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Three More New Buick Models Will Be Introduced In The U.S. Over The Next 18 Months

Global Vice President of Buick, GMC, and GMC Hummer EV, Duncan Aldred, recently announced that GM would introduce five new Buick models over the coming 18 months in North America. Two have already been revealed so far.

All five upcoming Buicks will include details or features inspired by the 2022 Buick Wildcat EV concept. The Wildcat was never actually built as a physical object, but instead existed as a series of digital renderings.

Front three-quarters view of the 2022 Buick Wildcat concept.

2022 Buick Wildcat concept

For reference purposes, the Wildcat sported an aggressive, eye-catchingly streamlined exterior with bodylines suggesting speed and agility even at rest. The Wildcat concept also featured cockpit-style seats, a flat-bottomed steering wheel, and other premium interior flourishes. Technology included an extra-wide touchscreen, biometrics, AI, massaging seats, and even aromatherapy.

Side view of the 2024 Buick Encore GX Avenir trim.

2024 Buick Encore GX Avenir trim

First, the refreshed 2024 Buick Encore GX is about to arrive in U.S. dealerships, incorporating sharp-looking styling cues from the Wildcat. The exterior sports winged LED headlights, LED taillights on higher trims, and options for new 18-inch and 19-inch wheels. The 2024 Encore GX is the first Buick vehicle in North America to wear the brand’s redesigned logo.

The 2024 Buick Encore GX includes up-to-date technology like the Virtual Cockpit System, standard Wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, and IntelliBeam auto high-beams, along with other safety and convenience features. It also gets a luxurious Avenir trim level packed with unique aesthetic design features and high-end materials, as GM Authority exclusively reported in 2022.

Second is the all-new 2024 Buick Envista, the brand’s new entry-level nameplate in North America after the discontinuation of the Buick Encore, and GM’s first crossover coupe. The Envista will be offered in Preferred, Sport Touring and Avenir trim levels, while the brand claims it offers the riding dynamics of a sedan in addition to more legroom than in any other small Buick crossover prior. The cabin incorporates 19 diagonal inches of combined LCD screens, including an 11-inch diagonal infotainment screen.

The 2024 Buick Envista will be equipped with the turbocharged 1.2L I3 LIH engine, developing 136 horsepower and 162 pound-feet of torque. The engine will be matched to the GM six-speed automatic transmission and a front-wheel drivetrain, and pricing will start at $23,495 including the destination freight charge.

Front three-quarters view of the 2024 Buick Envision.

2024 Buick Envision (GM Authority spy shot)

The next Buick model to be introduced is the updated 2024 Buick Envision, with a start of regular production (SORP) scheduled for October 30th, 2023 at the GM Jinqiao plant in Beijing, China. The 2024 Envision will bring a mid-cycle refresh to the nameplate, including new exterior styling cues drawn from the Wildcat.

Angular headlines and a distinctive front fascia design are among the features visible in a heavily camouflaged Envision captured in GM Authority spy shots. There are no shots of the interior yet available, but the cabin will also be refreshed and will feature a bigger infotainment screen.

Rear three-quarters view of the 2022 Buick Enclave Avenir trim.

2022 Buick Enclave Avenir trim

Fourth, the upcoming 2025 Buick Enclave introduces the nameplate’s third generation with a launch date sometime in 2024. It is one of a trio of next-generation GM crossovers due in the next 18 months. The order of the debuts will consist of the next-gen Chevy Traverse, followed by the next-gen GMC Acadia, and finally the next-gen Buick Enclave.

It’s unknown at this point how much of an overhaul the exterior, interior, and technology of the Buick Enclave will receive with the new model year’s arrival. The current 2023 Buick Enclave is powered by the naturally aspirated 3.6L V6 LFY gasoline engine, developing 310 horsepower and 266 pound-feet of torque and paired with a GM nine-speed automatic transmission. FWD is standard and AWD is optional.

Rear three-quarters view of the 2025 Buick Electra, GM Authority spy shot.

2025 Buick Electra (GM Authority spy shot)

Finally, the all-new 2025 Buick Electra E5 crossover is in the works for release in the next year and a half. The Electra E5, Buick’s first ever all-electric vehicle model equipped with the Ultium Battery package and Ultium Drive propulsion technology, made its world debut in China during December 2022.

The Buick Electra E5 is now on sale in China, but there is no exact date available at this time for the crossover’s introduction in the U.S. market. Details of the U.S. model’s styling, interior, specs, and features are also currently unknown. However, its arrival within the next 18 months is confirmed by its inclusion on Duncan Aldred’s list of five new upcoming vehicles for the Tri-Shield brand.

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  1. “Inspired by the Wildcat”

    Give us the Wildcat. I saw it at the Canadian International Auto Show back in February. It was STUNNING in person. Just like the Buick Avista was, which was another car Buick deserved. Buick has to have some sort of halo going forward here, and SUVs and CUVs aren’t that. I don’t consider the Enclave Avenir a halo for them at all.

