What are the things you like or love about your Buick LaCrosse?

[Bhodi's Buick]

How can you not like the Chrome Trimmed Exhaust Ports ?



Or the Shark Fin Antennae ?

 

[Arthur_Davies]

I continue to be impressed with the form and function of both of the driver displays - just so intuitively simple to use and well thought out. I compare this to a new Volvo loaner I had recently. While Volvos were once so elegantly simple, the new ones have this awful interface with seemingly hundreds of options. While that may sound great on paper, driving one is not fun at all.

Oh, I'm right there with you on that. I dread the company Ford Fusions and Tauruses - everything lit up on the dash like the Vegas strip, but none of it very intuitive, and disconcerting at night. I love the understated LaCrosse in that regard. People say one of the loveliest things about an E Type Jag was that the dials just glowed at night, they weren't brightly illuminated. The LaCrosse isn't that, but nor is it a blinding display of flashing neon and LEDs.

 

[Benzadmiral]

Oh, I'm right there with you on that. I dread the company Ford Fusions and Tauruses - everything lit up on the dash like the Vegas strip, but none of it very intuitive, and disconcerting at night. I love the understated LaCrosse in that regard. People say one of the loveliest things about an E Type Jag was that the dials just glowed at night, they weren't brightly illuminated. The LaCrosse isn't that, but nor is it a blinding display of flashing neon and LEDs.

What I like about it are the colors, white and ice-blue. Yeah, I understand that the orange instruments on a BMW 3 Series are (a) traditional and (b) designed to let you retain your night vision. But they still seemed warm if not actually hot to me. Perhaps if I lived in a cold climate, or had bought the BMW in December, I'd feel differently about the lighting. The LaCrosse's instrumentation colors are just right.

 

[Benzadmiral]

Cold for this place this AM, 31 F. as I headed to work. The car began to throw heat very quickly, and at 70 F. on the temp setting, the interior got actually kind of hot. I know the heated seat works; I accidentally put it on one day this past summer while in lightweight pants, and wondered as I drove, "Why is my rump stinging? -- Oh!" But with jeans and a heavy coat on me this a.m., I couldn't really feel it. There's a lighted icon on my steering wheel that seems to indicate I have wheel heating . . . but I was wearing gloves. Seemed silly to put that on.

I have discovered that the lighted On/Off icon on the climate control system, and the up-and-down arrows for the temperature setting, do not respond to a gloved finger. I have to remove a glove to work them. And you can press the "reduce fan speed" button all you want, but the fan speed does not go below a certain limit. You have to press the On-Off icon to turn the system off.

As my Regal did on start, the LaCrosse warned me with a DIC message: "Ice Possible; Drive With Care."

 

[greg12]

I rarely see Lacrosses on the road but today I saw a beautiful late model black example pass my place of work. I love the fact that there are not many on the road making our Lacrosse a rare sight.
I would not like owning an Accord, Camry, Equinox, etc. knowing I will see it coming or going all the time. I owned a 2005 Chrysler Crossfire SRT (with the Mercedes AMG supercharged V-6),. I had it from 2007 until 2014 and only saw maybe 4 of the SRT version on the road in the 7 years that I owned it.

I also agree the looks, power, ride, quiet, features, reliability (so far) and comfort are in my experience unsurpassed.

 

[Benzadmiral]

I see quite a few LaCrosses nearly every day, but not many of the 2016s like mine with the chrome strip spanning the entire trunk and joining the taillight trim. The short chrome bar on the earlier years looked like an afterthought at Buick. "Damn, we need some chrome back here! George! Got anything in the parts bin? Okay, slap it on, let's see."

The '17 to '19 model is the rare beast. And this morning I saw one of Buick's latest commercials with that stupid music, hyping nothing but the SUVs. No mention of the Regal in any form. I may be keeping this LaCrosse for quite a while, since there won't be any sedans to replace it with.

 

[Arthur_Davies]

Mine is an old LaCrosse (2006 CX), in excellent condition, and I'm maintaining it, don't do a ton of miles, and plan to hang on to it.

