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This is the catalogue record of the Buick Park Avenue, one of 83 models Buick has placed in the historical record and one of more than seventeen thousand cars the MotorJury library tracks. The record places its introduction in 1990. 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 Park Avenue properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 1990s were the decade of refinement — airbags and ABS became universal, Japanese build quality set the world standard, and the modern SUV segment was effectively invented. 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 Explorer, the Renault Renault Clio, the Honda Honda NSX — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.
On paper, the Buick Park Avenue reads like this: the record lists its engine as 3800 V6 Series I L27 NA (91-94) / 3800 V6 Series I L67 SC (91-95) / 3800 V6 Series II L67 SC (1996) / 3800 V6 Series II L36 NA (95-96); quoted output is L27 series I: 170 hp (91-94) / L36 series II: 205 hp (95-96) / L67 series I: 205 hp (91-93) / L67 series I: 225 (94-95) / L67 Series II: 240hp (96); kerb weight is recorded at 3536 lbs; drive goes through 4-speed 4T60-E automatic; the layout is Transverse front-engine, front-wheel drive (1991–2005) / FR layout (2007–2012). Worked together, those figures give roughly 8 horsepower per tonne — the single number that says more about how a car actually moves than any of its parts alone. 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 Park Avenue sits alongside the Buick Avenir, the Buick Electra E5, the Buick Excelle GX, the Buick GL6. The record names the Buick Electra / Buick Royaum (China) as its predecessor and the Buick Lucerne as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Dave Holls (1988). Assembly is recorded at Wentzville, Missouri, United States (Wentzville Assembly) 1991-1994 / Flint, Michigan, United States (Buick City) 1994-1996.
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.
The catalogue records what the Buick Park Avenue was; the ownership database records what it is like to own. MotorJury computes a verdict for every model year the United States federal record covers — complaints, recalls, real economy — refreshed nightly, with no opinions involved. If this car reached the American market, its verdicts are in there.
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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