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    1. Enough with the cheap Chevy err Buick SUVs! Enough with SUVs period. I used to complain I couldn’t buy a coupe. Now I can’t buy a car even. Boy once those fuel mileage standards were rolled back all the manufacturers stopped everything but big profit SUVs. We’re still out here. How bout a nice car in any color but whit or silver?

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      1. Stop tempting us with beautiful concept cars that will never be built. I WANT to be a Buick man, but you’ll never build the Wildcat or Avenir concept sedans. I guess I’ll keep buying German cars that inspire. Too many of of men working at GM. Too corporate, too boring.

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  2. The wildcat is a physical object I have pictures of it lol

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  3. And I quote the headline: “Three More New Buick Models Will Be Introduced In The U.S. Over The Next 18 Months”

    Dear GM Authority. Please stop using very misleading headlines such as this. Such a disappointment after seeing this headline and then reading about the worse looking refreshed Encore GX, a refresh of the existing Envision and refresh of the existing Enclave. The only true “New” models are the Envista which I think will do well and then the Electra E5 which is nothing more than another SUV. The better headline would be:

    “One sort of new Buick, one new bland SUV and three refreshes will be released in the next 18 months”

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  4. Refreshed xUVs, all of them. Just end the brand in the US, it is basically competing with GMCs and high-end Chevy mall-terrain vehicles. Nothing noteworthy or differentiating for the US market.

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    1. Agreed! GM said Envista competes with Civic and Elantra, but that’s Chevrolet’s job. GM has no option but to dumb down Chevy in favor of Buick especially with the quiet ride technology and French stitching. Give those Buick perks to Chevy, and let the brand compete with Toyota and Honda with a superior offering.
      I thought Buick would be a Acura, Infinity and even Lexus rival but it’s really aimed at VW in the Chinese market which doesn’t make sense in US.
      GM makes money from imported Buick models. They make Chinese lines more productive but it harms Chevy in the brand’s current form.

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  5. I wonder if GM will somehow alter the Buick Electra E5 for the US market? Otherwise there is no mystery whatsoever since it’s available in China now. Meanwhile, Vince Burlapp has some photos that are supposedly the Electra E3, looking very Tesla-like to me. What was the Buick concept shown in the top left of a photo taken at the 2021 CES? Buick said the one was a traditionally-styled EV crossover but the other -the one EV in the upper left corner – was more athletic. What did that turn out to be?

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  6. GM continues this rebadged engineering philosophy they have been using for years. As a result they are doing good job of killing off Buick. No unique vehicles for Buick. Why would you pay a premium price for Buick when you can get the same vehicle from Chevy for thousands less? Mainly I mean the powertrains are the same. They call the new Envista a crossover coupe. No it isn’t it is a hatchback. Buick needs a mainstream car to survive, and that doesn’t seem to be in the cards.

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    1. Yup, that What happened to Pontiac. Sad.

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    2. Or just buy a hundai it is a spitting image of a Tucson

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  7. The moniker of your website is “GM Authority” but you are unaware that the Wildcat does it indeed exist in the physical world. It’s made the rounds of auto shows. Not very authoritative at all.

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  8. More imports from GM. Sad.

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  9. I’ll buy a Wildcat, but definitely not one of the other boring crossovers.

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  10. Buick need their own tuned versions of GM power plants AND engines peculiar to the brand. Just having Buick specific exterior/interior designs and suspension settings are not enough! Increased product differentiation between the ‘brands’ is paramount so as to create customer interest as they discern distinctiveness in various ways.

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  11. Hoo Boy, more foreign imported Buicks from South Korea and (wait for it) Communist Red China! Okay maybe one from the USA, which is usually the most expensive model in the Buick line up. I know GM is global business, I get it…but seriously, do they have to bring Chinese vehicles over to America, what next GM, maybe some vehicles made in Russia, how about Iran, or better yet, how about from North Korea, how cool would that be, with every new GM product from North Korea, you get an autographed photo of “Little Rocket Man”, The Supreme Ruler! Come on GM, lets try to keep the once proud Buick line of vehicles “Made in The USA”, there has to be an idle assembly plant somewhere in America that can build all of the Buicks that America can use…and yes I am an All American Boy (even a Vietnam Veteran!) that sees what GM has been doing with their future to be less than positive. Going to an all Electric fleet of vehicles, in my opinion is simply asking for trouble, because where does most of the EV Battery materials come from…yup, China…surprise!
    How about a real honest to goodness Hybrid, one that runs on maybe natural gas or even good old petrol and with a EV capability so that America has a choice , if they don’t want to use EV power then they’ve got another option to chose from.
    I dunno…and all EV fleet of GM vehicles just seems to be asking for trouble, you just hide and watch, the future of transportation whether on the ground, on the sea or in the air isn’t going to a “Batteries not Included” future for America!

