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Old 10-31-2008, 02:24 PM   #1
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Default 2010 Buick LaCrosse engine lineup and details revealed




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GM has delayed the launch of the 2010 Buick LaCrosse which was originally supposed to make its debut at the 2008 LA Auto Show. The 2010 LaCrosse was originally scheduled to go on sale in spring 2009 but has now been delayed to early summer due to lack of financial resources needed to launch the car.


However, the GM insiders at GM Inside News, have all the details ahead of time. The 2010 Buick LaCrosse will be available in two engines with the base engine being a 3.0L V6 with direct injection producing 250-hp. The range topper will be a 3.6L V6 that makes 290-hp. Both LaCrosse models will be mated to a 6T70 6-speed automatic transmission as standard. All-wheel-drive will be available as an option.
Other options include HID headlamps, a rear-view camera, and heads-up display.
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Old 07-15-2009, 02:35 AM   #2
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Whether it deserves the title or not, the 2010 Buick LaCrosse, with its brash new styling, fresh hardware and European bona fides, is the first "new Buick" of the "new GM." Shame about that whole old-folks image thing.

There are things we enjoy about the new LaCrosse, things we hate and things that leave us furl-browed as we try to reconcile the package with its price point and place in the GM universe. The LaCrosse is a beautiful car in person, borrowing proportion from the much-lauded 1993 Lexus GS which was penned by Giugiaro. The interior is handsome too, with sweeping lines, modern styling and enough ambient lighting to shake a cane at. Though it's got the looks, your enjoyment of the LaCrosse is a direct function of your age and the trim level you choose.

A Buick-loving octogenarian will absolutely adore the basic CX, this entry trim comes with a 3.0 liter, 255 HP direct injection V6 hooked to a standard six-speed automatic, 17-inch wheels, AM/FM/CD, A/C and very, very cushy muppet-soft cloth interior.

It's a simple car, without unnecessary and complex gadgetry, good feel to buttons, knobs and switches and very capable when it comes to performance. Acceleration is strong, smooth and actually enjoyable. The transmission is well sorted with shift points exactly where you'd expect and none of the hunting you dread. We even managed 30 MPG during highway cruising.

The interior is so quiet you can hold conversations at 100 MPH without even hearing the engine. Laminated acoustic glass, liberal use of sound deadening material and careful engineering of powertrain mounts make Buick's slang term to describe cabin noise, "coffin-quiet," accurate, despite the foreboding overtones for aged customers. What we were pleased to find in even the base LaCrosse is a suspension capable of insulating without isolating.

It certainly soaks up bumps and coarse road surfaces, but the car is also easy to handle at any speed. It's confident and easy to drive faster around a clover-leaf than your Grandpa's slowed reactions will allow. The CX's hydraulic steering is comfortably overboosted and on-center feel is a bit numb, but so are the buyers' hands.

Stepping up to the mid range CXL, where Buick expects to see the bulk of its sales, you get magnetically assisted power steering, an optional Haldex all-wheel drive system with electronic limited-slip differential and significantly upgraded interior appointments.

Cloth seats move to leather, a super basic radio readout goes to a navigation and entertainment screen, 17s become 18s and, overall, you get more of the pampering. Think of this as the choice for tech-savvy 60-somethings. The wood on these cars is quite impressive or, rather, we should say fake wood.

Magnification may be necessary to confirm the screen-printing. It's really quite remarkable. What isn't remarkable is the center console storage space. For large cars in a luxury segment, the cubbies and storage in the LaCrosse are pretty terrible. There's a small shallow bin at your elbow with a USB port and a 12V power point, as well as a small shelf, but nothing big enough to store your fanny pack full of medication in.

There are expandable map pockets, which we'd never thought a necessity and now know are not. The cupholders pop out to reveal a storage space good for... well, nothing really. A couple bottles of prescription drugs smuggled over from Canada perhaps, but nothing else.

Punching into the lucrative "middle manager in his 50s" demographic, you have the big-daddy CXS with the 3.6 liter V6 making 280 HP, the variable orifice dampers good for real-time damping adjustments (optional on the CXL), optional 19" wheels and heated and cooled seats. You get a bigger price tag and more equipment, but not a lot more car.

Acceleration, though stated as 6.5 seconds instead of the 3.0 V6's 8.0 seconds, doesn't feel appreciably faster. The real time damping system doesn't really real time damp much better than the stock system. The gauge cluster can be had with a full-color info center, but other than provide eye-candy, it doesn't provide additional information. The sky-view sunroof is nice, but it can be had on the CXL as well.

The most nagging problems with the LaCrosse are the nagging problems with Buick in general. What is the point of the car and the brand? It sits betwixt the working-class, but honest, Chevy product lineup, where the slightly smaller Malibu offers an arguably better value proposition and the upper crust Cadillac brand, which is sportier, more aggressive and filled with slick technology.

The Buick feels like the ignored middle grandchild between the two brands. It can't be too affordable or it's peeing in Chevy's pool and it can't be too luxurious or Caddys become overpriced.

