Buick Encore heads Shanghai GM to open SUV

Buick Encore is a car developed by General Motors on the new compact car platform.

It is the first domestically produced SUV for the three major brands of Shanghai GM, positioning a compact class

Although the market growth rate of SUV models ranks first in all market segments, Shanghai GM, the champion of sales of passenger cars for domestic auto companies, has not yet put into production SUV models. The three brands of Chevrolet, Buick and Cadillac have a total of three SUVs. Are imported cars. This situation will change this year. The first domestically produced SUV Buick Encore in Shanghai GM history will be available this year.

"Little Encore"

The Buick brand currently has only one SUV model, the full-size Enclave, so General Motors once nicknamed Encore Baby EnClave. Buick Encore inherits the Buick brand's consistent global design style and incorporates Buick's iconic elements that resemble Angkor: including a waterfall vertical grille, chrome trim, streamer portholes on the hood, and a painted under skirt.

Power, Buick Encore equipped with a 1.4T Ecotec turbocharged four-cylinder engine and six-speed automatic transmission, is expected to output power of 103 kilowatts, the engine speed between 1850 to 4900 revolutions per minute peak torque of 200 Nm. The maximum torque can be output over a wide range of speeds to provide better acceleration performance.

Since the Buick brand is positioned as a high-end brand in North America, the Buick Encore released at the North American Auto Show has a high configuration, including the standard 10 airbags, four-wheel drive systems, and silent technology, all appearing in the new car. It will adjust the allocation according to the Chinese market.

Hard to beat opponents

Buick Encore's benchmarks for the North American market are the BMW X1 and the Audi Q3, but in reality this new SUV is much smaller. Buick Encore is a car developed by General Motors on the new compact car platform. The platform has also been produced by Chevrolet Avionics. The Buick Encore has a length of less than 4.3 meters and a wheelbase of only 2555mm, which is close to Chevrolet Aveo. General Motors has positioned Encore as a compact SUV, but by size, it is more like a small SUV.

Although the size is small, Buick Encore provides enough space. After the rear seats are folded, this 5-seater SUV has a maximum storage space of 1,372 liters. When the rear seats are in a folded or non-folded state, the space is larger than the above two pairs of vehicle models.

This size has helped Buick Encore find it difficult to compete with competitors in the Chinese market. There are few SUV models with such a small size in joint venture brands. The joint venture brand SUV, which is similar in size to Buick Encore, is only owned by Dongfeng Nissan.

However, this size also means that Encore and the full-size Angkeley will appear in the middle of product stalls, GM is likely to launch a Buick mid-sized SUV to make up, after all, Buick's largest market in China.