Archive for Category: "Buick"
Buick Virtual Visit NYIAS 2012
General Motors reserved a large wing of the Javits Center to display its wares at the 2012 New York Auto Show. Of the many cars it brought from its multiple auto brands, it did not neglect to bring some hardware from Buick. While the booth had many of the cars you would expect to see [...]
All Buicks Become Top Safety Picks
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) recently got their hands on the newest Buick, the compact Verano. It may be the brand’s smallest offering available, but packed into the tidy sedan is a plethora of safety bits and pieces that would make any of its brothers and sisters proud. Even still, the IIHS isn’t an [...]
The Buick Regal Gets Recalled
A select number of Buick Regal sedans are being recalled due to an issue with their parking lights. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), approximately 3,633 cars are being investigating by General Motors. All Buicks are 2012 model years which were manufactured between February 22, 2011 and February 22, 2012. The reasoning for the [...]
Buick’s eAssist Gains Ground
The standard gasoline/electric hybrid drive system is now fairly common place in the automotive industry, so it takes something truly unique to make some honest noise. Buick made a move in 2011 to do just that by introducing the eAssist powertrain for the Regal and LaCrosse sedans and now, they seem to be showing their worth. [...]
2013 Buick Enclave To Debut At NYIAS
It’s auto show season, and that means teaser photos. Lots and lots of teaser photos. The newest automaker to join in on the fun is Buick. Buick has announced it will be debuting it’s all-new 2013 Enclave, and here is a photo of it…. Sort of. What Buick has actually given us is a shadowy [...]
The Regal GS Joins The Buick Greats
Located in Sterling Heights, Michigan is a rather large warehouse with a rather large collection of historic vehicles. Among those are nine Buicks generally regarded as great monumental moments in the automaker’s history. Recently, one more pulled up next to the likes of the 1987 GNX, 1963 Riviera and 1947 Roadmaster Woody Wagon to become the [...]
Fight Old Man Winter With The Buick Verano
The 2012 Buick Verano may be the brand’s newest and smallest car in its line up but that doesn’t mean it lacks any of Buick’s special features. Packed into its tidy, Cruze-based size are items usually reserved for cars double the Verano’s size. When the car’s engineers set off to build their next baby Buick, they made sure [...]
Buick’s Turbo Ecotec: One of Ward’s 10 Best Engines
Displacing 2.0 liters and producing 270 horsepower, the turbocharged Ecotec found under the hood of the 2012 Buick Regal GS is GM’s most power-dense engine. It is now also one of WardsAuto World’s 10 Best Engines as well as being certified by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE). For the roundup, Ward’s looked at 35 engines from [...]
Buick Fighting To Keep LaCrosse eAssists on Lots
An automotive statistic that usually isn’t in the spotlight is the amount of time a car spends on dealership lots. The shorter the time from factory delivery to sale, the faster a company will have to act to pump out more units. On average, the newly released 2012 Buick LaCrosse eAssist spends only 14 days [...]
Buick’s Silver State Challenge Results
A few days ago, Buick announced that two of its engineers were entering the upcoming Regal GS into Nevada’s Silver State Classic speed challenge. Bill Rietow, GS lead development and John Townsend, GS drive quality powertrain engineers drove a stock, 270 horsepower sport sedan in the 120 mph Grand Touring class and walked away with the hot-rod Regal’s first official [...]
