The 2011 Buick Lacrosse CXL FWD

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The Car-Of-The-Week at the Car Concerns Proving Grounds is the 2011 Buick Lacrosse CXL FWD from General Motors. A beautiful Red Jewel Tintcoat with Coca Light Cashmere. Our 2011 Buick Lacarosse has a 2.4 Liter DOHC engine with plenty of power and delivers upto 30 MPG when cruising down the highway. For the future, the LaCrosse will remain the flagship of the Buick lineup, so at first look, it might seem strange that General Motors is adding a seemingly modest inline-four cylinder engine to the sedan's powertrain list. However, at the time the LaCrosse was being developed in 2007-2008, gasoline prices in the United States had spiked to their highest levels ever, topping $4 per gallon. General Motors product planners were understandably working on the assumption that fuel prices would remain high and continue an upward trend in the coming years. They got that right! Buick officials won't say so out-right, another factor that likely played into the decision to offer the 2.4-liter EcoTec four-cylinder engine was the underwhelming response to the new 3.0-liter direct injected V6. While the new smaller V6 is a smooth runner and produces similar power to the company's earlier 3.6-liter port injected V6, it was lacking in torque compared to its larger counterpart and actually got slightly inferior fuel economy. We recently had the chance to sample the new four-cylinder-powered LaCrosse CX in rural Tennessee. At the Car Concerns Radio Proving Grounds we found out that less is <b>...</b>

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