Buick Terraza CXL (2005)

Like other Buick models, Terraza benefits from QuietTuning, a comprehensive noise reduction initiative covering every area of the vehicle. This includes a forged steel crankshaft, increased engine isolation and other acoustic treatments to ensure this all-new crossover sport van has one of the quietest interiors in the segment to match its rich appearance and attention to detail.
Elegant and functional interior

Inside the Buick Terraza is where comfort and elegance meet versatility and convenience. Chrome and wood trim accents highlight its overall interior design, providing a rich appearance throughout. The instrument panel, center console and door panels have a smooth, integrated design. Terraza's seats feature piping in a contrasting color with a matching deck stitch for an elegant look. Another detail: contrast stitching on door trim panels. Terraza CX seats have cloth inserts with leather bolsters in the first two rows, while the CXL has leather seat surfaces in the first two rows.

A seven-passenger seating configuration is standard, with individual captain's chairs in both the first and second row positions. Terraza can be configured to provide numerous combinations of passenger and cargo space. The second- and third-row seats are both foldable and removable for additional cargo room, while the third-row seat has a 50/50 split.

Buick Terraza offers an innovative rear cargo and convenience area. With its door panels closed, the box-like cargo system's height is flush with that of the folded third-row seat, providing a level load floor for carrying items behind the second row. The cargo system's doors are split evenly to line up with the split/folding third-row seat, creating the flexibility to carry a passenger on one side and cargo, such as long objects, on the other. Tired of objects rolling around in the back? The cargo system contains four storage compartments appropriately sized to hold items such as milk and orange juice containers, 12-packs of soda, and grocery bags. The forward edge of the dividers is cut out to create a long, left-to-right compartment, capable of storing longer objects, such as an umbrella.

Other notable interior features include a front overhead console and standard overhead rail system, with snap-in accessory and storage modules for a less cluttered interior. The rail system, standard on all models, neatly integrates the overhead lighting system, and is designed to accommodate the standard rear HVAC and audio controls, or rear-seat entertainment system/DVD into a single unit. The available snap-in storage models have wide, flip-open doors, enabling passengers to store loose items such as CDs, DVDs, sunglasses or cell phones.

Total safety and security approach

Buick Terraza is engineered to be among the safest vehicles in the mid-van segment, and is designed for outstanding performance in real-world crashes. Notable features include structural enhancements to the frame using high-strength steel. A long front-end compartment provides a large crush zone to preserve interior space, while long and strong engine compartment side frame rails increase energy absorption in the event of a frontal impact.

Dual-stage driver and front-passenger frontal air bags are standard, providing supplemental protection for front seat passengers. Dual-stage air bags are designed to help reduce the risk of air bag-induced injury. When the air bag system's control unit detects an impact, it determines whether the crash is severe enough to trigger a deployment, and whether the primary amount of inflation is sufficient. The primary stage alone will deploy in most frontal impacts requiring the supplemental protection of an air bag, while a secondary stage is designed to deploy in more severe frontal collisions.

Optional seat-mounted side air bags provide head and torso protection for both the front passenger and driver during side-impact crashes. All seven seating positions have three-point safety belts with load-limiting retractors.

The Terraza also has standard pretensioners in the front safety belt system that deploy at the same time as the frontal air bags to take up slack in the safety belt webbing. Pretensioners also help reduce the amount of occupant movement in the event of a crash to help reduce the risk of injury.

Buick Terraza is equipped with LATCH (Lower Anchors and top Tethers for CHildren) system anchors for child safety seats in all second-row seats. The center position of the third-row seat provides a top tether anchor for child seat attachment. The LATCH system provides two lower anchors and a top tether anchor to be used to secure a child seat to the vehicle seat structure. These anchorages are designed to make it easier to properly install compatible child safety seats.

Terraza also comes standard with GM's OnStar Safe & Sound package. The Terraza features OnStar's new sixth generation hardware with digital and analog coverage. The Gen 6 hardware also includes upgraded hands-free voice recognition capabilities including more intuitive continuous digit dialing and improved voice recognition accuracy. OnStar is the leading provider of in-vehicle safety, security and information services in the United States and Canada. Using the GPS satellite network and wireless technology, OnStar features core safety services and OnStar Personal Calling that allows drivers to make and receive hands-free, voice-activated phone calls using a powerful three-watt digital/analog system and external antenna for greater reception.

Endless entertainment possibilities

Buick Terraza is available with a wide range of passenger entertainment features, which can be a welcome addition on extended trips.

Standard on the Terraza is a six-speaker AM/FM/CD premium sound system, including a six-disc in-dash CD changer, or an available DVD-based navigation radio that provides drivers with detailed driving routes from coast to coast.

Also standard is a rear-seat entertainment system that includes a DVD player with flip-down screen and integrated controls. The DVD unit also provides auxiliary video and audio inputs for video games and camcorders, enabling an "instant replay" of a child's soccer match, for example.

XM Satellite Radio also is available. XM (continental U.S. only) provides more than 120 coast-to-coast, digital-quality channels of original commercial-free music and premier news, sports and talk as well as advanced traffic and weather information for select major metropolitan areas nationwide. Consumers can subscribe to the basic service for $9.99 a month. In addition, GM customers with GMAC financing can choose to include the XM subscription in their car payments.

An available "tri-mode" entertainment system lets occupants listen to as many as three separate entertainment sources simultaneously - DVD, CD and radio - through the speakers and dual-channel wireless headphones.

Also available is the first-in-segment Mobile Digital Media Powered by PhatNoise system. PhatNoise is a wallet-sized, 40-gigabyte hard drive that installs in the Terraza's overhead rail system. The system's capabilities include:

• Storing and playing back up to 10,000 songs in MP3, WMA or WAV formats.
• Storing and playing up to 40 movies in MPEG format (standard format for movies).
• Storing and playing a combination of songs and movies.
• The ability to provide the software for playing classic video games.
• A voice-browsing interface - if the driver wants to listen to music, the system tells him or her over the radio speakers the song's name, allowing the driver to run through a list of stored music using steering wheel buttons.
• Listening to books, magazine or newspaper articles recorded on a PC.
• Allowing simultaneous listening to two entertainment sources.
• Transferring digital camera pictures through a USB port in the PhatNoise cartridge and playing them back on the DVD screen.

The PhatNoise system's hard drive cartridge is easily removable, so it can be connected to a home PC or laptop to download computer files for playback in the Terraza, giving passengers an unprecedented level of entertainment customization.

For physically challenged customers, the Sit-N-Lift power seat available with the Terraza provides convenient access to the right-hand second-row seating area. Operated with a remote control, the power bucket seat rotates, then extends out of the vehicle and lowers for easy entry and exit.