2017 Buick Encore Preferred
Vehicle Details
Preferred
Detroit, MI 48228
Is this 2017 Buick Encore Preferred a good deal?
OAV verdict: Fair Price
Why: Listed at $5,500, comparable market range $4,313–$14,500, based on 47 comparable listings. Days on lot: 176 days (market average 92 days).
Market price position
$5,500 · within market range
- Comparable range
- $4,313 – $14,500
- vs. market
- $1,187 above low · $9,000 below high
- Comparable vehicles
- 47
Market Retail Price (MRP™)
$9,407This vehicle $5,500 · $3,907 (42%) below MRP
MRP™ is the midpoint of the comparable market range — the representative price the market is asking for similar vehicles. How MRP works.
True Retail Value (TRV™)
$6,382This vehicle $5,500 · $882 (14%) below TRV
TRV™ is the average paid price for cars like this in the last 60 days (sold data through 2026-08-17) — an estimate, not an appraisal. How TRV works.
Comparable vehicles nationally have sold faster than the market baseline, but this listing has been available longer than the cohort’s typical sell-time (about 10–44 days).
What does Demand-Verified mean?
- This listing has been available about 4.0x longer than comparable vehicles typically take to sell (cohort sells in 10–44 days; this one is at 176). Confirm its history, condition, availability, and out-the-door price before proceeding.
Market Breakdown
Local = comparable listings in the same metro. Regional = comparable listings across the broader state or multi-state region. Both ranges are rebuilt from the market snapshot shown above.
Alpha Auto Sales
Detroit, MI
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About This 2017 Buick Encore
Listing updated: Aug 17, 2026Listed by an independent dealer in Detroit, MI · On lot for 176 days · VIN verifiable at NHTSA
This used 2017 Buick Encore Preferred is listed at $5,500 by alpha auto sales in Detroit, MI 48228. It has 172,325 miles on the odometer (dealer-reported, not independently verified by OAV). The exterior color is Red. It features a FWD drivetrain with a 1.4L I4 engine and Automatic transmission.
OAV's AI-powered Price-to-Market analysis rates this vehicle as Fair Price — priced at market value. Based on 47 comparable listings matched to this vehicle, the estimated market range is $4,313 to $14,500. The local market range in MI is $8,995 to $10,990. These comparisons match year, make, and model and may currently span trims and configurations (trim-level matching is rolling out).
This vehicle has been on the lot for 176 days.
Analysis powered by OAV's patented inventory standardization technology (U.S. Patent No. 12,236,477).
Market context
This listing is part of OAV's broader Detroit, MI suvs market analysis. OAV compares vehicles using local and regional price-to-market ranges, days-on-lot, comparable count, and demand signals where available.
How this deal is rated
OAV compares this 2017 Buick Encore against similar vehicles currently available in the local and regional market — same make, model, and year range (currently across available trims and configurations; trim-level matching is rolling out). Mileage-aware adjustment is also rolling out — on very high-mileage vehicles OAV withholds a verdict rather than overstate a discount the odometer explains. Based on where this listing falls in that comparable set, it is rated:
- Great Deal — priced below the typical range for comparable vehicles.
- Fair Price — priced within the expected range for comparable vehicles.
- Overpriced — priced above the typical range for comparable vehicles.
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How this listing is verified
This vehicle listing was aggregated from an independent dealer in Detroit, MI, one of 57,000+ U.S. dealerships in OAV's nationwide inventory network.The VIN KL4CJASB2HB191641 can be independently verified via the U.S. Department of Transportation's NHTSA VIN decoder, and safety recalls at NHTSA's recall database.
Vehicle attributes (year, make, model, trim, mileage, location) are standardized using OAV's patented methodology (U.S. Patent No. 12,236,477), which normalizes naming conventions and deduplicates cross-listed inventory across the dealership network. Listing data is processed daily; Price-to-Market analysis uses comparable vehicles within the same geographic market.
2017 Buick Encore Market in MI
MI Market Listings
264
Average Price
$10,794
Price Range
$4,313–$21,775
Avg Days on Lot
92
Based on all 264 2015-2019 Buick Encore listings in the MI market, the average asking price is $10,794. This listing at $5,500 is $5,294 below the broader MI average (49% below the MI average). This is a wider, all-trim comparison across MI; OAV's price verdict above uses the closer comparable set. Comparable prices in MI range from $4,313 to $21,775. Similar vehicles spend an average of 92 days on dealer lots in this market.
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