Buick LaCrosse Sales Explode in China

Buick is one of GM's four core brands and it appears like things are going great in China. At least when it comes to the LaCrosse model, a model that almost tripled its sales in the country during the first two full months of sales for the redesigned model, as compared to the same period of the previous year.

According to the Detroit Free Press, GM sold 20,500 LaCrosse sedans in China during August and September, as compared to about 7,000 during the same two-month period a year ago.

General Motors introduced the Buick LaCrosse in China at the 2009 Shanghai Auto Show earlier this year. The car is offered with a choice of two engines: a 3.0-liter SIDI V6 engine as well as a 2.4-liter ECOTEC unit, both of them mated to a six-speed auto-manual transmission.

“The new LaCrosse is a big departure from anything we’ve seen before from Buick,” said earlier this year Michael Stapleton, Design Manager at GM’s Pan Asia Technical Automotive Center (PATAC) joint venture in Shanghai. “It really breathes elegance.”

Inside, the car comes with two-tone interior and a wide array of standard features, including in-dash navigation, Bluetooth connectivity, an auxiliary audio input, an USB port, a power rear-window sunshade plus DVD entertainment system as well as two display screens mounted into the seatbacks. Interior noise has been reduced using Buick's advanced QuietTuning technology.

“The feeling of the interior is this delicate, beautiful flower that has a structure embedded inside of it that gives it a feeling of elegance and refinement,” said Stapleton.