When you buy a new car, you want to ensure you're getting the most value for your money. That doesn't mean that you're looking for bells and whistles. Most often it means you're looking for the most.
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really wanted the Envision to be completely
au courante, the gauge cluster should have been some form of configurable digital screen. But otherwise, the Envision’s cabin, at least in its top-of-the-line Avenir form Buick is hoping to create the same cachet for Avenir as GMC has for Denali is pretty impressive.
Top marks definitely go to the infotainment system. Unlike pretty much every other auto marque, Buick has no flowery, marketing-department-vetted, fully-acronymed name for its infotainment. Instead, it simply refers to it as a “Buick 10.2-inch touchscreen.”
It’s no lesser for its Plain Jane appellation, and in fact, it’s one of the most pleasing and certainly the most easily-learned infotainment systems I’ve tested. Within five minutes of fiddling, I knew where all the apps were, had at least perused their sub-menus, and figured out how to pair my phone. Compare that with Mercedes’ MBUX, which is admittedly more powerful and graphically-pleasing, but which
In 2020, the Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada (TMMC)’s South Plant in Cambridge, Ontario, which produces the Lexus RX, received a Bronze award for the third time in a row, to make eight times in total. In 2019, the North Plant received the Platinum award – best in the
world – for its Toyota Corolla production. This is the plant’s third Platinum award, and in just over 30 years of production, it has won eighteen J.D. Power Plant Quality Awards.
The J.D. Power Initial Quality Study awards are now in their 35th year. In 2020, significant changes were introduced regarding how the awards were calculated, as well as who won them. The measure for highest-ranking brands and models now includes a focus on “components that fail and features that are difficult to use, hard to understand, or don’t work the way owners want.” This is a much-needed measure that reflects that, as fast as technology is moving, if users can’t keep up, or if vehicles aren’t making it accessible fo