It has been 19 years since Buick’s last big, rear-wheel drive passenger cars – the Roadmaster sedan and station wagon – left the factory in Arlington, Texas. Some would say the fact that Buick has...
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From 1963 to 1999 (though it did take the 1994 model year off), the Buick Riviera served as the brand’s fashion leader, combining snazzy coupe styling with peppy performance (in most cases) and posh interior...
In the early 1960s, the hyper-talented creative types at General Motors Design (led by Bill Mitchell) created a mid-size, two-door personal luxury car. The tidy, almost European proportions and lines would eventually draw praise from...
If you wind the clock back to last weekend, you’ll see that we ran a feature on a 1987 Buick Grand National for sale on Long Island. We explained how the GN came to be...
After the great muscle car mass extinction of the 1970s, fans of these quintessentially American tire mincers were justifiably worried that this particular genus of the motoring kingdom would never again occupy a new car...
Buick has been trying to capture a younger demographic and add some excitement to its brand for quite some time. With Tiger Woods in the doghouse and no hip celebrity endorser, what’s one to do...
Regardless of whether you consider the original World War II Jeep, the 1935 Chevrolet Suburban Carryall or something else to be the Adam of sport utility vehicles, the bottom line is the primordial soup of...
During automotive history’s dark ages (a.k.a. the early-1970s to the mid-1980s), fuel economy shot right to the top of many new car buyers’ priority lists, as the Malaise Era (as it has come to be...
Developing a new car is a very, very involved process that takes years. That’s a lot of time in which some rather crazy stuff can happen: The company undertaking the task of birthing the new...
The term “parts bin special” is typically used as a pejorative within gearhead circles, a descriptor of vehicles developed on the cheap by taking a bit of one model and injecting it with some DNA...