GM recently announced a series of investments slated for three of its U.S. manufacturing facilities, including Orion Assembly in Michigan, Fairfax Assembly in Kansas, and Spring Hill Manufacturing in Tennessee. The investment will support both ICE and EV production, with Fairfax Assembly now set to manufacture the next-generation ICE-based Chevy Equinox crossover starting in mid-2027. With that in mind, this massive new investment may open the door for Fairfax to build the Buick Envision domestically as well.

Why? Well, for starters, the Buick Envision is built on the same E2 platform as the Equinox, so it isn’t too much of a stretch to imagine GM retooling the Fairfax plant to build the Envision and Equinox at the same facility.

Additionally, the Buick Envision is currently selling quite well in the U.S., and moving production stateside could keep pricing for the crossover competitive (especially in the face of costly tariffs ), all while supporting the local economy. As GM Authority covered previously, Buick Envision sales increased in the United States, Canada, and Mexico during the first quarter of 2025. In the U.S., Envision sales were up to 15,485 units during the first quarter of the 2025 calendar year, an increase of more than 17 percent year-over-year and landing the Envision just behind the Lexus NX (17,992 units) in the Luxury Crossover C-Segment in terms of sales volume.

At present, the U.S.-spec Buick Envision is produced at the GM-SAIC Jinqiao plant in china, which means it may be subject to some rather hefty fines as a result of Trump ’s latest trade policies.

Also notable is the possible production of a new Equinox PHEV variant at the Fairfax facility. As GM Authority covered previously, a new North American-spec Equinox PHEV appears to be under development, with a prototype model recently spotted by our spy photographers. What’s more, a new Equinox PHEV would coincide with both GM’s broader investment plan and GM’s previously stated goal to reintroduce new PHEVs to the North American market around the 2027 timeframe.

Of course, only time will tell how GM chooses to handle production of the Buick Envision going forward, so stay tuned to GM Authority for all the latest.