The Buick Park Avenue was the flagship sedan of Buick between the years of 1975 and 1990. It eventually succeeded the previous Electra model entirely. The name of the Park Avenue is meant to pay homage to the affluent boulevard of the same name in New York City.
A luxury trim level version of the car known as the Ultra was made available throughout the duration of the Park Avenue’s existence. The luxury sedan version of the car, the Park Avenue Ultra, featured a powerful 205-240 hp supercharged V6 Configuration that would go on to become the standard in the early 1990s.
The 1991 version of the Buick Park Avenue made use of the General Motors C Platform. It would continue to do so until the year 1997, when the C body was dropped altogether.
In the year 1997, an updated version of the Buick Park Avenue was released. It rode on the G body of the Buick Riviera, and was a lot stronger than its predecessor. This generation of Park Avenues was powered by Series II variants of the V6 Configuration. Only the Ultra models were supercharged, as has been the norm with Buick car models over the years.
