New Regal = New Grand National???
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Build the Grand National,but open a new plant and use the Camaro chassis:
*Camaro chassis with new body sculpting
*Alumatec V6 (Camaro base engine), and turbo-charge it! It is already forged. With direct injection, vvt and active fuel management. It is a very high tech engine begging to be boosted from its 300 horse.
*Leather interior.
*Black!
Optional luxury package with Navigation and bells and whistles that the performance crowd may not want for weight or price.
Optional performance package with carbon fiber hood, larger wheels, and if you are feeling real aggressive a GM performance parts water injection kit.
GM you have the parts, and have a winner with the Camaro. Why wait, and play games with the market. Crank production up and seize on the opportunity by keeping demand alive for a v6 well into the future!
*Camaro chassis with new body sculpting
*Alumatec V6 (Camaro base engine), and turbo-charge it! It is already forged. With direct injection, vvt and active fuel management. It is a very high tech engine begging to be boosted from its 300 horse.
*Leather interior.
*Black!
Optional luxury package with Navigation and bells and whistles that the performance crowd may not want for weight or price.
Optional performance package with carbon fiber hood, larger wheels, and if you are feeling real aggressive a GM performance parts water injection kit.
GM you have the parts, and have a winner with the Camaro. Why wait, and play games with the market. Crank production up and seize on the opportunity by keeping demand alive for a v6 well into the future!
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As a former Grand National owner, I really hope not.
The "Regal" is actually an Opel Insignia with a Buick grille. It's FWD, it's four-doors and the styling is all wrong.
It would be so much worse than the LSX GTO was to the GTO name.
The "Regal" is actually an Opel Insignia with a Buick grille. It's FWD, it's four-doors and the styling is all wrong.
It would be so much worse than the LSX GTO was to the GTO name.
that looks pretty cool. It would be badass if they broke the GSX back 
^^^ I'm with this guy, I would order one if they did it like that^^^
Because GN was a american Icon. Buick still doesn't have a muscle car and it could use one to keep it sales up and get a younger audience looking at buick. Might even help get GM out of this problem.
Build the Grand National,but open a new plant and use the Camaro chassis:
*Camaro chassis with new body sculpting
*Alumatec V6 (Camaro base engine), and turbo-charge it! It is already forged. With direct injection, vvt and active fuel management. It is a very high tech engine begging to be boosted from its 300 horse.
*Leather interior.
*Black!
Optional luxury package with Navigation and bells and whistles that the performance crowd may not want for weight or price.
Optional performance package with carbon fiber hood, larger wheels, and if you are feeling real aggressive a GM performance parts water injection kit.
GM you have the parts, and have a winner with the Camaro. Why wait, and play games with the market. Crank production up and seize on the opportunity by keeping demand alive for a v6 well into the future!
*Camaro chassis with new body sculpting
*Alumatec V6 (Camaro base engine), and turbo-charge it! It is already forged. With direct injection, vvt and active fuel management. It is a very high tech engine begging to be boosted from its 300 horse.
*Leather interior.
*Black!
Optional luxury package with Navigation and bells and whistles that the performance crowd may not want for weight or price.
Optional performance package with carbon fiber hood, larger wheels, and if you are feeling real aggressive a GM performance parts water injection kit.
GM you have the parts, and have a winner with the Camaro. Why wait, and play games with the market. Crank production up and seize on the opportunity by keeping demand alive for a v6 well into the future!
We've heard nothing about GM bringing a GN back into the picture and have no reason to believe they will do so in the future. Now is a terrible time to bring a sports car with more of a 'cult' following into the fray anyways. When GM brings a boosted, low displacement, DI, v6 motor into production, then possibly a GN would be a good "muscle" platform to show it off. We've heard no such news of a motor that fits said description.
Either way, randomly blindsiding the public with a nameplate like "Grand National" is a rather terrible business plan. If they are going to make a GN, we will hear about it far in advance.
Yeah, I realize the significance of the GN. However, to even think Buick would turn this FWD jelly bean into a GN is practically blasphemous; it doesn't take a genius to figure out that GM would probably not just slap a GN badge on a weaksauce FWD platform and think they could get away with it.
We've heard nothing about GM bringing a GN back into the picture and have no reason to believe they will do so in the future. Now is a terrible time to bring a sports car with more of a 'cult' following into the fray anyways. When GM brings a boosted, low displacement, DI, v6 motor into production, then possibly a GN would be a good "muscle" platform to show it off. We've heard no such news of a motor that fits said description.
Either way, randomly blindsiding the public with a nameplate like "Grand National" is a rather terrible business plan. If they are going to make a GN, we will hear about it far in advance.
We've heard nothing about GM bringing a GN back into the picture and have no reason to believe they will do so in the future. Now is a terrible time to bring a sports car with more of a 'cult' following into the fray anyways. When GM brings a boosted, low displacement, DI, v6 motor into production, then possibly a GN would be a good "muscle" platform to show it off. We've heard no such news of a motor that fits said description.
Either way, randomly blindsiding the public with a nameplate like "Grand National" is a rather terrible business plan. If they are going to make a GN, we will hear about it far in advance.
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IMO, it would be a GN in name only. The drivetrain may be infinitely better than the original........but it won't touch the original in the styling department. It'll look like every other bland, melted corners-mobile out there on the street. Even if that's sort of in keeping with the original's MO, it will be disappointing.
Now, if they can produce something with styling similar to the concept pics posted above, then they'd definitely have something.......and I'll eat my words.........happily.
Now, if they can produce something with styling similar to the concept pics posted above, then they'd definitely have something.......and I'll eat my words.........happily.
It would be cool if they brought it back, but the problem is this car had muscle written on it back then. All the sharp angles and lines. The cars out now are too rounded and bubbly looking. The pictures above, sorry to say, look like a modified holden with m3 side fenders. They could use some pointers from the new camaro and somewhat base the design off the original, or at least some significant cues. As long as they didnt screw up like dodge did with the charger. Even with ford bringing back the SHO model, I wish they had done something a little bit more stand-alone-ish. The suggestion of the turbo'd camaro v6 could be a good idea, or maybe... a turbocharged GNX ls3?. Lets not forget the t tops that came on the original, what are your thoughts on that part for a new GN? It would have to be something to look apart and more edgy than whats out there right now. ...juuust my .02
