You may be surprised, which is the point.
Note the vents atop the hood, might be a clue.
Available in manual and made in Canada, Buick is trying their guts out to reinvent themselves, and it’s working.
I attended its launch in October 2013, and still like it.
Read the review on Autonet.
* = paint colour names
Same colour – “Bright White” – across two different automakers.
But no way is that the real paint name, the one carefully chosen by the designers. Car colours are far more ridiculous, like: Bleached Alabaster with a hint of metallic Polar Obsidian.
But can’t print that, it’s both too long and unclear. So “bright white” lives.
Blog tag = car colour
That clip that holds down the gas pump.
Know how there’s those kind of cars, you see one from a distance, it’s features can’t be made out but you can just tell – it’s a Whatever.
Speaking with Kevin George – Ford’s Exterior Design Manager – we learn about the DRG, and how when confronted with an advancing object, the mind goes through “3 reads”, and how that fits with vehicle design.
Read it online at Autonet.
Everything described above – this “graphic signature” – is happening during the day, but the designers also have to pull this off at night.
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