Buick Avista, large RWD 2 door coupe showcar.

[Jag530G]

Buick really are on a roll lately with the Holden designed Avenir sedan at last year's Detroit motor show and this year they have unveiled a beautiful large RWD 2 door coupe, the Avista. Built on the same Alpha platform as the V8 Camaro and Cadillac TTV6 ATS-V Coupe. This particular Buick uses the TTV6.

http://jalopnik.com/the-2016-buick-a...y-c-1752143282

Considering the styling is much closer in spirit to what a Monaro looks like (especially the V2/VZ era) rather than the Camaro, and the fact that the platform caters for a V8, we can look and dream that this could be a 2018 Monaro...

Cheers, Matthew

[HSV,_I_GOT_ONE]

I like it! Looks very jaguaresque to me.

[Goggles]

looks great. I do hope it comes to Australia and has V8 and manual options. would be good competition for that Fraud coupe thing.

[CLUBRED]

I'd have this over a Camaro.

[korrupt]

I like it! Looks very jaguaresque to me.

I was thinking Aston. Looks great, hope they build it

[SASLS1]

Official press release here...

http://media.gm.com/media/us/en/buick/home.detail.html/content/Pages/news/us/en/2016/Jan/naias/buick/0110-buick-avista.html

[Wonky]

Love it!!

[IJ.]

And doesn't that make the current Holden offerings look dated....

[Wonky]

And doesn't that make the current Holden offerings look dated....

True, but Holden's concept cars were also pretty far out too.

[IJ.]

Holden aren't terrible creative with their production cars, point in case while I was playing around with the Lexcen I picked up a couple of damaged VE Guards that I was going to use as the basis for a pair of weld on flares... Didn't proceed but I did have the VE guard sitting on top of the VR guard.... Wheel opening, length and height were almost identical..

Cookie Cutter cars for the last 37 years..

The difference with our concept cars and that Buick it looks like it could be built and sold, only win we've had was the new Monaro but of course they recycled a LOT of Commodore into it, beautiful car as built but could have been so much more!

[zorro]

Looks like a tesla and jag had a baby. Not sold and the new stangs in flesh are horn

[CLUBRED]

Holden aren't terrible creative with their production cars, point in case while I was playing around with the Lexcen I picked up a couple of damaged VE Guards that I was going to use as the basis for a pair of weld on flares... Didn't proceed but I did have the VE guard sitting on top of the VR guard.... Wheel opening, length and height were almost identical..

Cookie Cutter cars for the last 37 years..

I don't think the front strut tower panel shape has changed much in those years either.

[Smitty]

Looks like a tesla and jag had a baby. Not sold and the new stangs in flesh are horn

Mustang?

I saw a new one here in Belgium a few days ago..... and the paintwork and panel gaps are still typcially USA build quality
...as in terrible.

[BTS666.0]

there is a new red mustang cruising around rockhampton. the buick looks good.

[V8LOAD]

Although that Avista does look pretty good, I wouldn't say Buick was on a roll at all.

Their cars have been unfailingly UGLY for well over 35 years, to my mind..... with the only beauty of note being the Roadmaster wagon of the early 1990s.

The Avista would be the rare exception.

Buick is now huge in China and less so in the USA, and it offers horrible curvaceous SUVs and sedans.

I'll stick with my REAL Buick coupe, thanks.......

(1968 Wildcat)