Modern-day Buick is but a shadow of its former self, unless you're into crossover SUVs, in which case it has several ...

The ancestor of the Buick V6 is the Buick 215 V8, an innovative lightweight V8 with aluminum block and heads that debuted in 1961. This engine turned into iron and gained much displacement with GM ...

It's a Duttweiler- built, 265ci Buick V-6 alloy stroker, that on the day we visited KD's shop made 707.8 hp at 5,700 rpm and 668.8 lb-ft of torque at 4,100 on his trick engine dyno. His setup ...

American automaker Buick launched the Special in 1962 — the first American car with a standard V6 gasoline engine. Parent company General Motors called its newest V6 engine the "Fireball," a ...

The first V6 used on a mass-produced passenger car ... The last version of Buick’s iconic engine was built between 2004 and 2008. It was equipped with stronger connecting rods, an aluminum ...

So, all the Buick V6 tooling traveled back from Wisconsin to ... The funky "odd-fire" crank setup made the engine rough, but reliability was very good (and The General eventually loosened the ...

Once upon a time, in a decade long ago, Buick built a kick-ass little turbocharged V6 engine and dropped it into the handsome rear-wheel drive Regal. Rated at (wink, wink) 245 horsepower (in 1987 ...

This engine is iconic because it was also considered to be the blueprint for Buick's extremely successful 3800 V6. It had ...

Time is catching up with Buick's seemingly ageless V6 engine. The venerable workhorse, which set several industry benchmarks for quality, reliability, durability, performance, fuel economy and ...

An intensive engine development program at McLaren Engines in Livonia, Michigan, put the Buick V6 into the 850 hp range with intercooling and unlimited boost. Indy engines running at 57 inches of ...

Lots have been written about the never-say-die Buick V6 engine that was used in millions of cars for more than half a century, and how it eventually emerged as one of the best V6 engines of the ...

As GM grew and flourished along with the U.S. auto industry in the middle of the 20th century, its divisions began building larger engines. Buick was the first automaker to use a V6 engine in a ...