The Truth About Buick

rev up your engines today i've got a relatively rare vehicle it's a 2021 top of the line buick suv you can see top of the line because it says avenir on it that's the top of the line model an enclave of course and it's got the classic buick crest now first don't get confused they sell them in china too but the chinese are a different vehicle they're made in china for the chinese market my grandfather taught me how to fix cars was a buick fanatic he loved buick he's probably rolling over in his grave because they don't make cars anymore they only make suvs now for a short time they still had that station wagon but it wasn't really a buick it was a re-badged opal a german car because gm used to own opel just like when cadillac used to have those cars that were just rebadged opals they often tried selling people cars that they say were cadillacs or buicks but they're actually german cars this is an american buick made in lansing michigan especially considering that the base model of these are about fifty five hundred dollars more than the base model of the highlander and the top of the line it's about sixty five hundred dollars more than the top of the line island you're actually going to pay more for this it is a luxury car there's no arguing that but most people have gone for toyota's instead when i was a kid they had to advertise food wouldn't you really rather have a buick buick and they were sold as luxury cars now as you look inside you've got all kinds of space if you want to carry things and of course you can take the seats out and really have a lot more room you got a lot of controls for the passengers you got ac vents and heat vents in the top of the third row seats they got vents too this is a real luxury suv this is just a front-wheel drive the rear wheels just go down the road they're not drive wheels if you don't need all-wheel drive don't buy all-wheel drive one you pay more for two it weighs more it has extra drive wheels they get worse gas mileage sometimes three to five miles a gallon less than just a two-wheel drive vehicle and they're front-wheel drive they can go through all kinds of stuff my mother went through buffalo with a front-wheel drive car and didn't even put snow tires on the thing okay it's got a stupid beauty cover so and this one is bolted on so i can't tear it off easily i don't like that now i do have to say there's some strange orangish reddish stuff all over the place he has a squirrel issue and so he has put cayenne pepper all over he says it's worked so far the squirrels aren't messing around in there yeah they'll go in there when it's cold outside they want to get warm and they can make a nest they can destroy your why not try cayenne pepper now myself i tried cayenne pepper to keep the pigs out of the west garden forget that the pigs had a taste for it they were actually digging it up and chewing on this stuff and i bought a gallon put it all over the place you can't stop pigs he said it stopped the squirrel they did thousand dollars worth of damage but he had full coverage so the insurance company paid for the damage from the squirrel i don't know how often they keep paying for it that's why he put the pepper there who wants to deal with that so if you live in a squirrel infested neighborhood perhaps sprinkle cayenne pepper liberally under your hood to keep the squirrels from going in now he drives this thing sometimes in the security job he drives fast so he actually put drilled and slotted rotors on it they don't come with it this particular one's for r1 concepts in california and he says he doesn't get any fade now the normal person isn't going to go that far there are with luxury cars all kinds of options that you can put on later realize one thing the guy bought this he maintains his vehicle this car was a gmc acadia he put 127 000 miles on that and he didn't have any problems he changed the oil regularly you have to take care of it this is variable valve timing it has high pressure fuel injection system now this one doesn't have a turbo and that's probably a good idea six engines have a lot of power anyway as you put a turbo on it and raise the power the weakest point of these other automatic transmissions the reason they got rid of acadia was because the was starting to have problems at 126 000 miles so you don't want to beat the transmissions and put a turbo on it you want to baby it now his early one was a six-speed and this is the new nine-speed transmission we'll see how they hold up over time i haven't seen any particular big problems with him yet so one of the reasons that he can get the good gas mileage on the highway now the owner is honest he admits with this nine speed sometimes the shifts feel a little wonky almost every single 9 or 10 speed transmission and any vehicle i've driven is a little wonky because they're trying to maximize power but gas mileage at the same time so you'll always be at a certain situation like say you're going 32 miles an hour and it's between gears it might go up and down a little bit feel a little wonky when you're going uphill or downhill that's pretty normal for these things because they're trying to maximize power versus gas mileage there's plenty of vehicles you can buy that have really tight shift and transmissions and in a vehicle this size they'll probably get 15 miles a gallon well if you're getting 27 and a half i think you'll accept a little wonky shifting every once in a while over the tremendous amount of fuel that you're gonna save now we're started up you know it's keels everything's keyless these days and you can see it's got the buick emblem coming up it's got some good setups it's a luxury car that's the corn you know where the horn is you have to look for some stock or anything like that and it's got wireless charging dual climate control i really like the colors i got to say they got the