Remember when Chevy tried to jump on the Taurus design bandwagon? They built something that looked like a giant watermelon on wheels. Think it might have been a Caprice.
Chevy's answer to the Taurus was the Lumina, I believe. Another name that will go down in mediocrity.
Honey, I just bought a brand new Lumina!
The GM engineers I worked with back in the day called it a "hippopatamus in a tutu"
Yes, the Caprice 94-96 looked like Shamu. But some of them had a basic version of the Corvette engine in them that is a tuner's dream: the ultimate sleeper car, if you bolt the right stuff on there.
And the 96 Impala SS came off the assembly line as a four-door sedan with the heart of a muscle car.