Once up a time in the ’80s, it was fashionable in Detroit to create so-called Euro-sedans by taking conventional mainstream grandma-mobiles and painting all the chrome black, dispensing with the white walls and installing overly stiff springs. Fortunately, those dark days are gone and General Motors and Ford at least have gotten their heads […]

While the world wasn’t looking — its attention was focused on GM black eyes like private-jet flame-outs, bankruptcy paperwork, and brand closings — Buick quietly released a midsize sedan that stole all the spotlights in the theater.
No sense being coy about “The L Word.” With its new-for-2010, Epsilon II-platform Buick LaCrosse, Buick has clearly […]

How’s this for culture shock? I’m driving a German-designed Buick alongside a Korean-designed Chevy through the streets of a Chinese city. Welcome to the future of General Motors. GM plans to double its sales in China over the next five years, to two million units. “China remains the centerpiece of our global growth strategy,” GM […]

Buick won’t recapture its glory days, which hearken back to the late 1930s to mid-1950s — far too long ago for target buyers — with the 2010 Buick LaCrosse. Still, the LaCrosse represents a nice second step in its renaissance, begun two years ago with the Enclave crossover. The Buick LaCrosse is General Motors’ first […]

WE are hunting moose in northern New Hampshire, a predatory band of three adults and two children in the new Buick Enclave. 
Nicely equipped in all other respects, our 2008 Enclave lacks a gun rack, but that is not a problem on this hunt. While this state does allow moose hunting — a pursuit that strikes […]