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2022 Buick Encore GX Gets New Sapphire Metallic Color: First Look

The 2022 Buick Encore GX adds four new exterior colors: Sunset Glow Metallic, Rosewood Metallic, Cinnabar Metallic, and Sapphire Metallic. Here’s our first look at the new Sapphire hue.

Assigned color code GGK and touch-up paint code WA-650G, Sapphire Metallic is one of six metallic colors available for the small Buick crossover.

Notably, the 2022 Encore GX offers a total of eight exterior color options:

  • Summit White
  • Ebony Twilight Metallic
  • Cinnabar Metallic
  • Sunset Glow Metallic
  • Rosewood Metallic
  • White Frost Tricoat
  • Satin Steel Metallic
  • Sapphire Metallic

The new Sapphire Metallic color is not included in the base price of the 2022 Encore GX. Instead, it carries an additional cost of $495. The color option also includes lower exterior accents in Anthracite, as opposed to the Satin Nickel Metallic lower exterior accent color included on models finished in the White Frost Tricoat exterior color. What’s more, Sapphire Metallic cannot be combined with the sporty-looking Sport Touring package.

The new Sapphire Metallic hue is available with all interior color combinations as well as all trim levels.

2022 Buick Encore GX Trim Levels:

  • Preferred (1SB)
  • Select (1SD)
  • Essence (1SL)

2022 Buick Encore GX Interior Color Combinations:

  • Ebony seats with Ebony accents
  • Whisper Beige seats with Ebony accents
  • Signet seats with Ebony accents

Production of Encore GX – and its corporate cousin, the Chevy Trailblazer – was impeded during April 2021 as a result of the microchip shortage. The GM Bupyeong factory in South Korea then went back to full production on May 31st. As such, 2022 units have already reached some U.S. Chevy dealers, including models finished in Sapphire Metallic.

Notably, 2022 Buick Encore GX models feature various minor changes and updates. Aside from the deletion of five exterior colors and addition of the four new aforementioned exterior colors, the small crossover also sees the turbocharged 1.3L L3T I4 engine replace the 1.2L LIH I4 engine as the base powerplant on FWD Essence (1SL) models.

 

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  1. Oops! The journalist got the engines wrong. Both the LIH and L3T are 3 cylinder “I3” motors, not 4 cylinder “I4”.

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