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Buick Century: Models
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Buick began consolidating its lineup in 2005, replacing the Century and Regal with the LaCrosse, and the LeSabre and Park Avenue with the Lucerne in 2006. The company will replace both of its SUVs, the Rendezvous and Rainier with the Enclave within 18 months, while the slow-selling Terraza minivan likely to end production shortly after. This will leave the marque with just three models by 2009.
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Like Regal, Century isn't scheduled for its next full redesign until the 2004 model year, though Buick will strive to keep buyers interested with a minor restyle for '02. No major mechanical or features changes are expected before '04... allowing Century to maintain its "high value" role as the entry-level Buick. However, because the current 3.1-liter V6 is now quite old (it dates from 1980)--and with emissions standards becoming ever tighter--Century could well graduate to General Motors' newer 3.4-liter corporate V6 in a few years, though we can't confirm it at this point.
With his husky voice and stature, Goltz is almost as good a reproduction of Dan Mathews as the 1955 Buick Special he converted to look like Mathews’ Model 68 Century. Goltz has invested more than $35,000 and eight years to make it look as authentic as possible, with spotlights, sirens, red and blue flashing lights, two-way radio and the logos on the doors. Crawford’s call sign, "21-50," appears on the hood and trunk. A CD player plays the safety tips that ended each episode: "Leave your blood at the Red Cross, not on the highway."
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Because the Century was considered the senior "small Buick", the model received GM's only hardtop station wagon, the Century Caballero, from 1957 through 1958. The Caballero's expensive tooling, plus its limited sales appeal, caused GM to abandon the hardtop station wagon body style going into its planned 1959 divisional-wide new design program.
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Meantime, Buick had introduced the first front-drive Century, a notchback coupe and sedan built on the new 1982 A-body used by sister Chevy, Olds, and Pontiac models. Like them, this Century was just a "deluxe" X-car with more expansive sheet-metal and plusher interiors on the same 104.9-inch wheelbase. Initial engine choices were a 2.5-liter Pontiac four; a new 3.0-liter Buick V-6 (destroked from 3.8); and a 4.3-liter Olds diesel V-6.
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In 1954, Buick reintroduced the Century using the same formula of mating the smaller, lighter Buick Special body to its largest and most powerful 322 cubic inch V8 engine with the intent of giving Buick a performance vehicle. Included in the model lineup during this period was a station wagon model, a body style that had been unavailable during the Century's first production period of 1936 to 1942.
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