First hitting the scene in 2004 for the 2005 model year, the Buick LaCrosse was discontinued in the U.S. after the 2019 model year following a global restructuring effort. However, the Buick LaCrosse is still sold in China, and now, GM Authority spy photographers have captured the next-gen Buick LaCrosse undergoing testing.
For those readers who may be unaware, the current third-generation Buick LaCrosse was introduced for the 2017 model year in both China and North America. However, while the nameplate was discontinued in North America after the 2019 model year, the 2019 Buick LaCrosse received a facelift for the Chinese market. Now, GM is developing the next-gen Buick LaCrosse, as seen in these spy photos.
Offered as a full-size sedan, the next-generation Buick LaCrosse looks to be equipped with a redesigned fascia featuring new boomerang-shaped headlight clusters, as compared to horizontally oriented, angular clusters introduced by the recent 2019-model-year refresh.
Notably, the clusters on this next-gen Buick LaCrosse are placeholder lights, with the final production lighting expected to be a bit different. That said, the boomerang shape is becoming something of a design cue for the Buick brand, including for the all-new, Chinese-market Buick GL8 Century MPV that leaked last month, so expect something similar from the next-generation production-spec Buick LaCrosse.
Moving over to the flanks, we see the next-generation Buick LaCrosse running a fastback-like silhouette, with the low-profile roofline falling at a gentle angle into the rear trunk. Also notable are the taillights, which are obviously revised with the upcoming next-gen sedan, although the taillights on this particular prototype are once again placeholder units.
Looking ahead, the Buick LaCrosse is not expected to be sold in North America any time soon. That said, this particular next-gen prototype was spotted running around on public roads in Michigan, hence the U.S. road signs spotted in the background.
We’ll keep our eye on the next-gen Buick LaCrosse to see how it develops, so remember to subscribe to GM Authority for more Buick LaCrosse news, Buick news, GM business news, and around-the-clock GM news coverage.
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For China? That and nothing is exactly the same. While China receives decent cars, in occidental countries we receive boring, unpractical and cookie cutter SUV’s and crossovers. Not everybody likes SUV’s or crossovers or is willing to buy one no matter what. I would buy this Lacrosse. An SUV or a crossover, never.
There is nothing more dull than a GM SUV.
Those overhangs though huh?
Wow Lol
I’m sure there is a market for Buick sedans here in the US. I’ve never cared much for SUVs, so I definitely will be in the market for a comfortable, luxurious Buick sedan hopefully manufactured in the USA!
You’ll have a long wait.
To all the people who keep complaining about China getting buick’s the US does not. Hint, they bought them. And they keep buying them. And they keep buying sedans. So oddly, gm in china keeps making them. Weird huh? A company satisfying regional demands. Who woulda thunk that was a good biz strategy.
mkavt: You are certainly correct in what you say. It’s true. However, can I add a thought to that? I’ve said this a million times over the years. You can NOT sell from an empty shelf. You can NOT sell what people do not know you have. When GM pushes the trucks and SUV’s like mad, and when the dealers are forced to take what GM pushes, and when the dealers then stock mostly just trucks and SUV’s, the buyers out looking for a sedan drive past those same GM dealerships and end up at a store that stocks cars (sedans). And those same customers probably know that brand/dealership has sedans because they saw them being advertised.
Where I come from in the mid-west, dealerships are closed on Sunday’s by law. I worked at a GM/Honda store for many years and that dealership refused to stock the GMC Canyon and the Buick Skylark (1992-1998). Reason? They said nobody was looking for them or would buy them. Yet I would see many of them on the streets with other dealership names on the back. Being closed on Sunday meant that the buyers who hated having those pesky sales people bother them would do their window shopping on Sunday’s. When these shoppers couldn’t find the Canyon or Skylarks on the lot, they drove to the other dealers. I tried for years to get them to understand that, but with zero luck.
I bet you also couldn’t get the buyers to stock anything aside from white, silver, silver gray, and black.
Grizzly: Back in that day, it wasn’t as bad because they actually offered more color choices. In fact, just the other night I took out my old 1988 Cadillac ordering guide (yes, I was very bored!!). It never ceases to amaze me that in 1988 Cadillac offered more than 13 different colors just in solid and then offered around 10 different two-tone combos. It was amazing. You had choices both inside and outside, unlike today where you have your choice of 3 shades of silver/gray, white, black and if you’re lucky one or two other colors. It’s sad, but most vehicles only offer about 6 different colors any more.
Looks like it’s based on the CT6 platform, which is popular in China. Like you posters above alluded to, I bought a 19′ CT6-V and its a fantastic car, AWD, 4-Wheel Steering, twin turbo V-8, why not here anymore!
mJDart:
LaCrosse shares nothing with the CT6. It’s built on the FWD platform called Epsilon 2.
CT6 did not sell well enough in the US to cover the costs of building it here.
See post by member mkavt above.