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  12. I want a real Riviera and Reatta both in coupe and convertible please! The Wildcat grille does not translate well in the watered-down production version. The new logo looks like “555”. I guess 555 means 5 models, 5 times we get the watered-down Wildcat grille and 5 more vehicles we don’t want.

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    1. Me too please!

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  13. Ah, yes….let’s just get some more of those “Buicks” from the People’s Republic … I will pass.

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  14. A little history, folks: in the early 1930’s Buick was about dead. A combination of the 1929 economic collapse, bad styling decisions and internal cost cutting marketing measures (see BOP) had left Buick a zombie. Harlowe Curtis, the dynamic head of AC was re-assigned to fix Buick, and he did. He introduced the series 40 Special mid-year 1934; a Chevrolet sized car with Buick style and power priced right that gave them much needed volume in tough economic times. He followed it up with great Harley Earl style and sound engineering for the entire lineup beginning in 1936 and never let up until Buick was a powerhouse division again until WWII stopped auto production. When Buick production resumed after the war, it was Dynaflow automatics, portholes & chrome – cars and features people couldn’t get enough of. By 1955 Buick was #3 after Chevrolet and Ford. Then the wheels came off again. The rush for sales volume killed Buick quality. Big, thirsty out-of-step cars in 1957 and 1958 didn’t sell during the Eisenhower recession that eventually helped kill Packard, Edsel & DeSoto.
    New management was brought in. A new, compact Buick Special arrived for 1961. Buick concentrated on engineering and product quality like they had not since the 1940’s. It paid dividends. They built hits like the Skylark, and Electra 225. Wildcat and Riviera got positive attention Buick hadn’t seen in years. The great Buick name stood for something again. It stood through the mid-aughts, more or less. Enough history. Right now today, Buick is back in crisis. But divisional pride & autonomy don’t exist anymore in GM. It’s a good question whether corporate will even exists to “save” Buick as we knew it. They sell well north of half-a-million Chinese Buicks. Less than 200,000 here. Way less. Does Buick even have a market segment in today’s U.S. car market? Most of the other “medium priced” cars – Pontiac, Oldsmobile & Mercury – are long gone. The Chrysler nameplate is in the same freefall as Buick. Every gee whiz electronic & other product feature you can think of has been democratized down to the cheapest KIA / Hyundai. Can GM afford to dumb down Chevrolet to make room for Buick? Not hardly. GMC dealers sell a Buick once in a while (history again, see BOP) to some old person who remembers when – but the action is with GMC & Hummer. A Buick gets treated the same way the Buick dealers used to treat an Opel – like a Lutheran in Rome. GM pays pr lip service to Buick and gives us warmed over 2 box vehicles with grilles and headlamps similar to a Wildcat concept they’ll never really build. Yippee. If this is the half-a$$ed best GM will do for Buick, maybe it’s time to let the old girl just go to China. Let Duncan Aldred provide his “senior management and brand strategy” in the U.S. where they have a snowball’s chance; with GMC and Hummer.

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  15. Wow that SUV likes just like my wife’s 2017 Tucson is gm even trying this proves SUV’s are a fad they almost all look alike it’s like they are rebadging them you would have thought gm learned there lesson from that crap when they were bailed out by the government I guess they will never learn this is why my family doesn’t even look at gm when buying cars smh.

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  16. I would like to have the Lacrosse back in production. Everyone does not want a SUV and for some the SUV is not easily accessed.

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  17. Pretty hard to believe that North Americans keep buying all these Korean and Chinese Buicks? Can you not bring production back to N.A. ? You could get way more N.A. content buying a Kia/Hyundia as they build way more vehicles in N.A. than GM does with exception of anything that has a full frame underneath it.
    GM just doesn’t get it why the Asian car makers have taken over the N.A. car market? The Japanese started building vehicles in N.A. back in the 80’s and now in the 2000’s the Koreans opened production in the U.S. and look what has happened?
    People all started buying locally made automobiles that were not from the big 3.
    Now GM or I guess that should be gm, what a stupid change of their corporate logel?
    So gm vertually brings all their small crossovers production to N.A. from the two asian countries? Oh I wish we had politician that would place tariffs on all the B.S. Maybe the public will vote TRUMP back in as he would maybe be the only president who cares?
    Free trade is garbage for the N.A. worker and big corporations just take every advantage they can from it.

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  18. Up until 2023, I have only driven a Buick since I was 16 in 1971.
    My driving began with a Buick Skylark custom in bittersweet mist with a white vinyl top. It had a V8 engine and was simply beautiful, powerful and comfortable.
    I will never be a SUV or Crossover customer.
    I want a beautiful, powerful and confortable that’s classy and reliable.
    I drive a German luxury car today. I like it but I’m sure GM and in particular Buick can do even better.
    I hope I live long enough to see elegance and power in a sedan again.

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