CXL 4dr All-Wheel Drive Sedan
2011 Buick LaCrosse

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The 2011 Buick LaCrosse offers efficiency, comfort and style with a responsive driving experience. Completely redesigned for 2010, this latest LaCrosse is distinguished by its fresh styling.

The 2011 LaCrosse features a new four-cylinder engine, GM's Ecotec 2.4-liter direct-injection four-cylinder engine and a 6-speed automatic transmission. Fuel economy is an EPA-estimated 19/30 mpg City/Highway. The Ecotec engine replaces a 3.0-liter V6 that came standard on 2010 models.

A 3.6-liter V6 is available for all models offering 280 horsepower and an EPA-estimated 17/27 mpg City/Highway. The sporty LaCrosse CXS comes exclusively with the 3.6-liter V6, along with a host of features and options designed to enhance its sporty character, yet it retains comfortable driving characteristics and the same fuel economy rating.

Completely redesigned for the 2010 model year, the LaCrosse looks contemporary, elegant and refined. It's conservative but not conventional. There's an edge to it. It's a fresh take on traditional Buick design, but it includes Buick heritage cues, such as the waterfall front grille and the signature portholes. The portholes, however, have been moved from the traditional fender placement to the hood so as not to disturb the fluid body lines. The result is a sweeping, fluid exterior design that flows uninterrupted around the vehicle, with no disconnected lines.

The interior has a finely detailed, high-quality character. The more you look, the more you see. Throughout the cabin are few straight lines and 90-degree joints, if any. Instead, surfaces and controls are rounded, coved, or arched. Real stitching is used to join seams of the seats, shifter boot and soft material used on the door panels and around the instruments. Chrome and wood trim are used judiciously, tastefully, and the materials in the headliner and upper parts of the cabin look and feel like premium material. Features like remote starting, rear-seat DVD and ice-blue LED interior lighting accents are available, along with in-dash navigation, heads-up display, Bluetooth, and auxiliary audio input with USB port.

OnStar's automatic crash response and StabiliTrak electronic stability control headline a full complement of active and passive safety features. All-wheel drive is available, improving capability in winter weather.

We found the LaCrosse relaxing to drive yet it will respond eagerly to driver input. The smooth ride of the current models is a big improvement over the pre-2010 models. Buick engineers working in Germany stiffened the body structure beginning with the 2010 models; a stiff structure is the key to a quiet cabin and smooth ride. Buick also improved the suspension starting with the 2010 models, and we found this latest version exhibits less body roll in the corners and less float on lumpy surfaces. The LaCrosse also offers continuously variable smart shocks, which adjust themselves in real time. Steering was quickened to complement the new chassis, so it steers more precisely, but without inducing noticeable torque steer under hard throttle. Adding to the feeling of security are four-wheel disc brakes that seem better proportioned, with better feel at the top of the pedal, than any GM …
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The 2011 Buick LaCrosse offers efficiency, comfort and style with a responsive driving experience. Completely redesigned for 2010, this latest LaCrosse is distinguished by its fresh styling.

The 2011 LaCrosse features a new four-cylinder engine, GM's Ecotec 2.4-liter direct-injection four-cylinder engine and a 6-speed automatic transmission. Fuel economy is an EPA-estimated 19/30 mpg City/Highway. The Ecotec engine replaces a 3.0-liter V6 that came standard on 2010 models.

A 3.6-liter V6 is available for all models offering 280 horsepower and an EPA-estimated 17/27 mpg City/Highway. The sporty LaCrosse CXS comes exclusively with the 3.6-liter V6, along with a host of features and options designed to enhance its sporty character, yet it retains comfortable driving characteristics and the same fuel economy rating.

Completely redesigned for the 2010 model year, the LaCrosse looks contemporary, elegant and refined. It's conservative but not conventional. There's an edge to it. It's a fresh take on traditional Buick design, but it includes Buick heritage cues, such as the waterfall front grille and the signature portholes. The portholes, however, have been moved from the traditional fender placement to the hood so as not to disturb the fluid body lines. The result is a sweeping, fluid exterior design that flows uninterrupted around the vehicle, with no disconnected lines.

The interior has a finely detailed, high-quality character. The more you look, the more you see. Throughout the cabin are few straight lines and 90-degree joints, if any. Instead, surfaces and controls are rounded, coved, or arched. Real stitching is used to join seams of the seats, shifter boot and soft material used on the door panels and around the instruments. Chrome and wood trim are used judiciously, tastefully, and the materials in the headliner and upper parts of the cabin look and feel like premium material. Features like remote starting, rear-seat DVD and ice-blue LED interior lighting accents are available, along with in-dash navigation, heads-up display, Bluetooth, and auxiliary audio input with USB port.

OnStar's automatic crash response and StabiliTrak electronic stability control headline a full complement of active and passive safety features. All-wheel drive is available, improving capability in winter weather.

We found the LaCrosse relaxing to drive yet it will respond eagerly to driver input. The smooth ride of the current models is a big improvement over the pre-2010 models. Buick engineers working in Germany stiffened the body structure beginning with the 2010 models; a stiff structure is the key to a quiet cabin and smooth ride. Buick also improved the suspension starting with the 2010 models, and we found this latest version exhibits less body roll in the corners and less float on lumpy surfaces. The LaCrosse also offers continuously variable smart shocks, which adjust themselves in real time. Steering was quickened to complement the new chassis, so it steers more precisely, but without inducing noticeable torque steer under hard throttle. Adding to the feeling of security are four-wheel disc brakes that seem better proportioned, with better feel at the top of the pedal, than any GM …
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Retail Price

$33,205 MSRP / Window Sticker Price
Engine 3.6L V-6
MPG 16 City / 26 Hwy
Seating 5 Passengers
Transmission 6-spd auto w/OD
Power 280 @ 6300 rpm
Drivetrain all wheel
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