These cars are built and offered in China because the Chinese BUY THEM. A lot of them. Americans did not. Simple as that.
ALL of the imports did not stop making sedans SO GM pushed their buyers into import sedans ,,although sales may Not be as strong as before but there are still buying them …
Bye-bye, Avalon and Maxima.
China gets everything!
Robert L:
How many CT6s or LaCrosse did YOU buy?
Oh how I’d love to see this stateside, I’ve been holding on to my ’14 Lacrosse fully loaded with no idea of where to go next when I want to trade / purchase a second car. The Envision is nice,but not quite as spacious while the Enclave is overkill for me.
Don’t succumb to GM & Fords SUV , crossover horror show !
Get a Chrysler 300 ; or foreign sedan.
I guess Toyota,Honda,BMW,Mercedes,Audi and Hyundai are all idiots compared to the “ always one step ahead” management at The Formerly great GM?
We who buy a lot of cars still like sedans!
I was told that there was a YEAR wait if I Order a CT6.
GM dealers are charging 5000 to 15,000 above list even if you order a vehicle.
But my local Lexus dealer is les than list . Difficult choice???
Paul N: Although I like sedan’s better than any SUV and I drive a sedan (Malibu), and although I agree with you that GM must stay in the sedan business, I need to call out what I feel is very wrong in the rest of what you said.
All brands are moving from sedans to SUV/CUV’s and trucks. It’s not just GM. The micro-ship issue and thus inventory problems is what’s causing all dealers to run amuck with pricing. Again, it’s not just GM. Where I work now with Volvo and Mazda, we are having a terrible time getting any vehicles and we too have markups. In my department (fleet), we work mostly with auto brokers who find cars from all brands for their customers. What we keep hearing from the brokers (and some customers coming in to our store) is that there are no dealers without additional market adjustment prices. In fact, we have been told many times that the Honda, Toyota and Audi dealerships are the worst (this would include the Lexus). So I find it quite difficult to believe your comments about Lexus.
Lastly, you can’t order a Cadillac CT6. That model has not been sold in the USA for about 2 years now.
I meant to say CT5.
I just ordered a Mini Clubman for my wife for 500 below list .
My Lexus experience was 2 months ago,it might have changed.
Well I for one would never pay above list for any vehicle .
The car dealers make millions during good times. So they need to take the good with the bad.
Imagine if your doctor or dentist charged double during the pandemic because patients were in short supply.
Honda ,Toyota and Audi and MB and BMW not canceling sedans anytime soon!
When folks who pay the “adjusted market” price discover how upside down they are in their value vs what is owed, they will be upset. Granted, most bring it on themselves, but the memory remains.
The dealer who sells at sticker and doesn’t play Pattie-cake will see repeat business.
Too bad we can’t get an AWD sedan from Buick to buy and drive on US roads ourselves. Maybe someday sedan return (with AWD options for those of us who experience more than 1 season) but they’ll probably be EVs 🤢🤮
The Lacrosse came with AWD as an option, which I choose since I live in New England. It works great but my 2017 Lacrosse sits so low that deep snow can be a problem. I doubt anyone will ever steal my catalytic converter!
WOW, WHAT I KICK IN THE GROIN FOR US CDN’S AND AMERICANS. THE NERVE ON US SOIL!
GENEROUS MOTORS OF CHINA!! IF I BUY MY NEXT NEW CAR I HOPE I CAN CONVINCE MYSELF NOT TO BUY GM JUNK AFTER 40 YEARS OF MANY, MANY NEW CARS!
Man o man so much China Buick news lately. Impeccable timing as the feckless UN issued their long overdue report on Communist CCP abuse of millions of Uyghurs. Must be really horrific abuse for the UN to ignore the Communist CCP and release the report. But all you peeps with your heads jambed up your a$$, enjoy that Chinese Buick! You go Queen maryb!!
Let’s be honest Barra has turned GM into an uncompetitive company. GM claims to be an EV company, but can only sell 25,000 EV’s annually. Mitsubishi sells more Mirages internationally than all the EVs GM sells in North America. So far GM has sold only 1600 hummer EVs this year, making it GMs worst selling North American vehicle. GM should of spent some of its money improving their existing gas powered vehicles. Cars like the Malibu are actually in demand (3rd place), and yet GM spends their money on the useless Hummer EV, which has almost no demand.
Again, like the 2023 Cadillac CT6, another gorgeous styled sedan going to China, us, well we are stuck with Square shaped, non aerodynamic, bad handling things called SUVs. I am a builder, i work with square house bricks all day, lay square pavers all day, drive home on the highway in my only sedan car on the road called a Mercedes Benz, looking at all those square shaped SUVs on the road, i am so depressed on the decaying US auto industry, the only way i get to sleep at night is to dream about your write ups on cars going to China. I also hope Boing and Airbus dont follow the auto industry and start producing square planes.
Daryl
How do you know it’s “gorgeously styled”?
