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Article: Smooth New Park Avenue Has Buick Riding High
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- August 5, 1995
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"It was a magnificent car; it could hold the road like a boat
holds on water. Gradual curves were its singing ease."
Jack Kerouac, On The Road
Kerouac was writing about a 1947 Cadillac limousine in his
classic book, but he could just as well have been describing the big,
luxurious 1995 Buick Park Avenue sedan, which also does well on
gradual curves.
One high point of the $27,236 Park Avenue, which I recently
tested, is its standard 205-horsepower V-6; it is essentially an
all-new engine, compared with the 170-horsepower base V-6 in last
year's Park Avenue.
Buick is really proud of the new V-6, which is more compact,
lighter and stronger. Larger valves and a new camshaft allow higher ...