2025 Buick Enclave Loses 2 Cylinders, Gains Sport Touring Trim

• An all-new 2025 Buick Enclave will arrive in showrooms late this summer, capping a busy 18-month stretch that sees the entire lineup either refreshed or fully redesigned.

• This third-generation Enclave is larger, switches from V6 to four-cylinder power, gets fresh sheetmetal, and will feature a 30-inch screen inside.

• The new interior definitely skews toward the premium side of the large crossover market, especially in two-tone Avenir dress.

Remember when BMW routinely sold more than 100,000 3-Series sedans in the US? It was several years ago now, as the market was turning to crossovers and SUVs. Last year, 3-Series sales barely reached the 34,000-unit threshold in the US.

And while there isn’t much connection between the 3-Series and the three-row Buick, the Enclave crossover is guilty of supplanting such sedans and gobbling up their market share.

It’s no surprise, then, that the Enclave handily outsold the 3-Series last year (with nearly 40,000 units) while also being a bit player in the large crossover segment dominated by higher-volume players like the Toyota Highlander, Honda Pilot, and Chevy Traverse (the Enclave’s platform-mate), all of which sold more than 100,000 units last year.

The tale of the 3-Series also helps answer a question we still often hear: Why doesn’t Buick sell sedans anymore?

Arriving as a 2007 model, the Enclave was arguably Buick’s first legitimate crossover (unless you loved the Rendezvous), and its popularity led eventually to a fleet that now numbers four, with the Enclave positioned atop the Envision, Envista, and Encore GX.

Late this summer, an all-new 2025 Buick Enclave will arrive in showrooms, capping a busy 18-month stretch that sees the entire Buick lineup either refreshed or fully redesigned.

This third-generation Enclave—sharing its architecture with the Traverse and GMC Acadia and being assembled at General Motors’ Lansing Delta Township plant in Michigan—is larger, switches from V6 to four-cylinder power, gets fresh sheetmetal, and will feature a 30-inch screen inside.

The trim levels have been repackaged, too. The ’24 Enclave trim walk started at Essence ($46,690 base price with destination), then moved up to Premium ($53,990 to start), then Avenir ($60,290). The ’25 model range will start at Preferred, then step up to the new ST (Sport Touring targeting younger customers), then Avenir.

Pricing for the new Enclave will come closer to the sales launch later this summer. For clues, we can look to the new Traverse from the same platform, which now starts at $42,390 with destination. That’s a sizable jump from the previous Traverse, which started at $35,915.

Overall, the new Enclave is longer, wider, and taller than the model it replaces.

From the profile, the overall form looks largely unchanged, but viewing the Enclave from the front reveals significant differences: a wide, trapezoidal grille opening; narrow, pointed headlamps that each resemble a crow’s beak; and a straight line that sweeps across the front, above the grille, representing the break of the waterfall hoodline.