Luxury car brands USA

Audi, BMW, Mercedes and other European luxury brands are the main choice for customers when they want to buy a luxury car. Yes, it has good looking exterior and interior design, high-quality material, unstoppable innovation, best safety system, and so on. And America’s luxury brands have to be like that or even more (at least in USA). At 2015 Detroit Auto Show, Buick, Cadillac, and Lincoln showed off its latest cars and a concept car to catch ’em.

The Buick’s version of Opel Cascada finally unveiled at 2015 NAIAS, named…. Buick Cascada. It’s a re-badge actually. It comes with same exterior and interior design like its twin in Europe. The different is only in logo. What a shame. I expected that Buick would do a little change. So it will be looked more American and blended with its waterfall grille.

The Cascada comes with 1.6 liter four-cylinder engine produces 200 hp and 280 Nm of torque. The powertrain is mated with 6-speed automatic transmission. The soft top takes 17 seconds to drop and the driver can do it while driving at speed up to 50 km/h. It is featured 7-inch touch screen, Buick OnStar 4G LTE with Wi-Fi.

If you get bored with 2016 Cascada, another world premiere maybe will make you smile. Yeah, Buick made a surprise at this year NAIAS revealing its newest concept car, named Avenir. It’s French means ‘future’. I don’t know whether it previews the future design language of Buick or not. But the concept car is perfectly beautiful and I hope it would be a flagship car in future. Avenir was developed by Buick’s global team and inspired by its previous concept cars, like Riviera.

Up front, there are LED headlights which has neat design. The grille comes with new design, combining Buick’s traditional waterfall and wing-shaped element. An interesting thing that we can find is the return of tri-shield insignia Buick’s logo with three-color; red, silver, and blue. Let’s hope it could be a new identity of Buick in future. Inside, the white color dominates its cabin combining with wood accent which makes it looked elegant and roomy. Under the hood, there’s a next generation V6 engine with Active Fuel Management and mated with 9-speed automatic transmission.