This is interesting.
The Sportback is actually pretty nice looking I think.For 2018, Buick drops the Regal sedan for two new body types: the Regal Sportback hatchback styled to look like a coupe and the Regal TourX wagon. The new Regal is based on the Opel Insignia and will be imported from Rüsselsheim, Germany, with the decision to stop making Regals in Oshawa, Canada.
Like the regular Regal Sportback (that starts at $25,915, which is $2,000 less than the outgoing model), the GS has GM’s new nine-speed automatic transmission and there is no manual transmission offered.
But the GS discards the 2.0-liter turbocharged four-cylinder engine for a 3.6-liter direct-injection V-6 that generates 310 horsepower and 282 lb-ft of torque. It has cylinder deactivation and start/stop technology.
While others are dropping V-6s in the mid-size car segment, “I felt the GS should have a different powertrain,” said Duncan Aldred, vice president, Global Buick and GMC. “We had the opportunity to do it. I wanted to add more performance, make it more authentic,” he said, which meant the need for more horsepower than the four-cylinder could deliver. “We wanted a halo model and to be a halo you have to do it properly.”
The V6 in a segment where V6s are less common is also interesting.