New Car Overview of the 2005 Buick Century Mid-Size Sedan

Description: Mid-Size Sedan
Base MSRP Range: $22,040
Invoice Price Range: $20,167
Where built: Canada

The badge on this mid-size sedan traces to 1936, when Buick first identified its products by easy-to-remember names rather than numbers. Now it's in a final run as Buick's entry-level car.

The issues of 2005 offer a Special Edition package with twin-zone automatic climate controls, 16-inch chrome-plated aluminum wheels and four-wheel ABS. Three other packages bear familiar Century labels -- Standard, Custom and Limited. Century Standard with six-place seats gets a remote keyless entry system, power door locks and power windows, and an audio kit with CD deck. Century Custom adds power to the driver's seat, cruise control, rear grips with switch-on reading lamps, floor mats and a cargo net in the trunk. Then Limited piles on luxury items.

Century's engine -- a 3.1-liter, V6 -- registers 175-hp and links to the GM Hydra-Matic 4T65E automatic with four forward gears and electronic controls.