Here's Why The Chevy Equinox Is A TERRIBLE Car | 2019 Chevrolet Equinox LT Review

what's up everybody my name is elliot and today we are here with a 2019 chevrolet equinox and i'm gonna be honest with you guys it's not a very good car now i've borrowed this chevy equinox from hertz rental car company which means nobody that i know personally owns this vehicle so i can be as honest as i want to be about it which is exactly what we're going to do today but before we get to all that be sure to subscribe to my channel below it's youtube law you are consuming my content so you legally have to subscribe to it now you can always unsubscribe later if you find that my previous content and equinox bashing isn't for you but you can only subscribe right now so i'll give you a moment to go ahead and click that subscribe button alright so let's start with the basics this is a 2019 chevy equinox lt i don't even know which yes lt which means this is the base base model it's actually below base model because usually with these big fleet purchases gm will actually make below base model trim levels for rental car companies so that's what we've got here we have something that is below the base model which is always an impressive thing powering this below base model equinox is a 1.5 liter inline four cylinder with a turbo charger that's good for about 170 horsepower and 200 pound-feet of torque that sounds okay but then you got to remember this is the same engine that they put in the cruise and the malibu and a ton of other gm vehicles in this crossover suv body it just seems underwhelming but today we're going to take a quick look around the equinox check out all of its dings and scratches because remember this is a rental car and then we'll get it out on the road to see how a poorly optioned version of an already not that good car drives on american roads come along let's go so first and foremost let's talk about the color black is always the least flattering color for most cars and i know i know most people are like well it looks so good when it's clean well it's only clean for about 15 seconds and here in the midwest we've got constant 20 mile per hour winds and wheat and hay and crap blowing around all the time it just makes these cars filthy instantly and i know this car has experienced a bit of that because as you can see it's got texas plates which means it's been registered in texas and therefore it's probably spent at least some amount of time there and a black equinox in texas in the summer yikes that's hot anyway let's walk around and see the general condition of the car the first thing i really noticed when picking the car up the paint is like scuffed to all crap right down the hood here it's like somebody set a backpack and just was like every single day wiping it right down in that spot and the whole car has this general crusty feel to the clear coat let me see if you can pick it up on camera but it's just it it just feels rough and and not good i don't think that's the way that gm meant it to be but that's the way it ended up on this particular equinox also of note is the amount of times the driver's door was dinged up as you can see there is paint missing pretty much the whole length of the door which is kind of impressive how many times you can throw a door open on something but moving on let's talk about the interior of the equinox one of the worst interiors i've ever been in for a car that costs upwards of thirty three thousand dollars and remember that's the starting price for these this is just unacceptable material quality in here first of all you got the love it or hate it hexagonal pattern to the seats i mean it's better than just flat but you know i don't think it exactly screams quality the next thing that's of note unfortunately in this thing is the sheer amount of cheap hard plastics that are at use in this interior it's almost as if the designer of this interior was like hey let's make it look like playskool's my first car interior and just make it all sort of spill proof plastics which i suppose is good for a rental car but boy it is not good to touch and just be in and around take a look at this this obviously on the upper trim levels you can get a bigger display but this is a bad plastic this is all cheap i mean it's just it's everywhere the other the other funny thing though when i first got in this car that i couldn't believe it this is almost like in other people's cars episode i was going to adjust this driver's side vent right here and i noticed there's a there's a dime in there at some point somebody was handling change and it got plopped right into here i can't imagine how or why but the fact remains somebody dropped a diamond there this car unfortunately is not equipped with automatic climate control which is a huge huge minus to me it's just left with this cheap red and blue knob crap and i just um i just as a guy who lives for climate control i just hate the knob it's it's disgusting to me let's pop out and see what else is going on with this car bag seat space is pretty good um you've got the same hexagonal pattern here which is again better than just being flat cloth i suppose but it's not that great either there is an offset color of stitching here which does give it a premium feel but that's about as premium as it gets let's walk around back and see what the hatch storage is like because that's that's what people really care about with suvs non-power liftgate again rental spec but this this isn't so bad i've seen better i've seen worse here's where you know that you got the wrong suv when you have to do this yourself like ah it's uh man there is absolutely no excuse to not have a power liftgate in 2020 period rest of the car pretty straightforward oh well look at this i just noticed this we got some trim pulling away here i hope they noted this on the rental agreement that wasn't like that that's a rental car folks but anyway let's pop the hood here see what we can see of this little turbocharged motor and then let's check out how dirty the oil is and there's a reason i say that because if you look here at the firestone recommended next oil change sticker that they give you every time you get an oil change it says that it needs an oil change at about 16 000 miles now let's look at the actual miles on the vehicle yep 24 500. so it's a little overdue that's not surprising considering it's a rental car but because it's a turbocharged engine this thing does use oil i know that so let's see if there's any left in it before we go anywhere also i'm just kind of curious to see how clean the oil is in the first place because that's that's quite a bit overdue okay let's get this hood open and see what kind of condition this oil's in oh look it requires a hood prop already negative score okay here's the dipstick and i have my gm approved oil checking rag which is just a bounty paper towel shout out bounty and wow that is dirty this is