![]() It’s very easy to use, has large easy to read icons and has fast response times. ![]() What’s also good is the multimedia tech since every GX comes standard with Buick’s excellent and easy-to-use infotainment system, in that aforementioned 8-inch touch screen. The interior is a mixed bag with some hard plastics below knee level The dash looks good too, it’s a nice design with an integrated touch screen and nicely sculptured surfaces. The good news is Buick has sculpted out eh center console on the driver’s side to prevent your knee from chafing said hard plastic. Interior quality is a bit of a mixed bag, with soft-touch surfaces on the dashboard and front door panel but lower down below knee level, hard plastic resides. The front seats are supportive and comfortable offer power adjustment all round except for the seat back adjustment on the passenger side, which is manual. With more wheelbase to play with the GX adds more shoulder room front and rear, as well as more legroom in both front and back, it doesn’t feel small. ![]() On the freeway the Encore GX feels like it will cruise all day, it’s easily able to sit at high speeds without wandering out of lane and will deliver 32 mpg in driven with restraint. The Encore’s suspension has no trouble soaking up the bumps on San Diego’s acne ridden roads and the brakes are solid and but easy to modulate. Push on to higher speeds and the chassis feels well sorted it does a great job of keeping the car very stable and will take turns at pretty good speeds with little body roll. In stop start traffic the Buick is easy to drive, has power to dart into gaps in traffic and it’s light steering is great. The key here is drivability, I’ve driven cars with more power and less torque and come away dissatisfied with the overall power delivery. Driven within the torque band though the GX is quite zippy and the CVT does a respectable job of helping the car off the line. To get the best out this engine you need to use the 177 ft-lbs of torque since there’s not much go in the upper rev range. All front-wheel-drive models use a CVT, never my favorite but this one is pretty good, and finally the 1.3 paired with AWD gets a nine-speed automatic.īetter than expected since based on raw numbers my expectations were quite low. The 1.2 liter 137 horsepower and 162 pound-feet of torque, the 1.3 liter gives you 155 hp and 174 lb-ft 1,600rpm. I haven’t driven the smaller of the two since my Essence tester had the larger 1.3 liter. Front-wheel drive is standard across the range, if you want all-wheel drive, you get the larger inline-three. The Encore GX is available with 2 engine options, a 1.2-liter or 1.3-liter, both inline 3 cylinders and both of which are turbocharged. It’s surprisingly zippy for a 1.3 liter 3 cylinder What’s under the hood? The Encore GX is built at two plants around the world, the GM Bupyeong plant in South Korea produces the crossover for North America and SAIC-GM Dongyue South plant in China produces the crossover for China. My 2020 Buick Encore GX Essence FWD loaner had Chili Red metallic paint and a Signet interior with Ebony accents. The rest of the car has some nice styling features including a clean looking front grille, swooping tail lamps, 18 inch swirl-spoke wheels and a curved roof line enhanced by chrome roof rails on my Encore Tester model. Firstly it looks a whole lot better than the smaller Encore with its Pixar looks thanks to it riding on a longer platform measuring 171.4 inches long by 71.4 inches wide by 64.1 inches tall, making it longer, lower, and wider than the Encore. GM really needed a bigger crossover to fill the gap between the Encore and the Envision, and thus the Encore GX, sharing a platform with the Chevrolet Trailblazer, was born. We tested the Buck Encore last year and found it to be a comfortable crossover that was short on space and was odd looking thanks to a really short wheelbase. The new Encore GX is much better effort than the tiny Encore
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