Buick continues to grow available options for its niche drop-top, the 2017 Buick Cascada, as it introduces an intense Sport Red exterior color along with a new “dark effects” package to contrast it’s pull-me-over paint hue.
Buick has reportedly received multiple requests from customers to offer a brighter red shade for the Cascada and, luckily, its Opel-badged cousin, the Opel Cascada Supreme, received an identical hue earlier this year. Now, Buick gets a go with the shade.
“We’ve heard it from customers all year: ‘What a beautiful car. Can I get it in red?’ Well yes, now you can,” said Duncan Aldred, vice president of Global Buick Sales, Service and Marketing. “This new addition to the Cascada portfolio offers a modern style statement with blacked-out exterior trim and red interior stitching.”
Additionally, the Buick Cascada Sport Touring may also be fitted with mentioned dark effects package. The option adds a gloss-black finish on the grille, mirror caps and 20-inch wheels, as well as body-color trim across the decklid. Again, this is identical to Europe’s Cascada Supreme.
If the dark effects package beckons you, then we should note that it can only be paired with the Cascada Sport Touring trim and the new Sport Red paint color. And, for now, only 150 will be produced with an on-sale date of February 1, 2017.
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Where’s the optional “HP add-on package”? Typical of GM to blow smoke up everyone’s a$$ in an attempt to conceal the obvious. All of this “eye-candy” doesn’t mean shit if it remains impotent between the throttle and pavement. The Cascada could be doing so much better.
So, customers have been requesting a red Cascada so much that they decided to build a whopping 150 of them? It looks amazing in red, why not build as many as they can sell?
Also, to clarify: the Sport Red and Dark Effects package must be ordered together as per the order guide. Can’t have one without the other. Personally, I’d prefer some chrome trim and body color mirrors with the red.
Car is such a niche, why bother? Shoulda spent resources in a better way
I really love this vehicle in red with dark package! Being that it is already a niche vehicle, with limited audience, why would you limit it to only 150 units? That makes absolutely no sense to me! Make as many as people will buy!
While a new paint job and new wheels is a start, there’s nothing like a bit more performance under the hood; imagine the Cascada in Black with a cold air induction system on the hood to feed a 252 horsepower LTG 2.0L DOHC-4v 4-cyl turbo mated to a 9-speed automatic transmission.
I think if I’m going to invest any thought at all in to a fantasy about what this very nice little car could’ve been, I would think about red with white leather, yes white, with real chrome wheels and rear wheel drive, 400 hp…..wait, I just described my ‘vette. This car is not that. It is a very nice personal car that I am going to park beside the ‘vette.
If they produce 150 units and sell most in Florida & California, there’s nothing much left for the rest of the Country. It looks great but why bother.
I would buy the car today if it had a light-colored rag top. A black roof is too hot in the Florida climate.