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The 2010 Buick LaCrosse<\/a> has only been on the market for a short time, but a few significant changes are already in store for the brand\u2019s newest flagship. Aside from the 2.4-liter four-cylinder now finding its way into the engine bay\u2014we\u2019ll bring you our first drive review tomorrow\u2014Buick will stop offering the 3.0-liter V-6 in North American LaCrosses at the end of the 2010 model year, leaving the aforementioned four-cylinder and the 3.6-liter V-6. The reason for killing the 3.0-liter engine is that the 2011 model will now be able to offer all-wheel drive paired with the direct-injection 3.6-liter. (Other markets such as China will continue to see the 3.0 serve duty as the LaCrosse’s top powerplant due to displacement restrictions.) Additionally, the top-trim CXS is set to get a pretty trick front suspension called HiPer Strut, starting with vehicles produced in late May.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n In short, HiPer Strut is a modified MacPherson strut system that allows for a shorter spindle length, thus changing the geometry of the setup, which allows the tire to maintain negative camber while cornering. What that means for you is improved tire contact with the pavement under load, reduced torque steer, more-communicative steering, and less kickback in the steering system when you run over imperfections in the road.<\/p>\n While we had just a quick jaunt behind the wheel of a HiPer Strut\u2013equipped LaCrosse, we came away impressed. During full-throttle launches, our CXS wearing the optional 19-inch wheels and Goodyear Eagle RS-A rubber (18s with Michelin tires are standard) exhibited very little torque steer. It also provided slightly more intuitive steering than other LaCrosses, which already have a good steering box, and did in fact lessen the reaction of the steering wheel after running over some decent-size potholes. The electronically controlled dampers\u2014part of the Touring Package\u2014managed body control very well, even after we managed to fully unload all four wheels followed by a quick turn.<\/p>\n The HiPer Strut suspension will come standard on all 2010 CXS models produced after May with no price increase for the running change. When asked why the system didn\u2019t launch with the car, Jim Federico, chief engineer for LaCrosse, simply said he really wanted the system then but that it just wasn\u2019t fully ready and so he made the call to wait. Hopefully, we\u2019ll see more of this technology and that type of responsible decision making from General Motors .<\/p>\n Related posts:<\/p>\n The 2010 Buick LaCrosse has only been on the market for a short time, but a few significant changes are already in store for the brand\u2019s newest flagship. Aside from the 2.4-liter four-cylinder now finding its way into the engine bay\u2014we\u2019ll bring you our first drive review tomorrow\u2014Buick will stop offering the 3.0-liter V-6 in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6408,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-474672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6408"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"2010](\"http:\/\/blog.caranddriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/1-HiPer-Strut-440x329.jpg\" "\\"2010")
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