I can only compare it these days to the company cars I drive extensively (2017 - 2019 Ford Fusions and Tauruses), and the cars I perodically rent (Enterprise seems to give me Toyota Corollas or Hyundai Elantras/Sonatas these days). None of those are bad cars by any means, but all the tech on them is irksome. I can drive a car. I don't need lane-centering technology and things that flash on the wing mirrors to tell me there's a car in the outside lane should I turn on my signal to move over. I'm a tall man of normal weight and build, and I find the Fords cramped. The Taurus, in particular, for such a big sedan, should be roomier and more comfortable. When I check out a Ford from the company garage, I actually hope for a Fusion instead of a Taurus, even though the hybrid tech and weird digital leaves that float around on the instrument cluster get on my nerves.

2006 LaCrosse: big, comfortable sedan. Rock solid, cruises on the interstate. Simple, traditional design with its old 3.8 Series III GM engine and 4 speed auto box. My local mechanic has been working on GM W body cars for much of his working life, and there's nothing on the LaCrosse he can't easily and economically fix.

It's a great car.

 

[Benzadmiral]

Mine is an old LaCrosse (2006 CX), in excellent condition, and I'm maintaining it, don't do a ton of miles, and plan to hang on to it.

I can only compare it these days to the company cars I drive extensively (2017 - 2019 Ford Fusions and Tauruses), and the cars I perodically rent (Enterprise seems to give me Toyota Corollas or Hyundai Elantras/Sonatas these days). None of those are bad cars by any means, but all the tech on them is irksome. I can drive a car. I don't need lane-centering technology and things that flash on the wing mirrors to tell me there's a car in the outside lane should I turn on my signal to move over. I'm a tall man of normal weight and build, and I find the Fords cramped. The Taurus, in particular, for such a big sedan, should be roomier and more comfortable. When I check out a Ford from the company garage, I actually hope for a Fusion instead of a Taurus, even though the hybrid tech and weird digital leaves that float around on the instrument cluster get on my nerves.

2006 LaCrosse: big, comfortable sedan. Rock solid, cruises on the interstate. Simple, traditional design with its old 3.8 Series III GM engine and 4 speed auto box. My local mechanic has been working on GM W body cars for much of his working life, and there's nothing on the LaCrosse he can't easily and economically fix.

It's a great car.

My first Buick was the '03 Park Avenue, but I came within a hair of buying an '06 LaCrosse in the summer of '07 first. It was the sapphire blue color with a light gray leather interior, and drove beautifully. But the dealer did not seem to want to sell it. They were reluctant to bargain on the price, and swore there was no such part as the chrome fender trims (which are in the GM brochure, and which I've seen on real-world LaCrosses since). Their basic attitude: "You want this car or don't you?" So I walked -- to another, much better dealer and wound up with the PA. But I have no doubt that if I'd bought a GenOne LaCrosse at that time, I'd have been as well pleased.

Oh, another little detail I like about my '16: In the morning when I start the car in the dark, a faint blue trim line, lighted from behind, appears along the dashboard just below the top cap. It's very dim and thus doesn't affect my night vision, and when I'm driving I don't notice it. But it's a nice touch to see while I buckle my seat belt, turn on the radio, slip on my gloves if they're needed, and start my commute.

 

[Benzadmiral]

. . . I have discovered that the lighted On/Off icon on the climate control system, and the up-and-down arrows for the temperature setting, do not respond to a gloved finger. I have to remove a glove to work them. . . .

Correction: I've since discovered that with lightweight gloves, i.e., unlined ones, the temp controls and the On/Off icon can be manipulated. With heavier gloves, such as my pair with Thinsulate in them, I can't work the controls. But lightweight gloves are fine.

 

[Benzadmiral]

New discovery: When playing Media, specifically music from my flash drive, the progress bar on the screen can be manually controlled. A fingertip to the little vertical bar can swipe the progress bar backward or forward, jumping to earlier or later points on the same song. In other words, you don't have to touch a corner of an arrow key below the screen to jump earlier or later; you can just swipe. Good thinking, GM!

ETA: When you do this swipe, I've found, the instrument panel choice -- the left menu, controlled by the arrows on the right spoke of the wheel -- goes to "Audio," and you get a display in the center of your speedometer showing what song and artist is playing. At that point the arrows on the wheel control the media source. Using the arrows you can jump to the next song or back to the previous one, or jump ahead more than one song.

 

[kelvin]

The things I like about my 2006 Buick Lacrosse: When I bought my lacrosse it have 23,000 miles on the vehicle. other than changing out the water pump and struts, wheel bearing hubs, and CV axles, I now have over 340,000 thousand miles on this car. Same motor and transmission. The transmission gets serviced every 100,000 miles and the motor every 3,000 miles. This car does not own me anything. Great year Buick Corp.....

