Instead, the 2018 Regal, due in
showrooms late 2017, comes as a Sportback hatchback and a station wagon called TourX, a lineup that
addresses the sedan body style's continuing decline in popularity among North American
car buyers.
During the
address, chairman Rupert Stadler said that «co-operation» with Porsche (basically nicking its J1 EV platform) had lowered the potential development costs for such a
car by hundreds of millions of Euros and made possible a much shorter production timescale that should see it hit
showrooms in 2020.