Buick Should Make This New GNX Sooner Rather Than Later

 Despite producing some of America's coolest muscle cars in the past, Buick doesn't have many exciting cars in its lineup in 2025. The Buick GNX, however, is still one of the most legendary American performance cars to ever hit the streets. When it debuted in 1987, it threw a curveball at the muscle car market, utilizing a completely unique approach and being every bit as good as the best muscle cars before it. Instead of opting for a V8, the GNX adapted to the market and used a newly emerging turbocharging technology to make a V6 engine that could rocket the car over a 1/4 mile faster than a Ferrari F40. The fact that just 547 units were produced cemented it as a legend.

1987 Buick GNX Specs

Engine

3.8-liter turbo V6

Power

276 hp

Torque

360 lb-ft

0-60 mph

4.7 seconds

Buick

Reviving old and beloved nameplates has become a popular trend in the car industry in the last decade or two, so it's only a matter of time before the GNX nameplate is brought back in one form or another. If that's the case, it needs to be a revolutionary muscle car, just like the one that carried the GNX badge in the '80s. With the help of render artist Rostislav Prokop, we're able to showcase our idea for a modern Buick GNX revival that GM should and ostensibly could make in 2025. This would be a modern take on the muscle car that would not only bring back a legend but also step in to fill the gap in GM's muscle car lineup with the axing of the Chevy Camaro in 2024.

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The 2025 Buick GNX Lives Again

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This new design features some elements of the Chevy Camaro and looks to be based on the same chassis with similar body lines visible toward the rear quarter of the car. Meanwhile, just like the original GNX, the new one would largely be based on the Buick Regal with a similar front end and grille. The headlights, however, come from another incredible GM muscle car – the late Pontiac G8 GXP. At the rear, its tail lights are a modern take on the original GNX's horizontal tail lights with twin exhaust pipes poking out from below.

A Muscle Car For The Modern Era

With emissions regulations once again putting pressure on the industry, the new GNX muscle car will not only be turbocharged but most likely also hybridized. Buick already has a healthy 3.6-liter V6 that it put in the Enclave up to 2024. It makes 310 hp, but in the GNX, it could be turbocharged and hybridized with the use of an electric motor, which alone would produce around 47 hp and 221 lb-ft, similar to the one found in the Ford PowerBoost Hybrid models now. Another brand, Toyota, has already gone the twin-turbo hybrid V6 route with the new Tundra TRD Pro, and the power plant is doing wonders for the truck.

Buick could also source another proven V6 engine GM still makes: the twin-turbo 3.6-liter V6 used in the Cadillac models like the CT5- and CT6-V, where it produces up to 464 hp and 445 lb-ft of torque. Paired with one electric motor, this engine would easily yield over 500 hp and 650 lb-ft of torque, depending on tuning.