Editor’s note: we got our wires crossed, and the 2021 Encore GX will not be getting new fascias. See our updated story on the matter here.
Launched just a few short weeks ago, the Buick Encore GX is all-new for the 2020 model year. But despite being being a completely new product, the CUV will get a few noteworthy updates for the 2021 model year – including a set of tweaked fascias.
According to whispers from around the industry, GM is planning to give the 2021 Buick Encore GXÂ slightly revised front and rear fascias on all models, with the exception of those equipped with the optional Sport Touring package. We’ll have to wait until later this year to find out exactly how the changes will look like.
2020 Encore GX Sport Touring
Outside of new front and rear fascias, the 2021 Buick Encore GX will also get wireless Apple CarPlay and Wireless Android Auto, as well as SiriusXM Satellite Radio as standard on all models. For the 2020 Encore GX, CarPlay and Android Auto require a cable, while SXM is standard only on Select and Essence models.
2020 Encore GX Sport Touring
The Encore GX is a new subcompact crossover SUV that slots between the subcompact Encore (without the GX badge) and compact Envision, giving Buick a modern entry into the rapidly-growing small crossover SUV space. Though we initially believed that the Encore GX would replace the aging Encore outright, Buick will sell the two models side-by-side in the U.S. and Canada. As of this writing, the “regular” Encore – which was introduced for the 2013 model year before receiving a refresh for the 2017 model year – will continue being offered in North America.
The story is quite different in China, where the Encore GX is joined by an all-new, second-generation Encore based on the GM GEM platform for a one-two segment punch. In that regard, the first-generation Encore was discontinued and replaced entirely by the GEM-based Encore in China.
Chinese Buick Encore lineup: all-new GEM-based Encore (left) and VSS-F Encore GX (right). The model on the left is not coming to the U.S. and Canada.
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Comments
Nobody reviewed the Encore GX yet, except for Consumer Reports, since this SUV appeared in North America. Who knows what Consumer Reports wrote about it?
I’m not a subscriber to Consumer Reports, but in their online review under the heading “Impressions” I can read the following:
“GM did a great job maximizing power delivery from the Encore GX’s tiny three-cylinder turbo engine and nine-speed automatic. Put the pedal down to pass another vehicle and the little Buick feels sprightly as if it were spring-loaded – especially between 3,000 and 4,000 rpm. And, even at highway . . . “
I can read the same, but I guess gmauthority journalists can give us more…?
Let’s just hope one of the “changes” will be the 9 speed auto across the board. Scrap the stupid CVT.
I got a ride in the new GX AWD with the 1.3, it’s way more powerful than the outgoing Encore , it has all kinds of power at lower RPM’s
the chinese are thumbing their noses at 3 cylinder engines. this will be a flop there.
I guess the new fascia is to make the Encore GX look less like an Opel.
Especially the first image in the text shows a core element of the new Opel/Vauxhall design, i.e. the „Compass“ wtith the longitudinal crease in the middle of the hood continued on the front down to below the grille.
Crossed by the horizontal line formed by the two hockey bats bracketing the Buick logo.
This line is the lower border of a band in the height of the headlights. In the new Opel design this is intended to be covered by a glassy plate, behind which all kinds of sensors are to be placed.
This was presented on opel-blog.com a year or two ago. This blog has been closed last year (too many critical comments?) and the url is being forwarded to the Opel media site. (I just wonder if the images of this presentation might still be accessible on the blog’s Flickr site).
I am wondering if the reason for such a fast revision of the front and rear fascias could be to make the Encore GX look like what we’ve been told will be “the new face of Buick,” the one being used on the planned EVs? I for one am very curious to see what they’ve come up with.
STOP assembling Buicks in foreign countries
Only a relatively small number of Buicks are being assembled in foreign countries, in Germany, Korea, some even in North America.
some are being assembled in North America ???? that would be ONE Enclave ,, that is not some ..sorry