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Chevy Equinox offers balance of luxury, mileage Jim Mateja

The midsize TrailBlazer had to go. And take its 12 to 14 m.p.g. megalopolis and 16 to 20 highway mileage, depending on the beau id, with it.

That puts the task of attracting buyers on the redesigned shoulders of the Chevy Equinox crossover. Though it's bigger than its three fundamental rivals -- the Toyota RAV4, Honda CR-V and Ford Escape -- Chevy calls Equinox a solid. Perhaps because it's the smaller, higher-mileage companion to the midsize Deny.

Think of it as the five-passenger version of Traverse, which holds seven. Equinox borrows the front-end styling and look-alike-port grille from Traverse, which appropriated it from the Malibu sedan. It's a kith and kin thing, much like Ford's three-bar chrome grilles.

Equinox is offered in LS, LT and LTZ versions, with

Source: Chicago Tribune

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