 

[lacrosse13]

My wife loves the heated seats and I love the radio and sound system in our 2013 Lacrosse.

 

[Benzadmiral]

I had the two peeling wheels repainted last week, which required me to leave the car off and rent something. What Enterprise gave me was a '19 Nissan Rogue, a fairly nice little SUV. The ride with the short wheelbase was kind of choppy; the 4-cyl. engine was peppy but noisy on acceleration; all the controls were intuitive and the features very much like the Buick's; but I hated that black interior, which most rentals nowadays have with the "reasoning" that "Black doesn't show dirt." (Ohhhh, yes, it does, Sparky, unless you're drifting black coal into the interior. Ever wear a black suit? Yeah; like that.)

So I got back into the LaCrosse, switched her on, and drove. My gosh, what a difference. It was like going from a go-kart to a real car. Smooth on the good streets out in the 'burbs, swift to leap up onto the Interstate, and at 70 the big red beast was still loafing. Before I knew it, I was home, 13 miles or so.

I checked the tires this morning and filled them all to 36-37. Even with the extra psi, the LaCrosse handles the bad streets here with composure. ("Do we have to drive this route, Boss? Okay, I'll do my best.") This morning I have to run into town to shop for running shoes, and I am looking forward to it!

 

[EDSELRANGER]

Agree with a lot of the points Benzadmiral made (3 years ago}. Every time I fire up the LaCrosse in the dark, I'm reminded of the cool, soft interior lighting. Easy to complain about some of the problems but there are a ton of positives.

 

[Mad*Max]

I would have to add its reliability - I traded in my originally owned 2010 after 13.5 years and 187k km with total repairs costing 1100 dollars during the life of the vehicle. I wonder how many EV owners will be able to make a similar claim??

 

[tombalas]

I would have to add its reliability - I traded in my originally owned 2010 after 13.5 years and 187k km with total repairs costing 1100 dollars during the life of the vehicle. I wonder how many EV owners will be able to make a similar claim??

This. GM finally, FINALLY, figured out how to make an excellent and reliable sedan right out of the gate (including the first model year), and then proceeded to throw in the towel on sedan manufacturing. Every LaCrosse owner I know loves their car - LOVES THEM. Buick owners don't want trucks - how hard is this for them to understand? How many long-time Buick customers do you know who just gave up and bought Camrys or Avalons because they think crossovers are ugly looking? Makes no sense to me. Add this to the list of bone-headed management moves by GM - and they have made loads of decisions like this - how they stay in business despite themselves remains a mystery.

 

[ceehow217]

With the 2017 Lacrosse I have....I like the suspension. It does soak up bumps pretty good out on the road. I like the fact mine does NOT have a sunroof. I had an AWFUL experience with the car before it leaking...badly...when it rained. Having Apple Carplay is good too.

 

[FrogFan]

My 2013 has almost 100K miles now and showing no signs that it's time get rid of it. Maintenance costs have been very low. I've had a couple larger problems -- rear wheel hub, transmission control module oil leak, and water pump. Total cost of these repairs has been around $1,500. Routine maintenance at the dealer has been very affordable. I buy tires and batteries from third party stores.

I traded a Mercedes E320 Diesel for my LaCrosse, which I bought brand new. The LaCrosse has been like a breath of fresh air by comparison to that Mercedes, which transitioned from the best car I ever owned to the worst right around year 4 of ownership, when the warranty ran out.

My elbow has poked a hole in the drivers side armrest, which I tried to fix using one of those leather/vinyl repair kits. The result looks terrible and I wish I could buy a new door panel, but they don't make them anymore.

My only real disappointment is is one I share with @tombalas; i.e., I can't buy another one. I won't buy one of the Buick SUVs and will probably end up with Camry, Avalon, Lexus, or maybe a Genesis. But I'm not ready to replace my 2013 yet!

 

[G-58542]

2013 LaCrosse 36000 miles, still drives great, and the ride is like floating on a cloud.

 

[EDSELRANGER]

2013 LaCrosse 36000 miles, still drives great, and the ride is like floating on a cloud.

Wow! If my math is right (not always the case), your LaCrosse has been floating on that cloud for approximately 60 miles a week. That would put the church around 30 miles from home!