Buick Encore GX

All 10 of the models in our cheap SUV list are subcompacts, and they’re ordered by base price, from least to most expensive.

The 2025 Buick Encore GX Avenir is unlikely to disappoint buyers, but it feels equally unlikely to delight them: It’s a competently executed vehicle with upscale looks, but it does little to stand out.

Read on to see which vehicles and brands rose to the top of J.D. Power’s 2025 U.S. Vehicle Dependability Study in terms of reliability.

The auto-industry analysts at J.D. Power say vehicles built during the COVID-19 pandemic are more problematic than those manufactured any year since 2009.

Wheel warming has gone mainstream, with the feature standard or optional not just on luxury vehicles, but on an increasing number of models with sticker prices of $40,000 or less.

An increasing number of vehicles with sticker prices of $40,000 or less, some much less, offer heated mirrors.

Aside from slightly different pricing, the 2025 Buick Encore GX is basically the same vehicle as the 2024 model.

Continuously variable transmissions allow the engine of a car to continuously operate in its most effective rpm range.

These cars offer panoramic moonroofs or sunroofs either as standard or optional equipment for 2024.

GM is recalling more than 60,100 Buick Encore GX and Envista SUVs and Chevrolet Trax SUVs over an issue that may cause the instrument panel to go blank.