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2011 Buick Regal: First Drive
We drove the European spec Insignia against the Regal and believe it or not, the Regal is better. So let's see what we have here; A gorgeous, fun-to-drive, quick, comfortable, well-equipped American sedan built with the quality of its German competitors... and it's a Buick. Who knew?
Yesterday
BREAKING: Buick Regal Getting A Manual Transmission [New Cars]
Jim Frederico, chief engineer for Buick, just told assembled journalists at the ride-and-drive for the new Buick Regal that it'll receive a manny tranny as an available option — assumingly the...
Tuesday, Nov 17
BMW, Toyota Don't Make IIHS 2010 Top Safety List
Audi A3 Chevrolet Malibu built after October 2009 Chrysler Sebring 4-door with optional electronic stability control Dodge Avenger with optional electronic stability control Mercedes C class Subaru Legacy Subaru Outback Volkswagen Jetta sedan Volkswagen Passat sedan
Monday, Nov 16
"New" GM Drops Totally Useless Financial Results [Carpocalypse]
Contributing to GM's sales in the U.S. was the strong retail performance of some of its newest vehicles, including the Chevrolet Camaro and GMC Terrain, as well as the Chevrolet Equinox, Buick LaCrosse and Cadillac SRX which are generating higher average transaction prices and higher re...
Sunday, Nov 15
Lutz Hints At 335 HP Buick Regal GS, Wagon [Over The Back Fence]
Our good ol' pal "Maximum" Bob Lutz told Car & Driver they're considering an Opel Insignia OPC-like 335 HP version of the Buick Regal that may be called the Regal GS. Oh, and possibly a sporty Buick Regal wagon!
1972 Lancia Fulvia 1600HF Down On The London Street [Down On The Street Bonus Edition]
I also have a literal metric fuck-tonne of photos I took from a local classic car show last weekend. There is about 400 in all, although I have not yet sorted the good ones from the dross. However I do have some Jalopnik money shots in the form of a working Lucas coil under the bonnet of an over rest...
Wednesday, Nov 11
Buick Regal Is Back, Gets Turbocharged [La Auto Show]
The Buck Regal is officially back, a re-badged Opel Insignia sporting two Ecotec four-cylinder engines including a 220HP turbo version with 29 MPG fuel economy. GM's out for mid-size entry-luxe blood...
Buick Regal Is Back, Gets Turbocharged [La Auto Show]
Regal at a glance Under the hood Unique with its all-four-cylinder powertrain, the Regal relies on the excellent horsepower-per-liter ratio of the Ecotec engine family to deliver smart, on-demand performance that is also very efficient. Source: GM]
Tuesday, Nov 10
How A Daewoo Became A Buick Became An Opel Became A Buick Became A Daewoo [New Cars]
Currently, Buick is selling the Daewoo Lacetti-based Buick Excelle in China. Yes, this is the same car the Suzuki Forenza was based on. But this is getting replaced! Not by a Daewoo product, but rather by the Buick Ying Lang, which is going to be a rebadged Opel Astra likely built on the Delta I...
How A Daewoo Became A Buick Became An Opel Became A Buick Became A Daewoo [New Cars]
GM's large international operation and the popularity of Buick in China leads to some strange intercontinental platform sharing. We untangle part of the mess below. Currently, Buick is selling the...
Tuesday, Nov 3
GM Board Says, "Screw It, We're Keepin' Opel" [Carpocalypse]
About General Motors: General Motors, one of the world's largest automakers, traces its roots back to 1908. With its global headquarters in Detroit, GM employs 209,000 people in every major region of the world and does business in some 140 countries. GM and its strategic partners produce...
Sunday, Oct 18
Winning: The Racing Life Of Paul Newman , by Matt Stone [Jalopnik Book Reviews]
As a nice bonus at the end, we get a chapter devoted to Newman's street cars over the years. Not only was there the Porsche Super 90-powered '53 Beetle in the early days; Newman decided that wasn't enough, so in 1969 he commissioned a Ford 351-powered Beetle. In the 1980s and 1990s, Newman drov...
