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Among the 83 Buick entries in the MotorJury library, the Buick Encore holds its own page in a catalogue built to record every car ever made, from series production to one-off concepts. The record places its introduction in 2012. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.
To read the Buick Encore properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2010s were the decade electrification stopped being a science project — Tesla forced the incumbents' hand, downsized turbo engines replaced displacement, and the crossover conquered every market. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Peugeot Peugeot 208, the Tesla Tesla Model X, the Mazda Mazda CX-5 — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.
On paper, the Buick Encore reads like this: the record lists its engine as Petrol engine / Gasoline: / 1.4 L GM Family 0 engine#Generation III / A14NET Straight-4 / I4 Turbocharger / turbo / 1.4 L GM small gasoline engine#B14XFT / B14XFT Straight-4 / I4 t; kerb weight is recorded at 1293 kg (2WD) / 1386 kg (4WD); drive goes through 5-speed Manual transmission / manual / 6-speed manual / 6-speed GM 6T40 transmission / GM 6T40 Automatic transmission / automatic; the layout is Front-engine, front-wheel drive or all-wheel-drive. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.
Within Buick's own catalogue the Buick Encore sits alongside the Buick Avenir, the Buick Electra E5, the Buick Excelle GX, the Buick GL6. It was succeeded by the Buick Envista (North America). Design is credited to Carsten Aengenheyster / Marc van der Haegen (facelift). Assembly is recorded at South Korea: Bupyeong District / Bupyeong-gu, Incheon (GM Korea) / China: Yantai, Shandong (Shanghai GM / SAIC-GM).
For the years the United States federal record covers, EPA-rated economy comes in at 30 mpg combined, which works out near $2,200 a year in fuel at current prices.
This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.
A specification sheet is only half a car's story. The other half — what breaks, what it costs to keep, which years to avoid — lives in MotorJury's ownership database, computed nightly from federal complaint and recall records and EPA economy data. Where the Buick Encore was sold in the United States, its model years carry full ownership verdicts there.
Specifications come from the Wikipedia infobox for this model (CC BY-SA) and the open Wikidata record, and are shown only where a source actually carries them — nothing here is estimated. Figures are manufacturer specifications, not measured results.
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