A few days ago, we brought forth the idea that Buick is well on its way to becoming a crossover-only brand in North America. In case you didn’t read that article, you really should stop, read it, and then come back here and read the rest of this story. Go ahead, we’ll wait. But in case you don’t feel like doing that, here’s a quick synopsis.
The Buick Verano was the first Buick sedan to get the axe. The LaCrosse has been confirmed for discontinuation later this year, and all signs point to the Buick Cascada living out the same fate. That leaves only the Regal as Buick’s only non-crossover offering – and its future is on somewhat shaky ground. That’s because the entire Buick Regal  family – the Sportback, GS, and TourX – is being built at the Opel Rüsselsheim plant in Germany, which is operated and owned by PSA ever since GM sold its Opel division to PSA Groupe about two years ago. And with sedan sales taking a major beating in terms of sales volume, who knows how long the Regal will continue being around.
2019 Buick Regal Avenir
But even if Buick were to one day become a brand whose lineup consists entirely of crossovers, would it be such a bad thing? After all, focusing on crossovers might be a more lucrative strategy from a financial standpoint.
And all that brings us to the question du join: how do you feel about Buick potentially becoming a crossover-only brand? Vote in our poll below, and then sound off in the comment section.
Once you’ve done all that, be sure to stay tuned to GM Authority for more Buick news.
Comments
As long as Buick continues to be GM’s GEO division of the 2000s. I want no part of it. When they start producing these SUVs/CUVs in the US or Canada, I will consider them.
GM still has buick sedan fans like me. My grandmother previously had a buick reagel (small buick sedan) and i loved it! She bought a new Buick encore (smallest buick crossover) and i hate it! GM, keep buick sedans because. I want the buick LaCrosse. and if you take buick sedans off the line, I am done for. And think about it, honda is all about its accord, and its civic. And you will have angry buick customers.
Product a good brand or give up your sedans for angry customers. So keep the buick sedans.
I agree but with a few caveats. First make them bigger inside. A friend of mine has a Lacrosse and I can’t get into the thing. No leg room, no hip room and definitely no head room and second, make a bench or bench type seat available (40/20/40 or better yet a 60/40 set up). The only reason I drive a truck is they have plenty of room which you don’t get in a CUV or the sedans and who wants to pay the price of a Suburban just for more room. I’d like to see the luxury coupe market come back (Monte Carlo/Mirada/Cordoba/T-Bird/Cougar). I had a Mirada and could stretch my left leg out completely and my right leg was perfectly placed. In the rear I could put a 6 footer and not have their knees touch the back of the front seat at it’s rear most position. The trunk however was small but still bigger than what you get today.
When GM starved Oldsmobile into oblivion they arrogantly thought they would go to Buick but instead they went to foreign cars. If GM does the same to Buick history will repeat itself.
Tigger
Do you know how done for i am without the LaCrosse. The 2019 Buick lacrosse is a vehicle I think would be nice to drive. I found one online that has a sunroof, a GPS, a good deal on the essence trim, exactly whatcolors i want on it.
SO WHY CONSIDER SWITCHING FROM CUV AND SEDAN BRAND TO ONLY CUV BRAND!!!!!!?????
No reason
Most dealerships that I see offering Buick also offer GMC. It could be redundant if GMC keeps offering CUV’s. If they shift GMC to mostly SUV’s, it could be a good thing.
CUV’s are the new people haulers. The basic family sedan doesn’t provide the room, visibility down the road, or any towing capability (not in recent years).
I think there is room at a company like Buick for 1 performance sedan and one performance coupe/convertible.
I believe the true problem is with the same small dealership selling a Denali CUV and an Avenir CUV…..at least until GM can provide greater differentiation between them.
Exactly, there is way too much overlap between Buick and GMC product. Clearly they utilize unique design and a few distinctive features such as air ionizers but, overall, we’re dealing with a lot of redskins at a premium price.
GM is making money but is this a wise allocation of capital. Furthermore GMC must become GM’s answer to Jeep as opposed to a Toyota or with Delano a Lexus rival.
