"Chevrolet Trucks" in a new way

Developing a new model, first and foremost the designers of automaker GM determine the target audience. The design of the car, power units, the final price depends on the interests of potential buyers, their representation of convenience and fashion. The new "Chevrolet Trucks" crossover is aimed at a successful male middle manager, enthusiastic about gadgets, technical innovations, social networks. Hence - a brutal, with aggressive notes of the exterior of the car and in a sporty decorated comfortable interior.

Design

Chevrolet Trucks is based on a typical Gamma-2 platform, also used by Opel and Buick engineers. The 5-seater small SUV is designed in urban style. Muscular arches are perfectly inscribed in a swift silhouette. Lanterns of the front and back optics are large, look like a man's clumsy. The front part is high, with a massive under-hood space of a complex configuration. The rear is deliberately elevated. Bumper, lanterns, side arches and tailgate of different shades form a geometrically verified construction a la "transformer".

Salon

A short length (4.25 m) and a narrow saloon are compensated by a high landing and wider front doors. Sit down and leave the salon quickly, without staining the trousers. Maximum comfort - the driver. The whole front layer is oriented towards it. Innovatively designed central information display in the manner of a scooter. In vain, the eye will habitually look for the arrow speed. The round Chevrolet Traks display, colored by the colors of the rainbow, is nothing more than a tachometer with additional pictograms. Speed, as well as mileage, time, fuel consumption are broadcast on the LCD panel to the right of the tachometer. The touch screen monitor of the onboard computer is exactly in the middle of the panel: it is convenient to read to the passengers and the driver.

In the salon there are a lot of niches, pockets, offices for personal things. Thanks to flexible cargo capacity, foldable, retractable rear and front seats can transport a lot of overall things. Items of 2.3 m long are completely placed in the trunk (358 liters) and the transformed cabin (1372 liters).

Multimedia

The Chevrolet Trax chip is fully compatible with modern gadgets. Favorite iPhone can be turned into a media center, synchronizing it with a special connector with the on-board system. And no complicated settings are required, the connection is "on the fly."

The LT package is allocated by the infotainment system MyLink. This multimedia combine allows you to listen to Internet radio, music from your smartphone, navigate, broadcast an image from the back camera when parking, watch movies, pictures. The Siri Eyes app accepts voice commands for making calls. You can dictate SMS, send them, listen to incoming calls.

Driving performance

City SUV "Chevrolet Trucks" is good in its element - the intertwining of city streets with varying degrees of wear and tear. On a smooth asphalt canvas car famously, with a fervor to demonstrate high-speed quality. The turbocharged 1.4-liter petrol engine is much faster than the more bulky 1.6-liter fellow: 191-196 km / h vs. 173 km / h. Diesels of 1.7 liters, that "mechanics", that "automatic", equally fast: 183-186 km / h. All-wheel drive versions are only a few percent inferior in speed to front-wheel drive, but it will be more useful when the road is damaged by potholes.

When you are out of town, you should be careful and do not go into impassable jungle. Still, the Chevrolet Traks, even with all-wheel drive, is not a tank. In appearance, a severe parketnik is unlikely to be swayed by a plowed field or a ragged after-rain village. The most powerful modifications based on 1.4 Turbo are 140 hp. At 4900-6000 rpm. In the power of the car - to take the owners on the primer to the dacha, closer approach to the unequipped water body, to muddy confidently overcome the defects of the roads with hard surface. The crossover is smooth, the 6-speed automatic transmission allows the transmission to be switched without sensitive jerks.

Cost

An important advantage of Chevrolet Trucks is the price. At an average cost of similar SUV 20000-22000 €, the hero of the article Trax 1.6 (in the Russian market renamed Tracker) with the base LS trim is sold for a democratic 18000 €.

• For the front-drive crossover Chevrolet Trucks 1.4 LS dealers ask for 20,000 €. With all-wheel drive for 1500 € more expensive.
• Modifications of 1.4 LT are estimated at 21500-23500 €.
• The most expensive - diesel versions of LT: from 25000 €.