At 23, I am the youngest person ever to drive a Buick

"CB" (jrcb)
05/26/2018 at 14:51 • Filed to: Rental Review

Ask me anything. Here’s a quick breakdown on the 2018 Buick Encore I have as a rental:

-I hate it

-My girlfriend hates it

-Nothing about it really feels premium. Some leather here and there, but nothing that would make it worth getting over the Trax, which is $6k CAD less

-8.7 litres per 100 kilometers on the highway is horribly disappointing, considering that the V6 Impala I had last time got better mileage

-The top heaviness plus sharp turns means carsickness is a very real risk

Overall, do not recommend. Even though I’m paying $17.95 a day, I still feel like I’m paying too much.

DISCUSSION (21)

WilliamsSW > CB
05/26/2018 at 15:04

Wow I thought most rental car companies required you to be at least 65 to rent one of those

CB > WilliamsSW
05/26/2018 at 15:05

It was that or a pickup truck. Somehow I ended up on the wrong end of this deal.

Ash78, voting early and often > CB
05/26/2018 at 15:10

*excluding China, where you’re the only person over 21 to drive one

AMGtech - now with more recalls! > CB
05/26/2018 at 15:11

I owned a Buick when I was in high school. A malaise one at that. It was... a car.

duurtlang > CB
05/26/2018 at 15:18

It’s a rebadged Opel. Which is not a luxury car. And yes, mostly driven by those with above average life experience, to put it gently.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > CB
05/26/2018 at 15:19

Hey! How’s life? Do you feel like drinking prune juice and that young people are what’s wrong with Canada when driving it?

not for canada - australian in disguise > CB
05/26/2018 at 15:24

You know, I really don’t hate the way these things look. That being said, I wouldn’t drive one even if it was given to me for free.

Kiltedpadre > CB
05/26/2018 at 15:31

Hey now, my first two cars were Buicks!!

Well, the first one was given to me by my brother after he was involved in a minor accident and didn’t want to pay to fix it. I bought junkyard parts and fixed it myself.

The second one was a 1989 Riviera that at 18 seemed really cool because of that awesome touch-screen dash! Well, there again I was kinda talked into it because a family friend that owned a car lot offered it to me for what he had given the original owner for it as a trade-in.

[This is where I would’ve inserted a picture of the sweet digital, touch-screen dash if kinja wasn’t kinjaing so hard right now.]

Basically, my first two cars were Buicks more due to being either free or much cheaper than anything else I could’ve bought at the time than any other factor.