’92 BUICK PARK AVENUE ULTRA

THE SUPERPARK NIPS AT CADILLAC’S HEELS IN PRICE, PERFORMANCE, AND PRESTIGE

BY DANIEL CHARLES ROSS

The Buick Park Avenue is a popular car in a lot of camps. It won well-deserved recognition when it was introduced in the ’91 model run, and late in the year, about 150 supercharged Park Avenue Ultra variants were produced to test higher-performance waters. By the ’92 model year, the SuperPark was in general distribution, and buyers lined up to buy them for their honest price/performance ratio. In this class, it doesn’t take much extra performance to stand out in the laid-back luxury crowd, and according to some of the MT owner survey, the SuperPark stood shoulder to shoulder with the Cadillac STS. “Cadillac luxury for considerably less money,” wrote an analyst from Florida. “Cadillac lost my business forever because of the Park Avenue.” Buick uses a 1.0-liter Eaton supercharger to…

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MotorTrend (Digital) - 1 Issue, July 1993

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