 The Buick Reatta was a hand-made luxurious sports coupe produced at the Reatta Craft Centre in Lansing, Michigan and sold by the Buick division of General Motors from early 1988 to 1991. Like the Cadillac Allante, it was based on a shortened version of the GM E platform used by the Cadillac Eldorado, Oldsmobile Toronado and particularly the Buick Riviera, with which it shared its advanced electronics and interior furnishings. Image File history File links Reatta Logo File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
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During the first two years of production, the Reatta, like its Riviera stablemate, featured a touchscreen computer interface called the "Electronic Control Center", or ECC. The touchscreen controlled the radio and climate control functions and provided diagnostic access to the vehicle's various electronic systems and sensors. It also featured a date reminder, a trip computer, and a user-configurable overspeed alarm. Touchscreen on a podium at Georgia Tech Touchscreens, touch screens, touch panels or touchscreen panels are display overlays which are typically either pressure-sensitive (resistive), electrically-sensitive (capacitive), acoustically-sensitive (SAW - surface acoustic wave) or photo-sensitive (infra-red). ...
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Production
| Year | 4EC97 Coupe | 4EC67 Convertible | Total | | 1988 | 4,708 | 0 | 4,708 | | 1989 | 7,009 | 0 | 7,009 | | 1990 | 6,383 | 2,132 | 8,515 | | 1991 | 1,214 | 305 | 1,519 | | Total: | 21,751 |
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