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Both of its SUVs , the Rendezvous and Rainier were discontinued in to make way for the new Enclave , while the slow-selling Terraza minivan has also been dropped for ' This leaves the marque with just three models in the United States.
There have been rumors on Edmund's and Motor Trend that Buick will have a roadster sedan in , which could mean that the marque may survive beyond There is speculation that future Buick models will have interior and exterior designs with greatly increased influence from Buick of China.
This is due to Buick's great success and high reputation in China. Other Chinese designed models are likely to follow either as debuts or as redesigns of existing American models. Buick's emblem consists of three shields, each bisected diagonally to the right by a straight line, the shields arranged touching each other in a left-diagonal pattern, inside a circle.
If represented in color, the leftmost shield is red, the middle white, and the rightmost blue, although white is sometimes represented by light gray. This design, known as the Trishield , was adopted in for the models and represents the three models that comprised the lineup that year—LeSabre, Invicta, and Electra. The shields are adopted from the shield of the Buick family crest, which in modified form had been used on Buicks since the s.
A version of the traditional crest appeared on Electras through the s. A traditional Buick styling cue dating to is a series of three or four portholes or vents on the front fender behind the front wheels. The source of this design feature was a custom car one not made by Buick, but personal car of stylist Ned Nickles , which in addition had a flashing light within each hole, each synchronized with a specific spark plug simulating the flames from the exhaust stack of a fighter airplane.
Combined with the bombsight mascot introduced in the s , the ventiports put the driver at the controls of an imaginary fighter airplane. The flashing light feature was not used by Buick in production, but the portholes remained as nonfunctional ornamentation.
These were originally called " Ventiports " as they did allow air flow into the engine bay later just "portholes". Ventiports have appeared sporadically on several models since. Lower cost models were equipped with three portholes, while higher cost models came with four.
Often, people would denote their cars as " Four-Holers " or " Three-Holers " to assert the car's class. When the number of portholes was standardized across the entire model line, buyers of the higher cost models complained bitterly that they felt shortchanged.
In they were re-introduced on the Buick Park Avenue. After the Park Avenue was discontinued, Buick salvaged the portholes to appear on the new Lucerne. In a break with tradition, the Lucerne's portholes refer directly to engine configuration: V6 models have three on each side, while V8s have four on each side. During the s, the characteristic form of the Buick taillamps was a tier of small circular bullet-shapes. In the early s, most models began to evolve a wide, rectangular pattern, until the '65 Skylark and Electra models appeared with full-width rear lamps.
Since then, wide taillamps have been a Buick hallmark. The Buick styling cue dating from the s that has most often reappeared, though, is for the grille to be a horizontal oval with many thin vertical chromed ribs bulging forward. This has sometimes been called the Buick "dollar grin" particularly on the early s models, which had thick, highly-polished ribs that somewhat resembled teeth. The model took this tooth theme to its extreme as the teeth crossed over the bumper exposing the "grin".
The model reined in the theme bringing the teeth back behind the bumper. It appears Buick may be preparing to abandon this styling cue for a new waterfall grille, as seen on the Buick Velite concept car from and the Buick Lucerne introduced for the model year.
This waterfall grille bears some resemblance to grilles of Buicks from the s, such as the Grand National. The Buick V8 engine , nicknamed the "nailhead", became popular with hot-rodders in the s and s, because the vertical attachment of the valve covers , in contrast to the angled attachment of other V-8 engines, enabled the engine to fit into smaller spaces while maintaining easy access for maintenance. By , Buick was making quiet history with more conventional V-8s that had abandoned the "nailhead" design but made much greater power.
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