2025 Buick Envision avenir Redesign, Interior, MSRP

2025 Buick Envision avenir Redesign, Interior, MSRP  –  The Envision avenir has been a steady seller for Buick since it launched in Canada in 2016, but it’s already been completely eclipsed by the Encore GX that offers a more interesting shape and lower price without sacrificing much size. On the receiving end of a complete rethink, the 2025 Buick Envision avenir enters its second generation with a new style and a chance to separate itself from its slightly smaller sibling.

The 2025 Envision avenir gets new looks that make it sleeker, lower, and far less, well, dull than its predecessor. It employs the same front-end treatment that the Encore GX wears, and, especially in this Sport Touring guise, gives the Envision avenir a premium appearance – something it was lacking before. Inside, Buick offers multiple colours palettes, including this tester’s caramel, though the faux carbon-fibre trim disappoints, as does the contrast stitching on a visibly rough plastic dashboard.

2025 Buick Envision avenir Redesign and Update Plan

Exterior and Interior

The climate control system’s piano-key-style buttons are easy to see and use in all lighting conditions, and it (along with the heated steering wheel) did a great job of keeping the cabin cozy. While not exactly weak, the heated seats weren’t especially hot and needed to be left on for extended periods during testing. Given temperatures were hovering around freezing instead of far below it, they don’t bode well for proper January freezes. The driver’s seat itself does offer plenty of cushioning and a bottom bolster that’s well suited for folks of all shapes and sizes.

Despite Buick’s active noise cancellation and acoustic isolation, both wind and road noise were in abundance during testing. Equipped with all-season tires on a surprisingly warm spring day, road noise remained high at highway speeds. In the smaller GX, with its far more raucous three-cylinder, the function does an excellent job of taming noises.

Ride quality is slightly stiff, though it still offers good compliance and the overall ride is greatly improved over the model it replaces. The floatiness over bumps and dips so common in crossovers this size is minimised here, and while harsh impacts don’t disappear completely they are transmitted mostly through sound rather than feel. Adaptive dampers are available, but only as an option on the top-of-the-line Avenir trim.

2025 Buick Envision avenir Specs

The suite of standard active safety features is a big plus at the entry point for the Envision’s pricing, as are the standard heated wheel and heated front seats. Remote start, dual-zone climate control, and a foot-activated tailgate help give Buick a high score in this category, as does the ability to add the panoramic roof to all trims. What’s holding it back, again, is limiting active cruise to a package on the top trim. It’s a popular feature that is included at a much lower point on most competitors.

Engine and Performance

A new 2.0L turbocharged four-cylinder engine delivers 228 hp and 258 lb-ft of torque from an ultra-low 1,500 rpm, combining with a nine-speed automatic transmission to give the Envision avenir loads of shove when it’s needed. It’s a quiet engine that doesn’t mind spinning to higher revs, staying refined as the output increases. While there is a sport mode that changes the shift points, even in its default setting the nine-speed does an excellent job of downshifting at no more than a brush of the accelerator and holding gears when it thinks some enthusiastic driving is in the offing.  2025 Buick Envision avenir Redesign

It means excellent throttle response and minimal turbo lag, with a pleasant surge of torque if you use the manual paddles to keep the Envision avenir in a higher gear. In normal driving, though, the transmission’s preference to keep the engine spinning around 3,000 rpm for long periods felt odd for what is aimed at being a quiet, refined ride, and likely leads to increased fuel use and cabin noise.

2025 Buick Envision avenir Fuel Economy

With the ability to lock the Envision avenir in front-wheel drive to reduce consumption, fuel economy gets a boost from not having to spin all of the extra driveline parts all of the time. It’s officially rated to return 10.5 L/100 km in the city and 8.2 on the highway, with my own 400 km of mixed highway and backroads driving delivering an indicated 8.0 L/00 km.

Buick has done a great job of making the Envision avenir easy to use for the driver. The audio display is angled sharply to the left, leaving it easy to reach, the heated steering wheel button is a large one directly on the steering wheel, and even the electronic shifter has intuitive nubs under the reverse toggle switch to feel which gear is being selected. That sharply angled 10.1-inch display can be tougher to see and reach for the passenger, though, and while Buick’s commitment to a physical volume control is commendable its placement next to the touchscreen is awkward.  2025 Buick Envision avenir Redesign

2025 Buick Envision avenir Safety Features

Buick includes a host of driver assistance features like automatic emergency braking, front pedestrian detection, as well as automatic high-beams, and rear parking sensors. Still, limiting availability of adaptive cruise control is a tough pill to swallow. Surround-view cameras are optional on the Essence and Avenir, while a digital rear-view rear mirror is available in the Avenir. Of course, a government-mandated back-up camera is standard.  2025 Buick Envision avenir Redesign

2025 Buick Envision avenir Price and Release Date

The Envision avenir starts at a little less than $36,000 before freight and taxes for a front-drive Preferred model ($38,098 for AWD), which does make it a bargain against the similarly powerful CX-5. But features like adaptive cruise control are only offered in the top Avenir trim and still require a pricey options package, putting it well over the CX-5 Signature and its more premium cabin materials. This Essence trim, in black with the Sport Touring package and panoramic sunroof, wears a sticker of $42,983 before the $1,900 destination charge and tax.  2025 Buick Envision avenir Redesign