Chevrolet Equinox Review

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În timp ce în mişcare afară să trăiască cont propriu este cu siguranţă o binevenită dreptul de trecere pentru aproape toata lumea la sfârşitul adolescenti lor, este ceva heartwarming despre rubrica înapoi la homestead pentru un weekend prelungit cu familia.

Sigur, veţi avea, probabil, mama ta în mod constant amintindu-vă să puneţi dumneavoastră feluri de mâncare murdar în maşina de spălat vase şi tatăl vostru vă cere pentru ajutor cu unele dintre muncile grele de ridicare el a fost de economisire pentru întoarcerea ta, dar există ceva familiar despre fiind acasă, şi pentru toate annoyances sale poate fi destul de reconfortant.

Chevrolet Equinox este la fel ca acasă. Citeşte mai mult şi vă voi spune de ce.



What is the Chevrolet Equinox?
The Chevrolet Equinox, acum five years into its second generation, is the General's bread and butter small CUV. Introduced in 2009 as a model 2010, the second generation Equinox has seen some positive evolution, but virtually nothing has changed for 2014.

If you are looking for an entry-level, small SUV with decent tech and equipment, this is your starting point. If you ' re a proponent for Canadian-built vehicles, you ' re in noroc, as the Equinox is assembled in Ingersoll, Ontario, alongside the GMC Terrain.

2014 Chevrolet Equinox Price and Specs
Available in LS, LT (1LT and 2LT), and LTZ trims, in both front - or all-wheel drive, the Chevrolet Equinox is equipped with a 2.4L Ecotec direct-injected 4-cylinder engine producing 182 hp and 172 lb-ft de cuplu. However, if you want more power, you can opt for the 3.6L direct-injected V6 with 301 hp and 272 lb-ft of torque (available only on LT si LTZ trims). Both engines trimite power to a 6-speed automatic transmission, indiferent de driveline.

Prices for the base trim LS model with front-wheel drive start at $26,375 before taxes and fees, reaching up to $37,175 for a top trim LTZ model with all-wheel drive (but still with the 4-cylinder engine).

Driving the 2014 Chevrolet Equinox
Like I mentioned at the top, the Equinox is just like poza to mom and dad's: you know exactly what you ' re in for and it ' s totally all right.

Back in 2009, I tested the Equinox and found it to be quite unic și surprinzător, mainly for one reason: it was exceptionally quiet. This was thanks to active noise cancellation and acoustic glass, something that I hadn't experienced before in an offering from a volume brand. I couldn ' t hear the engine on the highway, un nor there was a hint of wind noise whistling past panel gaps.

We ' re no longer in 2009. We ' re in 2014, and the competition has prins up. The Equinox still continues to be a quiet place inside, but the 4-cylinder engine is not nearly as smooth as some of its competition. Opt for the V6 and you will be treated to a much more pleasant experience without the traditional astronomical rise in combustibil consum tipic de energie as it ' s a fairly efficient unit.

Even with its grumbly inline four, the Equinox is fairly comfortable. Suspension is compliant -- not too firm or soft -- but it won ' t win any awards. Handling is...well...it ' s an SUV, what do you expect? Servodirectie electrice is a little numb, as is brake pedal simt, but it all doesnt matter. Not in the slightest.

It ' s comfortable because it isn ' t unic și surprinzător. Nothing really jumps out at you. Nimic takes you off guard. The Chevrolet Equinox is what it is, and it doesn ' t pretend to be anything else.

Inside and Out of the 2014 Chevrolet Equinox
“Design me an SUV that offends absolutely nobody,” a declarat the design manager before the creion monkeys took to their drawing pad-uri and computer tablets.

And they prezentată. The Equinox can be easily lost at a parking lot, side street, soccer game, tailgate party, stând singur on a beach or in a field surrounded by freshly cut Kentucky bluegrass. It ' s the ultimate “blending in” vehicle; like a conectata up Malibu Maxx. Excluzand more plain.

It doesn ' t declar, îI give up on life!” No, that ' s too brash. Instead, it sneakily whispers, îI was never here” as it drives off without anyone so much as giving a second privirea.

And you know what? That might be a good thing. We don ' t all need to make a statement with our choice of transportation. If you want to curier people and stuff around in relativă obscuritate, this is a solid option.

Yet, inside, things are a mixture of predictable, old, and weird.

Expected: the entire design of the dash and instrument panel. It ' s cookie cutter General Motors stuff. Not a bad thing and totally functional. However, it ' s far from unique.

Old: the Equinox is still equipped with the next generation Chevrolet MyLink de infotainment system. Even the Chevrolet Spark -- the brand's smallest and least expensive car -- has the newer system. However, this isn ' t necessarily a bad thing, either. Both systems have usability issues; the new system has just more polish.

Ciudat: The seats in my tester were covered in some of the oddest fabric after the used ‘90s, with its closest comparable being built-in underwear from a pair of men ' s swim trunchiuri. And just like built-in underwear, it ' s not pleasant on the skin, especially against the nether regions (I ' d imagine).

Yet, none of this -- absolutely none of it -- nu mai conteaza.

de ce?

Pentru că este just like family, the Equinox is utterly predictable and always welcoming. It ' s comfortable. Not in the “bed made of clouds” meaning of the word, because it isn ' t that kind of comfortable. Dar, in a way where everything is expected, nothing is unic și surprinzător, and a warm feeling of sameness envelopes you as you walk in the door to the miros of your mother ' s baking.

The Equinox is home.

Comparing the 2014 Chevrolet Equinox
The Equinox attempts to stake claim to a bedroom in a very crowded house along with the Ford Escape, Dodge Journey, Honda CR-V, Nissan Rogue, Hyundai Santa Fe Sport, Kia Sorento, Mitsubishi Outlander, and Toyota RAV4.