1/27/2024 0 Comments Buick station wagonOur gear? Easily swallowed with room left over for the new puppy’s crate. Officially 32.7 cubic feet with the seats up and 73.5 with them down. With the second row up you have a nice cargo capacity. With the TourX they fold dead level flat. I’ve found over the last decade plus that flat floors equal dogs riding happier. I’m particular about this primarily because I’m a dog owner. One of the items I look for in any vehicle with foldable seats is a flat floor. That was at the end of January on winter gas with temperatures dipping into the low teens. And the eight-speed automatic gearbox handles it all with ease.įuel economy is rated at 21 mpg city and 29 highway. While every enthusiast wants more power, I think the TourX is pretty spot on at this level. Power clocks in at 250 horsepower at 5,500 rpm and torque is 295 pound-feet from 3,000-4000 rpm. Hammer the throttle and you are rewarded with very swift off-the-line acceleration. Power from the 2.0-liter turbo four-cylinder is surprisingly good. The sound of the audio system is more than fine for the target audience. The infotainment is standard GM and comes with Android Auto and Apple CarPlay. This is not a vehicle where you have to dig through the owner’s manual to find all of the features and controls. You feel much more in control compared to a top-heavy, high-riding SUV or crossover.Ĭontrols on the interior are well placed, and everything is easy to find. That’s not a problem, mind you, as this gives a much more dynamically secure feel on the road. Not Miata low, but it certainly feels a bit lower than a standard sedan. Perhaps it’s driving too many crossovers, but TourX makes you feel as though you’re sitting sports-car low. The thrones aren’t quite as good as those in an Audi Q5, but they don’t lag very far behind. While the seat bottom could’ve used just a bit more padding, I logged no major complaints. Slogging hundreds of miles on the tollways and interstates will let you know just how good a driver’s seat is or isn’t. Overall fit and finish of the interior is nicely done. The level of materials is good and for the most part, plastics are relegated to places that don’t have touch points easily seen. The easiest way to put it is that you can tell the interior comes from GM Europe and not GM North America. Interior materials are better than good, but not amazing. I can certainly do without the black accents over the wheel wells and along the bottom sill, but that’s the nod you need to lend to crossover-crazed eyeballs. This is no bland jelly-bean looking machine. From the front there’s a smooth aero shape packed with character. The car has a flow that makes it appear to be moving, even when parked. Especially from the rear three-quarter view. In total, I put about 1,600 miles on the Buick in one week. That’s plenty of time and miles to discover how this longroof lives on the highway, back roads, and around town. ![]() Starting just north of Detroit, our destination at the borders of Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland was nearly 600 miles each way. ![]() I requested it for a trip to Virginia to pick up my new Irish Wolfhound puppy. I was able to spend a week with one of them the Buick TourX. There are only sixteen wagon models available for sale in the U.S. Regardless, the marketplace place has little tolerance for them. But at the end of the day, wagons drive better, return better fuel economy, and better utilize internal space. Occasionally, a crossover or SUV will stick in my mind as good or even exceptional, like the Volvo XC 40 Inscription. This has served to remind me how much I’m a wagon man. Eleven of the last thirteen vehicles I’ve reviewed have been a crossovers or an SUV.
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