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2025 Buick Enclave Review -- Bucking Buick’s Stereotype

The Truth About Cars

To some, Buick is a name synonymous with cars for grandparents that had little-to-no personality and left much to the imagination. But to others, Buick is the name of a manufacturer pushing the boundary beyond a singular-segmented past, implementing exciting cues from the Wildcat concept. Buick is focused on broadening its horizons.

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Road Test: 2024 Buick Envista Avenir

Clean Fleet Report

Compact SUV Coupe with a Head-Turning Design The all-new 2024 Buick Envista makes its North American debut as the fourth Buick crossover SUV, becoming part of the family of—from smallest to largest—Envista, Encore GX, Envision and Enclave. Scheduled to arrive in late 2024, the all-new Envista will complete the all-SUV Buick family.

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Road Test: 2021 Buick Envision Avenir FWD

Clean Fleet Report

Buick isn’t messing around with the Envision. Clean Fleet Report drove the 2021 Buick Envision Avenir FWD. Avenir in Buick-speak means it is the top-of-the-line model. The EPA rates the Buick Envision FWD at 24 mpg city/31 highway/26 combined miles per gallon. mpg average. Looking like a Euro competitor.

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General Motors launches Buick LaCrosse eAssist in China

Green Car Congress

General Motors launched the Buick LaCrosse with eAssist on August 25. liter SIDI intelligent direct injection engine along with advanced eAssist intelligent technology (light electrification, earlier post ), which work together to reduce fuel consumption by 20% compared with the standard model. The new model features a 2.4-liter

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About 40% of GM vehicles sold rated at least 30 mpg on highway, up from 16% three years ago

Green Car Congress

GM expects to post 100,000 units of more of the 12 GM vehicles that are EPA-rated at 30 mpg US or better on the highway—the highest total in company history—when it reports March sales on Tuesday. —Mark Reuss. This includes the all-new 2013 Cadillac ATS 2.5-liter liter and 2.0-liter liter and 2.0-liter

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Buick LaCrosse with eAssist represented 25% of model sales in February; 31% take rate in California

Green Car Congress

In California, the take-rate for the 36 mpg US highway sedan reached 31%. LaCrosse with eAssist—GM’s light electrification system—uses a compact lithium-ion battery pack and small electric motor to aid the performance of a fuel-efficient 2.4-liter in February, a month in which it was Buick’s top-selling nameplate.

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GM makes eAssist standard on the 2013 Buick Regal; new SAE paper coming at World Congress

Green Car Congress

GM is continuing the deployment of the eAssist light electrification system ( earlier post ) as a standard across its platforms. For the 2012 model year, eAssist became standard for the larger Buick LaCrosse luxury sedan. The Regal with eAssist achieves an EPA-estimated 36 highway mpg (6.5 base model.

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