The brand’s reaction to increasing demand within the multi-purpose vehicle sector may be the Rendezvous, a classy people-carrier.

Unusually for Buick and another indicator of their need to slow up the average chronilogical age of its buyers the vehicle has sports-tuned suspension and automatically engaging four wheel drive.

So confident were the engineers from the successful balance they’d achieved how the car was tested about the notorious Nurburgring mountain course; 14 plus miles of tortuous bends with a racing driver, who declared himself surprised at the mixture of agility and ride comfort achieved.