So is the new Chinese Buick an EV? I bet no. In a typical USA stupid decision we are mandating EVs, so China can continue spewing pollution into the planet.
When you factor in typical electric generation efficiency, an EV’s total energy consumption is between that of a similar sized gasoline fueled vehicle and similar sized diesel vehicle. Gasoline/diesel fuel production is very efficient while the vehicle engines are inefficient. The opposite is true with EVs. Electric production is quite inefficient while the vehicles themselves have hig efficiency. It’s a no benefit plan being foisted on an ignorant public.
What an American disgrace GM has become!
There is only one Buick in their lineup that is built in the
US or Canada!! SAD!
I own a 2017 Lacrosse and I bought it when I was still in my 40s! I love it, gets 31 mpg and has plenty of space. I was flabbergasted when GM discontinued them in the US.
I’m a happy Buick LaCrosse owner and eager for Buick to start manufacturing them back in the states. Lots of us do not want to own an SUV. Mary Barra, can you hear us?
It seems like we are not the only ones upset with Buick, GM has offered a buy -back plan for Buick dealerships that want out of selling those square things called SUVs.
I agree
Mary can here us but she doesn’t care . not building what the consumer wants , SEDANS , not everybody wants SUVs nor everybody wants Electric…..these poor decisions will come and bite her good ….
I tried to buy a Regal GS AWD in 2020. I couldn’t find them anywhere. It’s almost like the car was an afterthought by GM.
Too bad we love our red 2019 GS
How much marketing did GM do when sedans of various divisions were being sold in the U.S.? ZERO…
In fact, Buick ran a commercial, “That’s Not My Buick”
where they would show various Buick sedans. Then a person would say , “that’s not my Buick, and point to a Buick SUV…
I received a call from the dealership saying that they want to buy my sedan and I could upgrade. I said to what?
An SUV? I laughed, no way…
Megeebee, it is Daryl, i understand why you made that comment, to me, i absolutely love American cars, i have collected every Motor Trend, Car and Driver issue since the late 1950s also have two fire proof filing cabinets of every new car brochure since 1950, i note down in writing every detailed change of each years models externally, i am fanatical about the cars of America, i look at the belt line shape and design, the curvature of the door frames front and rear, the shape of the ” C ” pillar, front and rear fender overhangs, fender flared wheel arches, height of the front panel, positioning of the boomerang headlights, i guess over sixty years of studying the American cars and looking at hundreds of spy photos of cars that have come out over the decades, i guess i look a bit deeper into the photos than most guys. Sorry if i didnt come accross a bit more in my previous writngs.
I Dennis Kelley am the last responder, tried to edit the above it did not work for me. We owned a 2012 Buick Lacross it was a V6. It was time for a trade the only reason we did not buy a new Lacross at the time was because the wife did not like the engine stop at a stoplight. Now we own a 2017 SUV not a Buick we wanted another V6 and at the time they did not have one in stock we got one I will not mention the brand, but it is American. Not a bad vehicle, it is mainly used for grocery shopping. If you want a good old fashion smooth ride on a road trip, a good old fashion Buick sedan is the ticket. Please bring back the Lacross.
It amazes me with all of GMs plants and shared electrical components they are awful at platform sharing outside of the Trucks and CUVs… They could have easily moved the Lacrosse, Impala, Malibu that could share with the equinox/terrain platform.
Honda CRV, civic, accord, ilx, rdx all are the same platform… Toyota Corolla, cross, RAV4, Camry, RX,NX are shared… I could go in with VW and BMW as well
Marmon, Pierce , White , among many failing car companies in the 1930s began selling trucks exclusively…..well they went out of business totally.
People are copy cats & buying NON – Car hunks of ugly , because of the push & no cars on the lot .
GM was built on : ‘ A car for every taste & purse ‘.
No longer ; oh how stupid to see those Buick Ads with a line up of NON – cars !
Notice the idiomatic ads promoting two Non – cars for families ?
They know people who often have $ for Buicks etc , can buy two vehicles…..the sensible thing was to get a sedan & Non car …but the Non – car has no availability!
I REFUSE to buy an SUV Crossover….REFUSE .
Nobody I know wants any .
The ones who do also have a car , or BAD taste.
Barra has no class .
Why are used CAR prices so high ?
Because many still want a CAR !
Keep it up GM : This time : No bailouts !
To Whom It May Concern: Why would GM road test the next generation 2023 Buick LaCrosse in the U.S. if it was not going to sell it in the U.S.? If it was only going to be sold in China, why wouldn’t it just be road tested in China, on a Chinese test track? Surely, G M would have a road testing facility in China to evaluate existing/future vehicles for the Chinese market? It just doesn’t make financial sense to me, to go to the expense of road testing a vehicle in the U.S. if it is NOT going to be sold in the U.S. If I am wrong, can someone enlighten me about this matter? I am watching the development of this story, as I would be a definite prospect for this car, if it will be sold in Canada. I would appreciate any updates on this matter, thank you!