2025 Buick Regal GS Interior, MPG, Redesign
2025 Buick Regal GS Interior, MPG, Redesign – The Buick Regal GS Sportback is a bit of a bugbear for me. It is, in my original homeland, the new replacement for the venerable Holden Commodore. There it is badged as a Commodore still but it is the first front-wheel-drive Commodore in that nameplate’s history.
2025 Buick Regal GS Redesign and Update Plan
Exterior and Interior
The interior is distinctly Buick, with easy-to-use controls and an available head-up display. The seats are a thing of beauty, unique to the GS and with adjustable bolsters, heating and cooling, and a massage function. It’s roomy inside, and the sportback styling adds to the practicality when loading cargo, especially since the 40/20/40 rear seats fold flat.
Not surprisingly, the GS isn’t going to be the volume seller, and GM expects it to account for only about 10 percent of all Regal GS sales. And how well it’ll do in the market overall is also up for grabs. In my limited time behind the wheel, it looks like Buick has hit the sweet spot for sporty handling with commute-to-the-office comfort, but the brand still doesn’t have that sports-sedan cred that’s woven into the fabric of makes like Audi and BMW.
2025 Buick Regal GS Specs
It is my contention, and has been for sometime that the best cargo configuration is a sedan with a liftback / fastback / sportback / whatever you want to call it, and I believe it here too. No other set up gives you as much volume or as much access to your cargo. Here, you get a whopping 892 L of cargo volume, expanding to an SUV-shaming 1,719 with the seats down.
To open this liftback you’ll need to have read the owners manual. Or, Google “How to open Regal GS trunk” – as I did. The answer is to put your fingertip lightly in the lower middle of the Buick logo on the trunk lid. 2025 Buick Regal GS Interior
Engine and Performance
All of this, I take in and am impressed by before I prod the GS into life. Then, I notice the deep growl from the 3.6L V6 engine. Its 310 hp and 282 lb-ft numbers don’t do justice to the experience. Perhaps courtesy of the well-matched nine-speed automatic transmission, this V6 gets the hefty (1,937 kg) GS up to speed with smooth urgency. With ratings of 12.4/8.7/10.7 L/100 km city/highway/combined, it’s fair to say my week-long result of 12.7 had a bit to do with my enjoyment of this engine.
Road comfort from the McPherson strut front suspension and five-link rear is very good. The Regal GS rides imperfections with ease and handles those same imperfections in corners without changing trajectory. Bigger bumps don’t generate that floating feeling domestics sometimes suffer, and the suspension is quick to return to a settled state. Pitching is a little pronounced, but that can be blamed on the four-piston 345 mm Brembo brakes mounted behind the 19-inch wheels. These front brakes, and the 315 mm rotors out back, arrest the Regal GS with surprising authority.
It is in the handling department where some of the sportiness falls by the wayside, with the GS a little tardy to change direction, and not quite as pointy as other sporty sedans. Mid-corner performance, feel, body movement and stability are strong, and corner exits are good courtesy of that potent V6 drivetrain.
2025 Buick Regal GS Fuel Economy
The GS comes only with all-wheel but with the nine-speed automatic, and spins out 282 lb-ft of torque. Seat time on this quick event was limited to an eight-kilometre lap of the test track, where I drove all three Regal GS models. As short as that was, the GS’ chops came through loud and clear when compared to its four-cylinder siblings. 2025 Buick Regal GS Interior
The all-wheel system runs exclusively in front-wheel under most conditions, but can transfer up to 50 percent to the rear when needed, and that back-axle power can then be sent entirely to the left or right tire. The car tucks in smartly around curves, including a quick lane-change opportunity where I had to lift off the throttle on the front-wheel Regal GS and taller, all-wheel TourX to get through without killing any of the cones that marked the route.
2025 Buick Regal GS Safety Features
The ride is taut but smooth, and it was impressive across the rougher pavement included on portions of the test track. The suspension soaked up the shock from spalled concrete and potholes, while a ridged stretch of chatter bumps didn’t knock the GS around as easily as it did the Regal GS and TourX.
Both the GS and the all-wheel Regal GS feature a five-link rear suspension, while the GS includes a continuous damping control system. The car starts out in regular driving mode, but progressively tightens the suspension and adjusts the driving dynamics when you hit the buttons for Sport or GS. Even so, it’s still smooth and settled: most sport sedan buyers still want soothe along with the sizzle. I’ve driven the previous GS, and this new one feels lighter and with snappier steering, and with more horsepower and far better seats.
The nine-speed automatic does its job very smoothly, which is both a pro and a con. On the pro side, the shifts are almost imperceptible, which is what you want in a car that’s about comfort. On the con side, there’s supposed to be some visceral feel to a sports sedan – feeling the gears holding as the revs rise, the satisfying blip of a downshift – that isn’t there. And while you can shift the manual mode via the gearshift lever, why give us a sports-style, flat-bottomed steering wheel that doesn’t have paddle shifters on it?
The GS package also includes Brembo calipers, a sport-tuned exhaust that could use a bit more burble, and metal pedals. I’m still not quite sold on the in-your-face air intakes in the unique-to-GS front fascia, matched with similarly styled exhaust surrounds at the rear, but they definitely tell onlookers that you sprang for the top-end model. 2025 Buick Regal GS Interior
2025 Buick Regal GS Price and Release Date
What is not losing favour, is connectivity and feature content. Here again, Buick packs a lot into the package. Those seats, for example. Also the on-board Wi-Fi, Sirius XM, OnStar and teen driver mode. The addition of the $1,995 Driver Confidence Package #2 brings with it forward collision alert, adaptive cruise, front pedestrian detection, lane-keep assist and a head-up display. 2025 Buick Regal GS Interior
This upgraded 8.0-inch touchscreen infotainment is applied courtesy of the $3,495 Experience Buick Package. It also adds a moonroof, eight-speaker Bose audio system, wireless phone charging and auto-levelling LED cornering headlights. Keyless entry, dual-zone automatic climate control, park assist (front and rear) and the Buick rear vision camera are all standard.
