It’s hardly unusual for automakers to bring out the big guns for their home auto show; the Germans do it in Frankfurt, likewise the French for Paris, and historically the Detroit Three have done it...
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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...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiGUJo5Akuo&list=UUydtMNspoPAlqBjFSGnigSw Few engine configurations scream “Performance!” as loudly as a V8. Whether powering American muscle cars, European supercars or something else, two inline-fours opposed at an angle and sharing a crankshaft combine good power, great...
Motorsport is, like virtually any sport, a competition. Whether you’re trying to beat your own personal lap record at a track day in a Miata that’s older than you are, going wheel-to-wheel with the best...
It may be hard to believe, living as we are in today’s hyper-competitive global automotive marketplace, that General Motors used to sell a little over half of the new cars and trucks in the United...
Since the late 1950s, each of the three American auto manufacturers have had on-again, off-again flings with bringing in vehicles produced by either their offshore subsidiaries or foreign makes with which they have business relationships...
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...
An overwhelming majority of sources assert that the Adam of the American muscle car species is the 1964 Pontiac GTO. It was certainly the first muscle car to be marketed toward leadfooted baby boomers, but...
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...