Buick Centieme

The Buick Centieme is a concept car that Buick built for the 2003 North American International Auto Show in Detroit, and its styling became the basis of the later Buick Enclave show cars and production crossover. Its name borrows the French word for hundredth to mark the 100th anniversary of the Buick Motor Division. The Centieme was close to the Rendezvous crossover in size and shape but lower, wider and a little longer, with Bertone designed bodywork that had short overhangs, 22 inch aluminum wheels and Canyon Mist metallic paint. Power came from an experimental 3.6 litre twin turbocharged V6 of 400 horsepower with a Hydra-Matic 4T65-E four speed transmission. The interior, with six captain chairs, was covered in leathers of different grains and colors, including a woven leather floor, and General Motors sold the car in 2009 at a Barrett-Jackson auction in Scottsdale for 29,700 dollars.