Baby Buick Spied with Less Camouflage

Baby Buick Spied with Less Camouflage 11.06.2009 / Copyright: autoscoop.biz / Gawid

Small Buick sedan is in development for the Chinese market but may also be introduced into the Buick lineup in North America

By Alex Ricciuti
November 6, 2009 4:17 PM
Filed Under: American, Buick, Spy Photos

Buick is one of the brands GM saw fit to keep during its massive restructuring effort that included a relatively short stint in bankruptcy.

This baby Buick sedan seen here with the perpetual triangle camouflage type is headed for China, a market in which Buick is doing very well. But the model may also very likely make it back stateside in order to expand the product lineup of the Buick brand in its home market. It would be slotted in below the Lacrosse model in the Buick range.

The model will be based on GM's Delta II architecture, a front-wheel drive platform it will share with the Chevy Cruze, the successor to the outgoing Cobalt.

Power options will also likely be shared with its Cruze sibling, including a 1.8 liter gasoline/petrol engine with 141 hp and 176 Nm of torque (130 lb-ft), or perhaps even coming with the Cruze's 1.6 liter with 113 hp and 153 Nm (113 lb-ft) of torque power plant.

The model is expected to debut in China in 2012. It may also be introduced at around the same time in the North American market.

 

Comments

majorsja
November 6, 2009 4:44 PM
Buick is really turning around, yet way too slow. By the time they roll out with this it will look aged. It kinda looks like the 2010 Sonata.

AG4
November 6, 2009 5:35 PM
This new small Buick sedan is basically a sedan version of the new Opel Astra hatchback.


Edited by user on November 6, 2009 at 5:36 PM
N20_Purge
November 6, 2009 6:52 PM
Looks like a Kia Forte hit with the ugly stick a few times.

eric_92
November 6, 2009 7:19 PM
at least they didn't just rebadge the cruze, this time they actually changed it.. looks like an astra from the inside, this could actually work in america

EDavis
November 6, 2009 11:05 PM
I'm very much in favor of this car coming to the U.S. so long as this new Delta II platform is able to shed once and for all any remaining vestigial characteristics and negative associations with rental car-ism that have been the hallmark of damn near every compact car GM has built since Harley Earl started pushing up daisies.

audilover
November 7, 2009 1:40 AM
I hope this car doesn't make it to America because it will again mess up Buick's image and focus. As an American taxpayer, I own part of GM and want it to succeed. No doubt Buick survived because of its position in th Chinese market. However, Buick's recovery in the U.S. is built on this pseudo-competition with Lexus, among others. This car would throw that brand focus out the window. Hopefully, you will be able to get--and there will be a market for--a very well-appointed Cruze.

jdmgtr
November 7, 2009 3:20 AM
I see this:

http://cadillac-parts.uneedapart.com/images/cadillac-cimarron-parts.jpg

Iconic
November 7, 2009 10:06 PM
Can you show us one with more camouflage? I'm pretty positive it'll look better.

maloparac
November 8, 2009 11:12 PM
It doesnt look like nothing else but Opel Astra Sedan, Same interior (it only has a mach handbrake not elect.)and body. Astra sedan is not still presented over here in EU, but this is it. They done the same job with bigger Opel, Insignia, only shame (or big plus for Opel) is that Buick is souposed to be a big luxury car not some mid-sized europian opel.....


Edited by user on November 8, 2009 at 11:15 PM
hata0101
November 9, 2009 10:37 PM
i still don't understand why GM keep on doing this...same platform, basically is a same car with Chevy Cruze. two similar car with different brands, compete with eath other...don't they learn yet? one Chevy Cruze is enough!

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