Video: Buick Regal GS

Editor Mike Hanley takes you through that car in a separate video, so be sure to check it out. Here we're gonna 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. True to form, this car takes the two-liter turbo-charged four cylinder from the Regal CXL. It's got two-hundred and twenty horsepower there. Here it pumps it up to two-hundred fifty-five horsepower, and two-hundred and ninety-five pounds-feet of torque. 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-tuned suspension and massive Brembo front brakes with fourteen inch cross-drilled front rotors. Cosmetically I don't think Buick did too bad of a job here. You've got these sort of vertical air inlets here, they add a little bit more presence to the nose, there's the requisite lower side skirts, twenty inch alloy wheels, a rear spoiler and new shapes for the rear exhaust pipes. The cabin is jet black but like the outside the changes are relatively light. You've got Recaro sports seats here with higher side bolsters to hold you in during corners and looks like a different sort of leather. Now Buick says the exterior was originally gonna be Olympic White, um, 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 twenty ten Abalone Games aren't taken place next month in Vancouver. The GS doesn't look that far off a regular Regal so, it's possible that depending on the auto show reactions Buick could end up building a few of these as some kind of limited production run. So stay tuned for more information. We'd offer some more concrete info here but, you know, at that point we'd just be guessing. Or I guess you could say, GS-ing. <v Narrator>For more car related news go to cars.com, or our blog, KickingTires.net.