Introducing several more changes following the 2024 mid-cycle refresh, the 2025 Buick Encore GX debuts a new E85-compatible engine alongside a single new paint color, Aquamarine Blue Metallic. Here’s a detailed look at the new Aquamarine Blue color, which indirectly replaces the outgoing Sunrise Red Metallic.
Tagged with color code GKN and touch-up paint code WA-253K, Aquamarine Blue Metallic is one of the eight exterior paint colors available for the 2025 Buick Encore GX. The lineup includes the following exterior paints (with color codes in parenthesis):
- Cinnabar Metallic (GFM)
- Copper Ice Metallic (G98)
- Ebony Twilight Metallic (GB0)
- Moonstone Gray Metallic (GZB)
- Ocean Blue Metallic (GK9)
- Summit White (GAZ)
- White Frost Tricoat (GP5)
- Aquamarine Blue Metallic (GKN – new for 2025)
The new Aquamarine Blue Metallic paint color is available exclusively on the Sport Touring trim level, and is offered as an extra-charge color priced at $495. It is not available on either the Preferred or Avenir trim levels. It can be ordered in conjunction with both interior colorways of the Sport Touring trim.
For reference, two interior colorways are available for the 2025 Buick Encore GX Sport Touring, including the following:
- Ebony with Santorini Blue stitching
- Whisper Beige with Ebony interior accents
Pricing for the 2025 Buick Encore GX, previously uncovered by GM Authority, starts at $28,495 for the Sport Touring. Base prices range from $27,295 for the entry-level Preferred to a high of $32,795 for the range-topping Avenir. The compact crossover’s official online configurator has been live since May 2024.
For motivation, the 2025 model-year Buick Encore GX utilizes the new E85-compatible turbocharged 1.2L I3 LBP engine. This powerplant provides exactly the same output as the outgoing turbocharged 1.2L I3 LIH gasoline engine, developing peak figures of 137 horsepower and 162 pound-feet of torque.
Beneath the body panels, the Buick Encore GX is underpinned by the GM VSS-F vehicle set. Meanwhile, the crossover is produced at the GM Bupyeong plant in South Korea.
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Comments
Ugh.
Horrible.
Destroyed the looks of the Encore! Especially the front end… The interior even looks plain Jane.
That’s a VW Passat color…
I think it was used on Porsche also, years ago.
The front end sure don’t resemble a Buick!
That’s a nice color I like it 👍🏻.
Combined with the ugly new front end, this color addition certainly will do nothing for GX sales. GM has created quite the fiasco at its low end and I have no sympathy. The Trax and Envista are slaughtering the GX and Trax. Why not? They’re larger and significantly less expensive and it becomes obvious that the GX and TB are way overpriced versions of the lower-priced (but larger) cousins. And GM arrogantly puts tiny incentives on the TB and GX to avoid price overlaps with the Trax and Envista. The Trax and Envista should have been SMALLER, leaving room for the TB and GX to grow into the size that the Trax and Envista are (they couldn’t be larger since the Equinox/Terrain are already there), surely using the lazy way of just bringing over more designed-for-China variations.
Just grow incentives on the TB and GX and suck it up.
Same as the trax