The 3.6-liter engine, shared with many other General Motors products, supplies quick acceleration times at the test track, but manages to still feel sluggish in routine driving, with its unrefined and slow-shifting six-speed automatic transmission doing no favors.

While they're nice and roomy inside, the Equinox and Terrain are less efficient than other five-passenger SUVs and burn as much gas as larger, seven-passenger models. Like its twin, the GMC Terrain, the Equinox splits the difference between small SUVs such as the Toyota RAV4 and midsized models like the Ford Explorer. While the Chevrolet Equinox is not a bad vehicle, the competition has left it in the dust. An X indicates that the vehicle was not manufactured for a specific year. N/A indicates that we did not receive a large enough sample size to provide data for a specific year. Our subscribers provide great insights into their satisfaction by answering one simple question: If they had it to do all over again, would they definitely buy or lease the same model? In addition, respondents also rate their cars in six categories: driving experience, comfort, value, styling, audio, and climate systems. To learn about satisfaction, CR has collected survey data from our annual survey on more than half a million vehicles. Based on this data and further analysis, we predict reliability for the latest year. Extra weight is given to the more serious areas such as major engine or transmission problems. The results are presented relative to the average model that year. Consumer Reports subscribers reported on any serious problems they had with their vehicles during the past 12 months that they considered serious because of cost, failure, safety, or downtime, in any of the trouble spots included in the table below. And for many buyers, the middle of the road is a comfortable place to be.The reliability charts are based on responses on hundreds of thousands of vehicles from our latest Annual Auto Survey.

It isn’t the prettiest, nor is it the most engaging, but like that businessman drone, the Equinox gets the job done. During a week of mixed driving, I averaged 11.1 L/100 km overall. The V6 is mated to a six-speed automatic transmission that goes about its business with little drama, but as far as efficiency goes, there’s no getting around the fact that this is a heavy vehicle with a powerful engine fuel consumption for the 3.6-litre V6 AWD Equinox is rated at 14.8 L/100 km in the city and 9.9 highway, compared to 10.5/7.3 for the four-cylinder. Equipped with this powertrain, the Equinox has a max towing capacity of 3,500 pounds, compared to 1,500 with the four-cylinder. of torque, it’s one of the more powerful engines in the compact crossover segment. While the base model’s four-cylinder engine has been criticized for being harsh and underpowered, the LTZ’s 3.6-litre V6 is quiet and refined, and doles out power in a satisfyingly linear progression. Article content 2016 Chevrolet Equinox LTZ This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.

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