The order books for the 2021 Buick Envision opened this Thursday, with U.S. deliveries of the premium crossover set to commence in late 2020. The new Envision will arrive a little later on in Canada, though, with dealerships north of the border not expected to receive their vehicles until early next year.
The 2021 Buick Envision rides on the GM E2 platform and is powered by a turbocharged 2.0L I4 LSY engine making 230 horsepower and 258 pound-feet of torque. The crossover comes standard with front-wheel drive, with the Preferred, Essence, and Avenir trim-levels also offering AWD as an option. It will be shipped into the U.S. and Canada from GM’s Jinqiao plant in Shanghai China.
As we reported previously, the initial ordering and launch phases for the 2021 Buick Envision will focus primarily on the top three trim levels – those being the aforementioned Preferred, Essence, and Avenir. Base level 1SV trim levels will enter production at a later date.
Canadian customers will be happy to know that some of the electronic safety systems in the 2021 Buick Envision were developed at GM’s software development centers in southern Ontario and its cold weather development center a little further north in Kapuskasing, Ontario.
“Engineers at our Canadian Technical Centre played a critical role in the 2021 Envision active safety technologies such as Lane Keep Assist and Front and Rear Park Assist,” said Buick Canada brand director Michael McPhee. “With our CTC sites in Oshawa, Markham and Kapuskasing, General Motors has the largest automotive software engineering workforce in Canada.”
While GM has yet to announce official pricing details for the 2021 Buick Envision, our sources indicate the Preferred trim with the available Comfort and Convenience Package will start $34,745 USD. We’re also still awaiting an announcement with regard to Canadian pricing, so be sure to subscribe to GM Authority for more Buick Envision news, Buick news, and around-the-clock GM news coverage.
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Why would anyone want to buy a “Buick” that is 100% made in Communist China with all that they are doing in the world today, (Virus, Hong Kong, South China Sea, manifesto of planned domination by 2040, I think)? I surmise that most Envision buyers don’t know where it’s made, aren’t told by salesmen, don’t read sticker, or just don’t care. GM’s relationship with China could well lead to it’s demise if world events continue in this direction. JMO, sorry if too political for this site.
70 Chevelle L34
Because a GM vehicle built in China is still more American than a Toyota Camry built in Kentucky.
“Because a GM vehicle built in China is still more American than a Toyota Camry built in Kentucky.”
Only in your mind.
But what about if a Chinese company buys out GM and builds Buicks in China that are sold here?
Would they still be more American than that Camry, even if nothing changed but the owner, and they kept the headquarters in Detroit?
Nate
The Envision, it’s engine, platform, Bose infotainment system, much of the electronic hardware & software are designed in the U.S
The Camry is 100% Japanese. Right down to the Yokohama tires. It’s only put together in the U.S. By low wage non-Union workers.
The Camry is 75% made in America, right down to the engine. I think the guys building those engines in Kentucky for the last 30 years would probably call you out on that. The Yokohama plant in Mississippi might also have something to say.
But this was my whole point. Do you want to give your money to a few designers and some executives in the US, or to thousands of factory workers in the US?
I recognize people don’t like that choice, but buying a Buick Envision is very much like buying an iPhone in that way.
Considering the major automakers put about a billion dollars of R&D into every new model. I’ll take the engineers.
Joe Wrench and Jane Dashboard get jobs from Toyota, which in turn support local merchants, schools, skilled tradesmen, et al. As for the oft-heard complaint about “all the profits go back to Japan”, call any stock broker. He will buy you all the Toyota (or Nissan, or Subaru/Fuji, or Hyundai) stock you desire.
Meantime, a handful of H1B engineers here get a paycheck, and Chinese labor builds the car, NOT supporting our local merchants, schools, or tradesmen. Yes, anyone can buy GM stock, but, I, for one, will support the companies that support MY countrymen, MY neighbors.
Short sighted
Definition of shortsighted
1: lacking foresight
So, the advice offered for the ‘oft-used complaint’ is to further invest in forgeign competitive companies through stock purchase? The response must be full of sarcasm because as the sayings go, ‘be cafeful what you ask for’ and ‘you can’t take advice from just anyone’.
Make no mistake about it, while we are on friendly terms with Japan, and other NATO aligned nations, we are competitors in the cut throat global market.
Economic aggression and market invasions are real strategies. Look at Chrysler as an example and the course they’ve taken from US based powerhouse to being banged out by the international varsity squad.
Some folks have the audacity to hope for similar eventualities for GM and other companies because they establish US presence in foreign markets while our competitor offer, and I quote, ‘a hand full of jobs’ stateside.
Get real.
Vehicles are built everywhere these days. Get used to it.
Well…there go another great number of american jobs to a foreign country. Stupid politicians letting it happen.
Which jobs? Who was previously building the Buick Envision in America?
Mary,
loose the Buick Burden…
over priced Chevrolet, or lesser than Cadillac…
foriegn market 🤮🤮🤮
That burden was set loose quite a while ago.
Volkswagen, lose Audi. Just gussied-up Volkswagens and SEATs.
So many opinions. Sour grapes.
Some of us should seek out global economic courses to develop an understanding international commerce.
Some folks appear to be agitated that Buick is assembling vehicles in China, but they wont bat an eyebrow at Japanese companies building in the US and sending profits back to their homeland.
We should establish footholds in other areas around the globe to expand US prowess in foreign markets. If not, we face the very real risk of loosing ground relative to economic might from an international perspective. The argument of where the US produces its goods is a multifaceted entanglement without an immediate and clear answer. One thing that is clear is that we live in a time of globalism, like it or not.