Remember how long ago American car buyers could choose from dozens of new Detroit sedans? For the 2006 model year alone, GM offered 12 different four-door sedans, ignoring sub-models and sedans bearing the (GM-owned) Saab and Suzuki badges.today there is three Here are the new GM sedans, and both Cadillacs are built on the same platform as the Camaro. The Buick division was out of the U.S.-market sedan game when the last 2020 Regal rolled off the Opel line in Rüsselsheim, but the last full-size Buick sedan was Hamtramck’s own Lucerne.I found out that this first year the Lucurne was equipped with Northstar in The Yard in Colorado Springs last month.
Apparently the Buick was chosen because all the cool place names in Spain and Italy were mistaken for other models A sort of Swiss town Named after this car. Lucerne’s closest relative is the Cadillac DTS.
The Lucerne was not only Buick’s last large sedan, it was also one of the last GM vehicles to feature a Northstar V8. This power rating is 275 horsepower.
The Northstar is a smooth, powerful DOHC engine that 1993 Cadillac Allante, but it turns out to be nearly impossible to do a head gasket job on one. Northstar is standard on high-end CXSs, Intermediate CXL year 2006.Little Lucerne gets old-school “gallon” Buick 3.8-liter V6, pushrod engine A complex lineage dating back to the early 1960s The ’06 Lucerne was rated at 197 hp. For the 2009-2011 model years, the El Cheapo engine in Lucerne became a 3.9-liter LZ9 V6 (still a pushrod, but producing a respectable 227 horsepower).All Lucerne people have Four-speed automatic transmissionperiod.
To be sure, today junkyard lookup It suffered its fate due to a problem with the head gasket. As we learned with Northstars at the Lemon 24 Hours, the Head Gasket In a Can™ does not perform well in race conditions.
The CXS’s interior looks familiar to buyers of older Buicks who still love their ’76 Electras and ’79 LeSabres.
In tribute to the grandchildren of the Lucerne owners who carry iPods and Zunes, ’06 Lucerne CXS Features an eight-speaker audio system with AUX input jacks.like a person Regularly clean up the dump For factory main units with AUX, for boom boxI can tell you that before the smartphone boom of the late 2000s, very few vehicles had such a jack (although you could buy a Mitsubishi with a 3.5mm stereo input jack in the mid-1990s because minidisc mania in Japan at the time).
If you’re really picky, the last true eighty-year-old Buick was a 1996 Roadmaster because the 1949 Buick had rear-wheel drive and just. At least ’49 Roadhog, ’96 Roadhog, as well as the ’06 Lucerne are all built in Michigan (albeit at different factories).I’ve been trying to tear off one of these Detroit-Hamtramck assembly stickers my junkyard toolboxBut they never come off as one piece (oddly, the car’s sticker is made with Wilmington and Orion easily removed from scrapped cars).
It looks like the car’s last trip might be to grandson’s prom, hopefully the head gasket doesn’t explode on the way to the venue. I also drove a big GM limousine to my prom, even a simple Pontiac.
You can differentiate by calculating V6 Lucernes and V8 versions vent Holes in the front fenders. For a Buick with a transversely mounted engine, wouldn’t it make more sense to mount the VentiPorts on the hood and trunk lid so they would line up with the cylinder bank?
Americans want trucks now, or at least tall hatchbacks in the shape of a truck, so Lucerne got the axe after the 2011 model year. At least it survived the Oldsmobile, Saturn and Pontiac divisions while tying the Saab.
You’ll find one on every car. you will see.
The media is crazy about it…or at least the terms of its lease.
OnStar will make sure you don’t get lost in the hedge maze. Well, anyway, until 3G is turned off.
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