General Motors has just released pricing for the new 2011 Buick Regal sedan, or if you prefer, the North American market version of the Opel Insignia. Initially, the Regal will be offered in a premium CXL trim with two engine options, a 182HP 2.4-liter Ecotec four-cylinder with direct-injection and a 2.0-liter Ecotec turbocharged and direct injected four-pot rated at an estimated 220HP.
Prices have been set at $26,995 (that's about €19,100 for our Euro friends) for the CXL 2.4L and $29,495 (€20,870) for the CXL 2.0L Turbo and include a $750 destination charge in both cases.
This means that the current-entry level Regal CXL 2.4L carries the same price tag as the larger 2010 LaCrosse CX 2.4L but is $3,400 cheaper than the equivalent CXL model.
Buick said that it will extend the Regal's range with the addition of a less expensive CX model in the 2012 model year.
Standard equipment on both the 2011 Regal CXL 2.4L and 2.0L Turbo models include a 6-speed automatic transmission with Driver Shift Control (DSC); four-wheel disc brakes with anti-lock braking system, brake assist and electronic parking brake; StabiliTrak stability control system and traction control; dual-stage frontal and side-curtain air bags, and 18-inch alloy wheels.
Other standard features include a 12-way power, leather and heated driver seat; leather and heated passenger front seat; Bluetooth for phone capability; i-Pod auxiliary jack and USB port; XM Satellite Radio and OnStar.
Sales of the 2.4-liter Regal will start this Spring with the Turbo model following later in the summer.
Initially, the 2011 Regal will be made alongside the Insignia at Opel's factory in Russelheim, Germany/ North American production will begin at GM's Oshawa Car Assembly plant in the first quarter of 2011.
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beautiful color combination...there is something very seductive about this car...Tiger Woods might have to stay away from this model when he comes out of sex therapy.
its funny, they think that have made new car by adding buick symbol.. hahah.
love you opel.. opel forever.
That´s really cheap!
A similarly equipped Insignia with the 1.6T engine and manual gear box costs €34,000! That's nearly double the price!!! How do they make money with this car in the States???
^ And the first annual batch of cars will be imported from Germany
The Opel model looks much better and represents what this car is and what it is not—a Buick.
Does the rest of the world subsidise North America to be able to sell cars THAT cheap? Even if you took out taxes, you just can't sell them that cheap elsewhere. The Pontiac G8 was sold at a price much lower than the equivalent Holden Commodore SS in Australia -- where it is built -- despite shipping costs and having equipment unique to America. No wonder GM is in trouble.
You fools... Every manufacturer is like this.
Check your Current exchange rates!
"its funny, they think that have made new car by adding buick symbol.. hahah.
Yikes, the Europeans can handle the American's taking something of theirs and making it ours too.
But we own Opel, so we can do what we want with it.
Bow down and kiss our feet sucka.
again, you fools don't realize that buick and opel don't exist. they are just sales channels and badges on the exact same car that you all have unhealthy emotional attachments towards. Get over yourselves.
there are very few Yura-pee-in brands left that haven't falling into the hands of foreign owners...they have just pissed them away.
I remember than GM people came from Detroit to Ruesselsheim and said that they want all your developments, patents, all the Know-How right now. Most of our patents are at GM now and for each car we build we have to pay fees to them.
Should I mention that Opel has never seen a cent for it´s own patents? The same applies to the design drawings of our cars. Dimensions, tolerances, materials,... . This is more important than a patent, it is an major development effort. But GM does not care. With the construction plans of our Insignia GM is building a Buick, a Chevrolet and a Holden. Everything with our construction, all with our Know-How. How do you find it? Alone last year we have transferred to GM 650 million euros. For what? Only for fees of our own patents.
In 1992 GM started with the globalization. At some point, the Technical Development Center of Opel in Ruesselsheim became the International Technical Development Center (ITDC). Only the U.S., we make ourselves, "said GM. That has not worked. But we must say, from GM's point of view it was an excellent decision.
GM build factories in China and Korea, where they reproduce our cars or engines. But the hardest thing was : GM has decreed that the people of Daewoo are allowed to use our developments, that´s the reason why they can build great cars such as the new Chevy Cruze. You give them everything they want, "said GM. We were horrified. But with the plans alone you can´t just copy Know-How.
For years, GM managers forced us into a false model policy. But the worst thing were the quality problems of our cars. That was horrible. What we have been ashamed. Awful. One day, people came from GM and they told us what they understood of quality. Rusty beams in the Astra for example. "So what?", They said, "but the car moves." The German management clenched their fists in their pockets. Brand new Astra, with rust in the beams, because of a few cents cavity sealing! Complete madness.
GM don´t understand the European market. They will never get it. The laugh themselves to death , if they hearing that an Astra costs 25 000 euros. Qualitatively we have now got further than VW, but i am still impressed about their love for Details and engeneering.
Recent downsizing technology, lots of power, power, torque from just 1.4 liters of displacement. This dwarf can replace a six-cylinder engine. But where does it come from?
It comes from OPEL! GM use our technologies to save themselves on the American market!
It is these people who have plundered Opel. It is these people who have imposed us to their model policy.
Opel is an independent car maker, and not just a name on car!!!
Independent???? Opel has been a wholly-owned subsidiary of General Motors since 1929. So why then does it seem like the tail is wagging the dog here? Not to take anything away from German engineering, but don't forget who butters your bread.
Opel is a great car, Buick soon become a history
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