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It could also preview Europe's Opel Insignia and Australia's Holden Commodore. China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) is a great source to find images of new cars, but in most cases, these are only relevant to the People’s Republic. It’s an exception here with the 2020 Buick Regal as we’re expecting the updated CN-spec model to be sold in other parts of the world with just about the same styling changes. Several grainy images have been posted on the MIIT website to fully reveal the exterior design changes the Buick Regal / Opel Insignia will be going through pretty soon. The 1980s beige color and small wheels are not doing the midsize liftback any justice, but the hotter GS (GSi in Europe) does look a lot better courtesy of its sporty upgrades. Gallery: 2020 Buick Regal (CN Spec) 5 Photos The most obvious change compared to the current Regal is noticeable at the front where the headlights now have a protrusion … [Read more...] about 2020 Buick Regal Surfaces In China With Minor Facelift

From 2023. [UPDATE, November 16] VW has issued a press release (attached at the end), confirming the report: "Production of the Volkswagen Passat family will be moved to the ŠKODA plant in Kvasiny, Czech Republic, and these models will be built there together with the ŠKODA Superb and Kodiaq from 2023. The ŠKODA Karoq and the SEAT Ateca, currently produced in Kvasiny, will be transferred to a new Group multi-brand plant. The Group is looking for a new location in Eastern Europe." As we’re sure you have heard by now, the EV invasion from Volkswagen is upon us. In order to prepare for an armada of zero-emissions vehicles, the folks from Wolfsburg need to reshuffle car production to free up capacity and optimize output as much as possible. This is expected to have an impact on conventional cars powered by combustion engines, with VW announcing just yesterday to turn the Emden and Hanover facilities into electric vehicle plants by 2022.According to … [Read more...] about Your Next Euro VW Passat Could Be Built By Skoda [UPDATE]

A future range-topper could come from Polestar’s Chengdu, China production facility. Polestar opened a sprawling production facility in Chengdu, China this August for its 619-horsepower (462-kilowatt) plug-in hybrid halo car, the Polestar 1. Capped at just 500 units per year, and limited to a production run of three years, only 1,500 examples of the vehicle will roll out of the brand-new facility between now and 2023. But that impressive plant won't sit dormant for long. The Polestar 1 is merely the first in what we hope will be a long lineage of halo cars for the brand. While production of the electric Polestar 2 – a mainstream, electric sedan – kicks off at Polestar's Luqia, China manufacturing plant in early 2020, Polestar CEO Thomas Ingenlath promises another range-topping vehicle in the future. It’s more than likely to come from the company's new Chengdu plant, and like all future Polestars, will be fully electric. More From Polestar: … [Read more...] about Polestar 1 Won’t Be The Brand’s Last Halo Model

Assimilate this. Of the many big baddies from the Star Trek universe, the Swedish-sounding Borg rank as one of the most terrifying, with their faceless cube-shaped ships destroying anything and everything in their path. This cube in Sweden is not a destroyer of worlds, though. It’s just the new home of Polestar. Polestar Getting Brighter: Polestar Announces Opening Of Its First Showroom Next Year Polestar 2 Likely To Boast 350-Mile Range, Tesla Model 3 Price Called (imaginatively) the Polestar Cube, the building may share its shape with the ships of Captain Picard’s arch-nemesis, but it’s anything but terrifying. The white glass façade looks like something Apple would build (if it didn’t have a flying saucer for its headquarters) and is but one part of a new complex in Gothenburg dedicated to Volvo’s new all-electric sub-brand. Aside from the windows, the only break in the smooth surface is for Polestar’s star-shaped … [Read more...] about Polestar Cube Is All-Electric Brand’s New Digs, Not A Destroyer Of Worlds

It's an evaluation of the car's handling prowess ... and the driver's courage. Polestar is full-speed ahead with the testing of its first production car. Recently, we’ve seen the company evaluating the hybrid’s structure in crash testing, but now we’re getting a look at research of a more dramatic nature. By dramatic, we mean hitting takeoff velocities for jumbo jets on a wet, banked track. Yikes. Follow Polestar's progress: ⠀ Polestar 1 Begins Verification Prototype Production ⠀ Watch Polestar 1 Carbon Fiber Body Endure Crash Test The focus of this video is evaluating the Polestar 1’s chassis dynamics, and as you can see the engineers aren’t letting any grass grow. Part of the process includes dialing in the steering responsiveness as well as adjusting the car’s torque vectoring system, not to mention overall suspension tuning.“Whenever you drive Polestar 1, you should immediately feel like you … [Read more...] about Polestar 1 Testing Includes Doing 137 MPH On Wet Curves