Detroit 2012: Buick Encore-images, data and rivals list

Buick Encore

Buick Encore
The International Auto Show in Detroit was the venue chosen by General Motors for the debut of the new Buick Encore compact SUV, a new model that sits below the Buick Enclave. This new car takes headlights lines, platform, and another brother of his engines: the Opel Meriva.
The new Buick Encore is a car that offers a strong style and unusual equipment in order to seek to give more strength to the product range of the brand. It offers room for five passengers and up to 1.372 liters of storage space in the trunk with the rear seat folded, and a higher driving position, all-wheel drive and the contemporary style of a crossover. The Encore hit Europe with Opel seal.

Buick Encore

The Buick Encore will have as main rival to the BMW X1 and Audi Q3. Among its standard equipment includes IntelliLink system (activated by voice and uses Bluetooth or USB to connect smartphones to LCD 7 "), remote start the car, automatic climate control dual zone, wipers detectors rain, leather-wrapped heated steering wheel with audio controls, power driver seat six-position memory, power-adjustable lumbar support and 10 airbags. Among the most important new technology excels QuietTuning that reduces noise to the cabin.
The new Buick Encore Ecotec Turbo uses a 1.4-liter that generates 140 horsepower at 4.900rpm and maximum torque of 200Nm between 1.850rpm and 4.900rpm. Combined with a six-speed automatic transmission Hydra-Matic 6T40.