The U.S.-spec 2024 Buick Envista was unveiled in April of 2023 following a world debut at the 2022 Chengdu Motor Show in China the preceding August, dropping in as the Tri-Shield brand’s new entry-level offering. Among the vehicle highlights are a crossover coupe silhouette inspired by the Wildcat EV Concept, a combined 19 inches of infotainment screen real estate in the cabin, and a starting price well under $25,000. Now, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) has released crash test ratings for the 2024 Buick Envista, and the results are mixed at best.
In a battery of tests to evaluate the crashworthiness of the 2024 Buick Envista, the IIHS provided ratings in four distinct evaluations, including the small overlap front test, the original moderate overlap front test, the updated moderate overlap front test, and the updated side test. Test results were reported with four possible scores – Good, Acceptable, Marginal, and Poor.
In the small overlap front and original moderate overlap front tests, the 2024 Buick Envista returned a top-tier Good rating. However, in the updated moderate overlap front test, the crossover returned a bottom-tier Poor rating.
For readers who may be unaware, the IIHS launched the updated moderate overlap front crash test in 2022 with more-stringent requirements compared to the original test, the latter of which was initially launched in 1995. The updated test was launched in response to a higher rate of injuries for passengers seated in the second row. In the updated test, test dummies are placed in the second row behind the driver, specifically Hybrid III dummies sized to represent a small woman or 12-year-old child.
Looking over the metrics for the updated moderate overlap front crash test as they relate to the 2024 Buick Envista, the crossover was given a Poor rating for head / neck rear passenger injury measures, and a Marginal rating for chest rear passenger injury measures. All other metrics in the moderate overlap front crash test were given a top Good rating.
In the side impact test, the 2024 Buick Envista was given an Acceptable overall rating, with metrics that included an Acceptable rating for the structure and safety cage, an Acceptable rating for the Torso driver injury measures, a Marginal rating for the pelvis driver injury measures, an Acceptable rating for driver head protection, and an Acceptable rating for torso rear passenger injury measures. All other metrics in the side impact test were given a Good rating.
As a reminder, the 2024 Buick Envista is powered by he turbocharged 1.2L I3 LIH gasoline engine and rides on the GM VSS-F vehicle set. Production takes place at the GM Bupyeong plant in South Korea.
Comments
“Moderate” is the new “Great”.
IIHS updates their tests faster than they change their socks and it’s impossible to redesign vehicles that fast. For the Trax and Envista, I’d look at the prior tests to see how they really fared. I can just imagine how a vehicle like the “old” Trailblazer would do in these updated tests. I’m NOT buying a brand-new model for these tests and get suckered in as a guinea pig with all sorts of other problems.
Between the epa, gov regulations, and crash test scores this is why cars are getting bigger and heavier, cheaper build quality, more expensive to repair and causing rate to go up… On top of basically every car looking the same bc of said over regulations. Although I realize rates are also skyrocketing bc of the increase of non insured/licensed drivers running around these days
Guarantee every time there is a threat of reduced funding they come up w a new stupid test
In another article, saw that that there are new requirements for hood safety that will cost approximately $1m per life saved if the numbers work out. That seems expensive, I wonder who is going to be paying? Same sort of deal here. How much to design and make the product alterations?