2010 Buick LaCrosse sedan unveiled

A long series of teasers and spy shots have given hints at what the 2010 Buick LaCrosse would look like, but today General Motors has revealed the whole package just ahead of the start of the Detroit Auto Show. While the design is completely fresh, the car is also "instantly recognizable as a Buick" says Ed Welburn, vice president of GM Global Design. Key styling elements, including the 'sweep spear' side feature, portholes in the hood and the waterfall grille carry over classic Buick traits. The LaCrosse had originally been planned for a debut at the 2008 Los Angeles Auto Show, but that was pushed back due to cash shortfalls at the end of the year as GM pulled out of the show entirely. 2010 Buick LaCrosse sedan

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2008 Buick LaCrosse Super Review

Normally, driving a car with a stonking V8 engine powering the front wheels is like watching Michael Moore and Rush Limbaugh make out. It's so wrong on so many levels. Can you squeal like a pig? Just so. Will that pig's snout dart about like an amphetamine-crazed truffle-sniffer? Uh-huh. But here's the kicker: what if it doesn't? And what it you, uh, like it? Does that make you a deviant pistonhead? No, it makes you a closet fan of the quietly nutty, deeply cool Buick LaCrosse Super.

 

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Buick Enclave Review [Take Two]

Engineers will tell you, "Quick, cheap, good: pick any two." For its first whack at a three-row crossover, GM opted for quick and cheap, and gave us the Buick Rendezvous. Admittedly, the model sold in decent volume-- but not because it was quick or good. For 2008, we have Take Two. The Buick Enclave's styling has already generated far more buzz than the Rendezvous elicited during its entire six-year run. But does the rest of the vehicle measure up to the sensuous sheetmetal?

 

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2007 Buick Enclave Review

When better cars are built, Buick will build them. Meanwhile, they're building CUV's. Huh? An automotive brand whose lack of identity has kept it on life support for well over a decade wants a piece of a vehicular genre that's a little bit of this, a little bit of that, and nothing in particular. GM's willingness-- make that "eagerness"-- to throw Buick a CUV-shaped, badge-engineered bone demonstrates the corporate mothership's abject and ongoing inability to devise a coherent plan to resuscitate its "damaged" (i.e. terminal) Buick brand. What is it with these guys?

 

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Buick LaCrosse CXL Review

They come from around the world to duke it out in the US of A: mid-size sedans from Germany, Japan and South Korea.  Each arrives armed with a unique selling point: German engineering, Japanese quality and South Korean value.  Their upbringings differ but their mission is the same: capture the hearts and minds of Middle American car buyers-- and keep them.  The clear winner in this automotive Battle Royale is the American consumer, who's never enjoyed so much quality and choice for so little money.  Meanwhile, once stalwart American brands and models are falling by the wayside, as their "foreign" competition continues their ceaseless campaign for mid-market hegemony.  One such victim is the Buick LaCrosse CXL.

 

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Buick Lucerne CXS Review

Electra Waggoner Biggs was born a Texas cattle and oil man's daughter, but left the Lone Star State for Bryn Mawr, Columbia and the Sorbonne.  Upon her return she became a revered sculptress, best known for her work "Into the Sunset," memorializing cowboy actor Will Rogers.  In 1959, the President of Buick (and Electra's husband's brother-in-law) named a flagship sedan after the middle aged Texan.  Today's Buick Lucerne is named after a quaint Swiss tourist trap, with only a failed peasant's revolt to its name.  And there you have it: Buick has tossed away decades of brash Americana for subdued Euro-style.  That's beyond stupid.

 

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