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The Buick Estate was introduced in 1970 as a separate series on the B-body like the LeSabre and the Wildcat and consequently shared their wheelbase, basic body and interior.
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* 1990 ( General public ): Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser, Buick Estate Wagon, Honda Prelude ( 2. 0 S Base Model )
The most notable of these are the Chrysler Town and Country, The Buick Estate Wagon, The Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser, The Chevrolet Kingswood Estate and the Mercury Colony Park.
Buick Roadmaster Estate Wagon
1974 Buick Estate Wagon with " clamshell " tailgate
The following year the Buick Estate would move up to Electra's larger body and more voluminous interior.
At shipping weight, or about curb weight, the three-seat 1974 Estate Wagons are easily the heaviest Buicks ever built, even heavier than the Buick Limited limousines of 1936-42.
1980s Buick Electra Estate Wagon
The Buick Estate Wagon was also downsized for 1977.
After the rear wheel drive Electra was discontinued, the Estate Wagon continued to be produced with the rear wheel drive Electra's front end fascia until 1990 when it was replaced by the Buick Roadmaster Estate.
* Buick Roadmaster Estate Wagon ( BREW )
File: 1941 Buick Special Estate Wagon. jpg | 1941 Buick Special Estate
File: Buick Special Station Wagon 1955. jpg | 1955 Buick Special Estate
File: Buick Century Caballero 1958. jpg | 1958 Buick Century Caballero Estate
1986-1988 Buick Century Estate Wagon
1996 Buick Roadmaster Estate Wagon
* 1941-1942 Buick Special Estate
* 1954-1958 Buick Century Estate
* 1954-1958 Buick Special Estate
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The facts were almost identical to Cadillac a year earlier: a wheel from a wheel manufacturer was sold to Buick, to a dealer, to MacPherson, and the wheel failed, injuring MacPherson.
Their first release, " Buick 59 ," ( based on Todd Rhodes's double-entendre R & B hit " Rocket 69 ") was backed with a ballad called
Another V6-car was designed in 1918 by Leo Goosen for Buick Chief Engineer Walter L. Marr.
Only one prototype Buick V6 car was built in 1918 and was long used by the Marr family.
The design was first used by Buick when it introduced its 198 CID Fireball V6 as the standard engine in the 1962 Special.
The Buick V6 was notable because it introduced the concept of uneven firing, as a result of using the 90 ° cylinder bank angle and shared-crankpin crankshaft design found in the V8 engine ( although the V6 crankshaft does have 3 crank throws set at 120 ° apart, rather than 90 ° apart as found in the V8 ).
It originated as the Buick Auto-Vim and Power Company in 1899, an independent internal combustion engine and motor-car manufacturer, and was later incorporated as the Buick Motor Company on May 19, 1903, by Scottish born David Dunbar Buick in Detroit, Michigan.
Buick picked it up, prompting a renaming to The Buick-Berle Show, and the program's format was changed to show the backstage preparations to put on a variety show.
For example, the General Motors factory in Arlington, Texas where rear-wheel-drive cars were built, such as the Chevrolet Caprice, Buick Roadmaster, and Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham was converted to truck and SUV production, putting an end to full-size family station wagon and overall terminating production of rear-wheel drive full-size cars.
In 1937, Oldsmobile was a pioneer in introducing a four-speed semi-automatic transmission called the " Automatic Safety Transmission ", although this accessory was actually built by Buick, which would offer it in its own cars in 1938.
Oldsmobile was among the first of General Motors ' divisions to receive a true hardtop in 1949, and it was also among the first divisions ( along with Buick and Cadillac ) to receive a wraparound windshield, a trend that eventually all American makes would share at sometime between 1953 and 1964.
Compounding the problem for Oldsmobile and Buick was a styling mistake which GM called the " Strato Roof.
While the 5. 7L was also offered on the 1980 Cadillac, Buick, Pontiac, and Chevy Impala, they were soon discontinued by all divisions by the mid 80s.
But a complete departure in 1961 was the new Tempest, one of the three BOP ( Buick-Olds-Pontiac ) " compacts " introduced that year, the others being the Buick Special and Skylark and Oldsmobile F-85 and Cutlass.
