There the Encore sits, the dark horse option on many different shopping lists. So we recently spent a week with one to find out why our snapshot failed to foretell the model's future. While the Encore's coming out party was sparsely attended, it's been making friends in the marketplace. But would they buy it with a Buick badge? Perhapsīuick knew something the rest of us did not, that there exists a niche unfilled in the marketplace, one in which upwardly mobile Millenials are looking for economy, function, style and luxury in a single vehicle. In hindsight, however, maybe we were wrong. A fourth model for the waywardīuick brand, especially one so arguably un-Buick in form and function, did not seem to deserve the attention paid to its peers that year. The return of Dodge to the small car game with the Dart. Redesigned Aston Martin-esque Ford Fusion, the Who can blame us, though? Two shows ago, the Motor City's main stage welcomed the Like a kid with his birthday cake at a party no one came to, this littleĬrossover's debut was largely, almost cruelly, ignored. Vacuum back and forth across a sea of gray carpet. Two journalists are sitting on a couch over to the side, both facing the Encore but ignoring it as they inspect their swag, and a solitary custodial engineer pushes a The shot shows the just-unveiled Encore on stage, basking in the glow of spotlights but surrounded by a large display area that's bereft of both cars and people. World debut at the 2012 Detroit Auto Show. An image exists out there that perfectly conveys the fate we thought would befall the
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