Officially unveiled back in January 2024, the 2025 Chevy Equinox checks in as the Bow Tie brand’s fourth-generation compact crossover, and features a reworked exterior design, an overhauled interior, and the addition of a bevy of technology goodies. With that in mind, fourth-gen Equinox units destined for the North American market are now exclusively built at a single facility.
North American Chevy Equinox examples are now solely built at the GM San Luis Potosà plant in Mexico alongside the GMC Terrain. For the sake of clarification, Chinese-market Equinox units are built directly in China. However, the Equinox built at the San Luis Potosà facility is expected to eventually be exported to other global regions such as South America and South Korea.
As reference, the outgoing third-generation Chevy Equinox was also built at the GM Ramos Arizpe plant in Mexico, as well as the GM CAMI Assembly plant in Ontario, Canada until 2022. However, the former is now responsible for production of the Chevy Equinox EV, Chevy Blazer EV, Honda Prologue, Cadillac Optiq, and ICE-powered Chevy Blazer (for now), while the latter currently builds the BrightDrop Zevo 400 and Zevo 600 all-electric vans.
Under the hood, the 2025 Chevy Equinox is powered a single powerplant, the turbocharged 1.5L I4 LSD gasoline engine, rated at 175 horsepower and 184 pound-feet of torque in FWD variants, or 203 pound-feet of torque in AWD versions. Speaking of which, FWD units are matched to a continuously variable automatic transmission, while AWD units are mated to the GM eight-speed automatic transmission.
Under the skin lies an updated variant of the GM D2 platform, while production kicked off at the aforementioned San Luis Potosi facility in May 2024. Pricing starts at $29,995 for a base FWD LT, while AWD RS units start at $36,395.
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I have had one on order for two months now and still waiting for it to get a VIN #. I don’t understand what taking it so long to get a VIN #. It’s a sold unit and the dealer tell me it should go before stock units.
GM doesn’t have a sold order process. They don’t care how long a customer waits. I have had a vehicle on order, for a customer, for three years. It’s not a Corvette either. No dealer can give a customer a true timeframe on an order. It’s one big Cluster!!!
Hmm…. it didn’t seem gm had this problem when they were building these units in Canada and the US.
So they remove any bright trim/chrome, dump more ugly black all over and charge you $1,045.00
Got it. Pass.
Just shameful that the only volume product being built in the US is pickup trucks.
It seems that all the high-volume non-truck production is assigned outside of the US, while gm assigns all the low-volume EV work to US plants. gm now makes more CUVs outside the United States than in the US.
CVT = Rental Car
Yes, just like the Malibu which they recently put in the CVT. Ruined the car.
The Malibus 1.5T actually gets a better 0-60 (and MPG) when using the CVT. How’s that ruining it exactly?
Huh, the total driving dynamics is awful with the CVT in any car, I do not give a hoot about 0-60 in these low horsepower cars and do not care about a small increase in MPG. Enjoyable driveability ,sound, feel and
driving dynamics are very important to car people
You call your self a car person yet talk about enjoyable driving, sound, feel and driving dynamics in a CHEVY MALIBU. That is the type of car where mpg is a big consideration and that it is smooth (which is exactly what a CVT does). CVT’s have a bad wrap, for a boring DD they are fine and in many ways better than regular transmission and have been proven reliable. Yes the Nissan had issues with their CVT, but guess what, for every Nissan CVT that had problems there have been other brands with regular transmissions with problems. CVT’s are smooth, I have zero problems with a CVT in a DD. It is only odd when floored which is RARELY done in a boring DD. Side by sides, tractors, snow mobiles and construction equipment use them, they are very durable even what abused. People who knock CVT for a use like this aren’t A) car people and B) don’t understand their actual uses and what they entail. All they whine about is no shift with the car holding near redline when floored. Shoot, the Koenigsegg follows a similar concept where having the engine side at its powerband similar to a CVT in the Regera…
No CVT in the all wheel drive!
160,000 miles in my Civic, trouble free. 40MPG on highway, 0-60 just over 7 seconds with immediate power and passing punch… hasn’t had an issue at all. Nissan may have ruined CVT reputation, but don’t be shocked when even the AWD models get a CVT soon as everyone else is doing just fine with them.
Rental car. Yeah, okay. lol
Several weeks ago, I test drove a new Toyota RAV4 and didn’t like the car for several reasons, including it’s really fugly. So, I tried a Toyota Venza. While the Venza is a much better looking and a more upscale car than the RAV4, both offered a horrible driving experience IMHO because of the CVT’s noise and weird performance.
Then, I test drove the Honda CRV… and I liked it very much. Honda’s CVT performs exceptionally well, simulating shifts like a regular transmission. No complaints.
I’ve never driven a GM CVT. I hope it performs at least as well as Honda’s CVT.
Everything GM build will brake prematurely!
One can hope that no one is following to closely. lol
How can this vehicle see at night with that squint? This is actually something which puzzles me. Thank you.
I have had an Equinox EV in my plans for some time. But now that they are becoming available,,,,,,MEXICO? I don’t think so. In fact I may have to go looking for a car outside the GM product line, the first time since 1971. I want a UAW built car and will make an effort to get one, or at least one that is not built off shore.
I don’t see a lot of discussion on this so I’ll just say it: If you want an American built car, buy one!