The 2025 Chevy Equinox is here, representing the model’s fourth generation and bringing with it an all-new design, plenty of new technology, and a new trim level hierarchy. One neat option on every 2025 Equinox, regardless of trim, is a slick feature that allows one to securely stow the second row outboard seatbelts in a specialized opening.
Located on the upper part of the outboard trim, just outside the rear seat bolsters, the opening in question is not a coin slot and should not be treated like one. Simply, and rather cleverly, it’s a place to store the latch plate of the rear seatbelt when not in use. This subtle feature has two benefits. First, it’s the ideal location for stowing the rear outboard seatbelts so they don’t rattle against the surrounding plastic trim. Second, the seatbelt can stay out of the way when you fold down the 60/40 split-bench rear seats, rather than clicking it into the buckle.
While it’s a small feature, it’s one of the one in which GM considerably revamped the 2025 Chevy Equinox.
As much as the Bow Tie brand paid attention to the details and features of the new Equinox, it left the powertrain well alone. The turbo 1.5L I4 LSD engine carries over from the previous generation model, having made its debut for the 2023 model year. The boosted four pot connects to a Continuously Variable Transmission (CVT) for FWD models or the GM eight-speed automatic for those equipped with AWD. Power is rated at 175 horsepower and 184 pound-feet of torque in FWD models, and 175 horses plus 203 pound-feet of torque in models with all-wheel-drive.
The GM San Luis Potosi plant in Mexico is the only facility where the 2025 Chevy Equinox will be assembled for North American consumption. Pricing starts at $29,995 for the LT FWD model, while RS and ACTIV start at $34,395. Adding AWD costs $2,000 extra across the board.
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Nice idea. I can do that in my 2009 Equinox.
These are the kinds of features that make 175 hp (ten more than a 1982 Z-28 Camaro) juuuuust fine.
“nifty” … that’s what sells cars … nifty.
Like “nifty shark fin c-pillars”.
i would rather have self closing side mirrors when the engine shuts. now that is useful. another nice move is to get rid of chrome trim on the widow sills of the front doors so the gleam of the suns doesn’t get in your eyes.
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Just another feature that the people have to wrestle with, that find their dashboard touch screens too complicated.
A solution for a problem that does not exist.
Mick1, I agree.
Another useless feature thought up by the genius engineers at GM.
My 2019 GMC Acadia slt-1 all terrain, does not have a light underneath the hood. I believe that is the only vehicle I’ve ever owned without a light underneath the hood. They must have thought that light was a useless feature.
I can’t even think of a vehicle that has had that in decades. This isn’t the 90’s, has anyone had a vehicle with a light under the hood in the last decade or two? From rentals to friends and family vehicles to ours, I can’t recall seeing one under the hood.
This is just a little neat think no one has thought of, not a game changes or anything, just a quirk/feature…
How about finding a way to make the second row seats recline and move back and forth like they used to in the first and second generation Noxes? And also figure out why the FWD version gets less rated highway MPG than the AWD and literally 1 more than a far heavier full size Traverse. It makes no sense why this is rated for such poor combined and highway MPG.