You do not have to be a Kendrick Lamar fan to vibe on his newest album, titled GNX. Automobile buffs will immediately acknowledge these three letters, which belong to one of many quickest (and coolest) automobiles from the Nineteen Eighties. You recognize we’re speaking concerning the Buick GNX.

Lamar is speaking about it, too. Apart from GNX being the identify of his album, Observe 12 additionally will get the decision. Dare we say, there is a little bit of an old-school West Coast vibe about it; however, we’ll go away with such critiques for the music executives. Our consideration falls to the black 1987 Buick GNX that graces the thumbnail of each album observed on his YouTube channel, by no means thoughts the beneath teaser video.

Sure, cool automobiles and hip-hop are terrifically cliched; however, there is a bit extra occurring right here. Lamar purchased a pristine GNX—presumably the identical one featured within the video—earlier this year. In keeping with Complicated, the automotive is particular to the Grammy award-winning artist because it was the identical type of automotive his father had again within the day.

Nearly the identical, anyway. Child Lamar got here residence from the hospital in his dad’s 1987 Buick Regal. That was the usual model of the favored 1980’s two-door luxurious coupe, with the Regal T-Sort and Grand Nationwide being efficiency variants with the notorious 3.8-liter turbocharged V-6. They have been dueling with 5.0 Mustangs and IROC Camaros of the day; however, the GNX was a really completely different beast. In comparison with 245 horsepower within the 1987 Grand National, the identical engine within the GNX was massaged to 276 horsepower. That was a conservative estimate, too, and Buick additionally upgraded numerous suspension and chassis parts.

The end result was one of many quickest-accelerating automobiles on this planet for that period. It might attain 60 mph in beneath 5 seconds, a figure not far off from legends just like the Ferrari F40 and Porsche 959. Solely 547 have been constructed, and if you would like one at present, be able to pay properly over $100,000.

We do not understand how much Lamar paid for his GNX. However, we love that it is nonetheless getting respect practically 40 years after being constructed.