition of the individual example, not by a formula.