2022 Buick Envision Rated Best Luxury Compact SUV By Consumer Reports
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The 2022 Buick Envision is offered as the second model year for the second-generation midsize crossover nameplate, debuting just a few small changes and updates over the all-new 2021 model year. Now, Consumer Reports has recognized the 2022 Buick Envision as a top-rated luxury vehicle.
Consumer Reports designates which vehicles are considered “top-rated” with the CR Overall Score, which is determined by a number of different factors. These include Consumer Reports road-test performance, which takes place at the organization’s 327-acre test facility and incorporates more than 50 individual evaluations, as well as reliability survey results from Consumer Reports members, owner satisfaction survey results based on the percentage of owners that say they would definitely buy the same car again, and safety tests and equipment, which are determined by the equipped safety features, as well as government and insurance industry testing.
From this combination of results, Consumer Reports builds a final CR Overall Score. The maximum overall score value can range as high as 100 points, with the point differential between the top-rated vehicles and bottom-rated vehicles in the same category reaching as high as 40 points.
The CR Overall Score for the 2022 Buick Envision is 84 points, landing it in first place in the Consumer Report “Luxury Compact SUV” category. The organization outlined a number of characteristics among the vehicle’s highs, including the ride quality, the quiet cabin, the solid braking performance, and the infotainment system as well.
As for the lows, Consumer Reports levied criticism at the gear selector, the low dash vents, and the crossover’s tendency to spin the front wheels on aggressive take-offs, even when the all-wheel drive system activated.
In road test evaluations, Consumer Reports gave the 2022 Buick Envision a score of 79 out of 100, while predicted reliability was five out of five and predicted owner satisfaction was three out of five.
As for the greasy bits, the 2022 Buick Envision features the turbocharged 2.0L I4 LSY gasoline engine, rated at 228 horsepower and 258 pound-feet of torque, while under the skin is the GM E2 platform. Production takes place at the GM Jinqiao plant in China.
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But isn’t it made in China? Hmmmm………………….
That’s a good enough reason for me not to buy that turd!
GM can’t stand employing Americans…
And yet the last time I looked into this, GM still employs more American’s than the Japanese brands and Germans. Nuff said.
I have the 2021 Avenir . Love the car and how it performs. My biggest complaint is the massage seat has a mind of its own requiring constant adjustment even if it is turned off. My dealership knows nothing about fixing or adjusting and will not take me seriously about it being a problem.
Way to inject something that has nothing to do with this topic. Figure it out!
The massage seat is exactly the sort of things CR would focus on and deduct points for. Sorry, but it is on topic.
MBFC: Go find another site to troll.
MBFC
No problem, GM no longer makes compact cars. So idiots who wrap their cars around a tree can’t blame it on a fking ignition switch.
Your Welcome!
Leave it to Consumer Reports to be all in on a Chi-com.
Interesting how Buick rates so well and similar Cadillac models so poorly when both GM.
The Buicks are made in different plants than Cadillacs. Also, Cadillacs have more features which can overly complicate any glitches. Cadillacs CUE infotainment system has been criticized while Buick’s has not.
Thank you Buick and GM for bringing us the best.
I love my 2022 buick envision st sport suv very good job for me my dream suv
I concur. I love my Buick envision, although it’s a 2020.
I love Essence St 2022 Great SUV Great job GM & CR
This would be fantastic news if GM was building Envisions, or for that matter anything. Based on Duncan Aldred’s (Global VP Buick GMC) comments last week computer chips that were allocated to Buick have been reallocated to GMC for Sierra production leaving Buick with essentially minimal volume. GM’s focus on high margin trucks has left the Buick franchise in ruins. It’s really a shame because they were just starting to get traction with the new Encore GX and Envision, both excellent products. Duncan did say they we’re increasing production for Enclave by 20% over last year, but 20% of the minimal 2021 production is peanuts. Yes, this is factual and it is written by a Buick dealer.
Reese,
You should have known years ago when Buick decided to quit building cars this division was in ruins. When your lineup is 75% import with the lowest atp across gm you may as well change the name to GEO and move on!
I strongly disagree, the last couple of years for Buick have been fantastic in the US and sales have been absolutely outstanding in Asia. We own 6-dealerships containing both domestic and Asian brands and the demand for Buick from 2019 through 2022 has been growing steadily. The new Encore GX, Envision, and updated Enclave have proven there is a place in the market for Buick.
Reese,
U.S. Buick sales:
2013 – 205,000
2014 – 228,000
2015 – 223,000
2016 – 229,000
2017 – 219,000
2018 – 207,000
2019 – 207,000
2020 – 163,000
2021 – 182,000
I’m going to disagree with your definition of steady growth.
Yes, kill, chop, reduce and complain when GM gets past up in sales and etc, give up so easy logic. BTW 2020 everybody’s sales went down and note when sales rebound you didn’t mention that either…
They had plenty more models back in the early 2010s hence why sales were higher because they had more models. If you look at the 4 current SUVs and their sales year over year they are steadily increasing. The Envision was the only luxury compact SUV that didn’t decline in sales during COVID.
