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With the 2017 LaCrosse, GM’s Dowdy Buick Is Moving on Up

But if you’re looking to kit it out completely, it still has some miles to go.
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General Motors has put so much pizzazz into Cadillac lately that it’s easy to forget the company has another brand to its name. Another brand positioned higher than Chevrolet, I mean.

In fact, last year Buick outsold Cadillac, Audi, and Lincoln in total U.S. auto sales. In China, the brand is a bona fide star, selling more than 1 million units there in 2016, which is more than 80 percent of total Buick sales worldwide, second only to Volkswagen, ahead of Toyota, Honda, Chevy, Ford, and other brands that lead the sales charts in the U.S.