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The 2024 Buick Regal (CN) Leaked: Do We Miss It Yet?

The Truth About Cars

The Buick Regal may have been removed from our market. It wasn’t even terrible to look at — mixing design trends that had been synonymous with Buick since the 1990s with a tinge of Audi. Buick is embracing some of the industry’s general design trends here. For all intents and purposes, Buick has become a Chinese brand.

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Tesla Model Y dominates Chinese reliability survey

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An EV reliability survey completed in China has listed the Tesla Model Y and Tesla Model 3 as two of the most reliable electric vehicles on the Chinese market. Looking to the top of the list (the vehicles with the most complaints per 10,000 units), models from Chinese brands such as BYD , Lixiang, and Chery were ever-present.

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QOTD: Do You Actually Care About Chinese Imports?

The Truth About Cars

This was interesting because the article dealt exclusively with updates to the vehicle, which is technically still a product of North America. annually, having Oakville Assembly down means Ford had to come up with something and it elected to pull China out of the bullpen — setting the SUV up to become Ford’s very first Chinese import.

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BrightDrop: GM’s silent push into electric commercial vehicles

Charged EVs

But very few consumers will come up with BrightDrop , the name GM has given to a new unit that builds electric commercial vehicles: full-size vans and even electric cargo containers. Buick, meanwhile, was vitally important for the Chinese market, where today more than four times as many Buicks are sold as in North America.

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Proposed Changes to Federal EV Tax Credit – Part 4: Chinese-Assembled Vehicles Will Not Be Eligible for Tax Credit

EV Adoption

Whether or not Chinese OEMs employ unionized factory workers (none of the existing foreign automakers with US factories employ union workers today), to reduce or eliminate trade tariffs, political issues, and the loss of tax credits — these automakers may almost be forced to build their vehicles in US factories.

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Can General Motors bounce back? The Green Piece

Green Cars News

Its dive into the financial doldrums was short-lived however, and on July 10, 2009, the company bounced back with the formation of a new, downsized GM (see article ). The company was created from the old GM’s strongest operations and was reborn with a clear focus on building better and more environmentally friendly vehicles.

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2022 Chevrolet Bolt EUV: Chevy’s lowest-priced electric car gets a big brother

Charged EVs

But the EUV first went into production last year in China—as a Buick. Chevy already previewed an all-electric compact crossover and a pickup truck, and announced in April that it would build an all-electric Silverado with an estimated 400 miles of rated range at its Factory Zero EV assembly plant in Detroit.