Buick Avant – Small Car, Big News
Buick’s latest concept car is a small, coupe-like premium city vehicle, Avant. What? A Buick that isn’t the size of your childhood home? GM tested small cars on a few of their brands, and based on the achievements of Buick in China, and their growing presence in American cities, made it the perfect choice for The “New” GM.
The video presentation – via The GM Lab, which is a blog set up through General Motors public relations, displays some of the finer tidbits of Avant. First off we at Buickpedia have to comment – we LOVE the look of Avant! Knowing this is merely the concept we know Avant won’t keep its futuristic design after production model phase, but the slender curves and egg-like shape ranks up there with Hyundai’s Accent and Toyota’s Yaris.
Special features being worked into Avant’s design include a retractile luggage storage trolley, which loads/unloads the vehicle for its driver, “Smart Doors” and translucent glass roof, which can switch from clear to dark in a matter of seconds. GM claims their “research was not brand specific” when working on Buick Avant – wonder what a Chevy Avant would look like? Stay tuned for more here and at thelab.gmblogs.
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