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VIDEO: Buick Invicta Concept at Beijing Auto Show

GM CEO Rick Wagoner and Vice President Ed Welburn Jr. introduce the Buick Invicta concept vehicle last week during the Beijing Auto Show. - Will Stewart, blog editor

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  • Taylor
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    It looks like a toyota camry. Honestly! When is GM going to learn that your not going to stand out and make money by copying others?

  • Edwin
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    Mr. Wagoner,

    We appreciate your efforts to bring great looking cars like the Invicta to market at least what we can see from the photos.

    GM engines are also important to us.

    We hope that GM will not permit falsehoods to rule the market place with CAFE. Giving an inch is what the adversaries of America want. Time to push back. Many of us realize the oil crisis is fake. Call on Congress to fix the fuel supply and add more refineries and stop dumping on American auto makers. GM vehicles are very efficient, all sizes. We know GM vehicles have the best economy in their respective class. Be louder. Their bull horn is not about truth, its about wrecking America. Compromising with far left doesn’t work, it only emboldens their next attack. So stop compromising, tell them to repeal CAFE, its a failed policy, that is anti-America.

  • gofaster
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    With all the changes to the platform (mechanically & electronically) please call it something other then LaCrosse for NA region.

  • JP
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    You are out of your mind of you don’t use the Invicta name. Anything is better than LaCross or Lucern. These names are so so tired. Why not bring back Electra while your at it.

  • kevin
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    Ed Wellburn is a stylist. And it’s about time we had someone that has the eye. Seems like he knows what a Buick should look like with the Invicta. Please build it with all the good stuff and beat Lexus at it’s own game. The new LaCrosse is also a great looking piece on it’s own. Put in the right engine, interior appointments and a 4 speed auto. I know what the magazines say, but a 6 speed just shifts too much and people dont like that. Build it on the G8 chassis but tune the suspension for a Buick owner. Make a grand touring car like a Buick should be. We lost sight of what our brands represented to our customers and lost sales and market place due to it. People knew what a LeSabre, Invicta, Wildcat and 225 are. Let’s bring it back.

  • John Fritz
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    Does nothing for my and I have been a Buick fan for life. I have a 1960 Electra 225 convertible and was HOPING to see some styling that stood apart from the crowd, or preformance of the long dead Buick GSX’s or the 70’s or GNX’s of the 80’s.

    As this Invicta is, it melts right in with all the blah cars manufactured these days (talking from first hand look of a normal buyer and not an engineer who may see tremendous subtle changes that the normal population who needs to buy these would not care about).

    I don’t know what you are going to do but I would humbly suggest you QUIT trying to reinvent the wheel and instead give us something that is fun to drive and most importantly affordable.

    There is nothing more frustrating than seeing these high dollar cars that you not only can not afford but even if you had the money look basically the same and are as exciting to drive as a long wait in a dentist office.

    Please put some spirit back in Buick! Remember “light your fire”? I think the fact this one is surrounded by water is a foreshadowing to the lack of a WOW factor.

    Wish I had something more positive to say but after being a Buick diehard all my life I am fed up with how reserved,boring and out of reach these new models are.

  • Creed C3
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    I have been converted to being a Ford Fan after having been sincerely GM for most of my life. I was reviewing the 1959 Buick Invicta as for a peice I was doing on my blog regarding this whole “bailout” situation. This car, as the reader states above, does nothing for me in the way of styling or concept.

    In 1958, FOMOCO ran an ad declaring the boring and outdated styling cues of the 1958 Cadillac as compared to the Lincoln Continental at the time. They claimed that the Cadillac was just the same old boring design that echoed the sentiments of other GM models.

    Its 2008. *yawn* Or is it 1958, again? Why does this Invicta look like the Lincoln MKS? The flame Top styling cues from BMW are apparent.

    It wasn’t until 1959 that GM got its act together and Harley Earl FINALLY got Corporate GM out of his design Studio. It’s time to fire Lutz and Co, along with Ed Welburn. We don’t need new leadership at the top, we need a new executive board and a design team that is late 29 early 30 years old to lead the way.

    The 1959 Buick Invicta was INCREDIBLE and Timeless art. The 2008 Concept is just another ho-hum car that will ultimately fail the name, “Buick.”

    I want a new job. I’ve always wanted to work for GM. I have a vision. Hire me and I ll bring GM back to prosperity… Where is Lee Iococca when you need him?

  • sac modelleri
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    thanks….

  • AWESOME
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    Can’t believe this is a buick!!! I would sell my camry to buy this car.. when does it come out and if Buick is still thinking about this they are dumb.. just do it..

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