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Mark a place on your calendar the week-end of July 18-20 to catch all the fun and entertainment.

The 2014 Buick LaCrosse is ready to start rolling out into showrooms, and those interested can finally start putting down a number on the check they'll have to write.

When all hope is lost, build a beautiful car. That would seem to be the current reigning philosophy at Lincoln, a luxury brand that has stumbled from one false start to another over the course of the past decade in an unsuccessful attempt to discover its identity.

The inaugural football alumni golf tournament celebrating the 100th year of Newberry College football will be June 29, teeing off at 10 a.m. Stokes Trainor of Newberry is offering a 2013 Buick Encore for a hole-in-one on hole 17 of the tournament.

Buick currently sells three vehicles that were originally conceived as Opels, and by the looks of things there's set to be more.

Though this may be hard to fathom in today's compact-crossover driven marketplace, personal luxury coupes were once seen as an essential component in any automaker's catalog.

Q. I have a 2001 Buick Regal which, I understand, should take 4.5 quarts of oil on an oil change, not five quarts.

In 2013, you can still head to your closest Buick dealership to pick up an Opel.

There was a time when just about every GM vehicle had a badge-engineered doppelganger.

A GM ad for 1959 Buick Electra 225 is part of the new Cranbrook Academy of Art exhibit.

Let's get the most pressing bits of this story out of the way right off the bat: What we see here appears to be a new compact crossover from Buick .

Slated to be incinerated, one of the two or three fiberglass-bodied prototypes for AMC's AMX narrowly avoided that fate when a line worker in AMC's Kenosha assembly plant spoke up and bought it for $50.

When used well, Photoshop is one of the most amazing programs ever devised for the computer.

While many associate custom cars with 1950s California-based customizers like George and Sam Barris, Bill Hines and Gene Winfield, they really followed in the footsteps of an earlier generation of customizers who operated in the pre-war years without much fanfare or national recognition.

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Officials in Jones County are asking for help to find 84-year old Casper Robinson.

In-car infotainment systems are nothing new. Over the last decade we've seen in-dash systems that control navigation, the stereo, phone calls and other functions trickle down from luxury models to cars for the masses.

After years of selling cloth-seat, stick-shift, diesel-powered E-class and C-class taxicabs and front-wheel-drive A-class hatchbacks in Western Europe and spending nine long years trying to run Chrysler as its commodity brand for North America, Mercedes-Benz is back in the affordable-luxury game.

Among the unexpected things that Jay Harvey Robinson did during his life was buy an army-green 1978 Toyota Land Cruiser FJ40 out of the newspaper for $1500.

They used to say that what was good for General Motors was good for America -- and in 1960, that seemed to be driving.