Buick Avista concept shows design ethos and rekindles historic performance roots

Not sure why manufacturers show us these one-off concept cars if they are not going to be building these cars, but just as the Buick Avenir concept car as large swooping-lines sedan of January 2015 was shown but will never see a factory, the Buick Avista 2+2-seater coupé is a concept car that was displayed to the show-going public recently to push the Buick brand’s contemporary design ethos and to rekindle the Buick historic performance roots, the company states.

Vision of contemporary GT design

The Buick Avista concept is a vision of a contemporary GT (Grand Tourer) coupé, sculpted into a sleek, sweeping proportion.  20-inch alloy wheels with blue colour-toned accents match the Avista’s Dark Sapphire Jewel blue exterior paintwork.  The signature Buick fender ports evolve into itmes with chrome slivers.

The engine thought to be ideal for this contemporary grand tourer is a 400-horsepower twin-turbocharged V6 driving the rear wheels. 

Buick designers are creating an interior for enhanced passenger sensory experiences: QuietTuning, advanced noise cancellation technology, air-quality control, ionic air purifiers and aromatherapy.  The cockpit is driver-focused and the interior designed to be comfortable.

The company says “It is a modern expression of the brand’s heritage of sophisticated performance, communicated with beautiful elegance.”

The car company says the Buick Y-Job shown in 1938 is widely recognised to be the car industry’s first concept vehicle.

Rather than re-branded re-surfaced Opel and Chevrolet vehicles which become Buicks, the Avenir and Avista concepts could give Buick some exclusive cars, especially as Buick does not have a coupé in its current line-up (the Opel Insignia is twin to the Buick Regal, Opel Mokka and Buick Encore is basically the same car, and Buick Cascade is a rebadged Opel Cascada).

To see the line-up of Buick vehicles, visit www.buick.com