The 2025 Chevrolet Equinox RS.
Chevrolet
DETROIT — General Motors is redesigning its gas-powered Chevrolet Equinox crossover to look extra rugged than its predecessors in an try to maneuver the automobile upmarket and entice new consumers.
The 2025 Equinox, which GM revealed Tuesday, will function further standard security and comfort options.
Brad Franz, director of Chevy automotive and crossover advertising and marketing, mentioned the modifications to the Equinox are supposed to increase the attraction of the automobile, which GM launched about 20 years in the past. The compact crossover has grown to be amongst GM’s best-selling autos.
“It’s critically essential for us to be introducing this product proper now. We really feel it is going to be simply as essential, if no more, than [before],” he mentioned. “We nonetheless count on it to be the No. 2 Chevy quantity automobile and, frankly, it performs within the largest phase within the business at 22% [market share]. We do not see that declining.”
Sales of the Equinox have been stage the previous two years at greater than 212,000 models. The gross sales stay far beneath pre-Covid pandemic ranges of almost 350,000 models in 2019.
The 2025 Chevrolet Equinox RS.
Chevrolet
The 2025 mannequin can have heated seats and a heated steering wheel standard on all fashions — a primary for the Equinox and plenty of mainstream manufacturers. Some automakers have carried out or mentioned together with such options in month-to-month or annual subscription charges slightly than providing them as standard or non-compulsory options. GM mentioned about 90% of homeowners surveyed needed the options.
Franz declined to reveal pricing for the next-generation Equinox, which is predicted to reach in vendor showrooms midyear in three trims: LT, RS and Activ. He mentioned the corporate has “no intention of deviating too removed from our present pricing.”
Pricing for the 2024 Equinox ranges between $28,000 and $35,000, together with necessary vacation spot charges.
Among the explanations to purchase an Equinox, prospects most frequently cite value and worth, in line with GM. The entry-level LT is predicted to account for about 60% of gross sales, Franz mentioned.
“Even although we’re aspiring to push this automobile upmarket like we’ve with a few of our different executions we have introduced, we’re nonetheless extremely centered on worth,” he mentioned.
Design modifications
The exterior design of the next-generation Equinox is much like different just lately redesigned Chevy autos. It options a big hour-glass grille, a extra sculpted design and slim entrance and back lights. The design is comparable however totally different than an all-electric Equinox that is anticipated to go on sale this 12 months after being delayed in 2023.
On the inside, GM made modifications to the compact crossover to make it roomier for the driving force and passengers, together with shifting the gear shifter to the steering wheel column slightly than between the passenger and driver or as buttons or knobs on the instrument panel.
The 2025 Chevrolet Equinox Activ.
Chevrolet
For drivers who’ve used column shifters earlier than, this isn’t like those of the previous. It’s a rising expertise within the auto business referred to as “shift by wire” that removes many handbook parts and permits the automotive to alter gears with ease. With conventional column shifters, the driving force wants to tug the lever ahead and manually shift the automobile into gears.
The new Equinox encompasses a new 11 inch diagonal configurable driver data heart and 11.3 inch diagonal infotainment display screen in entrance of the driving force.
“The very first thing you are going to discover while you get in there’s the expertise, the screens — it simply would not really feel like an Equinox,” Franz mentioned.
The automobile can be produced at a plant in Mexico, the place Franz says GM has room to extend manufacturing, if wanted.
The 2025 Equinox will proceed to be powered by a 1.5 liter, four-cylinder turbocharged engine that produces as much as 175 horsepower and 203 foot-pounds of torque. The automobile is standard with front-wheel drive and obtainable in all-wheel drive.
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