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The Chinese are extending an unlikely helping hand to our domestic automakers as the country's booming auto market is snatching up gas guzzlers with wanton abandon.
China is now the single largest market for General Motors' Buick brand, with local design teams are now designing a new range of models that will be sold in the U.S.
Confirmed for production will be the midsized sedan Invicta Concept, expected to replace the LaCrosse. There is a very good chance that it will be sold in China and the U.S. concurrently. Another sedan is also in the plans, due for 2012 and concurrent release.
The Buick Lucerne might have its funeral scheduled already. It was supposed to be redesigned for 2011 but the car just isn’t living up to the modern realities of efficiency. Likely it will be cut when it fails to comply with federal fuel economy regulations.
The Riviera production version will also likely be scrapped. The Enclave may be a keeper though, until it gets the hybrid two-mode remake around 2011.
Our take? Irony more? One day someone needs to draw some parallels between capitalist communism and capitalist democracies.
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