Posted on 01/09/2014 3:09:27 PM PST by lbryce
For the second time in its 110-year history, Buick has topped one million sales in a year--and set a new overall record in the process. Last year saw the marque shift 1,032,056 vehicles, beating the company's last million-sale year in 1984, when it sold 1,003,345 cars. Whereas that 1984 volume was largely down to North America, Buick's current prosperity is largely influenced by a different country: China. Of those million-plus sales, a full 809,918 cars were sold in the Chinese market, nearly four times as many cars as the 205,509 units sold in the U.S. market.
Buick is just one of several large automakers enjoying huge sales booms in the Chinese market, as greater proportions of the population move into the middle classes and have the disposable income to buy new cars. Chinese facilities dodge previously draconian import tax laws and some automakers, like Volvo, are even owned by Chinese firms.
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My Buicks have worked fine, as have my other GM products.
I own a 64 Skylark convertible... was my first car and my daily driver from 1989 to about 1994 or so... then I took it off the road... it’s been sitting get in a barn... I want to do something with it... but unlike a stupid 57 Chevy... or a Chevelle, you can’t really find decent rear quarterpanels... I was pretty lucky in that a big Buick restoration parts seller was near my in Neshaminy Station, NJ.
GM let America down by siding with Obama and the Unions. Sales in America may never recover.
LOL, Buick and its fake plastic vents on the hood. It’s a shame.
Wow... The new software update on my Samsung phone really screws up what I type.
If anyone needs old Buick parts the place is in Neshanic, NJ not Neshaminy.
This reminds me of all those Japanese cars sold in the US during the 1980s, except now, we’re doing the exporting.
The rear quarters and back bumpers were especially rust prone on them. Kanter’s in Boonton, NJ may carry some early GM A-body parts, as well as Year One, they’re pricey, but they have good stuff.
What does torque have to do with water pump failure?
My uncle used to own a ‘65 Wildcat 2-door. It had a 401 under the hood, though he swore up and down it was a “445.”
I guess he didn’t know that the number on the air cleaner referred to the engine’s torque output rather than its displacement.
And if I had to have a Buick, I’d want a ‘63 Riviera myself.
Its about more than population.
Who said population is the only factor?
But to throw out the claim that they have more jobs without taking population into account is misleading at best and dishonest at worst. As I said, China is a country with 4 times as many people as the US with a GDP that is still only 3/4 of ours.
That works out to a GDP per capita that is 20% of the United States. China is still a very, very poor country.
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