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Be on the lookout for the Buick Grand National and truck pictured above. It's owned by a member of the TurboBuick.com forums and was was apparently stolen this weekend in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Details below. More »
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It's not exactly a secret that around here the manual is the transmission of choice. Even though they are harder and harder to find with each passing year, if we had our choice every vehicle made would forever have an optional manual transmission. With this in mind we started thinking about all of the cars that should have come from the factory with the option to row your own gears but didn't. What car should have been made with a manual transmission? More »
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Michael Mann's Heat is a study in wonderfully pure action filmmaking with hints of influence from Japanese new wave yakuza directors like Suzuki and Shinoda, shot before Tarantino perfected the homage with Kill Bill. But did you know before that Mann made a simplified version of Heat for NBC? Worth it for the Grand National. More »
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There are low mileage 24 year old cars and then there are Buick GNXs with 10 miles on the odometer. This example of the latter is currently listed on Ebay with no description other than the pictures seen here. More »
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Burnouts are good. Smokey Burnouts are great. Smokey burnouts performed by a "None More Black" 1987 Buick Grand National with a 3.8 liter Turbocharged V6 are even better. (Photo Credit:Travis Isaacs ) More »
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When people think about the malaise era, great cars are not always the first things that come to mind. Although it wasn't the best automotive decade, some great cars were still produced. What is your favorite car from the 1980s? More »
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Have you always wanted a mini pickup truck but their maneuverability, off road ability and simplicity made you think twice? This stretched 6x6 Datsun Mini Truck may be the perfect solution for your unreasonable needs. More »
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Yes, in this classic clip it's Tim Allen in a race-prepped Saleen Mustang racing Jay Leno in a heavily modified Grand National. Now ,Tim Allen's shilling for Chevy and Leno's still buying everything he sees. More »
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For '83 alone, Buick took a break from the Grand Nationals to make the T-Type. As today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe turbo Regal proves, that's almost as grand, but will this car's price fit you to a T-Type? More »
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Though not a great work of cinema the last The Fast And The Furious film had a ton of Grand Nationals, including this rear-wheel-steered Buick designed for backwards driving stunts. Will it join Vin Diesel in Fast 5? More »
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In case you haven't noticed, we're big fans of the Buick Grand National, so when we saw this Hot Wheels Turbo Buick action, we just had to make it ours. More »
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We're still confused. Anyhow, reader Mike L. hipped us to a website called 18 to 1 that specializes in oil-burning hot rods. And they just happen to have a Buick Grand National on the homepage that someone stuffed a Duramax into. The obvious question is what in the fuck why? At first I thought I found the answer perusing their forum, where the site's administrator posted up his latest Irwindale Speedway times: 8.258 / 84.81mph. Wow, I thought, that's mad. Like, zero to 80 mph in a second and then the diesel Buick just stayed the course. But then I read the fine print — those numbers are for an 1/8 of a mile, not a 1/4. We still don't get it. Also, that's a fake GNX badge, dude. – Jonny Lieberman More »
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One of the most tired cliches in all of autojournodom is "Darth Vader's Ride." You've read it one million times, I've used the phrase several hundred dozen times and we think of it every time a pitch-black Corvette Z06 passes by. It's old, it's worn and until further notice, the Maybach Excelero owns that appellation forever. Nonetheless, we're old enough to remember the first time an all-black coupe was mentioned in the same sentence as the Dark Lord of the Sith. Twenty years ago, it was good old Car & Driver that (as we recall) created the trope when they subtitled a piece on the special-edition Buick GNX, "Darth Vader, Your Car Is Ready." For a 12-year-old car nut with Empire Strikes Back bedsheets and two or three shoe boxes filled with Star Wars trading cards, that was enough to peg the GNX as the coolest car ever. Even better, my father's childhood friend Joe Silverman showed up to my Bar Mitzvah in a pitch-black GNX and took me on a joyride. Obviously, that was the highlight of my passage into manhood. Two decades later, very little has changed. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=274485&view=rss&microfeed=true A Finnish fellow, name of Tapi, restomodded a Manta A. And then he dropped in a Buick Grand National mill with a 2004R behind it and made donuts. Well, after all, wouldn't you? – Davey G. Johnson More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=270311&view=rss&microfeed=true I'd already totally forgotten that Buick went all George Thorogood with their marketing campaign for the 1984 Buick Regal Grand National. And how could I have — it makes total sense for Buick to have chosen Thorogood — although the "Imperial March" could have worked too. You see, with 200 hp of turbo goodness, the '84 was a radical example of US automakers trying to re-spark the interest of the enthusiast class, with the closest thing 'merica had seen to a muscle car since before the oil embargo. Although only 30,500 turbo cars were produced, they ruled the streets from '84 straight through to the last jet-black model year of '87, and as we saw during the Woodward Dream Cruise this year, they're still adored by fans — as these bad to the bone black examples of the best of the '80's should be. – Ray Wert More »
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How close are we to "El Camino" becoming a verb? Closerthanthis. Check out the latest in pickupization, this Buick Grand National mashup with a later-model Chevy El Camino. We've seen the picture before, now GM High Tech Performance tells the whole story, from turbo V6 transplant to front-end grafting — and all the extensions out back. More »
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