biggest complaint about your LaCrosse

[LoyalistCDA]

Biggest complaint about LaCrosses?

That they're not making them anymore.

I was at the post office today and spoke with another customer in the parking lot who owns a 2016 Regal. He told me how disappointed he is that Buick is no longer making any passenger cars - sedans or coupes. Buick is courting a new customer base while their standard demographic probably won't be buying Buick, or GM, the next time they are in the market.

Totally agree. Buick has nothing to offer us anymore.

 

[Mad*Max]

Totally agree. Buick has nothing to offer us anymore.

This is an example of how management run a company into the ground...

 

[Globetrot1]

The only time I would have found a CUV/SUV convenient for the cargo capacity is when moving long-distance. But, to me, that doesn't justify owning one 365 days of the year. Passenger cars suit me just fine, and are way more attractive to look at.

 

[Arthur_Davies]

Buick is courting a new customer base

It seems very odd to court a new customer base in, perhaps, the most saturated part of the automotive market - crossovers. It is even odder when they are not a product for which Buick is especially well known. And Buick isn't Hyundai, it doesn't have that feel of offering something for everyone - big SUV, smaller CUV, big sedan, little sedan - we've got you covered. And nor does it even try that in the US, anymore - it's crossovers or nothing, if you want a Buick. With that logic, you'd expect "Buick" to be the first name that came to people's lips when asked to identify a crossover brand. But I'm guessing "Subaru" comes up more frequently, with that question.

I don't mean to be offensive to happy Buick crossover owners. Having mentioned Hyundai, to my eyes Encores and Enclaves and Avenirs just look like Konas and Tuscsons and Santa Fes. Only if I happened to be in the market for a crossover, I could more easily imagine myself buying one of those.

In other words, I agree. I miss Buick sedans.

 

[EDSELRANGER]

Interesting path this thread has taken. The fact that some people's (myself included) 'Biggest Complaint About Your LaCrosse' is that they don't make them anymore.
Say's a lot really.

 

[Eric2281]

When I first got my Lacrosse a review months ago, I read every post in this thread and made a post. After a few months of ownership, I wanted to revisit this thread. I do like my car a lot but I would have to say the biggest complaints I have are the funky shifts from the transmission. It feels inconsistent and hesitant at times. Also, the intermittent p0008 code. I know it’s not a Lacrosse specific problem but it’s a widely known issue so shame on GM for that one.

Just a personal gripe is the fuel door being on the passenger side. I’ve owned a BMW 540i & 335i with fuel doors on the pass side and I didn’t like it back then and I do t like it now. Not an official problem per se, just a gripe. That being said, this car has more amenities than both BMWs combined. I really do enjoy this car.

 

[Jers2011CXL]

Not a lot of upgrades that o can find for the engine. A cold air intake sounds like it would do nothing since it already has a cold air intake (at least according to what I've read), and I cant tell if a throttle body spacer would do anything for this engine or not.

 

[tombalas]

Just a personal gripe is the fuel door being on the passenger side. I’ve owned a BMW 540i & 335i with fuel doors on the pass side and I didn’t like it back then and I do t like it now. Not an official problem per se, just a gripe.

Funny that you mention that. In NJ, where self-serve gas is prohibited, the fact that the LaCrosse has the fuel door on the passenger side means I rarely need to wait to be served at my local cash-only gas station. While the right hand side of the pump islands have vehicles lined up and out to the highway waiting to be served, I can just sleaze in to the left-hand sided pumps since having the fuel door on the passenger side makes my LaCrosse such a rarity these days.

 

[BlueBolt]

Biggest complaint about LaCrosses?

That they're not making them anymore.

I was at the post office today and spoke with another customer in the parking lot who owns a 2016 Regal. He told me how disappointed he is that Buick is no longer making any passenger cars - sedans or coupes. Buick is courting a new customer base while their standard demographic probably won't be buying Buick, or GM, the next time they are in the market.

Actually...they are...tons of them are made and sold in China, where the brand is very popular. The real problem is that, they don't make them like they do...seriously. Now every car maker is following the horrendous trend the German car makers set...every car has to be sporty and handle well on slaloms...even Lexus LS, Toyota Avalon, Honda Accord, and Buick LaCrosse...By trying to attend to a younger population, they broke their cars by giving them terrible 20-inch wheels, stiff suspension, jerky 9-speed transmission, so they have "sporty" handling.