The middle ground is a bewildering place, and it shows in the LaCrosse's execution. The interior is quiet, yes, but not without its flaws, material choice are occasionally mediocre, with the dreaded GM flat gray and beige plastic making an unexpected reappearance. There are hard plastic panels at knee points where there should be soft; rubberized plastic across the dash where it should be leather and a bizarre application of real stitching into fake leather to simulate a French seam which isn't even there.

Everything inside is very pretty, until you look closely at it. The whole car makes you scratch your head, especially when you look at the price tag. Our entry CX with a base price of $27,085 was optioned out to $30k while looking inside and out like a rental car special.

The powertrain and chassis was still lovely, but wrapped up in a box of meh-spec materials. Our AWD CXL started at $31k and was optioned out to an eye-watering $40,205; the CXS we tested came with a base price of $33K and crossed the options finish line just over $39,195. It would have been higher if it'd had AWD. There are an unbelievable number of entry luxury cars in the segment, ranging from the Hyundai Genesis to the Lexus ES, we see a great amount of potential in this platform, but we're afraid without a strong statement of purpose, the LaCrosse will wallow in a market filled with strong contenders.
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Old 07-15-2009, 03:01 AM   #3
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In the recent Buick ad, saw this car hinted at...wonder if they plan to bring the Chinese version here to the states?
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A leaner General Motors Co. must work faster, build better vehicles and keep a tighter focus on every operation. That's the urgent message CEO Fritz Henderson delivered Tuesday during the media launch of the all-new Buick LaCrosse.

"The new GM cannot survive with building competitive vehicles. We must build superb ones," Henderson told The Detroit News while driving through Dexter in the 2010 LaCrosse sedan, a modern flagship for one of the company's four remaining brands.

Henderson, whose comments came just five days after the automaker exited bankruptcy, also said GM's top management must change the company's culture. "We have to make decisions faster, and focus on the how we spend our money on vehicles," he said. "This change has to spread virally, and it has to start at the top."

GM faces an uphill battle, along with other automakers, as consumers curtail spending and pay down debt. On Tuesday, a new survey revealed that nearly 60 percent of all U.S. consumers polled say they don't plan to buy a new car or truck in the next four years.

"We'll not be seeing the frequent replacement pattern brought about by strong incentives and financing programs that made it easy and financially reasonable over the last decade for consumers to get into a new car frequently," AutoPacific President George Petersen said. "Consumers will be putting a higher priority on vehicles with a reputation for quality and durability that meets not only their short-term needs, but also their long-term expected needs."

In addition to slashing debt, workers and factories during bankruptcy, GM also shed half of its brands. Dumping Hummer, Saab, Pontiac and Saturn, Henderson said, will allow GM to focus more engineering and marketing support on its core brands: Buick, GMC, Cadillac and Chevrolet.

GM entered a government-backed bankruptcy on June 1 and eliminated about $40 billion in debt, closed nearly half of its dealerships and will shut down or idle 16 manufacturing facilities. It plans to cut its workforce to 64,000 by the end of the year.

The 40 days in bankruptcy were fewer than even Henderson estimated the company would endure, he said Tuesday. "We thought we were going to come out of bankruptcy on July 31, but so many things fell into place."

GM has newfound flexibility

GM executives already see the advantages of the dramatic changes. "It's much easier to handle four brands and 34 nameplates instead of eight brands and 78," said Susan Docherty, vice president of GMC, Buick and Pontiac.

She said the past year at GM was "very difficult" but added some positive changes are taking place.

"I have never had this much flexibility before," said the 23-year GM veteran. "And over the past 10 months, I've never spent this much time with customers."

In the coming years, Buick, GM's near-premium brand, will add three cars to its lineup, Docherty said, declining to provide specifics, though analysts expect a small car to be offered within a few years. The brand, which has become extremely popular in China, sells nearly three times as many vehicles there as it does in the U.S. market.

Buick also will have a much more substantial advertising budget.

More money will be spent advertising the LaCrosse during its first six months than all of Buick's advertising last year, Docherty told Bloomberg News.

GM can spend that much now on the LaCrosse because the automaker has half the brands to cover, said Aaron Bragman, an analyst at IHS Global Insight Inc. in Troy. The car, too, is a significant improvement from past Buick sedans, said Bragman, who was test-driving the car at the GM event in the Detroit suburbs.

GM plans on 10 new vehicles

GM plans to develop additional fuel-saving technologies, such as new direct-injection four- and six-cylinder engines, Henderson said. "Why build new V-8s when a six can offer the same power?" he said.

GM, which plans to introduce 10 new vehicles by the end of 2010, also will focus on building a gas-electric hybrid car as well as a plug-in hybrid in the future, Henderson said.

There are no plans to build or import any diesel cars.

Henderson said sales and the overall industry appear to be weaker than the same month last year. U.S. sales for the industry this year have been running below a 10 million annual rate each month -- the industry level at which GM says it needs to be profitable

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0-60 in 8 seconds for the 3.0L. I hate to think what the 2.4L will do in this car.
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0-60 in 8 seconds for the 3.0L. I hate to think what the 2.4L will do in this car.
you mean, like a 2.5L does in a Outback
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it does look like a lexus GS
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