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Copied almost exactly from the Invicta concept, the new LaCrosse gains a wrap-around two-tone cockpit, complete with a French-stitched dash pad and blue LED accent lighting.

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The future sweet spot for Buick's car line will be the mid-sized segment, the top executive for General Motors' Buick-Pontiac-GMC sales channel says. The full-sized-car segment "has declined 35 percent this calendar year. Full story...

Mainly because of General Motors' financial crisis, the automaker is dialing back efforts to get Buick, Pontiac and GMC dealers into three-brand stores, a spokesman says. Full story...

General Motors is scaling back its presence at the Los Angeles motor show, opening next week, postponing the debut of a new Buick until January in Detroit. Full story...

China's once booming car market has gone flat. It's a new experience for Ma Xiaochao, 30, sales manager of a Buick dealership here. "Things are a lot worse than they were this time last year," he says. "I estimate sales are down by roughly one-third."

China's once booming car market has gone flat. It's a new experience for Ma Xiaochao, 30, sales manager of a Buick dealership. "Things are a lot worse than they were this time last year," he says. "I estimate sales are down by roughly one-third." Read more ...

General Motors today said it would delay the unveiling of a new Buick LaCrosse model that it had planned to show at the Los Angeles auto show in November in part to reduce costs. Read more ...

The Invicta is powered by a 2.0 liter direct-injection turbo four cylinder 250hp engine connected to  a six-speed automatic transmission.

GM is currently producing 3 crossovers : Saturn Outlook, Buick Enclave and GMC Acadia. The production stopped Thursday morning when the UAW workers struck . The strike was on the plant near Lansing, Michigan.

The reason for the strike is yet unknown .

GM spokesman Dan Flores says:
“We are disappointed that UAW Local 602 has taken strike action at the Lansing Delta Township plant,”

Only the hourly workers have gone to strike , the salaried employees have gone to work .