Buick Regal Based on Opel Insignia Launched in China

Why that, the chinaese can't stand Opel, or what?

And GM wonder why their products are not regarded as top of the line.. Badge engineering? Still? In 2009? They might sell a few more cars in China, but they put me off ever wanting to buy one of their cars, despite the fact that the Insignia is appealing! Wake up GM, it's time to die..

i notice that there are not many chinese characters inside the car. is that normal?

it's a nice car, I'd buy it if it were cheaper than its competitors. I'm impressed by the number of changes they've done to make it different from it's clones sold elsewhere in Europe, US, wherever as oppose to just 100% badge engineering (replacing the badges themselves). Although I know Buick is more appealing in China, I think it's time to kill off some of their brands now and just stick to Opel (they're German -- for some reason German cars are more popular where I live) instead of Buick or whatever badge they can stick on. It's now time to do that -- especially where they can cut down costs at making these models "slightly" different from the same vehicles -- at at time now with the economy like this... and lastly, I just HATE these Asian car catalogue photo shoots -- there must somehow be a photo of a car with 1 side chopped off, and the cut off sheet metal covered up, and 100 somehow "semi-transparent" airbags exploded out simultaneously... gosh. this is so over the top.

Damn you, GM. How much more stupid can you become? It is already an eye-catching car under Insignia badge. Why are you killing that, instead of making Insignia a world wide known brand like Passat etc? Stupid, stupid...

My only complaint is why aren't Buicks this nice in America?

come on guys... yes, it is another case of badge engineering from gm... but wouldnt it be great to have an appealing, sporty midsize from buick like that on the american market too?

In China, Shanghai GM changes Chevrolet to be a low-class brand,Buick to be a intermediate brand,Cadillac to be a high-class brand...in order to manage the brands easily, they change the logo...and in China , Opel is managed as an imported brand with Astra,Vectra...

in the interior pictures u can see where really differrentiates from the opel.....really??? change the lights to blue and write buick on the screen. if thats ur idea of big diffentiation u most love the diffence between whit and off white.