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Model years to avoid

Buick Verano

What it says about you

Opinion

A small, quiet, well-insulated saloon aimed at people who wanted a Cruze to feel expensive. It did.

Not measured, not from the data, and offered in fun. Everything below this is not.

6 model years on record, 440 complaints filed. No year stood out against this model's own history — which means it has not drawn unusual complaints, not that it is a good car.

What owners report, and when

Faults that dominated the complaints of more than one model year. Not the same question as which year to avoid — a car can have an ordinary number of complaints every year and have most of them be about the same thing.

  • felt 2013, 2014 peak 7.9% of that year's complaints

Every year

  1. 2017 1 recall 9 complaints
  2. 2016 2 recalls 59 complaints
  3. 2015 0 recalls 58 complaints
  4. 2014 6 recalls 101 complaints
  5. 2013 3 recalls 107 complaints
  6. 2012 3 recalls 106 complaints

What does a Buick Verano say about you?

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Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints — compared against itself rather than against other cars, so popularity and age do not decide the answer.