 

[PulpFriction]

Insufficient storage in the cab.

Nav system is clunky and virtually useless.

Console display is too dim and lacks contrast.

Otherwise, 2010 CXS is a pretty awesome car.

 

[BuickGirlFromMars]

Insufficient storage in the cab.

Nav system is clunky and virtually useless.

Console display is too dim and lacks contrast.

Otherwise, 2010 CXS is a pretty awesome car.

so as a passenger car, which hauls you and your persons, it doesnt do the hauling to your wishes.
on being a presumably daily driver, the now-necessary in dash and electronic systems are huge for the driving and operating of the car. These systems are communicated to you in the screen primarily, and the system as a whole isnt adequate for middle of the day, when most ofy our use is (most people drive during the day). That system sounds pretty important.

So as a daily driver, the experience is subpart what it should be?


glad you didnt get it from a dealer new, because you got hosed. But i understand how it goes with used cars. Some you like, some you dont.

I did not like my 2006 la crosse. I was offered to buy it back recently and i didnt have to think about it to say no. european-wannabe trash.. it had so much more potential.

 

[BuickGirlFromMars]

Interesting path this thread has taken. The fact that some people's (myself included) 'Biggest Complaint About Your LaCrosse' is that they don't make them anymore.
Say's a lot really.

hell, I thought my 2006 la crosse was a literally steaming pile of dog turd compared to my 1998 park avenue and my 2001 aurora... but that is the thing, That is my type of car. I would have felt betrayed if i had a lesabre, because thats not what a la crosse is. I can say, tho, that buick didnt take a nameplate like Lesabre and throw the 1st gen la crosse at it, that would be pure murder. But it was a sedan, it was a lot more modern design and going toward the "minimalist" and other white teenage girls in my age group and slightly younger loved them for the "euro" feel, and thats great for them. So to miss the la crosse has its place, because not only was it brought up unwelcomed in buick landscape, it wasnt even welcome to stay... 🙁

 

[Human]

I don't understand the comment about the LaCrosse being "unwelcome". It sold well enough to stay in Buick's North American lineup for almost 15 years and it's still being produced and sold in China (more's the pity for North America, IMO); in fact, Buick's popularity in Asia is the only reason the brand still exists at all. That said, the first generation (W-body) and second generation (Epsilon extended) LaCrosse are entirely different vehicles that really occupied different niches in the Buick lineup. The W-body version, as a direct replacement for the W-body Century/Regal that preceded it and like them, the 2006-2009 LaCrosse was a mid-range car with minimal frills, targeted toward value minded buyers. It occupied a similar place as its stablemates, the Pontiac Gran Prix and Chevy Impala, thus comparing it with past flagship GM vehicles like the Park Avenue and the Aurora is a bit unrealistic. The Epsilon (2010-later) LaCrosse moved up-market to also replace the Lucerne and thus occupied the executive/full size slot in the lineup and was given more premium features, as befitting its new status. Having owned two Auroras, a '95 and a '98, and a '97 Cadillac Deville Concours, I can say that my 2013 LaCrosse compares favorably with those vehicles, even if I once got lambasted on the ACNA forums for having the gall to suggest that the Aurora, had it continued in production into the 2010s, might well have been based on the Epsilon extended platform along with the LaCrosse, the Impala and the Cadilac XTS.

hell, I thought my 2006 la crosse was a literally steaming pile of dog turd compared to my 1998 park avenue and my 2001 aurora... but that is the thing, That is my type of car. I would have felt betrayed if i had a lesabre, because thats not what a la crosse is. I can say, tho, that buick didnt take a nameplate like Lesabre and throw the 1st gen la crosse at it, that would be pure murder. But it was a sedan, it was a lot more modern design and going toward the "minimalist" and other white teenage girls in my age group and slightly younger loved them for the "euro" feel, and thats great for them. So to miss the la crosse has its place, because not only was it brought up unwelcomed in buick landscape, it wasnt even welcome to stay... 🙁

 

[BuickGirlFromMars]

