Mountain Wheels: Chevy Equinox makes for good company on 2000 miles of I-70 - Summit Daily News
And so when logistics called for me to travel from the Mid-Atlantic to the greater Denver area in not much more than a weekend’s driving time, I-70 westbound was my home away from home. More specifically, a 2015 Chevrolet Equinox on that long, long ribbon of pavement, stretching from Baltimore, Maryland, to (had I made the whole trip) the I-15 junction at Cove Fort, which many of you road-trippers know so well. To this end, the Equinox was good company, an amazingly commodious and hardy compact SUV that served as a pleasant perch to check out the many miles of road. Efficiently, too — thanks to its four-cylinder Ecotec 2. 4 liter DOHC engine and direct injection, I got a healthy 27. 7 miles per gallon over a 2,000-mile long trip. 8-inch-long Equinox may not have the family hauling, third-row girth of Chevrolet’s larger SUV family — the mid-sized Traverse or the uber-gigantic Tahoe or Suburban — but its reasonable size and ease of use also made it a good traveler, and easy... My only quibble — and one that got just a little exacerbated with some 37 hours of combined driving in the car — is that the Equinox’s six-speed Hydra-Matic automatic transmission is geared perhaps just a little too low for the vehicle’s now... Source: www.summitdaily.com
