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Buick will get a V8 rear-wheel drive sedan in 2008

Date Posted 02-24-2005



Buick will go after Lexus with this rear wheel drive V8 powered sedan.


DETROIT, Mich. — Industry sources tell Inside Line that Buick intends to import a large rear-wheel-drive sedan from General Motors' Holden subsidiary in Australia, to serve as its flagship passenger car in 2008. It's a trick GM already tried with the slow selling Pontiac GTO, which is based on the Australian Holden Monaro.

The sedan reportedly will fill a slot in the division's lineup that will be left by the impending demise of the front-wheel-drive Park Avenue.

Buick also is planning to introduce a rear-wheel-drive convertible, patterned after the Velite concept car it unveiled last year at the New York auto show. Although it is expected to share many underbody components with the new sedan, the two-door Velite reportedly will be assembled in North America.

Holden has already begun testing prototypes of the Buick sedan, which will also share its basic architecture and underpinnings with the next-generation Holden Commodore and Statesman sedans in Australia.

The Buick sedan has been designed to accept GM's 5.7-liter V8, which likely will be mated to a five- or six-speed automatic transmission.

What this means to you: Hopefully, Buick's attempt to import a near-luxury RWD sedan from Down Under will attract more American buyers than Pontiac's latter-day GTO has.


http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/News/articleId=104811



-- Edited by Kevin at 16:25, 2005-02-27

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It looks oddly familiar, and although it's only the rear, I have a feeling that it is going to be something other than the boring and familiar look of the current Buicks.

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This was also posted in Luxury Cars, with more pics and info:


http://www.activeboard.com/forum.spark?forumID=38161&subForumID=89558


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