Well. I've had my Buick Verano for over 1000 miles now. I just got back from a 2-day trip of sorts that had bouts of 2 hour long drives.
Still having issues with back comfort. But that aside...
Car handled well. Smooth ride. Would do it again. For the price, the car is a gem. In terms of ride quality and some features I'd say it's easily worth $5000 more. Sure, there are a ton of nuances missing or oddly implemented, but for the most part they're easily not worried about. And that statement is coming from someone who is an extremely picky consumer.
My only beef right now is that on highways or rough roads, the seatbelt height adjustments rattled - on both sides. It is weird to me that Buick spent all this time on NVH (Noise, Vibration, Harshness) and then put these seemingly flimsy plastic on plastic in plastic seatbelt height adjustments in the B pillar. Don't get me wrong, I love seatbelt height adjustments, but I've never before had issues with one rattling in previous cars.
My solution: Turn the radio up. But I shouldn't have to do this. I will probably try fitting some tan-colored (my car interior is coccachino) felt dots inside to stop the plastic-on-plastic rattling.
So overall, I would label that trip a success. I also like the car. I really can't wait until the Turbo model, though, if only for the factory dual-exhaust. I'm an odd stickler for symmetry and looking at the car from the back is jarring (not to mention my trunk still doesn't close in perfect alignment).
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As noted on a couple of forums, if you're switching too quickly between AM/FM <-> XM stations, the menu pointed seems to get completely dropped. The station will still play, but you will have no visibly selected channel, and when you go to select one, no matter where you were before, you go back to #1. No big deal really, and probably something that can be remedied in a future software bug. I'd definitely say its not as bad as Infiniti's terribly inconsistent steering wheel controls for menu items that aren't actually a bug, but just an extremely poorly designed feature that they have no plans of "fixing".
