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Buick is owned by General Motors and is one of the oldest brands of the country. Buick brings with it a rich tradition of novelty that dates back to the turn of the century. Buick coupes are more likely to place precedence on a luxurious ride than sporty performance. Though historically recognized for serving retirement-age clients with its full-size sedans, the manufacturer’s lineup has stretched to comprise SUVs and crossovers prepared to get younger consumers into the showrooms of Buick dealers.

Buick was established by a Scottish industrialist David Dunbar Buick in 1903. He constructed his first car in 1904; known as the Model B. It had a two-cylinder engine with an advanced-for-its-time overhead-valve cylinder head design. In the year 1907, Buick revealed its first four-cylinder production car, called the Model D. The next year, the Flint, Michigan-based Buick Motor Company was purchased by William C. Durant as an element of a new company called General Motors. By the year 1914, all Buick coupés were created with six-cylinder engines and were bought mainly by upper-class professionals, therefore got the nickname "doctor's cars."

The manufacturer of the cars proved itself a leader in the early 1920s when it launched four-wheel brakes. Though this technology had been seen before on custom-built cars, Buick was the earliest to make out how to effectively apply it to bulk-produced autos. Eight-cylinder Buick cars appeared in the 1930s and became immeasurably trendy; these superior engines gained stable enhancements for quite a few years.

Models such as the Estate Wagon and the eternally famous Road master kept Buicks contentedly entrenched in driveways all across the country in the 1940s. In the year 1948, Buick launched Dynaflow, the primary torque converter-type automatic transmission accessible in U.S. passenger coupes.

In recent years, however, Buick is working hard to get a safe niche against increased competition and globalization. In a perfect future, it will be capable attracting younger consumers with fresh products without dumping its rich heritage or pushing away its traditionally faithful customers.