Review Car

2011 Buick Rendzvous

2011 Buick Rendzvous is a versatile crossover utility vehicle with seating of five to seven passengers. The styling is nice. Rendezvous combines aspects of SUVs, minivans, and wagons. It has fine manners on the highway, a benefit of unibody construction normally associated with sedans. Four-wheel-drive is available to cope with gnarly weather and marginal off-highway tracks with dignity. No matter what you decide to call it, The 2011 Buick Rendzvous is priced well and easy to like. There is much to like here in terms of engineering, flexibility, and appearance. The three-row interior compares favorably with the passenger capacity of costlier vehicles.

Satellite radio and a rear-seat DVD system are now available as options. 2011 Buick Rendzvous comes with front-wheel drive or all-wheel drive. All models come with a 185-horsepower 3.4-liter V6 engine and an electronically controlled four-speed automatic transmission.

2011 Buick Rendzvous rides on a four-wheel independent suspension and comes standard with four-wheel disc brakes. A lot of these features are also available as stand-alone options, so you can pretty much build a Rendezvous to your personal tastes. The DVD system includes a fold-down seven-inch monitor integrated into the ceiling.It is difficult to judge the size of the Rendezvous without the context of another vehicle near it. That’s usually a sign that the design team (headed, by the way, by a woman, Liz Wetzel) got the scale right. The spec sheet says that Rendezvous is as tall as an SUV, at 68.9 inches without the roof rack. The 2011 2011 Buick Rendzvous can seat up to seven passengers or two people with scads of stuff. The seating setup depends on how you order it and then on how you choose to fold and configure. Captain’s chairs can be ordered instead of the 50-50 split bench seat in the second row.

The optional third row seat folds flat into the floor. The flexibility of the seating configurations is an exercise in automotive origami. The seats of 2011 Buick Rendzvous fold and tuck and fit into an amazing number of arrangements. Even the second-row seat flips and folds, allowing you to have two people up front and a flat floor behind without leaving anything home in the garage. That’s truly neat. For maximum capacity, however, the center row can be removed. (The third-row seat tucks flat into the floor, so it doesn’t have to come out.) Hiding places and lockable bins are strategically placed here and there. Even with seven inches of ground clearance and all-wheel drive, getting in and out of The 2011 Buick Rendzvous is more like getting in and out of a sedan than an SUV; small children, arthritic knees and tight-skirts can be grateful for that. All seats are easy to access and quite comfortable.