Oh it would have definitely been on the Greek platform name thing most definitely because if they didn’t kill olds they were gonna do the same thing with it as Buick. Make them European cars that aren’t European. They already were doing that.
But that’s why I said that about my personal liking of those cars, even tho I don’t like the la crosse it didn’t mean it didn’t have w place or people didn’t have reasons to like it. By unwelcome in the end I meant that it didn’t get to stay. Like, it was alien to what Buick was and then it wasn’t even allowed to stay by the thing that invited it in the first place. Sad, not in the ironic way but the actually sad way.

and it’s a damn shame that Buick is literally only in existence because of Asian market. That is proof to me that gm effectively killed buick, just like it killed Oldsmobile Pontiac Saturn the others and also Cadillac. I don’t know who is buying Cadillacs but it’s not the people who are gonna keep it afloat or as a luxury brand because it hasn’t been that in 15 years or so, and it’s only doing the same thing as Buick but costs more. And Lincoln is kicking their ass and they aren’t doing luxury that properly either.

I don't understand the comment about the LaCrosse being "unwelcome". It sold well enough to stay in Buick's North American lineup for almost 15 years and it's still being produced and sold in China (more's the pity for North America, IMO); in fact, Buick's popularity in Asia is the only reason the brand still exists at all. That said, the first generation (W-body) and second generation (Epsilon extended) LaCrosse are entirely different vehicles that really occupied different niches in the Buick lineup. The W-body version, as a direct replacement for the W-body Century/Regal that preceded it and like them, the 2006-2009 LaCrosse was a mid-range car with minimal frills, targeted toward value minded buyers. It occupied a similar place as its stablemates, the Pontiac Gran Prix and Chevy Impala, thus comparing it with past flagship GM vehicles like the Park Avenue and the Aurora is a bit unrealistic. The Epsilon (2010-later) LaCrosse moved up-market to also replace the Lucerne and thus occupied the executive/full size slot in the lineup and was given more premium features, as befitting its new status. Having owned two Auroras, a '95 and a '98, and a '97 Cadillac Deville Concours, I can say that my 2013 LaCrosse compares favorably with those vehicles, even if I once got lambasted on the ACNA forums for having the gall to suggest that the Aurora, had it continued in production into the 2010s, might well have been based on the Epsilon extended platform along with the LaCrosse, the Impala and the Cadilac XTS.

 

[Mad*Max]

Oh it would have definitely been on the Greek platform name thing most definitely because if they didn’t kill olds they were gonna do the same thing with it as Buick. Make them European cars that aren’t European. They already were doing that.
But that’s why I said that about my personal liking of those cars, even tho I don’t like the la crosse it didn’t mean it didn’t have w place or people didn’t have reasons to like it. By unwelcome in the end I meant that it didn’t get to stay. Like, it was alien to what Buick was and then it wasn’t even allowed to stay by the thing that invited it in the first place. Sad, not in the ironic way but the actually sad way.

and it’s a damn shame that Buick is literally only in existence because of Asian market. That is proof to me that gm effectively killed buick, just like it killed Oldsmobile Pontiac Saturn the others and also Cadillac. I don’t know who is buying Cadillacs but it’s not the people who are gonna keep it afloat or as a luxury brand because it hasn’t been that in 15 years or so, and it’s only doing the same thing as Buick but costs more. And Lincoln is kicking their ass and they aren’t doing luxury that properly either.

I miss Pontiac

 

[Mad_Coachman]

I miss Pontiac

Me too. 😉

 

[BuickGirlFromMars]

Me too. 😉

I miss buick 🥺

 

[Human]

I miss GM as a CAR company. It's rapidly evolving into a truck company and that doesn't really interest me. And from my perspective, crossovers are wannabe trucks.

 

[2007BuickLucerneCXL]

Where are those RainSense wipers at... Come on Buick! Park Avenue's had em'. The Lucerne's had em'. Where'd they go?!?!

 

[Human]

Where are those RainSense wipers at... Come on Buick! Park Avenue's had em'. The Lucerne's had em'. Where'd they go?!?!

Good point. I had them on a 1997 Cadillac. It was very nice to have to constantly adjust the delay interval on my wipers.