Buick also needs to push further upmarket as the American Lexus while allowing Cadillac to push further upward. GMC must be the fun Jeep or Rover or Hummer-like division.
I’m no fan of a CUV only Buick.
As car sales are now 30% off all sales and as they continue to decline and as Good Buick sedans sit to rot on lots there is no other choice here.
I saw it last year at the auto show you had to wait in line to sit in the Enclave but I could have sat and eaten my lunch in the Regal as no one was there or cared.
This is one of those decisions that is clear and has been made by the market.
Now if Buick had two sedans now selling like gang busters you keep them but to dump more money into a type of vehicle clearly not in favor with the market would be a fools mistake.
Even the Cadillac cars are a risk but at their price point and style the RWD sport luxury sedan will still move in volumes at a price money could be made.
Hmmm, I would say that half the vehicles classified as Crossovers or SUVs are little more than a hatchback wagon. So what we are really talking about is seat height and a trunk.
I have always preferred a wagon. All the way back to when I watched the world go by backwards feom the third row.
Given that seemingly most of the country has no idea that Buick still exists, I don’t think it makes a bit of difference what they offer.
I like my Lacrosse premium. Cost and features, ride, seating and even handling. SUV’s are for those who cannot, or do not like to drive a vehicle. I have yet to drive or ride in an SUV that sells as around comforting as a good sedan. For practically I would take roominess of mini van over a suv.
Cars – sedans – aren’t dead, American sedans are dead. Camry, Corolla, Civic, Accord, Maxima, Sentra, Elantra, Sonata, Maxda 6, BMW 3,4,5,etc series, MB C,E,S class. I could go on and on. No one is axing any of those. Because those are products people WANT to buy, products people are proud to say “Yeah, I just got the new…Accord.” When is that last time someone was PROUD to share they just bought a new Taurus? Or Impala? I don’t know about Taurus, but for Impala the answer to that question would be 1996. Chrysler is offering a car lineup that’s aged and of marginal, at best, quality- yet there’s a line of customers out the door, because it’s a product people WANT and are excited about.
This isn’t about shifting demographics or people turning their backs on cars in favor of S/CUVs. This is people turning their back on products that aren’t what they want, and taking what’s less offensive. If the Impala was on a RWD platform and offered the LT1 option, it would not be a lame duck today.
GM doesn’t have sufficient market share to warrant more than one large car – the Malibu. Mid-size “economy” cars like the Verano are money down the drain.
I think its a dumbass idea, gm already has too many underpowered fwd vehicles in their lineup, so adding more crossovers is a bad idea. What ever happened to SUV’s? I’m pretty sure those are still a thing
From an enthusiast stand point (and soon to be former GM fan), I think GM should have made Buick their BMW fighter. Create a similar line up as BMW with performance variants and upmarket appeal (Including the god awful CUV’s). Cadillac should be their ultimate luxury division with no compromises. A Mercedes fighter for the most part. They need to seriously work on their interiors if they want to steal sales away from the Germans. They could use a serious reality check and they need to learn how to lead again instead of follow.
From a business standpoint, Whatever is “trendy” is what they need to be selling right now. I don’t think you can make the Buick brand trendy enough to sway the average CUV buyer from other brands (At least not quickly). In today’s technology infatuated world, the unfortunate truth is that they would have to shill the crap out of the sites the average CUV buyers go to and get them to “believe” that “Buick” is the “best” company to buy a CUV from. It’s pathetic but it’s how it is done now.
Lastly, I F!@#$ing HATE CUV’s and MINIVANS!!!!!!!!
I have purchased buick sedans & chevrolet pickup for years. Gm”s choice to stop making the lacrosse has me buying a foreign sedan & pickup.
Catastrophically bad quality on my current pickup and Suburban will have me buying something besides GM next time. When is the last time you had to replace a torque converter in a <3 year old vehicle? For me, it's this week – in the Suburban's 6L80. A few months ago it was in the Sierra's 8L90. HVAC repairs, master cylinder, window regulator, fuel pump relay.
hey Richard its those jap parts going bad
Maybe on the e parts, but I doubt the torque converters and condensing coil came from Asia.
