I don't know how "urgency" and 4,270 lbs. with a normally aspirated V6 can possibly go together in a review? Must be a magic performance transmission indeed. Or a lower level of performance acceptance to get "luxury".
It really looks great, one of the better sedans on the road, especially the exterior front quarter view in red, but white is fine looking too. I agree with all Jacob's comments about interiors and this one is better than average, given the dullness colour pallet. The wheels, being silver and not boring, attract me too. To me, black/dark wheels are just steelie look alikes where someone forgot or was too lazy to buy wheel covers after buying their snow tires and I'm talking summer 30C time - IMHO. This somewhat dubious wheel colour trend pretty much killed a certain car purchase for me for the past almost year, as cars are too expensive to then go out spending 1.5k on aftermarket wheels too.
Storage space is WOW, like the Stinger and Audi Sportback. Too bad GM had to "intentionally" have to ruin pricing by making their top of the line car version require an expensive option package just to get a moonroof and a better sound system (still only 8 speakers at that) ?? Could be the deal breaker right there as the Regal ends up to be the same price after getting average/normally expected equipment for high end, (but still lacking power and torque to weight - big time). The thing is, the Stinger has been criticized for creaks and rattles in numerous reviews whereas the Regal GS is a champion of sound suppression, whether it be road noise, outside noise etc. - I remember fondly still the superior NVH of my Buick Verano turbo. So in a nutshell what you are paying for here is LUXURY sport, at the expense of some performance, but still "OK" in that regard.
Now not mentioned in the article because it was solely about the GS version, was the ability to get pretty much the same performance by not buying a Regal GS, but getting a Regal with its standard 2.0T instead that has more torque lower down. At a lower price,minus some of the appearance.