just the initial wipe off let's check her again and well surprise surprise there is oil in it but i will say it is blacker than midnight this is some dirty dirty oil if anything it was actually overfilled now that we know that it does have an oil in it dirty or not let's get this car out on the road and see what a below base model equinox lt drives like all right have you ever wondered what the startup sequence is like on a mclaren 720s or a ferrari 488 sure you have and there's tons of videos out there for it but what about the startup sequence on a 2019 chevrolet equinox well let's take a look and we have the slowest gauge sweep ever and then they all return to normal how exciting was that and that is just the tip of the iceberg that you can expect when you buy a below base model rental spec chevy equinox now let's get this thing out on the road and see how this dirty oil do for an oil change rental car is this is the kind of driving that everybody wants to see you can find a million videos of people driving ferraris and porsches and all sorts of exciting cars but where else can you find a video of a guy not enjoying himself in a rental spec chevy equinox that's the kind of excitement that you can only find here on my channel and only if you subscribe below so if you haven't done it now is another good time to do that now we're getting ready to turn out here let's see how this how the power is all right there's the turbo okay i mean we're you know we're up to speed really all that matters about despite what everybody else says all that really matters is that like 0 to 40 ish if a car can feel zippy in that range most people are going to classify it as adequate or above adequate now one thing worth mentioning here is that this equinox is riding on the same platform as the buick envision which is a car that i looked at purchasing for my wife when we were expecting and that car drove fine it's essentially a nicer trim level version of this but ultimately what made me not want to go with that car was the warranty now most manufacturers these days especially in the crossover segment offer a five to seven year 60 to 100 000 mile warranty but not gm gm offers a three-year 36 000 mile warranty which is literally half of what everybody else is offering and that's just that's just bad one main argument that people have when they buy a new car is well at least i'll have a warranty but not really with the gm you barely will have a warranty on that three years 36 000 miles unless you don't drive at all you're gonna exceed that in such a short amount of time that you are so much better off buying one of these used for ten to fifteen thousand dollars less because you'll have about the same amount of warranty which is none now parking lot turning circle is good but it needs to be if it's going to be a small crossover suv this is the most competitive market in the car game right now and being good at turning around in a parking lot is about the bare minimum that this thing can do interior noise level is okay i mean it's a small crossover suv i don't know you know they all drive similarly to a point just this one in this trim is such a bad place to be i mean these seats are very uncomfortable there's so much plastic everywhere i look and touch that it's hard to believe that this costs in the mid 30 000 range there are so many other used cars that you can and should buy for that price another thing the infotainment system display is tilted up and at an angle i'm not i'm getting up there i got gray hairs but i'm not an old guy and i think this is hard to see and so i can only imagine somebody who actually was aging they would be like all right i already don't like the screens but this is not good luckily it does have apple carplay which is really the only thing going for this car in the interior and that's not even something that gm makes and a lot of people might say well ellie that's not fair you're reviewing a rental version and that's below the base model and therefore not very good and that's fair but what i'd also argue is that this is how most people experience the chevy equinox for the first time if at all unless you're going out and directly seeking to buy one of these and going on a test drive most people's experience with these is going to be something like this you get a rental car with no choice they give you one of these now you're in it and now you go into it empty you're like i've never driven a chevy equinox what's this like and you drive this and you're gonna walk away disappointed and that's you know unfortunate because i think that it could be a good car it's just unfortunately not at least overall the chevy equinox driving experience leaves a lot to be desired sure it's okay from zero to 40 miles an hour and it can turn itself around in a parking lot just fine but that's really the bare minimum of what's to be expected from a car in this class and that's really unfortunate as a gm fan because even though the crossover suv segment is by far the most competitive segment in the automotive world gm has the power and the brand and the know-how and the engineering to really make a monster of a car in this segment but they just didn't you can dress up the seats with these hexagonal patterns but it's not going to excuse this terrible material and fit and finish everywhere else on the car and not to mention it just doesn't even drive that well i mean there's nothing about this that screams thirty thousand dollars let alone twenty thousand dollars i can't imagine buying a car that's this overpriced with this little of a warranty and then getting this bad of a driving experience it's just inexcusable from any brand let alone a corporate giant like gm this car just really represents a missed opportunity it could have been something so great but they just kind of phoned it in and now you're left with the chevy equinox so there you have it guys the 2019 chevrolet equinox is a car that should have been great but isn't competing against other cheap small not good suvs the chevrolet equinox still manages to be one of the worst with its terrible touch materials bad driving experience and overall poor fit and finish this is just a shame coming from one of the world's biggest automotive manufacturers gm really could have had a giant on their hands here but instead they just decided to phone it in and now we have well this the chevrolet equinox but don't just take my word for it even cats don't like it what are your thoughts on this interior neil yeah i wouldn't want to spend any time in there either anyway guys thank you for watching my name is elliot be sure to like comment share subscribe do all the other normal youtube stuff and i will see you on the next video [Music] [Music] let's just face it the chevy equinox [Music] sucks

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Length: 14min 56sec (896 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 16 2020