Beijing Auto Show: Buick Invicta by Inside Line

[Carl6231]

Great looking car!!! Nothing new on the road can compare to the new Buicks.

[greenelectra]

The Chinese market has saved Buick , they sell more cars there now than anywhere else . Bring back the Riviera .

[afyaff]

the back looks soooo like the CAMRY or LS460

[edo5555]

looks like an fn camry

[CeeStyleDj]

How can you have CHINA design buicks??? Sad day.. *sighs*

[fuzzzymaine2]

toss the name invicta! call it.....The buick SEX those lines are delicious...

[c141bstarlifter]

But it's a Buick !

[HakemEX]

But it's an invicta!!

[thefamilypak]

Damn that's a sexy car. Love that 2 door. Stick a turbocharged 4 in there and I would buy it.

[HakemEX]

That 2 door Riviera Concept is pure sex....

oh and the invicta's alright too. lol

[1969diesel]

Hey Redneck... Look up the definition of the word liberal--'open to new behavior or opinions and willing to discard traditional values'... Why do conservatives or wanna-be's think its a negative superlative to describe people they don't agree with today... This 'LIBERAL' loves his Ford... you probably shop at your local Walmart for groceries... and buy 'art' at Christmas Tree Shoppe...

[Lumotaku]

because you liberal commie pinko. Liberal does not mean what it is susposed to anymore. Liberal ideas are not new they have been tried and failed.

[aaaredskin]

Now all GM needs to do is put a Lexus logo on the grill, and liberal dickhead Americans will be tripping over themselves to buy this car. Yeah, scream about how you want a strong economy and say that you care about American manufacturing, but don't dare bring yourselves to buy a really sweet American auto....

[justinhairystud]

hey calm down - if we didn't buy products from other countries Germany, France, Italy, England, Japan and China would be US territories.. the whole world knows that is true. WE are still one of the best markets...

someday tough times will hit your country and you will be sorry you were such a bitch.

don't under estimate the Americans.

[Soamsey]

aaaredskin: Yes, if Prius was Chevy most liberals and the press would be against it.

[f1khamba]

Don't criticize stealing my man. All the greats do it. From composers, to artists, to apparently car designers. No one ever really creates anything of value on their own. It's a compilation of everyone's best, and thereby becomes original.

[CRyPTr023]

wow , it's got a real nice look , not like you can see some stolen details from every side :s (BMW 5 series headlights , Mercedes front grill, bit of volvo with 6 series mixed rear)

[CRyPTr023]

5 series rearlights that is

[atix007ahiojmatrix]

CooooooooooL

[Metalltony]

it looks like a BMW

[JAYFROMHARLEM]

The front does and the back looks like a lexus

[Soamsey]

Well, the Lexus itself looks like a BMW and Mercedes (the two most copied models lately). Accord and Camry have a lot of BMW in them as well. I think the Invicta has enough Enclave and Buickness in it. It's about as unique as the Jag XF - handsome but not stunning, and successful in the details.

[rednop44]

Soamsey,

Do you usually dominate YouTube videos with your "nothing" opinion about everything?

I still can't believe you were dumb enough to respond to other people comments 4 X's in a row.

In case you don't get it- we've moved on.

This is old news. Set your alarm a little earlier-

Looser!

[Soamsey]

rednob: You've 'moved on' from about three weeks ago? Are you sooooo over this topic? Is this sooo yesterday? What are you, a sixteen year old girl?

[rednop44]

So-ass-msey,

You respond to several comments just to see your name in writing...

What are you- a complete looser crying for attention.

Move-on dude.

And your "soooo" comment makes you sound like the 16 Y.O. girl...

[Soamsey]

A 4-cylinder car is a perfectly plausable notion: witness countless models by Audi and VW, many in the price range of this Buick. Not only that but, considering ever-stricter CAFE standards and, more importantly, rapidly escalating fuel costs, GM is if anything ahead of the game in this category in investigating achieving reasonable performance with lower displacement motors (coupled most likely to turbos / direct-injection). In any case, certainly a V6 and possibly a V8 will be options.

[rednop44]

Again, no new information given-

but at least your response wasn't offensive.

My point is that no one is going to pay this kind of money for a 4-cylinder/turbo Buick.

Especially when you look at Buicks base-

V6/turbo, sure.

[Soamsey]

Being that this is a concept, no one knows what the full product line will be - a 4 and 2 sixes might do fine, especially if gas is $9 to $12/gallon during the product cycle. And in this case the concept was aimed primarily toward China where luxury cars don't demand as much power/acceleration and where Buick has a history of selling very well with small displacement motors. So it may not be that GM designers are idiots so much as you being short sighted.

[rednop44]

And there it was...

...just when I thought you were taking a hire road you ended on a negative note.

The car was introduced in China, plans are to sell it in the USA too.

Maybe what's short sighted is you thinking you're an expert on anything, let alone cars...

[Soamsey]

When the concept was released, no information was clear about US production. Subsequently, all we know is that Bob Lutz says the Invicta concept gives a "strong hint" of the Lacrosse replacement. So this particular concept will not sell in the US; some version of it may (with or without the 4-cyl.). And whether or not I am an expert on this topic (or others) wouldn't have anything to do with me being short sighted or not. So are you so 'over' all of your misconceptions yet?

