Buick used the Estate name on their full-size station wagons. Buick is a brand of automobile built in the United States, Canada, and China by General Motors Corporation. ... A full-size car is term used in North America for an automobile larger than a mid-size car, usually having a wheelbase greater than 2. ... Estate car body style (Saab 95) A station wagon (United States usage), wagon (Australian usage, though station wagon is widely used) or estate car (United Kingdom usage) is a car body style similar to a sedan car but with an extended rear cargo area. ...

1980s Buick Electra Estate

The first estate wagon was first offered on the 1940 Super model. It used a wooden body and was available on Buick's larger "C" series (Super and Roadmaster) in the 1946-53 model years. Then it was offered the smaller "B" body Special, Century, LeSabre and Invicta with all steel bodies from 1954 to 1964. It was reintroduced on the "B" body again in 1970 and was simply called Estate Wagon until 1977. Then it was available as LeSabre Estate Wagon or Electra Estate Wagon. The last Estates were rear wheel drive B-bodies with a 115.9 in wheelbase. The Electra Estate model name was used in 1988 and 1989 even though the Electra sedan used the front wheel drive C platform. The final year of Estate production, 1990, just used the Estate model name. The Estate was replaced with the B-body Roadmaster Wagon for 1991. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1280x960, 209 KB) I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1280x960, 209 KB) I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ... Rear wheel drive was a common form of engine/transmission layout used in automobiles throughout the 20th century. ... The B platform, or B-body, was General Motors full-size rear wheel drive automobile platform. ... 1962 Buick Electra 225 sedan. ... A Ford Taurus, a recognizable sedan. ... Front wheel drive is the most common form of engine/transmission layout used in modern passenger cars, where the engine drives the front wheels. ... The General Motors C platform (commonly called C-Body) was a fullsize car automobile platform produced until 1996. ... The Roadmaster was an automobile built by the Buick division of General Motors. ...

Buick Estates were powered by the 307 in³ Oldsmobile small-block V8, and in the Roadmaster model by the 5.0 liter TBI Chevrolet 305 in 1991, the 5.7 liter TBI Chevrolet 350 in 1992 and 1993 and the multi port injected 5.7 liter Chevrolet LT1 V8 small block in 1994, 95, and the cars final Collectors Edition version in 1996. The 1967 Toronados 425 V8, the first front-wheel drive V8 application. ... The Liberty V8 aircraft engine clearly shows the configuration A V8 engine is a V engine with eight cylinders. ...