Just this week, we got the official word that the Buick Regal nameplate would return to the U.S. in the form of a GM Epsilon-platform based car that's essentially a re-badged Opel/Vauxhall Insignia. Today, we get a peek at what it should look like thanks to Facebook. What appears to be the U.S.-spec Regal has been spotted and posted on the car's Facebook page. The user who uploaded the image claims he saw the car being photographed at Grand Rapids Art Museum in Michigan.
The Regal name, which was discontinued in the U.S. 2004, has soldiered on in China. An Epsilon-based Regal has been available in Chinese-spec trim for some time (click here for our First Drive), and we've been curious as to what changes the U.S. model would receive. Not surprisingly, our Regal looks to have borrowed heavily from the Opel/Vauxhall Insignia version, showing similar fog lights and grille opening. Predictably, the U.S. Regal's grille retains the "waterfall" vertical chrome lines as opposed to the Insignia's horizontal slices, although it looks to have dispensed with the Chinese version's chrome faux fender vents. While there are probably a few more changes in store for the U.S. model, this looks to be pretty close to what we'll see in Buick showrooms.
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