### Buick Regal Grand National Supervision of Regal Coupe, we will put in the first place among the steep “Buyiks”. There are other cool models in the brand biography, and we will talk about them, but the Grand National is worthy to be mentioned in the forefront. The loud name is given in honor of the Nascar Winston Cup Grand National Series races – after a double victory in the Cup of Designers (1981 and 1982), the brand decided to perpetuate his achievement and took advantage of the principle “Win on Sunday, sell on Monday.” At first, Grand National was not lit-with a dead 4.1-liter V6 (127 hp), this is problematic. But then …
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By 1984, Grand National was transformed. He returned in a black color – Back in Black, just like in the legendary song AC/DC! – And most importantly, with a depressed “six” with a volume of 3.8 liters. On Buick, turbo engines were placed since the end of the seventies, these were called Regal Sport Coupe, and later Regal T-Type. But Grand National shut them up to the belt – with distributed fuel injection and boost pressure up to 1 bar first developed 203 hp .. and by the final 1987 – all 248 hp. Thanks to the intercooler, modified inlet and release.
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The material about Grand National in the magazine Car and Driver (April 1986) began as follows: “Corvette, out of the city. Mustang, move. Camaro, cling to the wall. The largest, coolest gun to the west of Pekos (Texas – approx. Author) walks along the streets. There will be a little shooting … “. Supercope then accelerated to 97 km/h (60 miles/h) in 4.9 seconds – faster than the “corvette”, most Ferrari for the American market and even Lamborghini Countach. Kvoter – in 13.9 seconds. But the experts of the publication suspected something was wrong – according to their estimates, the test car issued closer to 300 hp. Perhaps the guys from Buick bombed and secretly “tucked” the test Grand National for the sake of beautiful numbers.
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### Buick GNX Regal of the third generation handed over the baton to the front -wheel drive heir and retired loudly slamming the door. Chief Engineer Dave Sharp, advanced concepts manager Mike Dobble and project engineer Chuck Jensen initiated the development of extreme GNX (Grand National Experimental). Initially, they wanted to build 200 pieces, then 500 in honor of the Indy 500 and Daytona 500 races. But due to special dealerships, 547 copies turned out.
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GNX is a real monster and a barbarian of his era. Almost everyone was afraid of him! V6 has been applied by the Garrett Airesearch T-3 turbocharger with a ceramic turbine wheel, a productive intercooler, cylinder heads with improved blowing, a graduation system with “lightweight breathing”. Declared 280 hp Often they are called into question – they say that in reality the engine has a “three hundred plus”. The four -speed “automatic” is reinforced.
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Buick was stunned with dynamics on Car and Driver tests: 4.7 seconds to 97 km/h (60 miles/h) and 13.5 seconds on the quota. In the light of these values, the chassis upgrades (in particular, are aimed at restricting the movement of the rear axle and increasing the coupling properties) look more than appropriate.
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### Buick Riviera for many “Buyiks” of the nineties and the beginning of the zero years installed the good old compressor V6 with a volume of 3.8 liters and with a capacity of up to 243 hp. In the version of Series II. He endowed the cars with a relatively good temperament, but did not turn them into sports. For example, the luxurious full -size sedan Park Avenue Ultra gained 97 miles/h (60 miles/h) in 7.7 seconds and at the same time opposed active driving – demonstrated insufficient rotation and rather low limit of the adverse properties of tires. A large eighth -generation Riviera compartment (Americans call this format Personal Luxury) is more interesting.
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Even the excited fans of American technology had questions to Styling. The salon is often criticized for too mean finish – they say, there are not enough standard wood inserts. But still, RIV is “good: it shares the G-Body platform with Oldsmobile Aurora is based on the architecture of the G-Body, and in the compressor specification it pleases with a very decent torque at the level of the then V-shaped“ eights ”. Acceleration to 97 km/h (60 miles/h) even with a weaker 228-horsepower engine of the first series-7.2 seconds.
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The verdict of Car and Driver magazine: “If you like the appearance, you will like the car.” Fights: “V6 with a boost instantly develops enormous power. A very low level of noise and vibrations for this format of large machines. The move became tougher, like the seats. The rear sofa is more spacious. Riding at highways is first -class and with minimal rolls. ”
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### Buick Gran Sport 455 In the history of the brand there are real Mascars of the Golden Age. The honor of Buick in traffic lights and dragstraps defended Skylack Gran Sport (GS), which after 1968 was just called Buick Gran Sport. In 1970, the model turned into a monster-it was renewed outside and tried on a new 355-horsepower Big Block with a volume of 7.5 liters (455 cubic inches). The torque is actually record for those times – colossal 691 Nm. For the surcharge, the Stage 1 (365 hp) options were offered – a camshaft with a modified fist profile and an enlarged valves lifting, an increased productivity four -chamber carburetor and a sports exhaust system.
