When the Opel Adam enters the Chinese auto market in 2015, it will do so with a Buick badge as General Motors’ first high-end city car.
CarNewsChina reports the Adam will sell for somewhere between 169,800 yuan and 268,800 yuan, the same price range as that of the city car’s main competitor, the Fiat 500. Buick will import the Adam at first, though local production could come to fruition further down the road.
Under the hood, two engines will be available to future Adam owners, including a 1.2-liter engine driving 69 horses through the front wheels, and a larger 1.4-liter with 100 horsepower. Both engines are gasoline-powered.
The customer base for the Adam are those seeking a trendsetting lifestyle machine that has little to do with their parents’ Regal or other sedans.
This could be a fun addition to the Buick lineup here, competing with the 500 and Mini. Would help to change Buick’s still stodgy image. Of course, we’ll never see it. Adding this, the wagon version of the Regal/Insignia and the Cascada convertible would give Buick a much more interesting car lineup.
“The customer base for the Adam are those seeking a trendsetting lifestyle machine that has little to do with their parents’ Regal or other sedans.”
Are we sure Chinese people feel this way as well? Isn’t it all about the length of the car, and how prestigious it looks?
And at least it doesn’t look like a Citroen. /sarc
> Are we sure Chinese people feel this way as well? Isn’t it all about the length of the car, and how prestigious it looks?
Sure, for their said parents.
Looking at those color contrasting roofs and the way it continues down the C-pillar, I think I’ve found the replacement for the vinyl roof. ;)
It looks like someone put a fitted tarp on it for storage.
A straight up copy of the Audi A1.
If it’s a Buick, oughtn’t it be named the David?
Or for Cadillac, the Antoine.
It looks like an older Citroen C3 Pluriel
So many Buick models from Opel, and nobody gave a thought to renaming the European operation Buick, at least upscale models sold outside of Germany.
high end and Opel/Buick in one sentence = oxymoron. Add the 69 hp motor…
100 hp can be fun, but I have a feeling this car is heavier than it looks… so, no.