Chevy To Unveil 2018 Traverse - What Would You Like To See?

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John Goreham
Contributing Writer, GM-Trucks.com
12-19-2016

Chevrolet plans to show off its all-new Traverse on January 9th. The new mid/large size crossover will seat up to eight passengers to match the segment-sales-leading Highlander's capacity. Aside from the promise of up to eight passengers, Chevy says the new Traverse will have the most third-row legroom of any vehicle in its class. Coupled with that, Chevy says the Traverse will have the most cargo area.

 

The new Traverse will have more modern technology and also a more premium look and feel. One specific technology that Chevy is highlighting in its previews are available D-Optic headlamps. Chevy says they will "...provide a natural daylight effect with a seamless light quality." This may be an effort by Chevy to meet the requirements by IIHS for its Top Safety Pick Plus designation, that requires a qualifying vehicle to have "Acceptable" or "Good" headlight performance.

 

These new aspects aside, what would you like to see Chevy do with the new Traverse to make it better suited to your lifestyle? What do you think Chevy should do to make it more competitive with the Highlander, which is outselling it in past months by 2 to 1?

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John Goreham

Contributing Writer, GM-Trucks.com

12-19-2016

Chevrolet plans to show off its all-new Traverse on January 9th. The new mid/large size crossover will seat up to eight passengers to match the segment-sales-leading Highlander's capacity. Aside from the promise of up to eight passengers, Chevy says the new Traverse will have the most third-row legroom of any vehicle in its class. Coupled with that, Chevy says the Traverse will have the most cargo area.

 

The new Traverse will have more modern technology and also a more premium look and feel. One specific technology that Chevy is highlighting in its previews are available D-Optic headlamps. Chevy says they will "...provide a natural daylight effect with a seamless light quality." This may be an effort by Chevy to meet the requirements by IIHS for its Top Safety Pick Plus designation, that requires a qualifying vehicle to have "Acceptable" or "Good" headlight performance.

 

These new aspects aside, what would you like to see Chevy do with the new Traverse to make it better suited to your lifestyle? What do you think Chevy should do to make it more competitive with the Highlander, which is outselling it in past months by 2 to 1?

 

 

The best proof of a product durability is a good, acceptable, worry-free warranty. A manufacturers confidence in their own product speaks volumes as to it's integrity. If GM looks at the marketplace and the best and the worst warranties, aim for the reasonable top rung, then back it up with quality manufacturing the public's faith and buying power will follow. People of my age, 65 still remember the GM Products of the sixties, seventies and eighties. Those painful memories will only disappear if you can convince them the game and field has changed and GM has followed. GM has to have faith in itself and that will bring in customers. I've never seen it fail and will work on any continent. Honda used flawed steel till it showed it's sales damaging effects in the eighties, and it changed that fault. And look at Honda today ? Quality always sell's itself.

 

Back in the sixties, GM & Chevrolet put plastic timing gears in the 307 V8 ? They lasted 2-3 years and you needed a new cam gear. Like wise, in the same period of time, Chevrolet/GM put faulty poorly done face-hardened camshafts in the V8's. Sure enough, in four or five years the camshaft lobs went flat, plus it now infected the entire oiling system with metal shavings. Move on to the 1990-2000 and again the GM engineering department decided to use plastic again in the intake manifolds and water galleries, but this time the public went to court. If you look at these incidents, they may seem small, but to each time, each case, you have a prospective buyer definitely looking at Ford or Chrysler or offshore to their next automobile or Truck. Add in paint that has a 3 year life span and the vehicle starts rusting early, well those memories, those consumers are going to be a huge, huge customer to ever bring back to domestic products. Again, Quality always sells itself !

[Last C5]

Rear wheel drive and a true four wheel drive. Without those it's just another mini van and I'm not interested.

 

You know that GM already makes an SUV, body on frame, rear wheel drive, true four wheel drive and it's set on the Colorado

chassis. It's called the Holden Colorado and it gets rave reviews. If you move to Australia you can buy one.

[f5fstop]

There will never be a mini-van in my garage!

[last truck]

So why would you even look if not interested lol.

[Jsdirt]

Given GM's track record lately, I bet major electronics failures will brick the vehicle in 5 years flat.

 

After having to work on these vehicles, I'll take ANY vehicle from the 60's, 70's, 80's or back ANY day before one of these ...