GM will remove five exterior colors from the list of those currently available for the 2021 Buick Encore GX small crossover. Production of the Encore GX in these five colors will come to an end during the week beginning February 22nd 2021, GM Authority has learned from sources familiar with the situation.
The five colors due to be discontinued are:
- Dark Moon Blue Metallic
- Burnished Bronze Metallic
- Chili Red Metallic
- Deep Azure Metallic
- Black Currant Metallic
At present, it is unclear what colors might replace these hues, but we could expect new colors to become available for the 2022 Buick Encore GX.
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- Dark Moon Blue Metallic
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- Burnished Bronze Metallic
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- Chili Red Metallic
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- Deep Azure Metallic
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- Black Currant Metallic
The Encore GX is proving to be a successful model for the Tri-Shield brand, holding strong in the subcompact crossover space. Additionally, it’s not stepping on the toes of the closely related 2021 Chevy Trailblazer. Despite their similarities, including the fact that they are built on the same GM VSS-F vehicle set platform, the two GM products are not being cross-shopped.
However, the Encore GX does seem to be affecting sales of the smaller, regular Buick Encore. In Q3 of 2020, the Encore’s sales dropped from the previous year’s 25,008 units to just 11,143, while the Encore GX went from zero to 16,019. GM was well prepared for such a scenario, and has responded by reducing the price of the Encore Preferred AWD by $880 and recommending that dealers order examples with few, or even no, options. The apparent intention is to promote the older model by making it more affordable than the Encore GX.
There was also good news recently about the Encore GX from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), which awarded the 2021 model a five-star safety rating following intensive work by GM engineers. The 2020 Encore GX had been given four stars.
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Comments
What a joke.
Henry Ford, “You can have any color you want, as long as it’s black.”
Back to Black, Gray, Silver and White. Cheesy buggers.
Got my Chili Red just in time!
I have mine in the azure blue. I cannot tell you how many people have commented on how much they like the color. While it wasn’t the only reason I went with the GX it is the reason I had to special order and wait for it.
What a beautiful little crossover. And the joke is Paul that due to Coronavirus pandemic factory’s all over the country have to had scale back production which is why so many new model cars from DIFFERENT manufacturers have been delayed! Hell I even had to wait for a K&N air intake system for my car and they blamed the Covid-19 virus!
Korea and China as well as the US? It seems the local Toyota, Mazda, and Nissan dealers aren’t in that same fix.
The shortages of the Chev. Trailblazer and Encore GX were probably more a result of South Korean workers , work to Rule stoppages just settled a few days ago and the South Korean Covid-19 Pandemic containment is light years ahead of the U.S. so that’s not what happened to limit dealer stocks currently !
Too bad it only comes with a 3 cylinder engine.
We owned a 2.0 Ltr. AWD Chev Equinox Previously ,but our 2021 Encore Azure blue Encore GX Essence 1.3 is definitely peppy and snarly off the line and has plenty of off the line get up and go for the vast majority of Drivers as for longevity ,I won’t love it forever ,nor will you ,so try it !
This leaves what? Grey, silver, dark grey, white, black, and… grey?
Thank God they’re not dropping light white, pale silver, medium silver, dark silver, semi-medium silver-grey, extra dark gray, light black, metallic black, or super black. Folks need choices after all.
Green. Pleeeeeeeez!
I have the azure blue metallic, looks like I’ll keep a lil uniqueness in there won’t be a sea of blue 1s. Lol I get a lot of people who say they really like the color of my ride.
Well, it IS possible that Buick will replace those five colors with some slightly different shades of the discontinued colors, just as Chevrolet did with the 2021 Corvette, where it replaced a dark red and a silver color with two new, slightly different shades. Nothing in the article, as far as I could tell, said that remaining colors would be the only ones from which to pick.
Encore must have gotten a lot of design help from Opel’s Mark Adam’s because, like Mokka, it has the “Compass” design cue with line down hood above badge. There is even a daytime running/tail light commonality.
Encore and Mokka are obviously quite different but still share way too manh common cues. FCA would be insane not selling Opel as Chrysler
I believe that in the past 15 years, or so, except for the LaCrosse (a sister car to the Chevrolet Impala) and the Enclave, all the other Buick vehicles were designed and engineered by Adam Opel, GMBH. The last Regal was a rebadged Opel model, along with that convertible model that only lasted two or three years
I could be wrong but I just don’t see small 3 cyl engine lasting 200,000 miles
I would consider the Encore GX except I wonder about the long term reliability of that 3 cylinder engine. Also I am not too thrilled about the CVT transmission. Is that made in -house or supplied by another company? I remember the CVT fiasco when the first model run of the Saturn Vue had a CVT transmission. It was a disaster and I recall reading a Saturn owners site and how many Saturn Vue owners gave up not only on Saturn but GM as well. If past is prologue I have serious doubts about the CVT used in the Encore GX. I will check out certified Encores from 2017- present in a few more years but regarding the Encore GX -at this point I doubt it unless the record should prove otherwise