If General Motors hadn’t imploded, the Buick Regal wouldn’t accept been a Buick; it would accept been a Saturn. The Regal is about a European-market Opel Insignia—a mid-size auto that competes with the Honda Accord, Ford Mondeo, and Volkswagen Passat over there—rebadged and re-branded for the U.S. and China. It went on auction in the closing country aftermost December.
In case bodies are afraid about Buick alms what amounts to a gussied-up mid-size ancestors auto in the affluence field, that’s what Lincoln and Acura accept done with MKZ and the TSX, respectively. We accept to say that the Buick is a classier allotment than both of them. It’s actual handsome to attending at and is hardly afflicted from the Insignia; alone the grille, headlamps, taillight bulbs, badging, and side-mirror bottle are different. Eighteen-inch auto are standard, with 19s on the options list.
Although the Insignia plays in that mid-size ancestors car amphitheatre in Europe, it looks far added big-ticket central than do the U.S.-market Chevy Malibu, Honda Accord, or Toyota Camry. There are added soft-touch artificial surfaces and added affected finishes, such as satin-metal aperture pulls and piano-black trim. The Regal is analytic commodious, too, with 97 cubic anxiety of commuter amplitude affiliated to a 14-cubic-foot trunk. The rear bench doesn’t feel as all-around as, say, an Accord’s, although the quoted legroom of 37.3 inches is a beard bigger than the Honda’s and about two inches bigger than an Audi A4’s.
