{"id":5563,"date":"2021-01-10T00:51:36","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T00:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/?p=5563"},"modified":"2021-01-10T18:26:35","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T18:26:35","slug":"pics-aplenty-chinese-spec-buick-regal-looks-darn-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/?p=5563","title":{"rendered":"Pics Aplenty: Chinese-spec Buick Regal looks darn good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Click above for high-res image gallery of the Chinese-spec Buick Regal<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/gm\/\">General Motors<\/a> has just released a huge gallery of photos of its new Chinese-only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/buick\/regal\/\">Regal<\/a> sedan. Anyone who has seen the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2008\/04\/17\/officially-official-opel-insignia-revealed\/\">Opel Insignia<\/a> will immediately recognize the Regal as a badge engineered version of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/opel\/\">Opel&#x27;s<\/a> mid-size model. Aside from the standard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/buick\/\">Buick<\/a> waterfall grille and the badges, the new Regal is essentially the Insignia. Prior to the launch of that car last summer, we had been expecting that car to arrive stateside in the next year or two as the next-generation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2007\/06\/08\/in-the-autoblog-garage-2007-saturn-aura-green-line\/\">Saturn Aura<\/a>. However, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/gm\/\">GM<\/a> delayed that program earlier this year and it may in fact be dead.<\/p>\n<p>When GM revealed its viability plan to congress earlier this month, Buick, along with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/chevrolet\/\">Chevrolet<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/gmc\/\">GMC<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/cadillac\/\">Cadillac<\/a> were announced as the core U.S. brands, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/saturn\/\">Saturn<\/a> on the backburner. GM has not provided any indication of whether it will offer the Regal in the US market as a Buick, but the Epsilon II platform it uses will also sit under the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2007\/10\/26\/in-the-autoblog-garage-2008-buick-lacrosse-super\/\">LaCrosse<\/a> and the next-generation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2007\/12\/31\/in-the-autoblog-garage-2008-chevrolet-malibu-lt\/\">Chevrolet Malibu<\/a> so it should have no trouble passing US safety regs. With Buick being a core brand and only having the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/buick\/lacrosse\/\">LaCrosse<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/buick\/lucerne\/\">Lucerne<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2007\/08\/14\/in-the-autoblog-garage-2008-buick-enclave-cxl\/\">Enclave<\/a> right now a fourth model might be helpful. Some suggest that it could be offered as a lower cost four-cylinder alternative to the LaCrosse, but there&#x27;s no word yet on how much the Regal will cost to manufacture. We hope to learn more about Buick&#x27;s plans at the Detroit show in a couple of weeks when the LaCrosse is finally unveiled.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2008\/12\/29\/pics-aplenty-chinese-spec-buick-regal-looks-darn-good\/<\/p>\n<p>2008-12-29T12:29:00+00:00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click above for high-res image gallery of the Chinese-spec Buick Regal<br \/>\nGeneral Motors has just released a huge gallery of photos of its new Chinese-only Regal sedan. Anyone who has seen the Opel Insignia will immediately recognize the Regal as a\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autoblog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9852,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5563\/revisions\/9852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}