Buick Reviews

Badge Engineering Is Alive And Well At The New GM

The Epitome of Inconspicuous Consumption

The easy way to explain the 2011 Buick Regal is to compare it to cars badged as Buicks in the 1990s. This was a decade of anemic V6-powered machines with mushy suspensions, cars altogether so similar to their corporate bretheren at Pontiac and Chevy that you didn’t have to be a cynic to figure that GM was just exploiting the legacy of a great pre-war American brand to consumers who actually

2011 Buick Regal – Click above for high-res image gallery

2011 Buick Regal on the Nürburgring – Click above for high-res image gallery

2011 Buick LaCrosse four-cylinder – Click above for high-res image gallery

2010 Buick LaCrosse CXS with HiPer strut front suspension – Click above for high-res image gallery

2011 Buick Regal – Click above for high-res image gallery

Once up a time in the '80s, it was fashionable in Detroit to create so-called Euro-sedans by taking conventional mainstream grandma-mobiles and painting all the chrome black, dispensing with the white walls and installing overly stiff springs. Fortunately, those dark days are gone and General Motors and Ford at least have gotten their heads around how to build the kind of cars they sell in Europe.

2010 Buick LaCrosse CXL – Click above for high-res image gallery

The crossover bandwagon is rolling and it seems everyone is jumping on board. Loosely defined, crossovers are those SUV-looking people-haulers built off car architectures, which usually means a transversely mounted engine, and front-drive when 2-wheel drive is specified instead of all-wheel drive.Buick seeks to break the mold with a stylish alternative that prizes sculptural body shapes over truck