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Ford Motor Company has long foregone building passenger cars for North America – aside from the S650 seventh generation 2024 Ford Mustang, of course. General Motors is also closing the tap even tighter with the announced disappearance of the Chevrolet Malibu after the 2024MY. As for Stellantis, they're playing things a little loose, but not too much.
Ford is only selling the Mustang as its sole passenger car across the namesake Ford and Lincoln brands. Chevrolet has killed off for 2025MY both the sixth generation Camaro pony and muscle car as well as the ninth generation Malibu mid-size sedan. Meanwhile, Dodge is playing the game a little differently – they announced the eighth generation Charger, and it has both a four-door sedan and the traditional two-door fastback coupe body style now, but they're using all-electric and inline-six turbo powertrains with them.
However, regular people are unhappy that carmakers are killing off the cheaper passenger cars to extract as much profit as possible from the costlier crossover, SUV, and truck alternatives. As it turns out, the rumor mill and the imaginative realm of digital car content creators agree with them – and they also take matters into their hands, or at the tip of their CGI brushes, better said.
For example, Jim, a virtual artist known as jlord8 on social media, loves messing around with all things CGI from the automotive realm; now, he dreams of a second reborn Buick. Himself the proud owner of a 1986 Buick Regal T-Type and 2001 Ford F-150 SVT Lightning, he's no stranger to FoMoCo and GM design projects that see people hyped about their potential if the automakers decided to build them in real life.
Just recently, the pixel master created a reborn 2025 Buick Regal Grand National after he remembered the Pan Asia Technical Automotive Center (PATAC)-created Buick Riviera Concept unveiled at the 2013 Shanghai Motor Show. He also adapted the visionary prototype with Buick DNA as well as all-wheel drive plus twin-turbo V6, making 650 hp. People immediately thought that it would be a worthy spiritual successor to the original from the 1980s, so he pushed through with yet another Buick revival.
This time around, he selected as the starting template a contemporary concept car – the sharp Buick Electra-L and Electra-LT prototypes unveiled at Auto China 2024 in Beijing. Especially the latter impressed this CGI expert – so much so that he didn't mind getting ultra-quirky with it when aiming to imagine the retro-modern looks of a potential Buick Roadmaster for America with the retro touch of woodgrain. The result is certainly controversial, with some people appreciating the odd design and others trying to convince the artist to give up on his car art…
However, regular people are unhappy that carmakers are killing off the cheaper passenger cars to extract as much profit as possible from the costlier crossover, SUV, and truck alternatives. As it turns out, the rumor mill and the imaginative realm of digital car content creators agree with them – and they also take matters into their hands, or at the tip of their CGI brushes, better said.
For example, Jim, a virtual artist known as jlord8 on social media, loves messing around with all things CGI from the automotive realm; now, he dreams of a second reborn Buick. Himself the proud owner of a 1986 Buick Regal T-Type and 2001 Ford F-150 SVT Lightning, he's no stranger to FoMoCo and GM design projects that see people hyped about their potential if the automakers decided to build them in real life.
Just recently, the pixel master created a reborn 2025 Buick Regal Grand National after he remembered the Pan Asia Technical Automotive Center (PATAC)-created Buick Riviera Concept unveiled at the 2013 Shanghai Motor Show. He also adapted the visionary prototype with Buick DNA as well as all-wheel drive plus twin-turbo V6, making 650 hp. People immediately thought that it would be a worthy spiritual successor to the original from the 1980s, so he pushed through with yet another Buick revival.
This time around, he selected as the starting template a contemporary concept car – the sharp Buick Electra-L and Electra-LT prototypes unveiled at Auto China 2024 in Beijing. Especially the latter impressed this CGI expert – so much so that he didn't mind getting ultra-quirky with it when aiming to imagine the retro-modern looks of a potential Buick Roadmaster for America with the retro touch of woodgrain. The result is certainly controversial, with some people appreciating the odd design and others trying to convince the artist to give up on his car art…
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