A Tale Of Two Fiat 128 Hatchbacks: One Goes To Loving Home, One Gets Crushed [Found On Craigslist]
The Buick-ized TR7 is long gone and Scratchy Bottom Racing is considering making the 128 Sport Coupe into their next LeMons racer. The car got pretty rusty during its long spell sitting in a San Francisco driveway, but the mechanicals are in great shape. Cars don't get destroyed in post-Alt...
Saturday, Oct 17
Engine Of The Day Overload! [Engine Of The Day]
Toyota R Ford Flathead V8 BMW M30 Nissan L Small-Block Chevrolet V8 Volkswagen Air-Cooled BMC B Series Chrysler Slant Six Rolls-Royce V8 Honda B GMC Twin Six Jaguar XK Pontiac V8 Mazda B Fiat Twin-Cam Porsche Flat Six Offenhauser Willys Go-Devil Chrysler LA Packard Inline 8 Mazda 13B Cro...
Pretty Emblems And Engines From The Island That Rust Forgot [Car Shows]
Also, 1920s Buick hood ornaments. GM needs to bring these back! OK, here's a gallery for yez; feel free to complain about my annoying pointless-detail-obsessed photographic style. Not that I'll change it, mind you, but you'll feel better.
Friday, Oct 16
First Shot Of New Buick Regal! [New Cars]
You will also notice a slightly larger and more rounded-off version of Buick's trademark chrome waterfall grille as well as redesigned lower openings below the grille and headlamps. Then there's also new, squared-off fog lamps. All-in-all, it looks like a nice, plain vanilla Lexus. Whic...
Wednesday, Oct 14
BREAKING: The Buick Regal Is Back [New Cars]
The North American Buick Regal was replaced in 2005 by the Buick LaCrosse, built using the same W platform. The final 2004 Buick Regal rolled off the assembly line on June 1, 2004. Now it would appear it'll be back and as we told you back in August when Lutz let slip this tasty piece of news to Scot...
Saturday, Oct 10
Engine Of The Day: Buick V6 [Engine Of The Day]
If we ever get around to doing an Ultimate Engine Survivors list (to accompany the Survivor Cars list), this engine will surely be near the top. 47 years and counting! If you like weird twists and...
Engine Of The Day: Buick V6 [Engine Of The Day]
If you like weird twists and turns in your engine-history plot, you'll like the Buick V6. Buick engineers took their aluminum 215-cube V8, lopped off a couple of cylinders, and cast the shortened block and heads in cast iron. The result displaced 198 cubes and made its debut (as the "Firebal...
The Top 122 Lemons Of The Lamest Day 24 Hours Of LeMons [24 Hours Of Lemons]
45. Team Sucker Punch, Chevrolet Camaro Best lap: 1:32.512 55. The 98ers, Oldsmobile 98 Best lap: 1:53.095 67. FinalGear.com, Buick LeSabre Best lap: 1:31.426 82. eLEMONators, Chevrolet Caprice Best lap: 1:31.939 87. Team Short Bus, Buick Regal Best lap: 1:31.822
Friday, Oct 9
GM CEO Shoots Down Future Buick GNX [New Cars]
In a web chat today, GM President Fritz Henderson Buick fans would "like what you see in future Regal alternatives" but shot down the idea of the return of a Buick Regal GNX. But maybe we're reading this wrong. He said "do not look for GNX." He didn't say "do not look for a GNX." Maybe he's saying the...
Thursday, Oct 8
Cadillac Dumps Modernista! As Ad Agency Of Record [Ad Agency Watch]
Cadillac's dumping Modernista! as ad agency of record. Did someone confuse Cadillac and Buick? [GM]
Wednesday, Oct 7
Gran Turismo For PSP Vs. Forza Motorsport 3: The Cars
Reason: Both games include must-haves like the Buick GNX and Ford GT, but Forza 3 has a special Motorsports Legends Car Pack with the 1969 Dodge Charger, 1965 Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe, and 1960 Chevrolet Corvette. And even if it didn't, choices for classic American cars like the Ford Mus...
