6/19/2023 0 Comments 2018 chevy equinox reviews![]() While the Equinox didn’t get any worse-looking, its new shape for 2018 doesn’t rank up there with more attractive forms like the Mazda CX-5, Ford Escape, and Hyundai Tucson. Credit goes to the second row of seats that “kneels” when folded forward, which allows the seat backs to come farther down and avoid creating a backwards-sloping ramp like in many other crossovers. Rather, the shape of the space, and in particular the way the cargo floor is both completely flat and level from front to back, makes it more usable. It’s not that it can swallow more cubic feet than any other crossover (for the record, it can fit 63.5 cubes of whatever you’ve got). The Equinox has one of the best cargo holds I’ve experienced with the rear seats folded. The Equinox, along with its corporate sibling from GMC and the Mazda CX-5, also offers one of the compact crossover segment’s only diesel engines, which gets up to 40 miles per gallon on the highway (ask your local when they’re arriving, though, because we haven’t found one in the wild yet). The standard engine and transmission for all trim levels is a turbocharged 1.5-liter four-cylinder and six-speed automatic. The latter is available only with the 2.0-liter engine on the top LT and Premier trim levels. Credit goes to the Equinox’s good sound isolation, standard active noise cancellation, and well-mannered nine-speed transmission. My favorite part of the Equinox is its turbocharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine, not just for the ease with which its 252 horsepower and 260 pound-feet of torque moves this 3,500-pound crossover (that’s 400 pounds fewer than year’s model), but for the dulcet way it does it. ![]()
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