2025 Equinox rental review!
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Actually, as usual, designers are less than smart. Them, along with the beancounters. They try to find modernism where there's none, and have zero courage to explore and build on what they have themselves created.
- Slam screens everywhere, to save money. Take all buttons away. Check
- Sell this as progress. Check.
- Make clients so angry that some companies would make official statements that they are not abandoning buttons. Check.
- Clumsily go back to half-backed buttons. Check.
Here's how me myself and I would do it:
- Slam screens everywhere, to save money. Take all buttons away.
- Sell this as progress.
- Make specific sections of the screen with a magnetic or metal background. Sell amazing, beautiful, tactile-exhilarating and EXPENSIVE magnetic rotary knobs. Picture a Nest thermostat. Can be semi-transparent or fully transparent. Have those knobs pair wit the car. Encoded pls, not simple Bluetooth.
Code the infotainment so it knows a knobs has been clipped on it, and change the image on the section where the knobs is to match the knobs. Round for example.
Allow for different types or whole clusters of knobs to be added.
Standardize this throughout the whole range.
Want just a small knobs for the volume? Sold. Want a full cluster of knobs for volume and HVAC ? SOLD.
Make money, make users happy.
Those who don't remember the craze of Nokia cellphones' interchangeable faceplates won't understand me. That was an industry in its own right. And that was simple plastic which was soon copied whereas those knobs can be proprietary.
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Helped my SIL with a recent new purchase. She had a 21 Buick Enclave that she decided was too big and it was time to downsize. We looked at the Equinox but ended up going with the Buick twin (Envision). It is soooo much nicer than the Chevy both under the hood and the interior appointments and it really didn't cost that much more. It has the 2.0L (+/- 220 HP) that should be in the Chevy or at least offered as an option. But to be honest I was trying to get her into a CRV but the only dealer was 90 miles away (she's in western Kansas and you're lucky if a town has a chevy or a ford dealer). We found out that the Chevy dealer 25 miles away will perform any needed warranty work on the Buick. She can also go to a GMC dealer 35 miles away if she wants. The Buick dealer was 90 miles away so closer service options made it a viable option. I've been a die hard Mazda guy for the last 20 years or so and I'll admit that the Buick is a quiet comfortable cruiser that's good looking as well. We'll see if it holds up as well as the Enclave did (no issues whatsoever in 75K miles).
Buick is transitioning to all EV by 2030. Many dealers have opted not to invest in the infrastructure and training needed to be a Buick dealer. What a sorry state of affairs. The same goes for Cadillac.
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It's a shame because the Buick is a really nice vehicle. Their SUV's are significantly nicer than the Chevy and GMC equivalents in my opinion. They are not the vehicles of yesteryear and do not ride or handle like big boats like they once did. Initially I thought my SIL was crazy getting the Enclave years ago, but it grew on me the more I drove it. It didn't have the handling or spirit of my Mazdas but that thing was a heck of a road trip vehicle. The longer the trip the nicer it was. Kind of a point it and go type of vehicle. It was amazing what the rear end could swallow seats up or down. The v6 had more than adequate passing power and it got 25 mpg on trips with 4 to 6 people on board. I'm looking forward to taking the Envision on a road trip to see how it matches up (yea kind of apples and oranges but it could be interesting). Going full electric could be Buicks demise based on the current desire for EV's. It's sad how American manufacturers are killing off vehicles. I'm growing tired of the SUV craze (even though I currently have two) and I'm now looking for a nice sedan to enjoy driving in my twilight years!!
Lake of Power like the Subaru Forester..I get it.
While Western Kansas is probably not the best use case for an EV, reading the comments about the 1.5 in the Equinox not having enough power makes me snicker. You'd have a very difficult time convincing me to go back to a slow and noisy ICE vehicle, or even a hybrid. Owning an EV changes how you drive. I never think I don't have enough power to do something that's within an acceptable safety margin. When you have something that does 0-60 in the 4s there's never a time you think that it isn't breathtakingly fast. I can't imagine what like @JeffKeryk M3P feels like, or other vehicles that are in the 3s or even 2s.
If Buick wants to go all-EV like Cadillac seems to be doing, they'll certainly have my support. I can't afford most Cadillacs but maybe Buick will strike a nice middle ground between Chevy and Cadillac.
The local GMC Buick dealership was around for as long as I can remember. Then it became GMC. Now it is a new Tesla store.
Oh yeah, the Acura dealership where I used to shop is now Porsche...
Oh yeah, the Acura dealership where I used to shop is now Porsche...
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I hope the crew is unchanged and they are now all atoning for their sins ?
Are the sales and parts dept alternating self-flagellation, or are they going together ?
Were the techs absolved yet ???
Blast, that's a nail biter if I've seen one...
how on earth can you praise the early version -or any version of the equinox. these are terrible cars! my neighbor had a 2013 from new and it was a rolling diaster. timming chain went at 27k! chain was making noise again by 60k . thing drank oil like a sailor on liberty. he finally had enough and traded it in at 60kI've been saying for years(since 2010), the Equinox is right up there with the best mainstream compact SUV's in its segment, if you can call'em compact these days. However for the long haul, IDK if the Equinox/Terrain are the 15+ year vehicle for many people though they do show quite good reliability since the 2018 redesign. And the 2025 redesign yet again should be even more so.
What I like most about the Equinox is its ride/handling combo, the infotainment ease of use and the interior quiet on the hiwy for its segment.
I've always hated how the PRESS didn't give the Equinox much love or even any attention as much as they give the RAV4, CR-V, CX-5, Rogue or the Tucson/Sportage twins. And even though the 1.5T seems to be enough power for everydayness, it could use a Hybrid version for that extra power boost and fuel economy. I know, I know, there is an Equinox EV(and Blazer EV) but they're different vehicles all together from their same name siblings.
Where I find the Equinox(or Terrain) falls down in people's eyes here in my neck of the woods is their full engine replacement(4cyl/V6), timing chain replacement(V6), excessive oil consumption(4cyl). However since 2018, the reliability has improved greatly even with their turbo charging all the engines. They don't seem to have turbo issues.
We have a 2023 GMC terrain in the stable it's a nice little truck has enough power for our use. The bigger 4 cylinder they did away with years ago not enough people ordered it to warrant keeping it going on that platform
