The Buick Regal nameplate is on its way out in the U.S. market, but before it goes, General Motors is giving it a little extra performance flavoring with the new ST Appearance package. Now, we have our first look at what the package looks like when applied to the four-door sedan.
The 2020 Buick Regal is one of the last contemporary sedans produced by the Tri-Shield brand, so it makes sense that Buick is interested in giving a splash of extra sporting appeal with this new ST Appearance Package.
The new ST Appearance Package includes the following content:
- Custom Black grille
- Rear sport spoiler
- ST badging
- 18-inch aluminum wheels with Gloss Black finish
Interested buyers can opt into the package with the mid-range Essence trim level, which takes up a spot between the Preferred and Avenir trim levels. Unfortunately, the package is not offered with the Regal TourX wagon.
The “ST” nomenclature stands for “Sport Touring,” hence the sportier look. Buick has offered the Regal with an ST Appearance Package in the past, including the previous generation, as introduced with the 2016 model year. The previous ST Appearance Package was also offered with the Buick LaCrosse, Buick Encore, and the Buick Verano.
The Regal Sportback Essence draws motivations from the turbocharged 2.0L LTG four-cylinder powerplant, which is tuned to produce 250 horsepower and 260 pound-feet of torque.
As we covered previously, the Buick Regal line will be discontinued in North America after the 2020 model year, as confirmed by General Motors just last month. Although the Regal will not be offered in the U.S. and Canada, it will continue to be sold in China.
Since the Regal line is being discontinued, the Sport Touring model has been discontinued already, Buick spokesperson Stuart Fowle confirmed with GM Authority. Ten units of the Regal Sport Touring were produced.
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Shame they never market the car because I’m starting to see more of them in my area. After the PSA deal the Regal/Commodore was DOA after 20′, my hope is an VSS-R replacement.
If they would’ve offered this package years ago maybe they wouldn’t have had to drop all the passenger cars and go to all SUV’S. Typical GM short sidedness
Why would they apply the ST package if there’s already a GS package available? What’s the difference?
Sporty looks but not necessarily the hardware under the skin differentiating it from the GS??? I’m just guessing here.
ST is purely appearance with no Performance hardware.
This car is just not very attractive…especially with those low end headlamps.
This is buick. HID’s should be std. LED optional. ST is a waste of time.
So having garish LED headlights somehow transforms the looks of the entire car? Seriously!!!
Here the 2020 Opel insignia (Buick Regal) facelift available from June 2020.
https://www.km77.com/coches/opel/insignia/2020/grand-sport/informacion
with 1.4 Turbo 3 cylinder engine and 2.0 Turbo (available only in some market)
1.5 turbo diesel
A waste of time since this car isn’t even in production for NA. Instead they should have kept it around another year and spent a few bucks on advertising. GM went way too far with the sedan culling spree. There is no reason they couldn’t have kept the Regal and made it alongside the Malibu and given it more public awareness and better packaging and the killing off of the wagon body is doubly bad! Shame on you Barra!
If you want one you had better hurry. The car is discontinued, we know this already, yes. What most don’t realize is that all previous orders for the car at the dealer level have been cancelled by GM. We had several in line to get built that are never going to happen. Having just done a nationwide locate of 2020 Regal in all body configurations including TourX and Sportback trim levels I have found a grand total of just 49 in the country as of today 1/13/2020. One can only surmise that the only 2020’s will be those that were built and shipped prior to them deciding to give the car the Ax.
These are the same wheels from the Chinese market Regal GS. I’m not a fan.