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The Buick Electra is a full-size luxury car manufactured and marketed by Buick from 1959 to 1990, over six generations. Introduced as the replacement for the Roadmaster lines, the Electra served as the flagship Buick sedan line through its entire production and was offered as a two-door sedan, two-door convertible, four-door sedan, and five-door station wagon.
Buick Estate is a nameplate that was used by the Buick division of General Motors, denoting its luxury full-size station wagon from 1940 to 1964 and from 1970 to 1996. The Estate nameplate was derived from the term country estate in wealthy suburban areas and estate car , the British term for a station wagon.
1970 Buick Electra 225 4-door hardtop. Buick Electra 225. When the Electra was introduced in 1959, car size was so important to customers that General Motors was just putting it in the name.
Buick Electra 225 In celebration of GM 's Fiftieth Anniversary, the Buick Limited name was revived as a single-year halo car for the Division in model year 1958. In comparison to the chrome-laden junior models in the Buick lineup, the GM C platform -based Limited was slightly more restrained than the Special , Century , Super and Roadmaster .
The 322 Fireball V8 in a 1956 Buick Century. Buick's first generation V8 was offered from 1953 through 1956; it replaced the Buick straight-eight.While officially called the "Fireball V8" [1] by Buick, it became known by enthusiasts as the "Nailhead" for the unusual vertical alignment of its small-sized valves (Originally it was known to hot-rodders as the "nail valve", because the engine's ...
The 1970s saw a number of new models added to the Buick lineup including the Estate Wagon as its own model in 1970, Centurion in 1971, Apollo in 1973, and Skyhawk in 1975. 1975 also saw the first appearance of the "Park Avenue" nameplate for Buick as a trim/option package on the Electra 225 Limited. A Buick Century paced the Indianapolis 500 ...
1971 Buick Centurion Convertible. Replacing the Wildcat as the mid-line full-sized Buick positioned between the lower-priced LeSabre and the larger and more luxurious C-body Electra 225, the Centurion was promoted more as a mid-level luxury car than the Wildcat, which was marketed as a sporty/luxury performance car.
In 1970, a brand-new car cost around $3,500 ($27,000 in 2025 money). Now, the average new car price has skyrocketed to over $48,000. It was once a realistic goal for young adults to buy a new car ...