{"id":81984,"date":"2025-04-23T07:20:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T11:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=81984"},"modified":"2025-04-23T07:20:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T11:20:00","slug":"buick-electra-gs-gm-brings-back-the-best-name-in-the-ev-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=81984","title":{"rendered":"Buick ELECTRA GS \u2013\u00a0GM brings back the best name in the EV business"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dodge Charger. Ford Lightning. Some historic car names are just begging to be brought back as new-age electric vehicles,\u00a0but the best one has always been the Buick Electra \u2013\u00a0and now, it\u2019s back. Meet the all-new Buick ELECTRA GS concept.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s hard to draw a direct line between this new-age concept, which made its debut earlier today in Shanghai, and the OG 1959 Buick Electra. Heck, that<\/em> car would probably have more parts in common with a lunar rover than this new electric Electra \u2026 but as Michael Keaton\u2019s Ray Kroc says in The Founder<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, \u201cI needed the name.\u201d<\/p>\n

The new ELECTRA<\/a> GS is big, bad, and definitely designed to feel like a chest-forward statement of intent. In fact, the official copy says that the concept draws inspiration from the mythical centaur, embodying both raw power and intelligence.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe ELECTRA GS is more than a concept. It\u2019s a design manifesto,\u201d said Stuart Norris, Chief Design Officer at SAIC-GM and Vice President of GM China Design. \u201cIt\u2019s a bold statement that Buick will continue its success in the electric era with sculptural dynamism, cutting-edge technology, and uncompromised sophistication.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Which, sure \u2013\u00a0but did I mention it\u2019s big? (It\u2019s so big, you guys).<\/p>\n

Return of the big Buick<\/h2>\n
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Buick ELECTRA GS Concept; via GM.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At 5,300 mm, the concept Buick is well over seventeen feet long, and it seems tall, too \u2013\u00a0those are 23\u2033 (twenty-three inch<\/em>) wheels that scale it down a bit, but it\u2019s nearly as big as a Chevy Tahoe\/GMC Yukon at 5,334 mm<\/a>.<\/p>\n

No technical specs are provided, indicating that this very much a styling exercise, but one could easily imagine the same high-powered Ultium underpinnings found in a physics-defying GMC Hummer EV<\/a> buried below the ELECTRA GS\u2019 curves and making it more than quick enough to live up to any hype generated by the GNX version GM is bound to roll out to SEMA in a year or two.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s what\u2019s inside that counts<\/h2>\n

Inside, the big electric skateboard chassis enables a flat, expansive cabin that the company says is \u201ctransformed into a bespoke sanctuary.\u201d The car features four individual captain\u2019s chairs wrapped in premium materials and metallic accents to deliver first-class comfort. The driver\u2019s view is uncluttered with simple instruments and a large HUD, while a 16.3-inch ultra-wide display caters to front-seat passengers (the designated DJs on any long road trip) with bunches of connectivity but, presumably, no Apple CarPlay<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Even so, it seems like a forward-looking, high-tech vision that caters more to Chinese than American sensibilities<\/a>. \u201cIn today\u2019s connected world, where design and technology transcend borders, our team is proud to be shaping a global vision from China\u2019s perspective,\u201d said Norris. \u201cThe ELECTRA GS is just the beginning.\u201d<\/p>\n

Buick has sold more than 10 million vehicles in China since its introduction to the market by SAIC-GM in 1998<\/a>, and hopes that new concepts like ELECTRA GS will help it continue to succeed despite domestic competition.<\/p>\n

SOURCE | IMAGES<\/strong>: GM.<\/p>\n

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Dodge Charger. Ford Lightning. Some historic car names are just begging to be brought back as new-age electric vehicles,\u00a0but the best one has always been the Buick Electra \u2013\u00a0and now, it\u2019s back. Meet the all-new Buick ELECTRA GS concept. It\u2019s hard to draw a direct line between this new-age concept, which made its debut earlier […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}