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Among the 83 Buick entries in the MotorJury library, the Buick Regal 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 1973. 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 Regal properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 1970s were the decade the oil crises rewired the industry — emissions rules, safety bumpers and fuel economy suddenly mattered as much as horsepower, and Japanese manufacturers went global. 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 Volkswagen Volkswagen Passat, the Lancia Lancia Stratos, the Mitsubishi Mitsubishi Lancer — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.
On paper, the Buick Regal reads like this: the record lists its engine as 231 cuin Buick V6 engine#231 / Buick V6 engine / V6 (gasoline) / 350 cuin Buick V8 engine#350 / Buick V8 engine / V8 (gasoline) / 455 cuin Buick V8 engine#455 / Buick V8 engine / V; drive goes through 3-speed Turbo-Hydramatic Turbo-Hydramatic#THM350 / 350 automatic / 3-speed Turbo-Hydramatic Turbo-Hydramatic#Super Turbine 400 .2F THM400 .2F THM375 .2F 3L80 .2F 3L80HD / 400 autom; the layout is FR layout. 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 Regal sits alongside the Buick Avenir, the Buick Electra E5, the Buick Excelle GX, the Buick GL6. The record names the Buick Skylark (2nd generation) / Buick Century as its predecessor and the Buick LaCrosse as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Assembly is recorded at United States: Flint, Michigan (Buick City); Baltimore, Maryland (Baltimore Assembly); Framingham, Massachusetts (Framingham Assembly); Fremont, California (Fremont Assembly).
For the years the United States federal record covers, EPA-rated economy comes in at 23 mpg combined, which works out near $2,800 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.
A specification sheet is only half a car's story. The other half — what breaks, what it costs to keep, which years to avoid — lives in MotorJury's ownership database, computed nightly from federal complaint and recall records and EPA economy data. Where the Buick Regal was sold in the United States, its model years carry full ownership verdicts 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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