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2024 Buick Encore GX Gets New Sunrise Red Metallic Color: First Look

The2024 Buick Encore GX adds three new exterior colors to its palette: Ocean Blue Metallic, Copper Ice Metallic, and Sunrise Red Metallic. Here’s our first look at the new Red hue.

Assigned RPO code GMF and touch-up paint code WA-184J, Sunrise Red Metallic is one of eight exterior colors offered on the refreshed small premium crossover, which include:

  • Cinnabar Metallic
  • Ebony Twilight Metallic
  • Moonstone Gray Metallic
  • Summit White
  • White Frost Tricoat
  • Copper Ice Metallic (new for 2024)
  • Ocean Blue Metallic (new for 2024)
  • Sunrise Red Metallic (new for 2024)

The Sunrise Red Metallic color is an extra-cost option priced at $495. It is available on Preferred and Sport Touring (ST) trim levels, but not Avenir, and can be combined with all available interior colorways.

For reference, here are the two available interior colorways offered on the 2024 Encore GX:

  • Ebony seats with Ebony interior accents
  • Whisper Beige seats with Ebony interior accents

The refreshed 2024 Buick Encore GX incorporates fresh styling cues and big updates inside, while also adding the range-topping Avenir trim level, and new tech headlined by Buick’s Virtual Cockpit System.

Winged LED headlamps are standard across the range, while LED taillights are equipped higher in the range. New 18-inch and 19-inch wheel options are also on offer.

The Avenir trim level, offered for the first time ever on the Encore GX starting with the 2024 model year, offers exclusive design cues, features, and premium materials, including a unique grille, unique clear LED taillights, unique 19-inch wheels, chrome body accents, and black carbon metallic body side molding. Inside, the Encore GX Avenir features leather seating, a 10-way power driver seat, a heated steering wheel, and an air ionizer system.

The refreshed 2024 Encore GX also offers a reimagined Sport Touring (ST) trim for a sportier demeanor, incorporating high-gloss black front and rear bumpers, an optional Black Roof Package, and a flat-bottom steering wheel.

The refreshed model’s Virtual Cockpit features 19 inches of screen real estate via an 11-inch infotainment screen and 8-inch configurable digital driver instrument cluster. Wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto are included as standard, while wireless phone charging is optional.

The Buick Driver Confidence package is standard, and includes many safety features plus Adaptive Cruise Control. Finally, the 2024 model-year refresh includes some mild powertrain enhancements.

Standard spec under the hood is the familiar turbocharged 1.2L I3 LIH gasoline engine, which is rated at 137 horsepower and 162 pound-feet of torque, while the available turbocharged 1.3L I3 L3T gasoline engine is rated at 155 horsepower and 174 pound-feet of torque. Front-wheel drive is standard, while all-wheel drive is optional, with FWD units equipped with a continuously variable automatic transmission, and AWD units equipped with the GM 9-speed automatic transmission.

Production of the 2024 Buick Encore GX started in March. Production for the North American market continues to be built at the GM Bupyeong plant in South Korea. The online configurator tool is live for the 2024 Encore GX.

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  1. Actually like the looks of the updated Encore GX. Would consider an ST, but the gloss black lower exterior trim and wheel well arch surrounds are just really bad choices, especially for those in the snow belt. That trim is simply going to look like garbage after 4-5 years, unless someone invests in PPF for those pieces (which could be really expensive.)

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  2. I like the copper ice metallic , I wish they would offer it on the Silverado.

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  3. Nice shade of red. Needs some silver colored wheels.

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  4. Ya gonna look at it or drive it? Black, white, silver and grey are nc, all others add $500. Some only available with upgraded trim level. To be fair, that’s industry wide.

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  5. I hope it’s not too orangish red like the Ford color.

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  6. have we reached the point of stupidity that color is how we now choose a vehicle. what happen to style and beauty and PRICE. the only reason these ugly cars get better mileage is the fact that they only weigh 2 pounds.

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    1. They don’t really get better mileage as my grandfathers 2004 lesabre with 3.8 got better highway than the 2016 3.6 lacrosse I had. The plus to the 3.6 was it was flex fuel took e85 which put some pep in the step but sadly no supercharger like on the park avenue ultras. It would’ve been a nice lil stock sleeper. Anyhow color isn’t my concern my issue is these buicks look like the cheap Ford SUVs like escapes. They all look rather generic. I love Teslas but the design language is minimalism and dull inside and out same here. New tri shield logo even looks dull and uninspired. What are you paying for anyways with these? I’ve driven the encores envision and I can’t for the life of me figure out why I would bother paying extra. No oomph no comfort noisy as hell. My 22 enclave avenir has a marginal better ride than my 2018. Warranty is now like Chevy. I can tell the difference in materials ride and noise in my enclave compared to a high country traverse but these small econoboxes all feel like the Chevy’s. Buick name doesn’t have that kind of clout here without putting in the effort. Used to be able to hand wave that away with a better warranty ride noise price etc.

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