Buick News

Buick has made no small effort the past couple of years to appeal to an increasingly younger demographic. The 2012 Buick Regal GS is a key part of this strategy: Buick entered the Regal GS in the Nevada Open Road Challenge last year, and even won the 120-mph class of ...    Read more

General Motors has filed to trademark the 'Riviera' name, again raising questions about the possibility of a sporty Buick joining the stable in the near future. The Riviera is no stranger to Buick's lineup as GM produced over a million vehicles named Riviera from 1963 to 1999 model years. Originally, ...    Read more

Not even a week ago, automakers from all over the globe agreed to a new standard for electric vehicle charging, called the Combined Charging System, or CCS. Ford, General Motors, Volkswagen, Audi, BMW, Daimler AG, and Porsche have been lobbying for the use of single-pug system (a.k.a. CCS) ...    Read more

April showers put a damper on General Motors and Ford sales, which saw an eight and five percent drop respectively. Actually, GM says its retail business was essentially flat for its various brands, while fleet sales dropped by 25 percent. Chrysler, though, continued its upward climb, posting another 20-percent increase ...    Read more

The jokes here could write themselves: a navigation system designed for the elderly will direct them straight to Ponderosa. It will tell you to avoid open-air markets and 7-11 store windows. It will come pre-installed only on Buicks. Et cetera, et al, ad nauseaum. But you see, we are too ...    Read more

General Motors managed to sell more vehicles than any other automaker on planet earth in 2011 and now its CEO, Dan Akerson, is getting paid. Sort of. Last year marked Akerson's first full year at the helm of GM, and now he gets to cash in on a $7.7 million ...    Read more

Why else would Buick claim that? Because of its little gamesmanship of sibling rivalry: the 2014 Chevrolet Impala, which represents the sort of 360-degree transformation needed to turn your grandpa into the next Dancing With The Stars, er, star. GM may be down to just four brands, but it turns ...    Read more

Ford and General Motors have been in China for a while now. Most famously, GM hedges its bets on Buick's popularity there, while Ford follows closely behind. Now, however, both companies are surging in China and expanding big-time. First, on the GM front. Today, GM reinstates its 50-percent stake in Shanghai ...    Read more

General Motors is recalling more than 50,000 of its full-size crossover SUVs, specifically the 2011-2012 Buick Enclave, Chevrolet Traverse, and the GMC Acadia. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, owners are using the windshield wipers on heavy build ups of snow and/or ice, which could loosen the wiper ...    Read more

The first day of the 2012 New York Auto Show has passed us by, ushering in new family sedans, exotic supercars, and everything in between. In case you missed it, here's what debuted today (and late last night). And for more details on the new cars that met the world ...    Read more

March madness definitely swept domestic automakers General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler as Americans entered the dealerships with cash—or at least good credit—in hand and a willingness to buy, well, American. Brands with the newest products such as Chevrolet and GMC got a lot of attention. But revitalized models like the  ...    Read more

Buick has experienced somewhat of a renaissance over the past few years thanks in large part to a crop of fresh vehicles like the full-size crossover Buick Enclave, which debuted in 2007. The 2013 Buick Enclave has been refreshed as the Detroit-based automaker continues to carry that momentum forward. With ...    Read more

"Badge engineering" is a term used where the carmaker basically takes a car from one of its brands, then revamps it to be sold under another brand. French automotive site L'Automobile reports some recent patent drawings of a new, small crossover which looks remarkably like the Buick Encore with a Chevrolet ...    Read more

Following the Great Recession, there arose a great rise in popularity from V-6 engines to four-cylinders. At the same time, General Motors shuffled its Spring Hill, Tenn., plant from making Saturns, to making crossovers, and then, finally, to becoming a dedicated production plant ...    Read more

You have a big family. You also have some pride left at stake, and are too image-conscious to be driving what you should be driving: a minivan. So what do you do? What kind of people-mover do you get, especially given the ever-fluctuating nature of gas prices? Fortunately, SUVs aren't what ...    Read more

General Motors is recalling 3,633 Buick Regals for a software error. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, error may cause the parking lights to not illuminate. "Inadequate lighting could reduce the visibility of the vehicle, increasing the potential for a crash," said the NHTSA recall summary. The affected Buick ...    Read more

The big headline from today's monthly sales news is simple: Chrysler is on a roll. Big time. The company posted its best February sales since 2008, which was shaping up to be a banner year for everyone until the economy did this. Overall, Chrysler Group sales—which includes the Chrysler, ...    Read more

There are times when you want to meet the public relations person who invented social media teasing for cars and tell said person how much you dislike it, probably using a few choice words along the way. But it does its job; it stirs up buzz and gets websites pounding ...    Read more

No one wants to hear they have to turn in their driver's license, no matter the driver's age. Losing your license can be the end of your personal freedom, at least to some extent. While it's true that driving is a privilege and not a right, and public transportation can ...    Read more

General Motors' OnStar telematics service had trouble with a service update this weekend, and as a result, close to 6 million subscribers have seen intermittent service disruptions and extended wait times. According to a surprisingly spin-free report by FoxNews, an OnStar representative said that emergency services were still available, but that ...    Read more

Henry Ford II famously quipped that the auto industry would eventually find itself consolidated down to a handful of major players—not the hundreds that existed worldwide in the 1950s when he uttered his sentiments. As it turns out, he's been more right than wrong so far. Further extending his wise observation, ...    Read more

Automotive safety system manufacturer Autoliv has come under scrutiny from the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration for faulty side airbag parts. Toyota, Honda, Nissan, and Subaru all employee airbags parts sourced from Autoliv, and all four automakers recently issued recalls pertaining to problems with the side airbag. In total, 2,750 ...    Read more

Motor Trend's Ed Sanchez takes on the growing trend by automakers to utilize four-cylinders across the model lineup of their respective brands. Two main reasons are driving the paradigm shift. The first is car buyers' acceptance of four cylinder engines. Sanchez interviewed various automaker representatives who all agree that the ...    Read more

The big headline from the 2011 earnings statement released today by General Motors is the number: $7.6 billion in pure profit, the most the automaker has ever made. Debt consolidation and increased per-product profitability have once again lifted the General to its long-held position as the world's largest automaker. And ...    Read more

All three Toyota brands—Toyota, Lexus, and Scion—dominated research firm J.D. Power and Associates dependability study for 2009 model year vehicles. Toyota's luxury brand Lexus sat on top of J.D. Power and Associates' U.S. Vehicle Dependability Study (VDS) for 2012 with 86 problems per 100 vehicles, or PP100. Adding an additional feather ...    Read more