Buick is a mark used with the the United States by the group General Motors.

History

Buick is in the beginning an independent manufacturer, the Buick Motor Company , created the May 19th 1903 by David Dunbar Buick with Flint (Michigan). In 1904 the company in difficulty is taken again by James Whiting which named William C. During with the head of its new acquisition. Buick quickly became largest American Car manufacturer. Benefitting from this situation, Lasting acquired of a dozen companies, calling its new business General Motors.

Buick with employee several important characters of the automobile history: Louis Chevrolet, Charles Nash and Walter Chrysler all was employed by Buick before seeing their name on other marks of cars. At the beginning, the various manufacturers composing General Motors were in competition the ones with the others, but During put an end to that. He wanted that each division of General Motors targets a type of customers, and in this new diagram, Buick was close to the top to the range, only Cadillac was more prestigious. Today still, Buick keeps this position. Ideal the Buick customer saw comfortably, but is not enough easy to offer Cadillac or does not seek of it ostentation while wanting nevertheless a vehicle exceeding the standard.

Buick was the first manufacturer of cars to at the head manufacture engines with valves at the beginning of the century, an architecture which was then adpotée by the other manufacturers and who is used in the great majority of the cars of today. Buick was also the first to use a Torque converter in its automatic transmissions in 1948. The firm manufactured in series the first car " hardtop" 2 doors without amounts, the Roadmaster Riviera 1949, as well as the first conveys 4 doors without central amounts in 1955.

Distinctive signs

The emblem of Buick is made up of three shields aligned on a diagonal, the whole registered in a circle. This design was adopted in 1960. It represents the three models which constituted the range this year (Electra, LeSabre and Invicta). The shields are adapted blazon of the Buick family which was used in a a little different form on Buick since the Thirties. The original blazon appeared again on the model Electra in the Sixties.

A traditional detail of the Buick design since 1949 is a series of three or four openings on the wing above the nose gear wheels. Called in the beginning Ventiports , then port-holes , they are apparures sporadically on many models since. In 2003, one finds some on the Buick Park Avenue.

Geographical distribution

Contrary to another marks General Motors, the Buick models are sold only with the the United States and the Canada.

Of Buicks are produced and sold in China by Shanghai GM since 1999 and they meet one big hit there.

Models

External bonds

  • Official site of the mark
  • Official site of the French mark

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