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Buick Century is the model name used by Buick for a line of upscale performance cars from 1936 to 1942 and 1954 to 1958, and from 1973 to 2005 for a mid-size car. The model name Century came about when Buick was designing its first production automobile capable of reaching a speed of 100 mph. The division needed to come up with a name. One of the Buick executives had returned from a recent trip to the British isles and told the other executives that the British referred to going 100 mph as "doing the century". The executives liked the Century name and it stuck. The Century was sold as the Buick Regal in Japan, as Toyota owns the right to the name Century. ==1936–1942== Buick renamed its entire model lineup for the 1936 model year to celebrate the engineering improvements and design advancements over their 1935 models. Buick's Series 40 model range became the Special, the Series 80 became the Roadmaster and the Series 90—Buick's largest and most luxurious vehicles, became the Limited. The Century took the place of the Series 60. The basic formula for the 1936 to 1942 Century was established by mating the shorter behind the engine cowl Special bodies to the Roadmaster's larger straight-eight engine (and consequently longer engine compartment). (In contrast the 1940 Series 50 Super would combine the larger Roadmaster body with the smaller Special engine.) While the Special was powered by Buick's 233 cu in inline-8 was rated at 3200 rpm, Centuries produced between 1936 to 1942 were powered by the 320 in³ producing 165 hp, making them the fastest Buicks of the era and capable of sustained speeds of 100 mph hence the name Century (100), earning the Century the nickname "the banker's hot rod." The Century was discontinued at the end of the abbreviated 1942 model year, during which total model production only accounted for about ten percent of Buick's total output. File:BedfordBuick8Cream2.jpg|1938 Buick Century File:1938 Buick Century Sport Coupe.JPG|1938 Buick Century coupe File:Buick Century Series 61 4-Door Touring Sedan 1939.jpg|1939 Buick Century File:1940 Buick Series 40 Special Coupe.jpg|1940 Buick Century coupe File:Buick 51 Century 4-Dorrars Town Sedan 1941.jpg|1941 Buick Century 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Buick Century」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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