2010 Chevy Equinox..

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Wife just got a new company car to replace her old company car (a 2007 Impala - boooring, but dependable, and surprisingly fuel efficient for such a large vehicle - the 3.5 V6)

Anyway, I've never been a GM fan (or domestic for that matter), but I have to admit, I'm very impressed with the Equinox. The interior is nicely put together and quite good looking. In fact, I've been impressed with several domestic offerings lately - Ford Taurus, Buick Lacrosse, Cadillac CTS (hello sport wagon!!) to name a few.

Her car has the V6 - only a company car, so don't expect UOAs or anything.
 
Last year? So it was the 2009 model (last generation)?

If it was, you'll be even more impressed with the 2010 - it's light years ahead of the previous generation.
 
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Well the target for the Buick Lacrosse according to Lutz was the Lexus line. So youhave to compare it to a Lexus to see how close or far fromt heir target they got! I think they missed the target but the LaCrosse is one of my favorites from GM. I just wish they had kept the Buick 3.8 and just updated it with a new set of cammer heads and new intake instead of going to the completly new and untested high content engine from Adam Opel!

The new Tarus is definately a nice step up the 500 had such old and out dated interior and the last tarus was 1980's style with exposed fastners.So Ford has done a lot inthe last couple of years to update their old out dated interiors!They also have pushed hard to improve quality control! So I have to admit that not a Ford fan due to some 1980's models I owned but they have done well to improve their products!!!

GM is still hit or miss from model to model they vary widely from cheap ungly interior to modern nicely appointed intoerior! Unlike Ford GM has not done enough with reguard to modernizing their power trains.THey still have a lot of old gas hundry vibration and noise beasts and too many old 4 speed automatic designs etc......

GM had a chance to corner the market with a light weight effecient high reving cost effective diesel for it's 1/2 ton trucks that could be bolted into any application that currently used a gasoline V8 including their car's! They already spent themoney to design and develop it but shelved it to save money. Last I heard they where trying to sell it to other car companies!!! This is what they should be useing to move ahead but instead they do the typical wrong thing and thing short term 1/4 profit type thinking and shelve what could have been a huge edge for them inthe global market since diesels are big every place except the USA. If this disel had been hooked up to a Toyota type hybrd system it would have pulled them out of their slump but instead they are spending money on cars no one wants that are not viable for the here and now like their skatboard and volt concepts! Likewise no one wants the small fuel effecient cars that the Car CZAR in Washington is pushing them to build.

First you have to have something that noone else has second you need to market the heck out of it! Third you have to build vechiles that you can sell at a profit at full MSRP without incentives or discounts. Forth you have to minimize legacy costs and produce the product where their are low wages and tax incentives to do so! If you do not all of they above then nothing else matters!GM is almost always the last company to the table with a given product it does not matter if it is mini-vans or hybryds! The reason they do not have a nice well functioning hybrd is because they are pig headed and had too much bravado and ego tided up in hydrogen fuel cells and electric only vechiles! In the mean time they have given the hybrd green market to Toyota by default. If not carful Ford or Toyota will beat them to market with a 1/2 ton disel eventhough they have on already developed that just needs the tooling to go into production!
 
Originally Posted By: JohnBrowning
Well the target for the Buick Lacrosse according to Lutz was the Lexus line. So youhave to compare it to a Lexus to see how close or far fromt heir target they got! I think they missed the target but the LaCrosse is one of my favorites from GM. I just wish they had kept the Buick 3.8 and just updated it with a new set of cammer heads and new intake instead of going to the completly new and untested high content engine from Adam Opel!



Funny you should mention this. I work with a guy who has a Lexus ES350 (2008 I think) and he told me the other day that he liked the interior of the LaCrosse better...
 
Originally Posted By: tomcat27
is this an Acadia equivelant?

No. It is the Cadillac SRX and GMC Terrain.
You are thinking the Traverse.

Why are folks hung up on OHC motors? I guess I will never get it. Then again, I have never had to change a timing chaning, but I have had to change a belt.
 
Originally Posted By: JohnBrowning
Well the target for the Buick Lacrosse according to Lutz was the Lexus line. So youhave to compare it to a Lexus to see how close or far fromt heir target they got! I think they missed the target but the LaCrosse is one of my favorites from GM. I just wish they had kept the Buick 3.8 and just updated it with a new set of cammer heads and new intake instead of going to the completly new and untested high content engine from Adam Opel!

The new Tarus is definately a nice step up the 500 had such old and out dated interior and the last tarus was 1980's style with exposed fastners.So Ford has done a lot inthe last couple of years to update their old out dated interiors!They also have pushed hard to improve quality control! So I have to admit that not a Ford fan due to some 1980's models I owned but they have done well to improve their products!!!

GM is still hit or miss from model to model they vary widely from cheap ungly interior to modern nicely appointed intoerior! Unlike Ford GM has not done enough with reguard to modernizing their power trains.THey still have a lot of old gas hundry vibration and noise beasts and too many old 4 speed automatic designs etc......

GM had a chance to corner the market with a light weight effecient high reving cost effective diesel for it's 1/2 ton trucks that could be bolted into any application that currently used a gasoline V8 including their car's! They already spent themoney to design and develop it but shelved it to save money. Last I heard they where trying to sell it to other car companies!!! This is what they should be useing to move ahead but instead they do the typical wrong thing and thing short term 1/4 profit type thinking and shelve what could have been a huge edge for them inthe global market since diesels are big every place except the USA. If this disel had been hooked up to a Toyota type hybrd system it would have pulled them out of their slump but instead they are spending money on cars no one wants that are not viable for the here and now like their skatboard and volt concepts! Likewise no one wants the small fuel effecient cars that the Car CZAR in Washington is pushing them to build.

