Buick Enclave: 2012 Buick Verano Review
Despite its commuter-car roots, the 2012 Buick Verano drives and feels more like a luxury car, which makes its starting price all the more attractive.
Parent company GM sunk big cash into developing the smash-hit Chevrolet Cruze, but wringing a Buick from the same platform seemed dubious. A Toyota Corolla with leather, after all, does not a Lexus make. But here's the difference: To begin with, the Cruze is no Corolla; this Buick is no Chevy clone, and GM's latest whack at the below-$30,000 luxury piñata could pay off.
The front-drive Verano sedan comes in Base, Convenience and Leather trims, with the Base trim level's price overlapping Chevrolet's top-of-the-line Cruze LTZ. An automatic transmission and four-cylinder engine are standard. We tested a well-equipped Verano Leather.
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The Verano measures a smidge larger than the Cruze, with which it shares the
same wheelbase. The Buick's footprint falls between the shrink-wrapped Lexus IS
250 and larger Acura TSX, but its styli
Where it counts, the Verano's interior feels plush — somewhere between a
compact and a luxury car, but closer to the latter. Similar money could get a
well-equipped Cruze or Mazda3. The Buick is
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This vehicle has a cargo management system located in the rear.
To remove the cargo management cover:
1. Open the cover. It remains open when lifted.
2. Pull the cover up making sure to unhook the hinges at the rear of the cover.
WARNING
An improperly latched and closed cargo cover, or cargo
To replace one of these bulbs:
1. Remove the two screws holding each of the license plate lamps to the liftgate
trim.
2. Turn and pull the license plate lamp forward through the liftgate trim opening.
3. Turn the bulb socket counterclockwise and pull the bulb straight out of the socket.
4. I