All 400+ Cars Of Forza Motorsport 3
2006 Chevrolet #4 Corvette Racing C6.R 2007 Chevrolet #4 Corvette Racing C6.R 2002 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 2006 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 1987 Buick Regal GNX 1996 Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport 1970 Chevrolet Corvette ZR-1 2004 Pontiac GTO 1968 Pontiac GTO Hardtop
Monday, Oct 5
Buick LeSabre Gets Massive Air, Doesn't Float [Hoon Of The Day]
Although non-turbocharged Buicks are normally more well known for floatin' than flyin', here's a hoon in a Buick LeSabre showing why he's driving the first class of air class. [via Banovsky]
Thursday, Oct 1
All 830 Cars From Gran Turismo For PSP
68 Buick GNX '87 81 Chevrolet Corvette C5-R (C5) '00 82 Chevrolet Corvette Convertible (C1) '54 83 Chevrolet Corvette Coupe (C2) '63 87 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 (C5) '00 88 Chevrolet Corvette ZR-1 (C4) '90 89 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 (C6) '09 91 Chevrolet SSR '03 642 Pontiac GTO 5.7 Coupe '04
And Here's Your 2010 North American Car, Truck Of The Year Finalists! [Nactoy]
The 2010 North American Car of the Year Short List: • BMW 335d • Buick LaCrosse • Cadillac CTS • Chevrolet Camaro • Ford Fusion/Fusion Hybrid • Ford Taurus • Honda Insight • Kia Soul • Mazda3/MazdaSpeed3 • Mercedes-Benz E-Class • Porsche Panamera • Subaru Legacy • Suzuki Kizashi
Wednesday, Sep 30
World’s Nicest Yugo for $7,999! [Nice Price Or Crack Pipe]
But that was not before this 1986 example reached our shores, and eventually to Texas where it is currently rusting resting and posing for beauty shots on Auto Trader. Done up in communist red with a complementing taupe interior, this little hatchback comes with much of what made Yugo popu...
Saturday, Sep 26
Automotive Survivors Part II: More Cars Made For At Least 20 Years
The engine-of-the-week theme continued with an Oldsmobile 307 LG8, Chevy 5.0L and finally the Chevy 5.7. With the beginning of the Republican power shift, production packed up and moved to Texas to be closer to oil millionaires who would soon rule/ruin the world. The 1994 re-deux took the "D...
Here's Why They Invented Engine Swaps: Buick-ized Triumph Stag [Engine Swap]
I was trying to post a few pictures in the thread of how Stags should properly appear: Replete with blonde, and top removed (car hardtop, that is, being a family-friendly site.) It's got a '64 Buick 300 in it, T-350, and Corvette rear end. So, in essence, it's the "Rover swap," but with a few mor...
Here's Why They Invented Engine Swaps: Buick-ized Triumph Stag [Engine Swap]
Remember this DOTSBE '72 Stag? It turns out that the execrable, 8,000-miles-between-rebuilds Triumph V8 has been replaced with the engine British Leyland should have installed in the first place: the...
Friday, Sep 25
Miller Brewing Employees Successfully Invest In Buick GNX [Found On Craigslist]
Few cars have been as fetishized as the Buick GNX, the ASC McLaren modified Regal with performance said to meet or exceed the capabilities of the Corvette at the time. This example has never been plated, never been on the road, never even had an oil change. Heck, it's still got the air put in the...
Miller Brewing Employees Successfully Invest In Buick GNX [Found On Craigslist]
In 1987, the Miller Beer Company employee investment pool bought a Buick GNX and stored it away. It has 9.7 miles on the odometer, original tires, all window stickers and production marks. Now it's...
Saturday, Sep 19
1967 Buick LeSabre [Down On The Street]
Welcome to Down On The Street, where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. Alameda boasts a fine tradition of evil-looking Buicks. ...
1967 Buick LeSabre [Down On The Street]
We've seen this beautifully vile 1970 Skylark and this Energy Crisis-defying 1973 Electra, and today we're adding this waterfront LeSabre. This car lives in an industrial neighborhood on the Oakland Estuary, and it appears to be a replacement for the '64 Oldsmobile Jetstar that once pa...
Friday, Sep 18
What Are Your Top Five Wagons? [Question Of The Day]
We were going to wrap up Top Five QOTD Week with top sports cars, but then Tanshanomi begged for top five wagons and then the Cadillac CTS-V Sport Wagon happened. What are your top five wagons? How sleeper can you get? Wood paneling, b-body styling, a rear bumper that stretches for about sixt...
