1996 Buick Riviera: The Supercharger Rises to 240 Horsepower

This record's own dek states that the supercharged 3800 rose to 240 horsepower for 1996, with production given as either 18,036 or 17,389 depending on source; this record's own overview credits the eighth-generation car's construction to Orion Township, Michigan, on the G platform shared with the Oldsmobile Aurora, a platform this record's own text does not otherwise describe beyond that single shared-platform sentence.^1,2

This record's own engines section gives the standard 3800 Series II under code L36 at 205 horsepower and 230 pound-feet of torque, and the supercharged 3800 Series II under code L67 at 240 horsepower and 280 pound-feet, both figures sourced to Wikipedia's own engines table rather than to the Owners Association, and both engines listed with sequential fuel injection and a supercharger respectively as their only stated induction detail.²

This record's own production section breaks the total down by engine: 4,299 Rivieras carried the standard L36, while the clear majority, 13,737, carried the supercharged L67, summing, as this record's own note states, to the Owners Association's own 18,036 total. This record's own conflicts section carries the year's production disagreement formally, 18,036 from the Owners Association against 17,389 from Wikipedia's own eighth-generation production table, with its own treatment note adding that "Wikipedia prose also gives 18,036 (1996) and 10,953 (1998), matching ROA," a comparison this record's own text draws entirely from Wikipedia's own prose, quoted here verbatim, rather than from a separately read 1998 file's own figures.^3,1,2

This record's own key facts section is entirely empty for 1996, and its own options section is likewise empty; the production, engines and conflicts sections carry the year's narrative detail instead. This record's own prices section carries a single figure, $29,475, sourced to the Owners Association's own Evolution article rather than to an options-and-prices page, with no separate options-page figure given to compare it against for the year, and no note in this record's own text explaining why only one price row is carried.⁴

This record's own paint table carries 11 colours from the Owners Association's 1996 chart, led by Platinum Gray Metallic, every entry sourced to the same color-and-trim page as the interiors that follow it. Its interiors section carries 8 trims, opening with a standard 55/45 split-bench cloth seat in Taupe, Gray and Dark Ruby Red among its listed colours, and continuing into a Sierra-grain leather upgrade offered in the same colourways plus Blue and Jadestone, five leather rows against three cloth rows; this record's own note explains that the Owners Association's 1996 chart gives these colours without trim codes at all.⁵

This record's own specifications section carries seven 1996 figures from the Owners Association's weights-and-measures table: a 3,788-pound curb weight, a 113.8-inch wheelbase, front and rear track of 62.5 and 62.6 inches, a 207.0-inch overall length, a 75.0-inch width, a 55.2-inch height, and a P225/60R16 tire size. This record's own identification and unpublished-leads sections are both empty for the year, and its own performance and transmissions sections carry no entries either, leaving the production, engines and conflicts sections as this record's own richest sources for 1996.⁶