The aforementioned Buick 215 V8, was ordered by less than two percent of its customers in the two years it was available, 1961 and 1962.
Based on the G-Body, the same as the Oldsmobile Aurora and Buick LeSabre, the car was more substantial feeling all around.
On April 23 a report was published stating the company would be dropping the Pontiac brand while preserving the GMC truck line, as well as the Chevrolet, Cadillac, and Buick brands.
His mother died just before his eighth birthday, and he was raised by his father, an executive with Buick.
Storrow arranged a meeting with Charles W. Nash, then president of the Buick Motor Company, who was looking for a smart production chief.
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* The Buick Lucerne, a full-size luxury sedan introduced for the 2006 model year
Buick introduced a 322 in³ ( 5. 3 L ) V8 in 1953, which coincidentally had the same displacement as their straight-8, the latter being produced until the end of the 1953 model year.
The Vega-derived Chevrolet Monza 2 + 2, Buick Skyhawk, and Oldsmobile Starfire introduced for the 1975 model year, were produced exclusively as hatchbacks with the Pontiac Sunbird hatchback introduced for the 1977 model year.
Intended for the burgeoning personal luxury car market, it was a " personal " Cadillac sharing the E-body with the second-generation Buick Riviera and the Oldsmobile Toronado, which had been introduced the previous year.
For 1979, a new, trimmer Eldorado was introduced, and for the first time the car shared its chassis with the Buick Riviera as well as the Toronado.
In 1971, the Buick division of GM introduced MaxTrac, which used an early computer system to detect rear wheel spin and modulate engine power to those wheels to provide the most traction.
A bigger 400 cu in ( 6. 6 L ) engine was included with the 442 option, based on the newly introduced 425 cu in ( 6. 9 L ) engine from the full-sized Oldsmobiles while the Oddfire Buick V6 and Olds 330 cubic-inch Jetfire Rocket V8 were carried over from the previous year with increased power ratings for the V8 options.
In the middle of the 1955 model year Buick and Oldsmobile introduced the world's first mass-produced four-door hardtops, with Buick offering it only on the Century and Special models, and the " Riviera " designation was also applied to these body styles.
Buick dropped the Riviera name as a body style designation after the 1963 model year, shifting the Riviera name exclusively to Buick's new personal luxury coupe that had been introduced in 1963.
In February 1949, several months into the model year, General Motors introduced three highly styled " hardtop convertible " coupes, the Oldsmobile 98 Holiday, the Cadillac Series 62 Coupe de Ville, and the Buick Roadmaster Riviera, the first hardtop coupes ever produced.
The Buick Regal is a mid-size car introduced by General Motors for the 1973 model year.
Wanting a model that could be marketed to compete against the Olds Cutlass Supreme as well as the Grand Prix and Monte Carlo, Buick introduced the Regal for 1973, as a top line special coupe in that division's intermediate A-body line, the Century.
For the final year, 1987, Buick introduced the GNX at $ 29, 900.
When introduced in 1997, Buick advertised the Regal as the " car for the supercharged family ".
The Shanghai GM twin of the Insignia was introduced in China as Buick Regal () in December, 2008.
By 1977 manufacturers introduced turbocharged cars in the US and Europe like the Buick Regal and LeSabre sports coupe as well as European cars by Volvo, Saab, Peugeot and Mercedes.
Only the Buick GNX of the 1980s was given such performance ratings until the Super was introduced.
The Northstar was sold exclusively by Cadillac for over a decade before being introduced in the 2004-2005 Pontiac Bonneville and 2006 Buick Lucerne.
Initially, each of the Y-body compacts from Buick, Olds and Pontiac were only offered as four-door sedans and station wagons when introduced in the fall of 1960 as 1961 models.
In mid-1961, each of three divisions introduced two-door pillared coupes to the line with sportier versions of the Buick and Olds models added including the Special Skylark and F-85 Cutlass, both of which featured bucket seats, custom interior and exterior trim, and more powerful engines.
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