2013 Buick Rendezvous Accessories Review Pictures
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Buick Rendezvous a perfect example of the new category of crossover
vehicles, a category that defies categorization. Rendezvous combines
aspects of SUVs, minivans, and wagons. For starters, it's versatile,
seating five to seven passengers. The styling is nice. 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 Buick Rendezvous 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. The 2013
Buick Rendezvous 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.
The Buick Rendezvous 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 2013 Buick Rendezvous 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 Buick Rendezvous 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 2013 Buick Rendezvous 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.
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