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Buick Rainier CXL AWD

The Buick Rainier shares its body shell and
mechanical platform with GM's other
mid-size SUVs, the Chevrolet TrailBlazer and
GMC Envoy. But of the three, only the
Rainier offers a 300-horsepower V8 engine
in the handier, standard-wheelbase
configuration. Rainier doesn't even offer an
extended-wheelbase version like the
TrailBlazer EXT and Envoy XL; and that's fine
with us, because the stretch-model Chevy
and GMC fall short of the standard trucks in
handling and stability, while failing to match
the space efficiency of GM's full-size Tahoe
and Yukon SUVs.