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Buick Velite Concept 2004
In this post we are talking about Buick Velite Concept 2004
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Buick Velite Concept 2004
Fast forward to 2004: Sang Yup Lee, a soft-spoken 34-year-old former Porsche designer, says his exterior design for the Buick Velite concept looks "really tight. The whole body hugs around the wheels, like a BMW M3." Buick wants to be to Cadillac what BMW was to Mercedes-Benz before it went upmarket: a subtler, elegant, less-ostentatious prestige brand without an overstated grille. The Velite will make its New York Auto Show debut about the time you read this. The hood pops up and then tilts forward. There are three modern rectangular ventiports per side, signifying the car’s V-6 engine, the same 60-degree DOHC 3.6-liter twin-turbo with variable valve timing and variable intake used in last year’s Centieme. It’s rated at 400 horsepower/400 pound-feet, which would seem to negate the need for a V-8, although there’s space under the hood for one. In the new Buick language, V-8s get four ventiports per side, V-6s get three. In the 1954 all-V-8 lineup, for example, the 182-horse Super got three portholes; the 200-horse Roadmaster got four. Read more: Buick Velite Concept
Buick Blackhawk Concept 2001
In this post we are talking about Buick Blackhawk Concept
Buick Blackhawk Concept
The Buick Blackhawk is not just any customized car – it’s designed to emphasize Buick’s heritage of distinctive design and outstanding power for the specialized audiences that attend custom/hot rod shows. The Blackhawk is basically a 2-plus-2 convertible with a retractable top, and a body that looks like it came out of the late 1930s or ‘40s – because it did. Its face is a classic 1939 Buick grille, which has a pattern of fine vertical bars, and its major sheet metal combines the sleek bodies of 1941 and 1948 Buick Roadmasters. All of this except the grille has been modified, and the final appearance – featuring black cherry paint, doors without handles and hidden headlamps – is of a streamlined yet retro head-turner that looks like it was created specifically for the Woodward Dream Cruise. The Blackhawk’s performance goal is 0-60 miles per hour in under 5 seconds. Its powertrain is a 1970-vintage 455-cubic-inch Buick GS Stage III V-8 engine, heavily detailed and mated to the latest electronically controlled four-speed automatic transmission. The naturally aspirated, overhead valve, fuel-injected engine generates 463 horsepower at 4600 rpm and 510 lb-ft of torque at 4200 rpm. While Doble had the idea of creating a great Buick custom car with heritage overtones, he did not create the Blackhawk. He took his ideas to five companies and they came back with a number of creative concepts, all of which were well received by Doble. Finally he chose one of four concepts submitted by Steven D. Pasteiner, a former Buick designer who owns a design and prototype company, Advanced Automobile Technologies, in Rochester Hills, Mich. Pasteiner had done major design work on a number of Buick concepts over the years – such as Questor, Sceptre, Park Avenue Essence, Signia and XP2000, all well-known names to students of industry dream cars. He had also designed such production Buicks as GS models of the late 1960s and Regals from the 1970s until he left General Motors Design to create his own company in 1989. Read more: Buick Blackhawk Concept