Buick Regal GS Concept Review

Buick Regal GS Concept Review Hi! I’m Kelsey Mays for cars.com. We’re at the Detroit Auto Show checking out Buick’s latest concept, the Regal GS. This is based on the Regal Sedan which is a smaller car introduced at last falls’ LA Auto Show. Editor Mike Hanley takes you through that car in a separate video, so be sure to check it out. Here, we’re going to talk about what makes the Regal GS concept different from the Regal production sedan. GS stands for Grand Sport, a performance moniker added to various Buicks throughout the years. Through the forum, this car takes the 2L turbocharged for Sonar from the Regal CXL. It’s got 220-horsepower there. Here, it pumps it up to 255-horsepower and 295 lb.-ft. of toque and that’s a lot of power for a front wheel drive car to handle, so GM gave the Regal GS concept, all wheel drive. Other performance tweaks include a new sport tune suspension and massive Brembo front brakes with 14-inch crossed grille, front rotors. Cosmetically, I don’t think Buick did too badly of a job here. You’ve got this sort of vertical errand that’s here. They add a little bit more presence to the nose. There are the requisite lower side skirts, 20-inch alloy wheels, a rear spoiler and new shapes for the rear exhaust pipes. The cabin is jet black but like the outside, it changes relatively light. You’ve got Ricardo sport seat here with higher side bolters to hold you in doing corners and looks like a different sort of leather. Now, Buick says the exterior was originally going to be Olympic white but then they told us that that color proved too flat and so, this is now what they call abalone white. It’s kind of too bad that the 2010 Abalone games aren’t taking place next month in Vancouver. The GS does not look that far off a regular Regal, so it’s possible that depending on the Auto Show reactions, Buick can end up building a few of these as some kind of limited production run. So, stay tune for more information. We offer some more concrete info here but at that point, we would just be guessing or I guess you could say GS-ing. For more car related new, go to cars.com or our blob, KickingTires.net.