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There’s no doubt rapper Kendrick Lamar is a car guy who absolutely loves his 1987 Buick GNX. And now that the man will be entertaining millions upon millions during the Superbowl this Sunday, a light is being shined on him and his American muscle car.
You won’t believe how someone resurrected a destroyed, flooded Porsche 993.
Back in the summer of 2024 we covered how Lamar shared some photos on social media of his newly purchased Buick GNX. Nobody knew at the time the rapper was going to be featuring the car heavily for his surprise album which dropped in November.
That album, simply titled GNX, is obviously at least in part a tribute to the 80s muscle car. When Lamar was posting about the purchase during the summer, he also put up a photo of him and his cousin “Pat Dogg” when they were kids. In that image, the two were playing with a remote controlled Buick GNX
In other words, the guy has been dreaming of owning such a ride since he was young.
Who can blame him? Other than the almost entirely black motif, the GNX doesn’t look particularly impressive. In fact, it looks like a lot of ho-hum cars from back in the day, boxy and boring. But under the hood is a potent turbocharged V6.
The GNX was the swan song for the Buick Grand National, named after the NASCAR Winston Cup Grand National Series in celebration of Buick winning. That led to the creation of the performance model in 1982, lasting two generations and finally ending with the 1987 model year. The car has quite the cult following today after ruffling plenty of feathers in the 80s.
While we don’t know anything about Kendrick Lamar’s planned Superbowl halftime show, there’s always a possibility his Buick GNX could be featured in it. Wouldn’t that be something, exposing even more people to the sinister black car that could smoke just about anything produced in the same year?
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