Buick Sport Wagon

The Buick Sport Wagon is one of 83 Buick models in the MotorJury library, the catalogue that sets out to hold every car ever made — production, prototype and concept alike. The record places its introduction in 1964. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

To read the Buick Sport Wagon properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 1960s were the decade of the pony car, the mid-engined revolution and the birth of the modern hot hatchback's ancestors — engineering advanced faster than in any decade before it. 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 Porsche Porsche 911, the Plymouth Plymouth Barracuda, the Maserati Maserati Quattroporte — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Buick Sport Wagon reads like this: the record lists its engine as 225 cuin Buick V6 / 250 cuin Chevrolet I6 / 300 cuin Buick V8 / 350 cuin Buick V8 / 400 cuin Buick V8; kerb weight is recorded at 3405 lb (1964-1967) / 4118 lb (1968-1969) / 3998 lb (1970-1972); drive goes through 2-speed Super Turbine 300 automatic / 3-speed Turbo Hydramatic automatic / 4-speed manual / 3-speed manual; 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.

Its place in the Buick story

Within Buick's own catalogue the Buick Sport Wagon sits alongside the Buick Avenir, the Buick Electra E5, the Buick Excelle GX, the Buick GL6. It was succeeded by the Buick Century Estate. Assembly is recorded at Buick City, Flint, Michigan / Fremont Assembly, Fremont, California / Leeds Assembly, Leeds, Kansas City, Missouri.

How this catalogue works

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.

Why concepts and prototypes are in the library

Most car databases stop at series production. This one deliberately does not, because concept cars, racing specials and cancelled prototypes are where the industry thinks out loud — the ideas tested in public years before they reach a showroom. Holding them beside the production cars they inspired makes the lineage legible: nearly every landmark road car in this library has a concept ancestor somewhere in the catalogue, and the connections run through the era links on every page.

From catalogue to ownership

What this page cannot yet tell you is what the Buick Sport Wagon costs to live with — that is a different dataset. MotorJury's ownership verdicts are computed from federal complaint and recall records plus EPA economy data, published per model year as the nightly ingest reaches each car. If this model was sold in the United States, its years will surface in the ownership database; browse it live or price any car yourself with the true-cost calculator.