Wednesday, Sep 9
GM To Offer 60-Day Money Back Guarantee On All Vehicles [Carpocalypse]
The program is intended to restore consumer confidence in GM vehicles post bankruptcy and government bailout and will be applicable to all of GM's remaining brands: Cadillac, Buick, Chevrolet and GMC. We think this is the first time an automaker has offered a 100% refund on all its vehicl...
Sunday, Sep 6
The Ultimate Automotive Survivors: 50 Cars Made For At Least 20 Years [Retro]
This project got really challenging when we got to Chinese-built versions of Japanese and Korean cars. The line between "facelifted license-built copy" and "based on heavily modified chassis design" gets increasingly blurry in China, and most likely we've overlooked a couple of 20+ y...
Saturday, Sep 5
Supercharged Buick 3-Wheeler: Perfect For Hunting Or Just Having Fun! [Field Expedient Engineering]
You want a great power-to-weight ratio and plenty of drive-wheel traction? Head on down to Macon, Georgia, where this 1989 Buick Park Avenue-based three-wheeler could be yours for just 600 bucks!
Thursday, Sep 3
“1969” Land Rover for a Defensible $11,999! [Nice Price Or Crack Pipe]
Today we're doing short arm inspection on another European immigrant. This Land Rover D90 represents a recent frame-off refurbishing. While that means that everything has had a look, and a fresh coat of English white applied, it doesn't mean that the trucklette is restored to factory-fr...
Thursday, Aug 27
1981 Omega Drops its Top, Asks only $2000 in Return. [Nice Price Or Crack Pipe]
Omega is the last letter in the Greek alphabet. Today, Nice Price or Crack Pipe offers up a Convertible X-car that could be the last Omega you'll ever buy. Nice Price or Crack Pipe: 1981 Olds Omega Convertible for $2,000.(polls) eh-Bay or go here if the ad goes to bed at 8:00. Hat tip to Tomsk!
Friday, Aug 21
GM's Lutz Confirms Buick Regal Is Back! [Over The Back Fence]
We already knew the Opel Insignia's being rebadged as a Buick Regal for the Chinese market (shown above is the 2009 version), but if Burgess' quotes from Lutz are correct, it means the rumors — and previous off the record quotes from "nameless GM executives" — of the Insignia being rebadge...
GM's Lutz Confirms Buick Regal Is Back! [Over The Back Fence]
Lost in last week's GM product news was a spicy morsel from the Detroit News. According to Scott Burgess, GM's "Maximum" Bob Lutz confirmed Buick will reveal the Regal this year as a rebadged Opel...
Thursday, Aug 20
Epic 275-Classic Car Junkyard Collection Headed To Auction [Auctions]
Pontiac 1952 Pontiac 4-door sedan - 2 1953 Pontiac 4-door sedan 1955 Pontiac 4-door station wagon 1958 Pontiac Chieftain 4-door hard top 1958 Pontiac Chieftain 4-door sedan 1964 Pontiac Starchief 2-door hard top 1964 Pontiac Catalina convertible 2-door
Wednesday, Aug 19
GM Aborts Buick Crossover After Negative Twitter Response [Car Twits]
News today Buick will kill the planned Saturn Vue-platformed plug-in-hybrid-electric crossover comes as no surprise to the consumers and journalists who saw it in person. The "Vue-ick" was horrifyingly atrocious. Now we've uncovered news GM killed it because of Twitter.
Saturday, Aug 15
Why Do They Love Buicks So Much In Wisconsin? [Question Of The Day]
I don't think I've ever seen a Buick Rainier in California, but I saw five in one day between Oshkosh and Sturgeon Bay. Young people in Buicks. Families in Buicks. Beater Buicks. Nice Buicks. My question is: what does Wisconsin have in common with the world's other Buick epicenter, China?
Why Do They Love Buicks So Much In Wisconsin? [Question Of The Day]
I spent most of the last week in eastern Wisconsin, and it's got to be the Buick-est place in the country. I don't think I've ever seen a Buick Rainier in California, but I saw five in one day...
