2024 Buick Envision Goes Big Screen, Gets Standard AWD

• The 2024 Buick Envision adds a 30-inch digital screen in the dashboard to handle the task of controlling your media, navigation, and driver instrumentation.
  

• For 2024, Buick has turned its Sport Touring package into its own standalone variant, which takes the place of the outgoing Essence trim.

• The 2024 Buick Envision starts at $37,295 for the entry-level Preferred variant and will go on sale this summer.

Buick continues pushing to update its portfolio with a refreshed 2024 Envision. Launching the second-generation Envision only a handful of years ago, the company is giving the crossover a series of important updates.

The biggest draw for prospective ‘24 Envision buyers is a new, 30-inch standard display, surrounded by revised interior and exterior styling. Buick is also shaking up the available trim options this year. In 2023, Buick sold 44,281 Envisions in the US (up a surprising 71% from 2022), but this upscale midsize crossover lags far behind mainstream rivals such as the Chevy Equinox, Honda CR-V, Hyundai Santa Fe, Mazda CX-5, Nissan Rogue, and Toyota RAV4.

As for the powertrain, Buick left it alone. Buick is carrying over the 2.0-liter turbocharged I4 that sends 228 hp and 258 lb-ft of torque through a nine-speed automatic transmission. While the numbers are exactly the same as the outgoing model, there is one noteworthy change: standard all-wheel drive. Front-wheel-drive models won’t see 2024, and every Envision will now send torque to all four wheels all the time.

The 30-inch, customizable touchscreen is the centerpiece of this new interior, and the interface handles media, navigation, and driver needs. The screen can relay nav functions directly ahead of the driver if you want. The one downside is that Buick did move the headlight controls into the screen, like the GMC Canyon. Other than that, this screen is enabled for Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, and it looks impressive in person.

For ‘24, Buick updated the seat designs. Sport Touring models add a flat-bottomed steering wheel to the mix, but traditional steering wheels are fixed to the Preferred and Avenir models.

Rounding out the updates, the ‘24 Envision looks a little different than the current models. A new front fascia brings the Envision into the Wildcat Concept-inspired fold, like the latest releases from Buick. That new fascia includes a revised grille and lighting array. The story is the same for the rear, which is similarly updated.

Joining the list of updates are some handy active driver-assistance features. Adaptive cruise is now standard issue, alongside intersection emergency braking, bicycle and pedestrian braking, and blind-zone steering assist.

Controlling the standard set of 18-inch wheels, or the 20-inch rollers found on the Avenir and Sport Touring models, is a five-link rear suspension and a pair of MacPherson struts in the front. The top-flight Avenir models get Continuous Damping Control dampers, which Buick says enhance ride comfort.

The updated Envision is hitting Buick dealers this summer, according to the company. The base-model Preferred variant will start at $37,295, with destination. That’s a bump from the current entry-level Envision, but more affordable than that same Envision with AWD that currently costs $38,345. The Sport Touring models start at $39,795, and top-flight Avenir models tip the financial scales at $48,395.

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