Buick Lucerne

The Buick Lucerne is a full-size car sold by the Buick division of General Motors that replaced the Park Avenue and the LeSabre in 2006. Although the rear-wheel drive GM Zeta platform was considered, the production Lucerne introduced at the Chicago Auto Show on February 9, 2005 rides on the revised H-body platform of the [...]

Buick Limited

The Buick Limited series was revived in 1958 as the ultimate Buick for the model year. In a model year where General Motors’s answer to Chrysler’s Forward Look was to update its 1957 Buicks and Oldsmobiles by slathering them in excessive amounts of chrome, the 1958 Buicks received the ultimate treatment. Each Buick Special, Century [...]

Buick LeSabre

The 2000 LeSabre was introduced in 1999 as the Buick LeSabre 2000, still as an H-body, but now on the G architecture – the H designation becoming a book code, and a marketing platform. In 2000, the LeSabre and Pontiac Bonneville were moved to the G platform, joining the 2nd generation of Oldsmobile Aurora. The [...]

Buick Invicta

The Buick Invicta (Series 4600) was a full-sized automobile produced by General Motors’ Buick Motor Division from 1959 to 1963. The Invicta was a continuation of the Buick Century concept that mated the standard size Buick LeSabre (pre-1959, Buick Special) body with Buick’s larger 401 in³ Nailhead V8 engine, yielding what was referred to as [...]

Buick Gran Sport

The Buick Gran Sport or GS was a high-performance option package available on a number of Buick models, including the Riviera and Wildcat. A special version of one model was given the package’s name as its model name. The 1965 Skylark Gran Sport was the intermediate Buick. Although a V8 was already offered in the [...]

Buick GL8

The Buick GL8 is a minivan sold by General Motors’ Buick division in China. Released in 2000, the GL8 is is similar to the Pontiac Montana. Many people tend to think the Buick Terraza was Buick’s first minivan, since the GL8 is exclusively sold in the Chinese market. It was redesigned for 2005; however, it [...]

Buick LaCrosse

The Buick LaCrosse made its debut in late 2004 as a 2005 model with the intention of replacing the popular Century and more sporting Regal midsize cars with a single model. Riding on a revised version of the W-body known as MS2000, the LaCrosse is available with two powerplant choices: a 3.8 L 3800 V6 [...]

Buick Estate

The first Estate Wagon was first offered on the 1940 Super model. It used a wooden body and was available on Buick’s larger “C” series (Super and Roadmaster) in the 1946-53 model years. Then it was offered the smaller “B” body Special, Century, LeSabre and Invicta with all steel bodies from 1954 to 1964. Among [...]

Buick Enclave

The Buick Enclave is a full-size crossover SUV launched in May of 2007 as a 2008 model by the Buick division of General Motors. The Buick Enclave, GMC Acadia and Saturn Outlook all share the new GM Lambda platform. The Enclave was previewed at the 2006 North American International Auto Show, officially as a concept [...]

Buick Electra

The Buick Electra and the Buick Electra 225 are full-size premium automobiles built by the Buick division of General Motors. The Electra name (in various manners) was used by Buick between 1959 and 1990. In 1985, a redesigned front-wheel drive Electra debuted with the new C platform. Sales began in April 1984, alongside the previous [...]