LAST AUTO NEWS – CHEVY RELEASES PHOTOS OF REDESIGNED 2010 EQUINOX
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Though the 2010 Equinox isn’t set to admission until next month’s Detroit auto show, Chevrolet appear official photos of the SUV over the weekend. Initial impressions are positive.
According to Jalopnik, “The all-new 2010 Chevrolet Equinox builds on the antecedent archetypal with added of what articulation buyers are searching for beyond appealing abundant every aspect. Bigger interior, bigger styling, bigger engines, bigger transmissions and smarter features.” Kicking Tires adds, “With bigger ammunition ability and an adorable attending central and out, it should win over shoppers in this segment.”
The redesigned Equinox shares a belvedere with the Saturn VUE and is accessible in both front- and all-wheel drive. Though its abeyance charcoal abundantly the aforementioned as that of the 2009 model, Chevy has alien new engine options. USA Today explains: “The 2010 Equinox offers direct-injection engines. GM said the 2.4-liter, four-cylinder archetypal is accepted to get 30 afar per gallon on the artery and 21 mpg in the city-limits — a 25% advance over the antecedent model. A 3.0-liter, six-cylinder engine increases application from 182 to 255 and gets an estimated 25 mpg on the artery and 18 mpg in the city.”
While it’s alien if Chevy affairs on absolution a amalgam adaptation of the Equinox, Autoblog Green addendum that the VUE’s two-mode amalgam arrangement is accordant with the new SUV, and comments: “Odds are we will see either a next bearing balmy amalgam or two-mode amalgam in the Equinox eventually rather than later.”
In accession to its achievement modifications, the 2010 Equinox aswell receives a complete exoteric makeover. “The new Equinox takes administration afflatus mainly from the Chevy Malibu, but there are hints of added cars in the calendar as well,” writes Jalopnik. “Outside we see the Equinox gets the new Chevy face, aboriginal apparent on the Malibu, with a bit added adequateness in the headlights and a bit of added chrome about the fog lamps. The abandon get a heaping allowance of administration with big fender flares over your best of 16, 17 or 18 inch wheels, and a able accept band runs foreground to aback to hotlink aggregate together.” While Kicking Tires describes it as “a handsome package,” Autoblog says that it “looks added abreast with arresting caster arches and the binding Chevy twin-port grille.”
What’s more, the 2010 Equinox’s autogenous aswell receives cogent upgrades that leave auto writers pleased. The New York Times comments, “The autogenous has confused appreciably upscale, alms covering seats with allegory stitching, accessible headrest-mounted rear DVD screens and an armrest accommodation ample abundant to authority a laptop.” Jalopnik adds: “What is bell-ringing are the seats, the accessories the accumulator and the legroom.”
The 2010 Equinox is slated to hit banker lots in the summer of ’09 and will attempt with such cars as the Nissan Murano, Ford Edge, and Hyundai Santa Fe. Can’t wait? Read up on the 2009 Chevy Equinox and added affordable bunched SUVs with US News’ Rankings and Reviews.
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