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Among the 83 Buick entries in the MotorJury library, the Buick LaCrosse holds its own page in a catalogue built to record every car ever made, from series production to one-off concepts. The record places its introduction in 2004. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.
To read the Buick LaCrosse properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2000s were the decade of electronics — stability control, dual-clutch gearboxes and the first serious hybrids arrived while platform-sharing consolidated the industry into a handful of giants. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Ford Ford Mustang, the Suzuki Motor Corporation Suzuki Swift, the Hyundai Hyundai Tucson — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.
On paper, the Buick LaCrosse reads like this: the record lists its engine as 2.4 L GM Ecotec engine#LE5 / LE5 Straight-four engine / I4 (China) / 3.0 L LZD/LZC V6 engine / V6 (China) / 3.6 L GM High Feature engine#LY7 / LY7 V6 / 3.8 L Buick V6 engine#L26 Na; drive goes through 4-speed GM 4T60-E transmission#4T65-E / 4T65-E automatic / 4-speed GM 4T60-E transmission#4T65E-HD / 4T65E-HD automatic / 6-speed automatic (China); the layout is Front-engine, front-wheel drive / Front-engine, four-wheel drive (2010–present). Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.
Within Buick's own catalogue the Buick LaCrosse sits alongside the Buick Avenir, the Buick Electra E5, the Buick Excelle GX, the Buick GL6. The record names the Buick Century (for 2005) / Buick Regal (for 2005) / Buick Lucerne (for 2012) as its predecessor, anchoring one end of its lineage. Design is credited to Wayne Cherry (2001) / James C. Shyr / (2006 interior; 2007 exterior). Assembly is recorded at Canada: Oshawa, Ontario (Oshawa Car Assembly) / China: Shanghai (Shanghai GM) / Taiwan: Miaoli County (Yulon GM).
For the years the United States federal record covers, EPA-rated economy comes in at 23 mpg combined, which works out near $2,950 a year in fuel at current prices.
This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.
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Specifications come from the Wikipedia infobox for this model (CC BY-SA) and the open Wikidata record, and are shown only where a source actually carries them — nothing here is estimated. Figures are manufacturer specifications, not measured results.
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