Raciist
corporal klinger I presume
I think it’s a big mistake to be an SUV/CUV only brand.
Bring back the Park Avenue and LeSabre! These were two of Buick’s best. We have one of each and refuse to let them go. There’s nothing like that boulevard ride with a 3.8L V6 that can deliver 30mpg on the highway. And there’s nothing that won’t fit into those cavernous trunks.
If Buick made a modern interpretation of the Park Ave I would be first in line. The current LaCrosse is okay but the trunk is too small, the front seat center console is too wide and the car needs more Buick like styling. The LeSabre and Park Ave were better more space efficient designs that did most everything well, looked like proper Buicks, had large trucks, carried 6 in a pinch and were efficient. The new Regal does a pretty good job with these items but GM just isn’t interested unless it can fund Mary’s triple zero future.
Look if you want to get cars back on the map convince the market to buy them again.
Want a Park Ave find 250,000 people a year to buy one and they will build it.
Look I have nothing against cars and I do miss many of them but you can not expect companies to build what the market is moving away from.
GM tried to stay the course in spite of the market in the 70’s with large cars. How did that work?
The new Enclave is a park ave just taller with a Hatch and much more utility. That is what people are buying.
We saw this coming. The HHR was nothing but a Cobalt wagon. It sold in numbers a Cobalt wagon would have never realized as it moved in great numbers.
Again GM is making a tough decision years ago they would not have made and this tim3 they are on the leading edge of it vs years behind.
I would keep the Regal in the lineup. I would add an Avenir version of the TourX with the V6. Next gen Regal should be electric. If the market changes in the furure, I would expand the lineup to include a coupe and convertible. The rest of the lineup can be crossovers.
Latest data I could find…in the first half of last year, the top 5 selling cars in the US averaged nearly 26,000 sales per month each. GM, on the other hand averaged about 4,500 Impala sales per month, and barely 1,000 LaCrosses (the #1 selling Buick car) per month.
The #1 selling GM car – the Cruze, which, ironically, was canceled – came in at #9 on the list, with about 11k sales/month.
In the same time frame, Toyota sold more Camry and Corolla cars than ALL GM cars combined, as did Honda with their Civic and Accord cars.
It’s not that cars aren’t selling…it’s GM cars that aren’t appealing to people interested in a car are not selling.
sheeple reading radical consumer reports for info on cars, Richard, , even C R rated Impala best in class, so it must be a helluva vehicle
Not saying Impala isn’t (wasn’t?) a good car. I drove one last week as a rental (while Suburban was in shop for failed TC diagnosis). Comfortable, economical, quick, roomy, great driving dynamics. Too much road noise. But that’s not the point. It’s not a car I would BUY. It’s not a car most people would buy when there are better choices. If, IF, it were RWD with a LT1 & 10L90e, AND had all of those aforementioned positive attributes, it would be at the top of my list. But, as presented, it’s like a girl that’s not ugly with a job who doesn’t burn dinner…nice, but not enough to close the deal.
My 2014 Buick LaCrosse had over 300 hp and handled beautifully. It was fun to drive, fast and nimble. I would have kept it for ten years, but, someone crashed into it and it was totaled. The Envision SUV is fun to drive and has good pick-up, but, no SUV can compare to a good sedan for those who enjoy the driving experience.
I am on my third Buick vehicle & also had a GMC Acadia as well. Prior to that was Pontiac Oldsmobile. I found they were all good by vehicles. Personally, once I started driving SUV’s or Crossovers, I would have a hard time going back to a car. I like the height to get in & out, easier to be get as child or baby out of their car seats & to load & unload groceries. I have recently ridden in a Lacrosse & also a Malibu, but too low to the ground. Feels like you are just hovering above the roadway. As long as I can afford a crossover or SUV, that’s what it will be for me. I have enjoyed owning the Encores. Perfect height level for me & economical.
