GM's ingenious innovations over the decades are legion. But not every production-­car first was as good as the electric starter motor or a mass-­produced plug-in hybrid.

You guessed it—Buick. We borrow a Buick Riviera Gran Sport ... Push the button on the dash that engages the device, and feel the car surge up to the desired speed and level off independently.

But I’m confident saying he admires the grace of a wraparound rear windshield, like one you would see on a 1971 Buick Riviera or 1964 Plymouth Barracuda, for instance. Baucco has owned both cars ...

By 1983, the system specifications were set. Buick called the system the Graphic Control Center or GCC. One hundred Riviera prototypes were fitted with the screens and taken to dealers around the ...

There was a piece of paper taped to the driver’s side window, facing the road. "71" Buick Riviera, $4500 cash, 350/264/TH400, original bucket seats, 4 wheels, all metal ‒ no Bondo, great frame ...

Hailing the 1963 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray as America’s sports-car icon, Welburn also singled out the 1963 Buick Riviera ... into a caricature of itself by 1971, and with the final 1999 ...

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and many would agree that the Buick Riviera was their greatest achievement. The Riviera is a personal luxury car produced by Buick from 1963 to 1999 except for 1994. The Riviera name had been used ...

Here's what the hand-printed sign said: "71" Buick Riviera, $4500 cash, 350/264/TH400, original bucket seats, 4 wheels, all metal ‒ no Bondo, great frame, new brakes, all chrome is stored inside ...

Eerily coincidental, the first year of the third-generation Buick Riviera nose-dived, and one critical reason is the car’s radical styling. 1971 was ... a switch on the dashboard just above ...

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This new concept would later become the first-generation Buick Riviera. But before it entered production in 1963 as a Buick, GM's Oldsmobile, Pontiac, and Cadillac divisions had first dibs on what ...