General Motors unveiled the 2024 Chevy Trax in October of the 2022 calendar year, launching a brand-new generation for Chevy’s entry-level crossover. Updates include a new design and larger exterior dimensions, as well as a roomier cabin with additional safety features and technology. Now, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) has released crash test ratings for the all-new 2024 Chevy Trax, showing mixed results.
Starting with the Crashworthiness results, the 2024 Chevy Trax was evaluated in four different test procedures, with four possible ratings in each procedure, including Good, Acceptable, Marginal, and Poor. In the small overlap front and moderate overlap front (original) tests, the new Trax secured a top Good rating.
However, in the updated moderate overlap front crash test, the Trax received a bottom-tier Poor rating. The updated test was put into place in 2022 and includes more-stringent requirements compared to the original test, the latter of which was put into place in 1995. The updated test now includes new Hybrid III crash dummies representing a small woman or 12-year-old child in the second row behind the driver, with the update implemented in response to a higher rate of injuries for passengers seated in the second row.
Breaking down the individual metrics of this particular test, the IIHS gave a Poor rating for head / neck rear passenger injury measures, and a Marginal rating for chest rear passenger injury measures. Check out the crash test footage right here:
The 2024 Trax also received a middling result of Acceptable in the updated side impact test, which includes a direct side vehicle impact at 37 mph, with the test vehicle parked.
In this evaluation, the IIHS gave the 2024 Trax a mix of Acceptable and Good ratings for the various metrics, with the exception of the pelvis driver injury injury measures, in which the Trax received a Marginal rating.
Check out that crash test footage right here:
With regard to crash avoidance and mitigation, the 2024 Trax received Marginal ratings for the headlights and front crash prevention (pedestrian) evaluations. Meanwhile, evaluations of Acceptable were given for seat belt reminders and LATCH ease.
As a reminder, the 2024 Chevy Trax is motivated by the turbocharged 1.2L I3 LIH gasoline engine and rides on the GM VSS-F vehicle set. Production takes place at the GM Changwon plant in South Korea.
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The 2nd Gen Trax, unveiled in 2022 didn’t fare well in more-stringent tests released in… 2022.
This comment smells like AI.
I think it’s more unacceptable that they don’t get an A in side impact test, which means there’s a structure problem with the B pillar. Anything other than A in structure (framework) safety is unacceptable.
Well, this is disappointing. We’ll see if GM even addresses this. Sometimes they do and sometimes they don’t. But I honestly doubt that the majority of potential buyers will care. There are so few new vehicle options in this price class.
The crashes looked ok to me for a small car. The bags took the blows and the passenger compartment held up well. No door issues.
If anything the platform may be too stiff as it has little give.
This is still probably safer than anything else I drive because my newest vehicle is a 2012. The only exception might be the 3/4 ton, because it’s so heavy. It would still be nice to see it improve to good all around without driving the cost up to ridiculous levels like most other new vehicles.
I really wanted to purchase one. But they were in short supply, not being discounted, and had no crash test results until now. I’m glad I read and saw this to help me justify my decision to go with a different model with a better rating. I do notice a 2024 model was tested. The 2025 model has already been available for a few months. I wonder if that model will also be tested.
You want cheap. Pray you survive. Pony up the money and get a 2025 Equinox(Pony=Ford I didn’t say that).
I am starting to wonder about the IIHS crash test results. I looked up my 2023 Chevy Equinox. In one listing it gave my Chevy a 5 start GOOD rating for total front crash test and in another section it gave my Equinox a poor rating for total front crash test. ?? so which is it?
Their tests are unrealistic at best. No two similar impacts will be in 100% identical positions on vehicles and the results will be different.
Has anyone ever seen a distracted crash test dummy suddenly look up from their cell phone, realize that there’s an impending crash, apply the brakes and emergency steering inputs? The attitude of at the very least the “Y” axis and the significant difference in the direction of the impact forces distributed into the vehicle will be quite different.
The Trax took those heavy impacts very well considering the impact forces and angles.
Reproducing the tests with the vehicle positioned an inch or so differently, can also produce quite different results, from what appear to be a near identical impact to a bystander.
I recently read of “poor braking distances” reported in regards to the Silverado/Sierra 1500 pickup trucks, that contradict the facts thay the ZF/TRW electronic over hydraulic brake system can apply the brakes in less than 150 milliseconds at up to 1 g according to their data.
“In automated emergency braking, the system can apply full stopping force in a quarter of the time of conventional brake systems, says Tom Ludwick, a ZF development engineer.”
I happen to own and drive a ’23 GMC Elevation and the truck stops extremely quickly and straight at any speed, loaded or unloaded.
BTW, good nickname. I earned the same circa 1966 as a teen back in England, got the tattoo.
GM continues to prove with the 2024 Trax/Envista that you get what you pay for.
How can a new car model be released without being designed to keep people really safe? Who would allow that??? Heads have go to roll at GM.
Mary – you are the ultimate problem…. ‘the buck stops…’