A very short pause may be acceptable. But what the really need do is build some of the stunning RWD concepts from a few years ago utilitzing the upcoming Cadillac platforms.
Exactly! Build cars that people WANT.
I thought my grandmothers reagel was great!
(small buick sedan). And I hate her new crossover! (Subcompact buick SUV)
I own a buick encore and I LOVE IT!!!! Buick has come a long way….its no longer my frandfather’s buick!!! I can honestly say that this is one of the best cars I’ve ever owned.
I love my. BUICK ENVISION ESSENCE, WOULD BUY ANOTHER, easy to get in and out. Great visibility.
Bring back Impala and Lacrosse as total electric with terrific milage and the people will come back!
GM’s electric sales have a lot to be desired. The latest figures show the outdated Nissan Leaf selling more than the Chevy bolt. I don’t think people will come back for an electric Impala and Lacrosse, especially they will be WAY more expensive. I think Toyota/Honda think in longer terms than the Americans. They will continue to offer small cars and sedans because there is a market for entry level vehicles. Maybe they barely break even, but they can hopefully inspire brand loyalty.
Car prices are up across the board. I shopped for some CUV’s – Buick Enclave for example. Fully loaded it’s not a cheap car. Most people cannot afford 50k+ for a vehicle. Now your in a class where you have to compete with luxury or near luxury names, and there is not comparison IMO.
Ultimately what happens if oil prices creep up again, or they start carbon taxes which makes fuel more expensive ? Electric CUV will be expensive – imagine paying another 15-20k for an electric Buick Enclave? Never is gonna sell.
I understand the short term nature of building CUV’s while the market is hot. But will they be able to react quickly when the market turns and people favor other form factors.
I’m currently on my second Buick Lacrosse, a 2017 Premium, and would buy more if given the chance. I was eagerly looking forward to the refreshed 2020 model that we were teased with recently. I won’t, however, be be buying a crossover from Buick or anyone else. The other cars I’d consider from GM are going away too. I plan to buy one of the last, keep it as long as possible, and then go from there. Don’t understand the mentality of not buying a car because it’s being discontinued, but maybe that’s just because there aren’t any other options I find acceptable. I’ve always been a GM fan and loyalist, so it’s going to be hard to look elsewhere. Especially when that means foreign since Ford is axing all their sedans too. When that time comes, it will be because GM abandoned me, not the other way around.
Likewise I do not want a SUV or CUV currently on the market. I I enjoyed my 2011 Buick regal cxl turbo for almost 8 years I ran out and bought a Chevy Cruze when I heard that most of the sedans we’re getting cancelled I think it’s just a reshuffle of employees myself and hopefully some nice cars will come out in a couple years but I didn’t dare take the chance of not having a GM vehicle sedan that I could buy in my price range. also I’ve had very good luck with GM products owning several Saturns Buick and a couple Chevy’s now back to Chevy again I’ve had very good luck with all my GM cars. I ended up with the hatchback the city mileage is disappointing but the highway mileage is fantastic, 44. The cruise is a very nicely appointed economy car what I really wanted was a small premium or entry level luxury car that got good good mileage and wasn’t over the top expensive. currently nothing on the market fits that bill Especially anything from GM. I’m hoping my next vehicle will be a GM vehicle. onlyly time will tell
We have one of the few Buick Regal Tourx you will see. It seems that the model hasn’t sold or been marketed well. Needless to say, it is an absolutely wonderful vehicle and we would rate it among the best we have ever owned and that says a lot for our over 55 years of car ownership/driving experience. The comfort and drivability are exceptional and it gets some serious “thumbs up “and nods for it’s style and good looks.
