Buick Estate

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Buick Estate
Also called: Buick Electra Estate
Buick LeSabre Estate
Manufacturer: General Motors
Production: 1940–1990
Successor: Buick Roadmaster Estate
Class: Full-size station wagon
Electra Estate
1980s Buick Electra Estate
Production: 19771990
Body style: 4-door station wagon
Platform: FR B-body
Engine: Oldsmobile small-block V8
Related: Buick Electra
Buick LeSabre
Chevrolet Caprice
Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser
Oldsmobile 88
Pontiac Bonneville
Pontiac Parisienne
Pontiac Safari


Buick used the Estate name on their full-size station wagons.

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 the 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 Estate Wagon for 1991. Though it used the "Estate" name, it is more commonly referred to, simply as the "Roadmaster".

Buick Estates were powered by the 307 in³ Oldsmobile small-block V8.


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