2013 Buick Verano Turbo

The first thing we need to keep your attention on what not to focus on the new 2.0-liter, 250 horsepower, and turbocharged direct injection version of the baby Buick Verano. There is no GS badging, or T-Type, Buick or any other boy-racer nomenclature. Also absent from large gaping grille openings to the engine intake and cooling air-brakes are swallowed. The urge to fit Dubs rubber band sidewall tires and resistance. Eagle-eyed observers will be exhausted only a small "T" badge, an oh-so-objection tailgate spoiler and dual be outside with a set of pedals made of brushed metal as the only interior label for additional performance of the car.

"Why do not shift paddles?" I asked, with the brutality of someone who is not yet fully understand the intent of Buick's low-key approach. "Because we do not try to make this a sports car," said chief engineer Gary Altman, with the patience of a man who had replied to this question do more than once and given out during the day of the short off-the-record one on a disc-boy racer types of media. I finally. Buick has learned better than the control group with gadgets and gewgaws that the chassis hardware is not ready to make money writing. The Verano T is only about giving customers a healthy dose of extra power for the same ride, nice park, and well-equipped package.

Perhaps the most surprising news is that despite Altman's not-a-sports-car protests, the Verano T will be available with a six-speed gearbox. And it's not something notchy box Regal GS, but a more integrated GM-switching unit is currently not available in all other North American vehicles. Oh, and remember that cold No-Lift Shift feature, which debuted on the Cobalt SS (it keeps the Turbo-cooking and prevents over speeding, while access to change gears)? It is also here, and its use is likely, how to get 6.2-second time.

How "healthy?" Try an extra 70 hp and 89 Nm, and SAE-certified 250 horsepower at 5,300 rpm and 260 lb-ft at 2000 rpm is when running on premium fuel, which is recommended but not required, although the performance is not much on a regular basis. This number tells that this same engine in the Regal GS turbo (220 hp and 270 respectively) and mounted in the nose of the lightest cars Buick, it means that zipping to 60 mph in 6.2 seconds. If this is true, it is 2.1 seconds faster than our last Verano, and adjusts the power of our fastest Regal GS (and so did they try to make a sports car). Consumption figures are not yet complete, but Buick is expected that 30 mpg highway hit.

The 2.0-liter turbo weighs about 100 pounds, more than 2.4 liters, so that the front suspension is increased to compensate (and the spring-damper is about 15 to 20 per cent stiffer), while the back atmosphere is the same. The rack-electric motor-assist steering is to provide a greater sense of on-center and a little more weight in no way calibrated, although the ratio remains unchanged. Also unchanged from the base car, the Continental 235/45R18 tires ContiProContact, while all Veranos get a slightly different spec inflation for the year 2013 (32 psi front / rear, from 30/32). Hey, hang it up for 0.83 g of grip, without crying in protest, and they whisper it quietly on the highway, so why throw everything out?

Other improvements include the addition of Verano line of standard IntelliLink Sirius / XM stereo / newsletter, full access tethering your smartphone via Bluetooth with Pandora and Stitcher Radio Smart integrated via the head unit. The system is easily controlled via voice, touch screen, or special keys - a kind of belt, suspenders, and Sansabelt approach. A rearview camera is now standard on all models, and Side Blind Zone Alert and Rear Cross-Traffic Alert is in the convenience, leather and premium packages (Verano all Ts are the best premium package) bundles.

Prices are only closer to the case of T Verano on sale date is available, but we promise it will be the next competitor, the Acura 2.4-liter ILX, which undercut the rings in at $ 30.095 to be (and has only 201 hp) . I like to share my impressions of the trip, the final adjustment is completed later this year, but I can tell you that the punch list of suggested tuning tweaks, I was short of huge.

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