colors set up a nice gigantic armrest i hate those small ones got a lot of storage you can take it apart more storage underneath you can either cool your electric seats or heat them up i'm not gonna heat them up it's too hot outside and the owner just told me he hates the electric parking brake too but that's the way all these things are going why on earth would you replace a cable that you stop on that's gonna hold it really good because your feet are extremely strong with an electric button with an electric motor more crap to break down as they age now he does live in tennessee so he's really not going to worry about corrosion you live in a salty northern state all that electronic crap electronic parking brakes they will rust they'll freeze on they'll shore it up but they're all going to it and there's nothing you can do about it as we open the back of course it's automatic it's a luxury car it's still got a reasonable trunk here with the third row seats in there come out moving down you got a lot more space you can luxuriously bring a bunch of people and check this out the machine does it all no hassle of having to pull them out load them around it's automatic you got all this space you can still have your other seats but then when you want the people to come in just push another button and back they go if you do have a lot of passengers you still have some extra storage you go under here there's some reasonable space in here too but chuck it up it has a rear view mirror but not just any rear view mirror this is not a piece of glass i put my fingers in there and you don't see a reflection of my fingers you can't see me there no it's a completely digital camera and you can see it's got a wide wrap around it so of course at night it's going to look better and you don't have to worry about kids heads getting in the way or whatever this is completely digital so press this little camera button and look what we have here we got the whole surround view the regular backup cameras here but you have the regular backup camera and the rear view one at the same time so like i said with this wider angle see look there's what you see the wide angle here's what the regular one is you can't even see the guy's mailbox now we'll switch from the back camera all right you can do some space-age things i just push this button now look what we have there's a piece of my matrix over there which like we're being watched by uh a drone from outer space let's push against here now it's like the drone is in front of the car look now the universe is is contracting upon itself like a black hole you can have some fun with that but i mean as soon as you go into basic look got it backwards we'll reverse it if you're in a really tight squeeze check it out you're getting a really tight view there let's say you're next to a wall you're doing parallel parking you're really close you got no excuse with this it's these things that are really close you can't say it's close it's close well you can see it's one finger away so maybe you should stop there let's take it for a ride the first thing i notice is it's a real luxury car it has no vibrations whatsoever it's extremely quiet inside and it definitely has pickup even though it's not turbocharged but as i said earlier you can feel a little shifty laggy these nine-speed transmissions that's just the nature of the beast they're not going to be totally crisp shifts all the time it's basically set up for an american who wants a luxury three-row suv and it's not a toyota fanatic because like i said this equivalent model the top of the line six sixty five hundred dollars more for this than you are for a top of the line highlander i just know in history myself generally the highlanders are going to last two to three times as long as one of these or less but i mean like i said the last one this guy had similar model gm was 127 000 miles and he decided to trade it in and get this used now he wasn't dumb he didn't buy this new he didn't pay the 55 000 sticker he paid 35 so he saved 20 000 and bought one that had at the time 40 something thousand miles on it now it's got 45 815 miles on at least for me it would take some getting used to now we'll take it out of the country for a little spin here it handles the twisties pretty good for a hard-sized suv and we'll get to our little drag strip here and we will come to a stop and we'll floor here we go it actually had a little bit of wheel spin even though it has traction control you can see it's got very good pickup people buying these luxury suvs they want pickup and when you have that kind of pickup and you get 27.5 miles a gallon driving 75 miles on a highway that's something you can't really complain that much about lane assist parking assist traction control that you can turn on and off you're getting the twisties here by the airport it handles quite well definitely hugs the road pretty good i don't feel like i'm in some boxy high up in the air ready to tip over vehicle i feel pretty comfortable in the back seat spinning around it is a luxury suv there's no arguing that now i'm a cheapskate would i pay 55 grand for one of these snow no way would i pay that kind of money it's six grand more than a fancy toyota i wouldn't buy the toyota either by the way no it's too expensive i go use now he saved 20 grand buying this thing you what are you going to get today for 35 000. i do have a lot of space they cost a lot they don't sell that many of them they're not made in china these are made in lansing michigan if you're thinking about getting something like this at least take my advice do like he did buy it used so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair videos remember to ring that bell [Music]

Channel: Scotty Kilmer

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Length: 11min 26sec (686 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 22 2022