Thursday, Aug 13
Twelve Ridiculous Athlete Car Poses [Car Stars]
Car: Buick Riviera Concept Athlete: Tiger Woods Car: Buick Enclave Why It's Embarrassing: Buick paid Tiger Woods untold millions to be the brand's spokesman, but even with all that money he can't pretend to be excited about the awkward-looking Enclave.
Thursday, Aug 6
Buick To Get First Plug-In Hybrid SUV [New Cars]
The BuiVues (Vueicks?) will all get upgraded interiors, but the standard IC models will include a standard powertrain of the 2.4L Ecotec four-cylinder or optional upgrades of a 3.0L direct-injected V-6 and all-wheel-drive. The actual name of the vehicle and price point have yet to be anno...
Tuesday, Jul 14
2010 Buick LaCrosse: First Drive [Jalopnik Reviews]
The most nagging problems with the LaCrosse are the nagging problems with Buick in general. What is the point of the car and the brand? It sits betwixt the working-class, but honest, Chevy product lineup, where the slightly smaller Malibu offers an arguably better value proposition and t...
Friday, Jul 10
Engine Of The Day: Oldsmobile Generation 2 V8 [Engine Of The Day]
Say what you will about Detroit's primitive suspensions and iffy build quality during the postwar period, but there's no denying that The General cranked out inexpensive, reliable, and powerful pushrod V8s by the tens of millions. We've honored the Buick 215 aka Rover V8, the Buick Nail...
Wednesday, Jun 24
2010 GMC Terrain Pricing Starts At $24,995 [New Cars]
DETROIT - GMC has announced that its all-new Terrain five-passenger crossover will arrive in showrooms in September sporting a starting price of $24,995 for the front-wheel drive model. An all-wheel drive model starts at $26,745. Both prices include a $745 destination and freight char...
Tuesday, Jun 23
2010 Buick LaCrosse To Get Fuel-Sipping Ecotec Four-Banger [I Feel Gassy]
A fuel-efficient, direct injected Ecotec 2.4L four-cylinder engine will be the third engine offered in the 2010 Buick LaCrosse luxury sedan. Backed by a fuel-saving six-speed automatic transmission, the new powertrain combination is expected to deliver fuel economy of 30 mpg highway...
Monday, Jun 1
Ten Vehicles That Bankrupted GM
Chevrolet SSR The Chevrolet SSR was meant to capture the imagination of buyers. Unfortunately, few buyers were imagining an expensive, gas-guzzling convertible truck that, due to the size of the hardtop convertible, was basically unusable as a truck.
Tuesday, Apr 21
Buick Business Concept Gets Seriously Busy In Shanghai With New Images [Shanghai Auto Show]
GM/PATAC debuted the Buick Business Concept in Shanghai yesterday to much excitement by the locals and their multi-generation families. Let's take a closer look at this ballerific, Chinese-designed and decidedly sexy minivan business-casual MPV. via GM]
Tuesday, Apr 14
Buick Planning Orlando-Based MPV For Shanghai [Shanghai Auto Show]
GM Press Release: GM China Family to Showcase 37 Vehicles at Auto Shanghai 2009 Shanghai – The General Motors China family will be displaying 37 production and concept vehicles at Auto Shanghai 2009, this year's leading auto show in China, which begins on April 20.
Sunday, Apr 5
Sunday DOTS-O-Rama, Tomsk Edition: Wheels For Victory! [Down On The Street Bonus Edition]
1968 Pontiac Catalina: The current Pontiac advertising tagline is "Pontiac is Car." Unfortunately, the models other than those belonging to the G8 and Solstice families are not Car; they're things you use to cover the oil spots on your driveway.
Wednesday, Feb 18
Pontiac, A Eulogy: Excitement No More
Pontiac started life as part of the General's mid-20s "companion" program, which the once-massive automaker implemented to create a sensible cost difference between their cars. Pontiac models were to be produced by then Oakland Motor Car Company, a quality six-cylinder line of cars,...
Wednesday, Jan 7
2010 Buick LaCrosse: Blue Hair No More! [Detroit Auto Show]
“It is instantly recognizable as a Buick, with its signature ‘sweep spear’ body-side styling, portholes inside the character line on the hood, and waterfall grille,” added Welburn. The 2010 LaCrosse will be offered in three models - CX, CXL and CXS:
Tuesday, Oct 14
Project Car Hell, Mad Scientists Of GM Edition: Buick Reatta or Oldsmobile Trofeo?