Fools at GM can save the Regal Tourx by calling it a modified SUV or Sport SUV …..anything!!!! It’s a one of a kind vehicle…looks like a race car with its streamline styling especially when parked next to any brand SUV….I understand they only sold about 7000 Tourx’s since its inception last february…..withhout creative marketing (that is to create the want and need for a station wagon (opps, I mean Sport SUV) this will go the way of the LaCrosse
Miss Barra:
Take a look at the 2018 Chevrolet impala. It has sleek styling, and just think about having the car go electric. If it could get 500 miles or better on a charge and have the creature comforts we are all used to plus price it around $30,000 not $60 or 70,000 GM would have something to boast about. But no car company is going to survive charging
$60,000 + for new every day transportation. Ferrari and Porsche and corvettes can go that route but they are speciality cars. Companies may be hiring but the wages have not kept up with the economy. Hasn’t for the last 25 years
I just bought a 2017 Silverado 4 door pickup. Listed for 52,000. That’s more than I make in a year. I live in central Minnesota. Companies pay closer to the $10-12/hr here.
We can’t afford the vehicles the car companies are throwing at us.
Love my Buick Envision Essence,, GM should probably go with bestsellers.
The last Buick I owned was a 73 Deuce and a quarter. It was big, roomy and had a 4 body trunk. Cars and crossovers today are cramped and have no trunk space. That and you can’t get a bench seat in them. That fact alone makes them unappealing so much so I won’t even consider buying one. I think GM is making a big mistake and Buick will end up like Oldsmobile. I’d love to drive a car again instead of a truck but until they make one roomy enough, have a bench seat and high enough for easy ingress and egress you can forget me ever buying one. That and GM’s quality and customer service has gone to crap. They build junk and don’t stand behind their products.
GM cant sell sedans because their sedans are not up to par with their competition. Build sedans that exceed expectations and people will buy them despite prior reputation real and perceived. Think the problem is GM don’t want to spend the money to do that and they cant sell them at a price point to get big profits. They are too unwilling to accept small profit now and wait for the long term payoff.
I #workforGM IT and I own two buick crossovers. We have an encore and an envision. They are both good cars. There are room for improvement but the ride is very comfortable and cabin is super quiet. We meant to get xt5 because of it’s better look but for 40K envision comes with lot of features that you wont get on xt5. New enclave looks great too. If engine has good power we would get one later. I dont see any reason for buick to keep producing weird looking station vagon /European type cars. Also in regular sedan they can stick with one good sedan other than making too many diff variation for a market that doesn’t recognize them at all. But all crossovers sounds fun too. Hopefully they keep pricing them right.
Big mistake getting rid of your car’s gas prices will go up and cars will be what everybody wants SUV is just a thing for now.
In my opinion, Buick should have a regal sized Sportback like now and a larger vehicle about the same size as a G8 Called Park Avenue. Both based off of the Omega 2 Platform. Come in RWD/AWD and be built alongside the upcoming CT4/CT5.
Regal 2.0T and the PA 3.0T (Only one Turbo as for it to be De-tuned from Cadillac Spec)
This way GM can better utilize that facility. Buick would only need about 25,000 Regals and 15,000 Park Avenues. I believe they can achieve that no problem.
Then offer as many CUV’s as you’d like.
I own a 2006 Buick Lecerne CLX nice ride but a bitch to enter and exit 57 no 65 . Brought a 2005 Buick rendezvous ultra 3600 V8 (only year) love it truly easy entry great smooth ride. Everybody I ride in it loves its . Buick needs to update and bring them back. It’s overpriced replacement enclave is blah .
I am new to the Buick Lacrosse family and loving it. I would love to see an equivalent GM model in the future.
Love my big, powerful, comfortable Buick Enclave. It’s a 2015, only have 22,000 miles on it. Have had no problems, other than maybe a softer ride, but that wld sacrifice performance (which is exceptional for a crossover SUV of this size. Takes turns and quick maneuvers just a smidge lesser than my wife’s Honda Pilot.
The American manufacturers allowed the Japanese to control the compact segment as a Trojan horse. Then, they ceded the luxury and handling segment to the Europeans. Now, they surrender passenger cars.
Soon, they will be largely irrelevant.
A self’
-inflicted mortal wound in keepi g with the utterly short-sighted, quarterly dividend nature of American corporate business.
