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Buick dropped jaws at the 2015 Detroit auto show with the Avenir concept, a taut, evocative four-door with muscular rear-drive styling. It’s dripping in modern American class—not kitschy retro frippery but rock-solid class and substance. Which is why it might surprise you that the Avenir was penned nearly 10,000 miles away from Buick’s home in the Motor City, by an Australian team of designers at Holden, GM’s Australian automaker.
No matter: The Avenir concept may have been designed and built in the hemisphere opposite the one you assumed it came from, but it makes no difference. This big-body sedan (we steadfastly refuse to adopt lead exterior designer Warrack Leach’s “four-door coupé” terminology) manages to hit the high points of Buick’s design history, like the subtle boattail effect that nods to the third-generation Riviera, without diving so deep into the retro pool that it comes up wearing a poodle skirt. It’s stunning.
But you’ve heard us gush over the Avenir enough. Let’s hear about it from the team that penned those gorgeous lines:
- Buick Avenir Concept Photos and Info: A Flagship from Buick, and It’s Hot
- Buick Avenir Head Designer Gives Us Hope for a Rear-Drive Flagship
- Full Details and Photos of Buick’s New Cascada Convertible
Could such a handsome, rear-drive Buick flagship become a reality? When we spoke with lead designer Warrack Leach at the Detroit show, he shied away from making such bold statements. But read between the lines a little, and you get the impression that this wasn’t just a styling exercise. Avenir is French for “of the future,” meaning that, according to our balky Google translation and entirely forgotten high-school French, this is literally the Buick Of The Future.
Please, Buick, let it be so.
Source:- http://blog.caranddriver.com/a-styling-tour-of-the-buick-avenir-from-the-australian-team-that-designed-it/
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