The turbocharged Regal is the very first GM product built in China that will be available with a turbocharged engine. The next-generation 2.0l engine Turbo Direct Injection engine has two overhead camshafts, four valves per cylinder, and common-rail, multiple fuel direct injection, together with a variable geometry turbocharger for a rapid throttle response at low rpm. It generates maximum power of 162 kW/220 hp at 5,300 rpm and peak torque of 350 Nm at 2,000-4,000 rpm. It can go from 0 to 100 km/h in 7.8 seconds, which will make it the most powerful turbocharged engine on the market. The engine has excellent fuel economy and comes with a maintenance-free diesel particulate filter as standard equipment. It meets the advanced Euro V emission standard.

 

Oh man, and the subject had me so excited.

Cool car... just not what I thought it was going to be.

 

Not what we were originally hoping for, but this will be a good test to see what the LNF will do in ever increasingly larger and heavier vehicles. What will be the performance & economy differences between a V6/A6 I4/A6 LNF/A6 when they are all stuffed in this chassis? I'm rather curious!

 

I know right, FWD and 4-cyl. :yawn:

 

Chinese Regal gets turbocharged, meanwhile American Regal still doesn't exist.



So is this a diesel engine? It didn't sound like it anywhere in the description until the end it said something about a diesel.

Turbocharged small engines seem to be getting very popular for more premium level economy focused cars because they offer great fuel economy with a small engine without the normally associated complete lack of low RPM torque.

The only thing that concerns me is that by default a turbocharged engine just has that much more that could go wrong with it later on.

Was there a turbocharged car made in the 90s that didn't need some engine work of some form or another within the first 150k miles? Maybe turbo engines these days are more durable, but it seems they must still be less durable than their non turbo counterparts.

 

The numbers (220hp, 258 lb-ft) seem like modern diesel numbers. I agree, the article isn't clear about it. I'm pretty sure it's not the LNF, which is what I thought initially (after realizing it wasn't what I wanted it to be).

 

Not really, it's more along the lines of Audi's gasoline 2.0T engine, with 211 HP and 257 lb-ft of torque.

if it was diesel, i'd expect it to have closer to 300 lb-ft of torque, and less than 200 HP.

 

Yes, it is diesel, not the LNF.

 

Then it doesn't offer really impressive torque numbers.