gruntermen

I am pretty sure this is the Essence AWD Trim. I picked it up at STL.

Per the Buick Website it has a 3.6 liter 310 HP engine. Power and ride quality was fine. I did not do anything to really test out the handling.

Likes:

• It was fairly well equipped with most of the features one would expect. The menus indicated that it had lane departure alert but I was never able to get the system to activate.
• A power lift gate
• Separate moon roofs for the first and second row. Only the first-row moon roof opened.
• The vehicle was pretty quiet, enough so that I was able to notice the noise coming from the low rolling resistance tires.

Gripes:

• The BMW style electronic shift lever that did not seem intuitive to me. In order to go from drive to sport you pull back on the lever. In order to switch back to drive you pull back again.
• I couldn’t tell if the wood grain trim was high quality plastic or low-quality wood.
• Only the passenger side second row tilted forward to allow access to the 3rd row.