Buick Lucerne

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Buick Lucerne (2005-2008)
Buick Lucerne (2005-2008)
Lucerne
Production period: 2005-2011
Class : Upper class
Body versions : limousine
Engines:
Petrol engines : 3.8–4.6 liters
(147–205 kW)
Length: 5161 mm
Width: 1875 mm
Height: 1473 mm
Wheelbase : 2936 mm
Empty weight : 1707-1820 kg
Previous model Buick LeSabre
Buick Park Avenue
successor without

The Buick Lucerne is a front-wheel drive sedan made by the American automaker Buick of General Motors , which was offered from early 2005 to mid-2011.

In those years it was Buick's top model and as such a successor to Buick Park Avenue .

history

The Lucerne, first presented at the Chicago Motor Show in February 2005, replaced both the Buick LeSabre and the Buick Park Avenue , which was the top model in the model range at the time . The Lucerne is based on the G platform of General Motors , which is also at the Pontiac Bonneville was in 2005 using the year.

The Lucerne is powered by the in-house 3.8-liter V6 engine or, alternatively, the Cadillac Northstar V8, making it the first Buick model to be powered by an eight-cylinder engine again when the Buick Roadmaster was no longer in production in 1996 . The Lucerne was available with an active chassis ( Magnetic Ride Control ) like the Chevrolet Corvette for a surcharge.

Buick Lucerne (2008-2011)

Continuing a Buick tradition dating back to the late 1940s, the Lucerne has small air outlets on the front fenders - Buick's so-called ventiports - which are actually functional on this model and help to vent hot air from the engine compartment. The six-cylinder version has a total of six and the eight-cylinder version eight.

The Lucerne was offered in the equipment variants CX and CXL (with six-cylinder engine) and as a CXS with V8 engine.

At the beginning of 2008 the Buick Lucerne received a facelift with a chrome-plated "waterfall grill" and a more powerful 4.6-l V8 engine (previously 205 kW, then 218 kW). In 2009, a 3.9-liter V6 engine with 179 kW added to the engine range.

End of production

Production of the Lucerne ended on June 15, 2011.

In the course of the savings at General Motors, he remained without a successor. The top model at Buick was thus the next smaller model, the Buick LaCrosse .

Engines

Displacement Engine type power Torque Model years
3.8 l V6 147 kW at 5200 rpm 308 Nm at 3800 rpm 2005-2008
4.6 l V8 205 kW at 6000 rpm 400 Nm at 4400 rpm 2005-2008
218 kW at 6300 rpm 390 Nm at 4500 rpm 2008-2011
3.9 l V6 179 kW at 5700 rpm 325 Nm at 3200 rpm 2009-2011

Sales figures

Calendar year Sales
2005 8,821
2006 96,515
2007 82,923
2008 54,930
2009 31,292
2010 26,459
2011 20,358

After a brisk start in 2006 and 2007, the sales figures show a steady decline in demand. General Motors has therefore decided to cancel this series.

Individual evidence

  1. US: GM axes Cadillac DTS and Buick Lucerne . just-auto.com. May 26, 2011. Retrieved June 5, 2011.
  2. http://media.gm.com/content/Pages/news/us/en/2010/Jan/0105_Dec_Sales/_jcr_content/iconrow/textfile/file.res/Deliveries%20December%2009.xls
  3. http://media.gm.com/content/dam/Media/gmcom/investor/2011/DeliveriesDecember2010.pdf
  4. GM US Deliveries for December 2011 (PDF; 146 kB) media.gm.com. Retrieved May 11, 2012.

Web links

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