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Buick GS455 Stage 2 is a very rare dealer bag. With him, Maslkar turned into something epic. A wide list of upgrades includes a camshaft with even more aggressive characteristics, modified cylinder heads with enlarged valves, forged pistons, a huge Holley carburetor on Edelbrock’s custom intake manifold, equal uniform graduate collectors (Heders) Mikkey Thompson and the main gear ratio) 4,78: 1. Specialized American resources claim that only the heads of the block added about 50 hp, and everything else increased the return by about a hundred horsepower.
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One of the vertices of the medium-sized Mascars segment is BUICK GSX-a response to such nozzles as Chevrolet Chevelle SS, Pontiac GTO Judge and Oldsmobile 4-4-2 W30. “JI-ESC” was equipped with V8 455, including with the optional Stage 1. And had a rich equipment, including a modified suspension, “self-block”, cross-stability stabilizers, steering with a “short” gear ratio and a tachometer on the hood.
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### Buick Reatta from the Buyiks line with a fairly powerful conservative image was knocked out by a rapid wedge -shaped compartment and convertible Reatta. They can rather be mistaken for some Oldsmobile, which is not far from the truth-the shortened front-wheel drive platform of the two-door Toronado was based on.
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Reatta vaguely resembles Pontiac Fiero Sportsup. Something common is traced in the outlines and the “blind” front with the lifting headlights, although the difference between cars, of course, is huge. Fiero is a small average rear -wheel drive. “Buik” is much larger, front -line and with front drive wheels. Units with a mechanical supercharger were not proposed-only atmospheric 3.8-liter (up to 172 hp). But the suspension is completely independent, in front and behind disk brakes with ABS. The maximum speed is limited at the mark of 201 km/h. The sports car went from the assembly line from 1988 to 1991, 21,751 pieces were built.
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Although, Stop! It seems that we hurried a little by calling Reatta a sports car. For example, our colleagues from Car and Driver do not consider him such, despite the exterior and double interior. In dedicated “Buik”, comparisons with Cadillac Allante and even prestigious rear-wheelbar standers-Mercedes-Benz 560 SL and Nissan 300ZX sounded. It’s not called a quick Reatta – the magazine testers were able to show 9.1 seconds to 97 km/h (60 miles/h), but the style and technology definitely do not allow it to put it on a par with old -fashioned “grandmother’s“ Biuiks ”.”
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### Buick Regal LSX and GSX The Americans themselves say: “After the 1987 GNX, Buick did not produce truly fast cars.” In 2003, the SLP tuning studio (Street Legal Performance, specializes in General Motors) decided to fix this and “warm up” the Regal GS sedan with a 243-horsepower compressor V6 of 3.8 liters. Not as sports as prestigious even in a similar, very vigorous performance.
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The tuners were inspired by the original GSX of 1970. There is certainly nothing in common between Maslkar and the four -door, although the SLP tried to bring bridges and parallels. For example, “charged” Regal was also offered with “steagmes”. There were three of them in total, and they included such equipment as a sports intake and exhaust system, custom calibrations of electronic engine control, finalizing the gas distribution mechanism and another pulley of a mechanical supercharger to increase excess pressure. Upgrades increased power to about 270 hp.
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Some drivers of one pumped engine were not enough. Especially for them, sports springs were offered that lower the road clearance by one inch, the reproach stabilizers are thicker and tires BF Goodrich G-Force T/A.
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### Buick Lacrosse Super is very contradictory and, moreover, the Big Sedan of 2008-2009 is interesting in the option with the meaningful name Super. Imagine a barge with a length of more than five meters with front-wheel drive and … 5.3-liter lower V8 (304 hp) paired with a four-speed “automatic”. Engineers are mocking?! But not everything is as bad as it seems at first glance.
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Lacrosse Super accelerates to 97 km/h (60 miles/h) as frantic, in 5.7 seconds and does not try to tear the steering wheel from the hands of the driver with strength strokes. Surprisingly decent behavior for a strange front -wheel drive with a giant “eight”! This, in particular, told Thetruthaboutcars.com.
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In the turns of Lacrosse Super, you can not call a fan and agile – you can’t deceive physics. But the chassis is convertingly coping with the implementation of power on the front wheels without such obvious methods as wider tires. Of the non -obvious and effective ones, the custom steering mechanism and the reconfigured system of course stability.
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We admit, in the old days – even before the release of Opel and Daewoo clones – Buick brand in the General Motors concern really had a sort of calm, even a little pension image with rather age -related customers. Periodically, she realized this, woke up and built cars that forced the automobile community to aak. We made a tour in different eras and chose the fastest or just stylish Buick in each. Imagine, a “pensioner” brand has something to be proud of!
