Start with what the Buick Envision is: a 5-door SUV with Petrol engine, built from 2014, as electrification stopped being an experiment and the crossover took every market. What it meant takes a little longer. The shape is credited to Jeasoo Kim.
Where it came from
The Buick Envision is a compact crossover SUV manufactured by General Motors and marketed under the Buick brand since 2014. It is exclusively manufactured in China by the SAIC-GM joint venture, supplying the Chinese and North American markets.
Under the skin
The engine is Petrol engine; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. On the scales it comes to 1835 kg. Drive goes through a 7-speed Dual_clutch / DCT / 6-speed Automatic transmission / automatic 9-speed automatic (2.0 L). The wheelbase is 2750 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
In context
In the Buick line-up the Buick Envision has a clear place: the factory was Yantai (SAIC-GM), China. The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the Ford Escort, the Infiniti Q50, the Ferrari 488. Nearby in the Buick catalogue sit the Buick First Call and the Buick Funeral Car.
Owning one today
Buying one now means $16,200–$52,000 for a typical example, and running it — fuel and maintenance at its age — costs about $3,001–$5,869 a year. Insurance sits around $1,300–$2,490 a year. The figures are class-level estimates from the federal record, with the formula on the methodology page; the model-year pages carry complaints, recalls and repair costs year by year.
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