That Reatta is a pretty sweet machine, and (as Every Single Seller will tell you, hard to find), but say you want a back seat in your Visual Information Center-equipped GM machine, so you can haul along more passengers on your TRON-style journeys? Why, that means you need an Oldsmobile Tro...
Wednesday, Oct 8
2010 Buick LaCrosse: Rendered For Your Pleasure
The biggest design departure from previous Buicks are the portholes. Yup, the "go-faster" holes have been relocated from the front quarter-panels onto the hood, nestled in a sharp inset crease. The traditional Buick waterfall grille has been reshaped and appears very modern in contras...
Friday, Sep 19
2010 Buick LaCrosse Spied, Possibly In Pursuit Of Lincoln MKS
Buick Lacrosse? So should the Pontiac version be called Field Hockey or Sheboygan? By the way, the camo graphics makes these look as though they've already been run over by better cars... CharlzR.
Tuesday, Aug 19
GM Offering 12-Month, 12,000-Mile Bumper-To-Bumper Warranty On Certified Used Cars
General Motors is offering a transferable bumper-to-bumper warranty with zero deductible on all of the company's 60,000+ Certified Used Vehicles for one year or 12,000 miles, on top of their 100,000, five-year limited powertrain warranty. This offer is valid for anyone looking to get...
Wednesday, Jul 16
1968 Buick Skylark Custom Convertible
Most of you approved of the super-beater '70 Skylark, with a small but vocal minority who felt physical pain at the very sight of the beat-to-hell Buick. I'm pretty sure that the approval rating of today's Skylark will be be fairly high across the board, given that it's a 40-year-old red con...
Monday, Jul 7
GM To Get More Layoffs, Lose A Brand
Pontiac: The performance division has Solstice, the G8, and the reasonably strong-selling G6. Pontiac has always been an image brand as well as a volume brand; is G8 enough to bring that performance image back? We're not so sure...but we don't think Pontiac is going away any time soon.
Tuesday, Jun 24
2009 Chevy Traverse, First Drive
Although Traverse sits on the same Lambda platform upon which the Saturn Outlook, GMC Acadia, and Buick Enclave ride, and it's arguably the least successful styling exercise of the four, perhaps due to the fact Chevy wasn't initially slated to get a Lambda vehicle — it looks hurried. The e...
Wednesday, Jun 11
2009 Ford Flex, First Drive
And it does have a wow factor, even if it makes me cringe writing that. The Flex's look at once captures everything good and romantic about American cars while eschewing the bad and the boring. You don't look at it and think SUV or minivan; you look at it and think, "Wow, that's a pretty nice look...
Monday, Apr 21
Buick Invicta Concept Reveals New LaCrosse?
Buick introduced the Invicta in North America as a production vehicle in 1959. The Invicta show car is the first time the nameplate has appeared on a Buick in China. BUICK INVICTA SPECIFICATIONS Wheelbase (in / mm): 114.5 / 2908 Horsepower (kW): 250 / 186 Torque (Nm): 220 / 298
Friday, Jan 11
Detroit Auto Show: Buick Riviera Concept Makes US Debut
Unveiled at China's Auto Shanghai 2007, the gull-wing, front-wheel-drive Riviera concept coupe was developed with global design input by the Pan Asia Technical Automotive Center (PATAC), a design and engineering joint venture between General Motors and Shanghai Automotive Indus...
Monday, Oct 22
GM SEMA Display To Include Solstice SD-290 Concept Racer, Jay Leno's E85-Powered Corvette Z06 [Sema]
General Motors Corp. (NYSE: GM), the world's largest automaker, has been the annual global industry sales leader for 76 years. Founded in 1908, GM today employs about 280,000 people around the world. With global headquarters in Detroit, GM manufactures its cars and trucks in 33 countries....
Monday, Jul 30
Report: China Remakes Buick In Buick's Own Image
It's no secret China has become the most compelling reason to keep a candle burning for the Buick brand. The superpower-in-training is now Buick's top market, evidenced by the Rivera concept that debuted at the Shanghai auto show earlier this year. Now, Automotive News reports China's in...