I will likely live to see GM dissolve.
If Toyota makes as big of a leap with their next generation Tundra as they did with their last, Detroit will be in trouble with light pickups, too. Assuming, of course, the Japanese don’t ride the platforms for over a decade like Nissan did with the 1st gen Titan and Toyota is doing with the current Tundra.
That would only happen if the all Detroit truck factories explode at once. Nobody wants Toyota’s BS pick-up.
For Buick, a while ago here someone posted a CT6 based sedan/coupe was in the works to replace Lacrosse, which is fine, these days since CUVs bring in the money and 2 cars won’t alienate buyers, for Chevy the same source said a CT5 based car is due to replace Impala. IMO a CT4 based compact to replace Cruze is a true opportunity to set Chevy apart from the Asian competition.
Toyota has sold about 1.4 million of its current generation Tundra trucks in the US. That isn’t exactly “nobody wants one.” From another perspective, they sold more Tundras last year than GM sold of its #1 selling car, and over ten times more than Buick sold of their most popular car. And that’s a decade-plus old platform…the GM truck product that was introduced at the same time is now 3 generations old – but Toyota is still selling more of those than GM is selling of their most popular car.
GM is on the verge of falling to #3 in truck sales because of Ram. Well, not “because” of Ram; I should say yielding the #2 spot to Ram. If Toyota replaces the current Tundra with what they’re capable of, I wouldn’t be surprised to see GM at #4 in 1/2 ton sales.
And again the how many millions more GM pick-ups/SUV/CUV been sold during that time?, troll all you want but the same can be said for Dodge and golden-boy Ford since Tundra sales came from all 3.
As said before the Tundra with questionable reliability, ancient powertrains and weak frame isn’t doing nothing in the US unless Detroit gets nuked or something, Dodge don’t have that much to the table because journalist wack off looking at Laramie dashboards, call back when they sustainably out-sell GM.
Hey, put down the crack pipe, stop calling names, and acknowledge the facts I stated – some of which you tried to restate in a lame attempt to demonstrate you know something about this… Yes, it’s a truck that’s over a decade old, with numerous shortcomings (that still makes more power and torque than the latest and greatest 5.3, and has higher tow ratings). Numbers are numbers, and this old piece of junk you described still outsells GM’s #1 selling car, and outsells Buick’s #1 seller by 10:1. Toyota WILL replace it soon, and when they do GM will be in bigger trouble – this “new” GM truck is already behind Ram and a few years old Ford design.
If GM doesn’t figure out their stuff, they’re going to be the next Sears.
Put down Toyota’s co#k, Toyjoka futile attempt to make real domestic competition failed and they not going to put eggs on thier face again like 07-08′, I’m sure there good with their modest sales but it’s still a drip in the bucket compared to Detroit trucks. When Ram can sustainably out-sell GM (which won’t happen) maybe GM is in trouble but not everyone wants a turbo-beer can (F-150) or a discounted-3-piece suit interior (Ram) .
You, sir, clearly do not have the intellectual capacity to comprehend that I am a fan of neither Toyota nor “co#k,” which those of us with an IQ north of room temperature might assume to be a grossly ineffective effort on your part to game moderation and impugn a fine American soft drink simultaneously. Had you not dropped out of third grade after being confused about which bathroom to use, it’s quite possible you could have learned to not only spell, but comprehend, as well. I am a lifelong GM aficionado, and despise their self inflicted demise to formerly inadequate products. Good day.
Well your name is Richard so your name implies your phallic behavior plus you into 3rd grade boys in restrooms?. Sounds like a Toyota driver or a Californian. I’m done with ya enjoy your Toyota Mr. Herbert,.
It wasn’t that long ago , Kia and Hyundai ran newspaper ads for about 5 crossovers and only one car . GM with a bloated old investor base continued lots of ads for car models though the market for CUV’s was growing strong . GM is like a monster ocean liner trying to change directions or stop , it takes miles and miles . In vehicle speak that is years and years . A massive corporate body feeding at the trough and isolated from the general public , in my opinion .