[rednop44]

Yeah, girlfriend,

I am like, "so over" it....

[FortuneSeek3rz]

I wonder if Weber has a part # for that grill on the front.

[lilxkhmerpete]

nice...but looks like the ls460/camry to much...dats y its nice..cuhz it looks like toyotas..headlights=ls460

licence plate holder and above

camry

[jorge4me2]

ok car

[BlueCrayolaMarker]

Man, that's a nice car!

[robertbrown1988]

the only thing i can say is that it looks like a jaguar, enclave, and even the chrysler sebring!!! yeah its sleek but were seeing the same styling over and over again!

[bob10marley]

i lol at american cars

[Soamsey]

BobMarley: You 'lol'? Real original. Tell us, do foreign cars also pwn American cars? We're dying to know.

[bob10marley]

it doesn't matter if it's original, i was just saying what happens when I see american cars. I usually laugh because from my experience, european or japanese cars are better and people try to say that the opposite is true so I laugh out loud at american cars.

[Soamsey]

Good for you then. Thanks for telling us what happens to you. Too bad your statement has no importance other than the purely personal. I'd write more but I have to go type up an article about how I like the color red.

[HakemEX]

Beautiful.

[BMWrocksalltheway]

The rear looks a little like the 5-series(E60). It's quite nice.

[jayr545]

Beautiful vehicle, regardless of what the homos below have to say.

[xynt84]

pffffffffff craaaap

[NitekMuscle]

The rear design does seem highly derivative of Toyota's L-finese design language.

[bushnamm]

is that an LS 460??? GM...please get a real work!

[gwehugwe]

ugly

[ReSanSax]

I'm sure the Invicta looks beautiful next to that ugly, 10 year old peice of shit kia you're driving...

[bliglum]

WOW, that thing looks way too much like a bmw 5 series

[xynt84]

yeah !!!

[yuanzheng]

tru that

[Brongbad]

yeaaahh!!

[CARFANATIC552]

they have to make all those concepts REALITY. They did it with the Enclave and look what happened! They got a good product.

[pachinoI]

well japanese cars and korean cars are not the same.. tis cool if u like ford, but u cant say mitshubishi, toyota, subaru, honda, are not in the same (or higher) level... those rides are very powerfull, u cant compare that with ssangyong, daewoo, KIA, daihatsu, imagine a lancer against a lanos lol

btw i love german cars.. obviously BMW and Mercedes Benz are the hottest but i rather have an VW or audi at my age, golf or a3 the most

[drukenhard]

Q. What do you get if you take the back of a Toyota Aurion, the headlights of a BMW and add the most fucked up chrome grille you can find?

A. This crappy Buick concept.

Seriously that is one gay ass car, it's like a fake Jap car when in the 70's & 80's the Japs were making fake American cars!

It looks like it's a KIA, or Ssangyong.......something crap at least!

Boo Buick

[guate6]

That's a buick?? Damn, the stereotypical 'grandma car' concept is dying down. Either way, it's domestic and I buy pure import. Interesting that it was co-developed in Japan though. I guess it's the result of GM desperately trying to get out of the red. I still feel bad for the lot of people they laid off.

[putzamoale99]

cant believe they killed the buick riviera project that was an awesome looking car

and yeah it looks like bmw

and I dont understand why someone would buy that when theres a better looking ,more powerful,european verison of that

[kangjsj]

looks like a 5 series in the rear

[T0626N]

Totally looks like a Camry in the rear, that being said if this thing is rear wheel drive and has a 6 cylinder with upwards of 300+ hp I think people would pay almost 40k for this car.

[BayernBMW]

Oh my Goodness. It totally looks like a fake BMW 5 series, rear and the front both.

Honestly, this is why the American muscle cars are not liked by many.

[Soamsey]

Bayern: Muscle cars??? So a 4-cyl front wheel drive Buick Invicta is why people don't like Chargers?

[BayernBMW]

Correct.

[Soamsey]

Bayer: The 7-series BMW is exactly why everyone hates small 2-door Japanese sports cars.

[BayernBMW]

really?

[Soamsey]

Nope, just mocking you.

[BayernBMW]

interesting.

[Soamsey]

I'm just really interested in muscle cars like FWD 4 cylinder Buicks.

[jaejinyu]

looks like lexus ES from the back

[rednop44]

How many Buick owners are ready to pay 30K+ for a 4 cylinder turbo?

Their market/competitor is V6,V8-

GM should know that.

Another bright idea from the General...Not!

[Soamsey]

rednop: Well, the car is expected to sell well in China where smaller motors are more appreciated, though it may also have a 4-cyl available in the US (with bigger motors optional). GM is trying to make some cars in anticipation of future stratospheric gas prices - sorry if to you that sounds dim-witted...to many of us, it actually is a bright idea.

[keyofdavid88]

I can see it now, Wal Mart selling cars with "Made in China" on the bottom.

[DanTheMan702]

it reminds me of Japanese cars..

[peekaboo1551]

sorta looks lik a camry..

[peekaboo1551]

sorta looks lik a camry..