First you have to have something that noone else has second you need to market the heck out of it! Third you have to build vechiles that you can sell at a profit at full MSRP without incentives or discounts. Forth you have to minimize legacy costs and produce the product where their are low wages and tax incentives to do so! If you do not all of they above then nothing else matters!GM is almost always the last company to the table with a given product it does not matter if it is mini-vans or hybryds! The reason they do not have a nice well functioning hybrd is because they are pig headed and had too much bravado and ego tided up in hydrogen fuel cells and electric only vechiles! In the mean time they have given the hybrd green market to Toyota by default. If not carful Ford or Toyota will beat them to market with a 1/2 ton disel eventhough they have on already developed that just needs the tooling to go into production!


You lost me in all that rhetoric.
 
Funny that when the Equinox hit the market, GM actually bragged that the motor was made in China and the tranny made in Japan. Things have changed over the years, haven't they?
 
interesting. My wife has her eye on this should the time come where we need more cargo space.

Of course we would buy 4-cyl, and shoot for the 32 MPG variety.
 
Originally Posted By: JHZR2
interesting. My wife has her eye on this should the time come where we need more cargo space.

Of course we would buy 4-cyl, and shoot for the 32 MPG variety.


Did you see the new 2010 Hyundai Tucson?
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Arrived two years too late for me, but if I was on the market for a CUV right now, it would be between the Tucson and the Equinox.
 
Hyundai, eh? Is the equinox made in the US/Canada?

We are also eyeing a VW TDI jetta, as we can get an MT with it.
 
Yes, Hyundai. Why not. It has everything in it at a lower price and now it looks good.
The Equinox is made in Ontario, Canada, yes.

Funny thing is that less than a year ago, I would have said about the same: GM, eh?

No diesel for me, beurk!! I am imported from Europe and I don't like these things.
 
Originally Posted By: css9450
Originally Posted By: JohnBrowning
Well the target for the Buick Lacrosse according to Lutz was the Lexus line. So youhave to compare it to a Lexus to see how close or far fromt heir target they got! I think they missed the target but the LaCrosse is one of my favorites from GM. I just wish they had kept the Buick 3.8 and just updated it with a new set of cammer heads and new intake instead of going to the completly new and untested high content engine from Adam Opel!

The new Tarus is definately a nice step up the 500 had such old and out dated interior and the last tarus was 1980's style with exposed fastners.So Ford has done a lot inthe last couple of years to update their old out dated interiors!They also have pushed hard to improve quality control! So I have to admit that not a Ford fan due to some 1980's models I owned but they have done well to improve their products!!!

GM is still hit or miss from model to model they vary widely from cheap ungly interior to modern nicely appointed intoerior! Unlike Ford GM has not done enough with reguard to modernizing their power trains.THey still have a lot of old gas hundry vibration and noise beasts and too many old 4 speed automatic designs etc......

GM had a chance to corner the market with a light weight effecient high reving cost effective diesel for it's 1/2 ton trucks that could be bolted into any application that currently used a gasoline V8 including their car's! They already spent themoney to design and develop it but shelved it to save money. Last I heard they where trying to sell it to other car companies!!! This is what they should be useing to move ahead but instead they do the typical wrong thing and thing short term 1/4 profit type thinking and shelve what could have been a huge edge for them inthe global market since diesels are big every place except the USA. If this disel had been hooked up to a Toyota type hybrd system it would have pulled them out of their slump but instead they are spending money on cars no one wants that are not viable for the here and now like their skatboard and volt concepts! Likewise no one wants the small fuel effecient cars that the Car CZAR in Washington is pushing them to build.

First you have to have something that noone else has second you need to market the heck out of it! Third you have to build vechiles that you can sell at a profit at full MSRP without incentives or discounts. Forth you have to minimize legacy costs and produce the product where their are low wages and tax incentives to do so! If you do not all of they above then nothing else matters!GM is almost always the last company to the table with a given product it does not matter if it is mini-vans or hybryds! The reason they do not have a nice well functioning hybrd is because they are pig headed and had too much bravado and ego tided up in hydrogen fuel cells and electric only vechiles! In the mean time they have given the hybrd green market to Toyota by default. If not carful Ford or Toyota will beat them to market with a 1/2 ton disel eventhough they have on already developed that just needs the tooling to go into production!


You lost me in all that rhetoric.


JohnBrowning gives very detailed posts...I really find all of his posts very interesting and extremely hepful.
 
Originally Posted By: rcy
Originally Posted By: Steve S
Chevrolet the heartbreak of America.


Anything constructive to say, or just trying to raise your post count?


both
 
Originally Posted By: rcy
Originally Posted By: Steve S
Chevrolet the heartbreak of America.


Anything constructive to say, or just trying to raise your post count?
It is constructive in the discernment department. Though some just won't be able to understand.
 
Originally Posted By: Pesca
Yes, Hyundai. Why not. It has everything in it at a lower price and now it looks good.
The Equinox is made in Ontario, Canada, yes.

Funny thing is that less than a year ago, I would have said about the same: GM, eh?

No diesel for me, beurk!! I am imported from Europe and I don't like these things.


Canada is better than Mexico. I have real issues with the Jetta TDI wagon, which will be tops on our list because of economy, because it is made in Mexico. Our VW rabbit, made in the first world (Germany) has the same pricing structure as the jetta wagon made in the third world (Mexico) with far cheaper labor.

It would be great to have a diesel equinox... or at least an MT equinox. That likely will be the killer with most of the vehicles we like...
 
Originally Posted By: Steve S
Chevrolet the heartbreak of America.


Is that [censored] really [censored] necessary, Steve??
 
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