Deciding to build some of the cars that the manufacturers have expected the public to buy should be a crime punishable by death anywhere, i.e. the Aztec and anything Chris Bangle has been involved with to name a few, IMO.
Well, this is no LaCrosse, but the Chinese Buick Regal, identical to the European Opel Insignia, and the front end has already been disclosed before... So much for "Asians who can't come up..." and so forth...
What I'd like to know is why the bumper cover from the concept didn't make it to the production car? It's much more unique than the one they went with that looks like any other car out there.
The car pictured is in fact the Chinese Regal, it's a clone of the Opel Insignia. Hopefully the use of the Insignia in other markets means that a new AURA is on its way shortly.
further proof GM has no idea what to do with Buick NA... at this point just sell the EnClave and be done with it. GM can't even bother to bring anything over (rebadged from Eurpoe), we have to get left-over designs for China.
PATHETIC... with this and the sad news on Pontiac (no Kappa replacement!!!) and FWD there is nothing of interest left at P-B-GMC
So a Chrysler 300 that looks like a retro Rover 3.5 Coupe from the 60's revisted is a fresh design. Me thinks not (though the rear is different) but I do agree with your generalization re Lexus particularly.
So china will be getting 2 versions of the insignia and we get the american dumb_ss version. Unbelievable that they will not sell a car that people will buy. All they have to look at is the Malibu and CTS build it and they will come.
I'm confused at all the angst here. What do people have against the new LaCrosse? We don't even know much about it yet. And you people are going gaga over a rebadged Insignia? We don't even know the suspension tunes, the engine tunes, and I don't think we have a really good idea of the LaCrosse's style yet, despite the spy shots. The rebadged Insignia could end up with the suspension of a marshmallow. We have to wait and see.
While it could be made of marshmallows, my point is that they are getting two insignia models on time and we are getting a big fat zero copies of the Insignia.
While everybody cries that GM cannot afford to maintain "so many brands", GM is developing TWO SEPARATE MODELS for Buick - one for China, one for US - only one of which will be sold globally (Insignia).
That's another stupid move from GM. I hate the new GM.
GM should be killed and it's divisions (I mean brand names as divisions were already killed by GM years ago) should be sold to other manufacturers. They'd be treated better.
How do we know it's not a development mule for the Buick LaCrosse using the Insignia body? I think everyone is jumping to conclusions here.
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