Monday, Jul 2
Buick GNX
RUF RT12 | Maserati Quattroporte Executive GT | 1978 Aston Martin V8 Vantage | Honda 1300 Coupe 9 | 1931 Daimler Double Six 50 Corsica Drophead Coupe | Ferrari 288 GTO | Chevrolet Corvette ZR-1 | 1970 Buick GSX 455 | First Generation BMW M Coupe | Bugatti Veyron 16.4 | Ford GT | Citroen SM | Porsc...
Monday, Jun 11
Saturn Offers To Let You Take Out Aura With Accord, Camry In "Side-By-Side-By-Side Test Drive" [That's Not A Saturn So Much]
General Motors Corp. (NYSE: GM), the world's largest automaker, has been the annual global industry sales leader for 76 years. Founded in 1908, GM today employs about 280,000 people around the world. With global headquarters in Detroit, GM manufactures its cars and trucks in 33 countries....
Tuesday, May 29
This Is Our Country, This Is Our Chevy Crossover
Chevy's kind of been the odd man out in the game of Lambda-platform musical chairs. With Saturn, Buick and even GMC getting into the crossover game with the newest Car-UV frame it seems like the brand name that's all about bringing value to the people doesn't yet have a seat in GM's people car...
Thursday, Apr 12
China's Zeta Cake: Buick Park Avenue
hanghai General Motors (Shanghai GM) has introduced the newest member of its Buick lineup, the Park Avenue luxury sedan. Shanghai Auto Show Preview: GM Goes To China, Brings Chevy And Buick Concepts With Them; Broken: Buick Just Sold More Cars in China than in the United States of America...
Wednesday, Apr 4
New York Auto Show: Chevy Leverages The Sexual Appeal Of Faux Hipsters, Reveals Trio Of Minicars
General Motors Corp. (NYSE: GM), the world's largest automaker, has been the global industry sales leader for 76 years. Founded in 1908, GM today employs about 280,000 people around the world. With global headquarters in Detroit , GM manufactures its cars and trucks in 33 countries. In 2006...
Monday, Mar 19
One Hybrid Priced Below Them All: Saturn Aura Green Line Lowest-Priced Hybrid At $22,695 [News]
The Aura Green Line's EPA fuel economy rating of 28 mpg in the city and 35 mpg on the highway represents up to a 30 percent improvement in EPA combined fuel economy compared to the non-hybrid Aura XE model (depending on driving conditions). About Saturn: About General Motors:
Saturday, Jan 20
Pricing! Buick Enclave Breaks Out Of The Woods, Starts At $32,790 [News]
Related: Pricing! GMC Professionally Grades 2007 Acadia CUV At A Starting Price Of $29,990; That's A Saturn? 2007 Outlook To Start At $27,990, AWD Pricing In At $29,990; LA Auto Show Preview: Tiger Woods...Err...The Buick Enclave Is Finally Here! Huzzah! Huzzah! [internal]
Thursday, Oct 19
Pricing! GMC Professionally Grades 2007 Acadia CUV At A Starting Price Of $29,990 [News]
General Motors Corp. (NYSE: GM), the world's largest automaker, has been the global industry sales leader for 75 years. Founded in 1908, GM today employs about 327,000 people around the world. With global headquarters in Detroit, GM manufactures its cars and trucks in 33 countries. In 2005...
Wednesday, Jun 7
Spy Photos: 2008 GMC Acadia
The Car Connection offers the clearest shots yet of the GMC Acadia, the next thread in GM's new unit-body SUV plotline. TCC says it's coming in 2008 — a year after its Saturn Outlook cousin — and it'll be subsequently joined by the Buick Enclave and Chevrolet Uplander in the company's late-d...
Wednesday, Mar 1
Holy Diver, Soul Survivor: Autoextremist on the Pontiac Predicament
Last night, we were IM'ing with a fellow autojourno about GM's brand predicament. And then we IM'd some more with Detroit's Wonk about it. And this is our plan: First, kill Buick. Redo the Enclave as a Saab. Use Saab to replace Buick in the marketplace. Pair up Pontiac and GMC in the dealerships (w...