Im going to disagree with your definition of steady growth.
Hey folks. I put the comment in about my massage seat problem hoping for perhaps some experience/knowledge regarding the seat. It’s a minor issue relative to operation of the car but is an annoying problem which Buick does not seem to care about.
Last-in-class sales…
GM knows how to Kill brands. GM Killed Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Saturn, Opel, SAAB and have been working hard to Kill Buick & Cadillac. GM got sidetracked Killing Americans for a decade, but it looks like GM is back on track Killing brands again. RIP Buick…
I have been a lifelong GM owner. However, the direction GM has taken under the current leadership has been unacceptable. A global marketplace is important but not at the expense of American manufacturing. The corporate hierarchy has sold their sole and the American people for corporate profits. There are very few GM products actually made in America let alone assembled here.
I’ve purchased my last GM product in 2018 and will move to a manufacturer who at a minimum employs the American worker within America.
My thoughts on the subject of GM.
If you would have gotten one of GM’s Special Killing Ignitions models, that probably would have been your last.
Many here crow about how profitable gm is and point to that as evidence of how well run the company is under Barra. However, you just explained how they do it. They cherry pick only the most lucrative categories, discontinue all other products, build a sizable part of their lineup in Asia or Mexico and continue to cost-cut and platform share as much as possible. Although a Sierra may use very common parts and be built in Mexico with $5.00 labor, the company prices them at $60,000+. Who couldn’t be profitable with that and it’s why gm is putting all their chips into pickups and giant SUVs. It’s easy money.
THIS IS CAPITALISM. Please complain more about cost-cutting and international labor next time you buy clothes, or buy your next iPhone, or even grocery shop. And then maybe look up where all of those giant SUVs are built – right here in the US.
Wow! So many negative comments when the article is calling the Buick Envision the BEST Luxury Compact SUV. I applaud Buick for this achievement.
@Christopher, most of these people regularly have a negative comment to something good GM has done yet probably hasn’t owned a GM vehicle since the 90’s or further back.
I would perform some research into Consumer Reports Licensing Partners.
Dan G: There’s a good number of GM products assembled in the USA by Americans. You act like they are the only brand outsourcing and building in numerous countries. This has become a global market for sure and the best way to measure it is by where the profits go.
So thank you very much, but I’ll continue to buy GM for now and back an American company unlike the many who claim to be American and yet pump billions of dollars into Japan and Germany. Sickening.
BTW, were you saying that about CR when they only seemed to like Japanese brands? I’ve been critical of CR from the time I first picked one up (back in 1988) and read it. I find JD Powers to be much more useful and accurate.
I understand outsourcing but you need to do a deeper dive into these GM products and financials.
I would also do a deeper dive into JD Powers. XIO ring any bells.
I like to research the financials and follow the money.
Ok, so do you do that on the other brands too? Or are you just going to bash GM like they are the only ones?
Go ahead and start a deeper dive into Honda, Toyota, Mazda, Subaru and many more.
Once again, thank you but no thank you. I will continue to buy from an American brand and preferably a model assembled in the USA.
Sorry I asked a question to perhaps get a technical response or some experience others might have had. I did not expect to initiate this ridiculous debate on GM. This sounds like Facebook. Pathetic. No response necessary.
I owned a 2020 Buick Envision with a 2.0T., my only complaint was it required 93 octane!
I love the new Buick Envision. I have a Regal at present with the turbo engine. I wanted a Cadillac suv next but the Envision has caught my eye.
Do not buy this made in China vehicle. I will only buy vehicles assembled in the US or Canada. I don’t care what some Consumer Report score is. There are plenty of UD assembled alternatives.
I spent weeks looking for a blood pressure monitor that wasnt made in China and found out I had no other choice but to buy from the dystopian hellhole
When it comes to cars that’s not a problem
China is dead to me and so is GM
Kudos for Buick. CR in love with a Buick made in by Communist China is not surprising. CR is full of “Progressives” globalist Communists. Their staff is dominated by Asians and their “Asian” bias is painfully obvious, especially their auto ratings. There isn’t a Honda, Kia or Toyota product they don’t have an orgasm over. Oh yeah & LG, Samsung……
Build this fine vehicle ANYWHERE else than America hating CCP China & I’ll buy it.
I hope you enjoy your iPhone (made in China)
I expect that the China phobes are the same people who blame China for the pandemic, don’t get vaxxed, and don’t wear masks.
And as per usual these days another ANONYMOUS COWARD dishes the “China Phobes” label without using their name. TYPICAL of the under 40 kiddies trolling the Blogs.
…this is a very confusing argument. are you complaining that the OP was not more specific about naming the offenders? Or that they seem to dislike people who wontonly (hehe) blame China for things? Or just that the commenter appears young? Please advise