You, no doubt, know the Buick name. Perhaps you even drove or owned a Buick at one time. But Buick, the man, is all but forgotten now. What he built, however, and what ultimately led to this global ...

Fabled as the inventor of the porcelain bathtub, David Dunbar Buick abandoned plumbing in 1899 to build stationary and marine engines. His associates Walter Marr and Eugene Richard developed the first ...

His name stands as a symbol now, even though the sign where the name sits measures just over 5-feet tall. "David Dunbar Buick," the sign reads. "Buick Motor Company." The dark green sign with the ...

Scottish immigrant David Dunbar Buick left a promising career as a plumbing inventor (he got porcelain to stick to iron, thank him every time you take a bath) and started making his own gasoline ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Bruce Catton once observed that of all the automotive tales told in Detroit, "there is no tale as strange as the tale of David Buick." And yet, another prominent ...

Buick’s new Envision wagon is being brought to North America from a General Motors plant in China. Chances are good that David Dunbar Buick, who in 1902 founded what eventually became a division of ...

The Buick division of the American automobile manufacturer General Motors is one of the oldest US car brands and even precedes the establishment of GM in 1908. However, today, it's not exactly what ...