Buick Avenir Concept Car

[mac06]

The Australian design team have been busy with their US counterparts to come up with the Buick Avenir concept car. The rear reminds me of the Chrysler Crossfire.

http://media.gm.com/media/us/en/gm/n...-designer.html

[Pickles]

That is a GREAT looking car.
Pickles.

[Jag530G]

The side profile is magnificent. Beautiful car. Looks like this will be the next Buick Park Avenue in China since China is by far Buick's biggest market these days and they stopped selling the old WM Caprice based BPA a couple years ago.

I've read that it is based on the new Omega platform which will also be used for the Cadillac C6 large car due out at the New York motor show in April. (and it's Omega as in GM's use of greek letters for platforms not to be confused with the Opel Omega). Hopefully this is GM's way of getting a bit more use out of the platform so hopefully it will become a production car.

Good to see Holden's design studio hitting winners.

Cheers, Matthew

[Ausmartin1]

Why the Bolt and Buick show cars look Good!
Designed in Australia by car enthusiasts working at GM Melbourne AUSTRALIA design studios
Please ... GM give them the Volt III they will do much better than what your local crew has done!

from Goauto news 14/1/15:


“The all-electric Chevrolet Bolt EV – a
collaboration between GM’s design and
engineering centres in South Korea,
Detroit and Melbourne – is the second
all-new concept car with Holden input
to be revealed at this week’s Detroit
motor show.
The Buick Avenir large rear-drive
sedan – shown at a GM event on
the eve of the show – had even more
Holden input, being designed and built
by GM Australia Design at Holden’s
Melbourne headquarters.
Just hours later, the Aussie crew was
front and centre again with GM’s first
battery-powered car, the Bolt, which is
expected to go into production in 2017.
The Bolt was fabricated in the Port
Melbourne workshops – one of only
two such facilities in the GM universe
capable of turning a design into reality.”

[HSV,_I_GOT_ONE]

That is really good looking! Well done to the design team. You could almost mistake the car for a next gen Bentley! Very classy indeed.