Buick Envision — Relaxed luxury
By Jim Meachen and Ted Biederman
Buick in an effort to cover all its SUV bases filled the gap between the diminutive and hot-selling Encore and the established mid-sized three-row Enclave with the compact Envision in 2016. The big news at the time was that the Envision was the first Chinese-built mainstream vehicle to be sold in the United States. Despite its Chinese origins the Envision enjoyed decent sales ranging from more than 40,000 in 2017 to 35,000 in the pandemic year of 2020.