2025 Buick Envista Configurations: Trims, Features, and What Changes Between Them

The 2025 Buick Envista is a subcompact luxury SUV positioned at the entry level of Buick's lineup. It sits below the Encore GX and Envision in size and price, but it still offers multiple trim configurations that affect features, technology, comfort equipment, and price. Understanding what separates those configurations helps buyers figure out where the trade-offs actually land.

How the 2025 Envista Is Structured

The Envista uses a single powertrain across all trims: a 1.2-liter turbocharged three-cylinder engine paired with a continuously variable transmission (CVT) and front-wheel drive. Unlike some competitors in this class, the Envista does not offer all-wheel drive in any configuration. That's an important baseline fact regardless of which trim level you're considering.

The three trim levels for the 2025 model year are:

• Preferred
• Select
• Avenir

Each step up adds comfort features, driver assistance technology, and interior upgrades — but the mechanical foundation stays the same across all three.

What Each Trim Includes

Preferred — The Entry Configuration

The Preferred trim is the starting point. It includes features that might surprise buyers used to mainstream brands at this price tier:

• 10.2-inch diagonal infotainment touchscreen
• Wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto
• Heated front seats
• Heated steering wheel
• Keyless open and start
• Buick's IntelliBeam automatic high-beam headlights
• Rear vision camera
• Front pedestrian braking

This is a well-equipped entry trim by subcompact standards. The heated seats and wheel at the base level are often cited as reasons buyers see value here even without upgrading.

Select — The Middle Configuration

The Select trim builds on Preferred with upgrades focused primarily on safety technology and convenience:

• Surround Vision (a 360-degree camera system using multiple cameras to show a bird's-eye view of the vehicle)
• Rear cross-traffic braking
• Side blind zone alert
• Lane change alert
• Rear park assist
• Enhanced driver assistance content compared to Preferred

The Select is essentially a safety-and-awareness upgrade over Preferred without dramatically changing the interior materials or comfort equipment.

Avenir — The Top Configuration

The Avenir trim is Buick's premium sub-brand designation and represents the highest configuration for the Envista. Key additions over Select include:

• Tri-color premium leather-appointed seating
• Unique Avenir badging and exterior styling details
• 12-way power-adjustable driver seat with memory
• Ventilated front seats
• Power tilt-and-telescoping steering column
• Head-up display
• Bose premium audio system
• Panoramic moonroof
• Navigation (built-in)
• 19-inch aluminum wheels (vs. 18-inch on lower trims)

The Avenir configuration is where the Envista starts to feel genuinely premium in its interior execution, which is the point — it's priced and positioned to compete with the entry-level offerings from Audi, BMW, and Mercedes in the subcompact segment on a feel-and-features basis, even if the powertrain specs are more modest.

Key Spec Comparison Across Trims 📋

What the Configurations Don't Change

Because the powertrain is the same across all trims, EPA-estimated fuel economy figures apply uniformly. The Envista is rated at approximately 29 mpg city / 36 mpg highway for the 2025 model year, though real-world results vary by driving conditions, geography, and individual habits.

Cargo space, towing capacity (rated at 1,000 lbs), and overall dimensions are also consistent across trims — the body structure doesn't change.

The Variables That Shape Your Decision 🔍

Trim selection is only one dimension of the actual ownership equation. Other factors include:

• Dealer-added packages or accessories that vary by inventory
• Regional pricing and incentives, which Buick adjusts by market
• Financing terms, which can shift the effective cost difference between trims
• Insurance costs, which differ by trim level, driver profile, and state
• Resale value, which can vary between Preferred and Avenir depending on market demand in your area

The Avenir's additional content — panoramic moonroof, ventilated seats, head-up display — represents real, tangible differences in day-to-day experience. But whether the price gap between Preferred and Avenir makes sense depends on how much time you spend in the vehicle, what features you actually use, and how you're financing or paying.

Where Individual Situations Diverge

Buyers who prioritize safety technology will find the Select's surround-vision system and expanded driver-assist features meaningful. Buyers who sit in traffic daily may place more value on the Avenir's ventilated seats than any other single upgrade on the list. Buyers focused on monthly payment may find the Preferred trim checks nearly every practical box at a lower cost of entry.

The 2025 Envista's configurations are well differentiated — each trim level has a coherent identity rather than just a scattered list of add-ons. But whether that differentiation aligns with your priorities, your local market pricing, and your financing situation is something the trim sheet alone can't answer.