Archive for the 'Buick' Category

2011 Buick GL8 Minivan Spied in China

In case you haven’t heard, Buick is a very successful brand in China. And here we have some spy shots of what will be the replacement for Buick’s GL8 minivan there.
This GL8 prototype spotted in China looks very similar to the Buick Business Concept which was introduced at the Auto Shanghai show in April […]

Monday, June 7th, 2010

First Drive: 2011 Buick Regal is a genuine German sports sedan

The thought of holding a vehicle launch drive for a new Buick sedan at Germany’s Nürburgring race track would have been considered utterly absurd 18 months ago to just about anyone except Jim Federico. Federico is General Motors’ vehicle line executive for its global mid-size car platform code-named Epsilon II. In those late pre-bankruptcy […]

Tuesday, May 11th, 2010

2011 Buick Regal returns with four-cylinder only engine lineup

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 around […]

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

Drive Experience:2010 Buick LaCrosse CXS

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 targeted […]

Monday, October 19th, 2009

First Drive: 2010 Buick Regal

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 […]

Saturday, May 23rd, 2009

First Look: 2010 Buick LaCrosse

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 […]

Saturday, January 10th, 2009

A Hunt for Big Game Yields a Trophy by G.M

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 […]

Thursday, September 27th, 2007