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It was such a good engine, in fact, that it won a spot on Ward's 10 Best Engines Of The 20th Century. Think of the Buick 3800 as the Chevy small-block of American V6 engines.
Like most V8 engines, the crankshaft of the Buick 215 had two connecting rods per journal; if you use a cut-down V8-style crankshaft to make a V6 crank using this philosophy (in order to save ...
What the hell? Why is there a Buick 3800 V6 mounted transversely under the rear floor of this Jeep CJ-7, which came stock with a front-mounted 4.2-liter AMC inline-six? Photos of the engine setup ...
The Turbo V6 makes one of the cleanest engine swaps around. With the performance increase available and minor updating of the car's suspension and drive train, an early Skylark can be transformed ...
By C.J. Baker Buick's latest performance parts add more power to the already-potent V6 This cutaway comparison of a standard 3.8-liter block (left) and a heavy- ...
SAIC-GM has revealed some details about the 2026 Buick Electra L7 EREV powertrain, including output, range and performance ...
This page from the 1964 Buick brochure shows an adman's idea of the kind of American appropriate for each of these engines. All are white, all are well-dressed, and all are no older than middle-aged.
The 2011 LaCrosse is losing the 3.0L V6 while gaining GM’s 2.4L Ecotec four-banger. This leaves LaCrosse buyers with a choice of either the high feature 3.6-liter six cylinder or the 2.4-liter four.
There's the 3.6-liter LGX V6 with 310 hp and 282 lb-ft of torque, which is mounted transversely in the 2018 Buick LaCrosse. That engine is itself a tweaked, de-tuned version of the Camaro's LGX V6.
According to Buick, even with 230 hp on tap, the 2,910-pound (1,320 kg) mid-engine concept car was capable of accelerating to 60 mph (97 kph) from a standstill in 4.5 seconds and could reach a top ...
The engine in question is a 3.8-liter Buick L67 Series II V6, originally supercharged from the factory.