Buick designs beautiful sedans. I own a Lacrosse AWD and I love the gas mileage and lucrative options like heads up display,ambient lighting,luxury interior and beautiful body design .Standard heated seats,steering wheel and infotainment system.
Its better on gas at the pumps. I think you should reconsider.SUV buyer’s today, but in the long run the sedan is choice as more people choose to stay single and child free.
I read all your comments, I do not want a crossover or SUV I just want a CAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It would be a mistake to not offer any sedans. I personally will drive a sedan over an over priced crossover or SUV any day. And if GM chooses to not offer any, I will end up owning one from one of the Asia based companies instead. This trend will shift again in the future and the US based auto companies will be caught out of step.
Mazda, Kia, Hyundai, Volvo, and most imports have TTC V-6’s in their sedan lineups. Buick has none. Sedan sales are declining but they are not dead. GM’s management has failed over and over to make Buick sedans sexy. Look at the 2019 Mazda 6 with it’s HO TTC V-6, reminds one of the Buick Avista concept vehicle.
Nissan will not stop selling the Maxima or Altima. Toyota will not stop selling the Camry or Corolla. Always provide equal or better than your competitors and do not be forced into a pigeon hole or blocked out of a substantially profitable market segment.
GMC is the truck and CUV and SUV branch and it is doing very well. Reorganize the marketing direction for the sedans in the Buick line up and move forward with a better plan.
Cutting the sedan line from Buick is not cutting edge marketing or economics.
WHAT A LAZY APPROACH TO AND INSULT TO AUTO AUTO DESIGN….. PREFERRING TO SIMPLY PRODUCE CROSSOVERS….INNOVATE… PUT SOME THINKING FRESH IDEAS INTO AUTODESIGN… AND IM SORRY IM JUS NOT SEEING IT…. PONTIACS RAGEOUS CONCEPT FROM A COUPLE OF DECADES AGO WAS SO FAR AHEAD OF ITS TIME BUT GM ELECTED TO SHUTTER THAT BRAND….. THAT CONCEPT AS WELL AS CONTINUING TO BLUR THE LINES OF SUV AND THE TRADITIONAL 3 BOX SEDAN SHOULD BE EXPLORED……WONT BE LONG BEFORE GM HANDS THE FULLSIZE TRUCK MARKET TO THE COMPETITION…..
Buick will probably leave America if this is how they play. Nobody will buy an overpriced electric car and if gas prices do go up again…we’re in deep voodoo. Whoever said the Enclave was bleh…it’s not, my aunt (she once had a Rendezvous back then) would die for one.
We have owned Buick sedans all our lives. Right from a Buick skylark to a Buick LeSabre to the own we own now. The names change so often, I’m not sure what the name its? I think it’s a Lasalle or?? We just the love the comfort and the luxury, how it hold the road. No car I’ve ever tried has matched up, but, hey, I’m now considered out of date and old fashioned.
What a shame.
Sell what sells and for seniors , make sure there is Good visibility all around . Forget the swoop do , just keep the lines true. JC
A Buick has always been in my garage for the last 25 years. Before that it was Pontiac GTO (2) which were the most fun and powerful to drive. SUV”s are fine and we own a 2014 Caddilac suv. Bring back the Chevrolet Impala make it fun and easy to drive. And please lower the cost on trucks. $60,000 for a half ton pickup is ridiculous.
I think a large sedan like the Park Avenue or LeSabre Limited with enough power to run with a Charger needs to be in the lineup along side of the crossovers. I do not have a Buick in my driveway because Buick is not Buick anymore. I sold my 9 month old Enclave and bought a Cadillac. I sold my Cascada with only 1500 miles and replaced it with a Camaro because the Cascada had a 4 cylinder. If it had a 3.6 or a 3.8 I would still have it. People who buy Buick cars want a comfortable powerful car, not these small cars Buick is trying to sell. Also no one wants a Chinese made vehicle regardless of the name that is transplanted on the side.