{"id":519557,"date":"2010-04-07T11:01:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T15:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/04\/07\/spy-shots-buick-excelle-gt-spotted-in-china-220-hp-2-0l-turbo\/"},"modified":"2010-04-07T11:01:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T15:01:00","slug":"spy-shots-buick-excelle-gt-spotted-in-china-220-hp-2-0l-turbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/519557","title":{"rendered":"Spy Shots: Buick Excelle GT spotted in China, 220 hp 2.0L turbo?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/spyphotos\/\" rel=\"tag\">Spy Photos<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/sedans\/\" rel=\"tag\">Sedan<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/buick\/\" rel=\"tag\">Buick<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/beijing-motor-show\/\" rel=\"tag\">Beijing Motor Show<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinacartimes.com\/2010\/04\/07\/buick-exelle-gt-sedan-spotted-out-testing\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"4\" hspace=\"4\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2010\/04\/buick-excellegt-spy4.jpg\" \/><\/a>What is purported to be a new GT version of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/make\/buick\/\">Buick<\/a> Excelle has been spotted out and about in China. The Excelle, you may recall, is a four door version of the Opel Astra. Buick has already said that the car will be coming to North America at some point, although we don&#8217;t know exactly when or what badge it will wear. The current top engine in the Excelle XT is a turbocharged 1.6-liter inline-four that pumps out 184 horsepower. <\/p>\n<p>The new Excelle GT may be getting the 2.0-liter direct-injected turbo from the mid-sized Regal in 220-hp trim which would make the compact sedan quite the little stormer. Now, if Buick sell this one here and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/make\/ford\/\">Ford<\/a> puts the 2.0-liter EcoBoost in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/02\/16\/dealers-reportedly-reveal-that-new-mercury-compact-to-exhume-tra\/\">upcoming Mercury compact<\/a>, we could have quite the battle of lower-premium small cars in America.<\/p>\n<p>The Excelle GT make get a public announcement at the Beijing Motor Show later this month. <em>A tip of the hat to Hanif!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinacartimes.com\/2010\/04\/07\/buick-exelle-gt-sedan-spotted-out-testing\/\">China Car Times<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/04\/07\/spy-shots-buick-excelle-gt-spotted-in-china-220-hp-2-0l-turbo\/\">Spy Shots: Buick Excelle GT spotted in China, 220 hp 2.0L turbo?<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\">Autoblog<\/a> on Wed, 07 Apr 2010 10:01:00 EST.  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The Excelle, you may recall, is a four door version of the Opel Astra. Buick has already said that the car will be coming to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}