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Last Auto Account – 2010 Chevrolet Equinox Unveiled; Next Up, Detroit Show TheCarConnection.com is appreciative to present continuing advantage of the new models advancing to the Detroit Auto Show. Next on the catwalk?  Well, it’s something that General Motors just showed us, the 2010 Chevrolet Equinox. This is a acceptable news/bad account story. First, back everybody could use a little acceptable account these days, we’ll ..Last Auto account -

Last Auto Account – 2010 Chevrolet Equinox Unveiled; Next Up, Detroit Show TheCarConnection.com is appreciative to present continuing advantage of the new models advancing to the Detroit Auto Show. Next on the catwalk?  Well, it’s something that General Motors just showed us, the 2010 Chevrolet Equinox. This is a acceptable news/bad account story. First, back everybody could use a little acceptable account these days, we’ll ..Last Auto account –

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TheCarConnection.com is appreciative to present continuing advantage of the new models advancing to the Detroit Auto Show. Next on the catwalk?  Well, it’s something that General Motors just showed us, the 2010 Chevrolet Equinox. This is a acceptable news/bad account story.

First, back everybody could use a little acceptable account these days, we’ll acquaint you the positives first. The new Equinox has two new engines, and both of them affection able absolute bang technology. The abate is a four-cylinder that displaces 2.4-liters and produces 182 horsepower. This engine is the aboriginal four-cylinder accessible in the Equinox, and is yet addition affiliate of the Ecotec ancestors of four-bangers.  It appearance a new arch (among added components) that utilizes absolute injection, a ammunition supply arrangement area the ammunition injector is in fact in the agitation alcove instead of getting in a beneath able area about upstream of the assimilation valve.

With the 2.4, Chevy claims the 2010 Equinox will bear accepted best-in-segment estimated artery ammunition abridgement of 30 mpg (EPA acceptance pending) � a 25-percent advance over the abject pushrod 3.4-liter V-6 from 2009 that produced about the aforementioned ability (185 horsepower). Chevrolet expects about two-thirds of barter will accept the efficient, 2.4L engine. (A accurate allegory is the 2009 Ford Escape with a 171-horsepower 2.5-liter engine that afterwards direct-injection achieves 28 mpg with a six-speed automatic.)

A V-6 engine is still accessible in the 2010 Equinox, and it’s a acceptable one. Instead of the 3.6-liter V-6 that was accessible in 2009, the re-done crossover gets this engine’s little brother that displaces 3.0-liter. This abate adaptation of GM’s high-feature V-6 is so acceptable that you’ll acquisition the aforementioned engine powering Cadillac’s new, abate SRX for 2010. GM estimates that the new 3.0-liter V-6 will aftermath 255 horsepower, and 25 mpg highway, 18 mpg city.

Both engines will absolute their ability to six-speed automated transmissions, and accompanying with a ample ammunition catchbasin (approximately 20 gallons on front-wheel drive miles), canoeing ambit should be a camel-like 500 miles.

Some added acceptable account about the 2010 Equinox cover that the airbag calculation is now at six, with these getting standard; bifold aboveboard air bags; arch blind ancillary air accoutrements and pelvic/thorax seat-mounted ancillary air bags. Those searching for assurance will aswell like accepting accepted four-wheel disc brakes with StabiliTrak cyberbanking adherence ascendancy and absorption control. OnStar is aswell standard.

New autogenous appearance cover XM Satellite Radio, a â€?Smart” limited starting arrangement that aswell activates the HVAC arrangement and alternative acrimonious seats depending on the alfresco temperature, and a new autogenous with rear seats that acclimatize advanced and aft a abounding eight inches. Engineers from Chevy say the new autogenous not alone looks bigger but is aswell quieter. They acicular to things we could see (triple aperture seals) and things we couldn’t (the new windshield that has a band that deadens sound).

According to Chevrolet, the new Equinox draws its exoteric architecture afflatus from the Chevrolet Traverse full-size crossover. Well, we did apprehension that the grille looks like the Traverse, but thankfully the new area metal that wraps about the Equinox is abundant bigger searching than its banal abiding mate. We decidedly like the adventurous caster arches and the able appearance band that begins advanced of the foreground aperture and continues beeline off the end of the hatch.

Now for the bad news. While GM is presenting the Equinox as all-new, it isn’t. The accuracy is that the 2010 Equinox is alone mostly-new. The car still rides on what engineers alarm the Theta platform, the aforementioned as the antecedent Equinox. This has not been a anatomy that we’ve about enjoyed driving.

While the belvedere has been stiffened, one architect accepted that not abundant was done to advance ride dynamics. This makes us anguish about squeaks and rattles, a botheration with several Theta cars we’ve driven.  Our architect did agenda that the accepted abeyance calibrations are bendable abundant that this shouldn’t be an issue. We’ll let you apperceive about ride and administration afterwards we drive one.

The 2010 Equinox goes on auction in mid-2009 and will be accessible in the accepted Chevy trim levels; LS, LT and LTZ trim. Front- and all-wheel-drive configurations will be available.

Look for added on the 2009 Chevrolet Equinox from the 2009 Detroit auto show–and see added photos over at our 2010 Chevrolet Equinox page.

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