2025 Chevrolet Equinox

Car and Driver (opens in a new tab) says Chevrolet's compact SUV receives a redesign for 2025, with a rugged new design that looks like a scaled-down Traverse. Huffines Chevrolet (opens in a new tab) says the Equinox enters its fourth generation with a full redesign while keeping the size and passenger capacity of the 2024 version. GM Authority (opens in a new tab) says it rides on a revised version of the same GM D2 platform as the previous generation, with a new C-pillar treatment that gives it a stronger shoulder line.

Kelley Blue Book (opens in a new tab) lists the LT at a starting sticker price of $31,080 and a Fair Purchase Price of $29,100. EPA rates the 2025 Equinox family at 26 to 109 mpg or MPGe combined and $700 to $2,400 a year in fuel, with front- or all-wheel drive and 307 to 319 miles of range on the Equinox EV.

NHTSA lists six recall campaigns for the 2025 Equinox. 24V737000 covers 2025 Blazer, Blazer EV and Equinox vehicles whose door strikers were not properly heat-treated and can break, and dealers replace all four side door strikers and bolts. Most of the rest concern the Equinox EV: 24V925000 covers a pedestrian alert sound system that may not be loud enough, 25V012000 covers adaptive cruise control that may fail to engage the brakes because of brake module software, and 25V704000 covers 21-inch Continental tires on Equinox EV and Cadillac Optiq vehicles.

Owners have filed 391 complaints with NHTSA, 228 on the Equinox and 163 on the Equinox EV: visibility and wiper with 108, electrical system with 93, unknown or other with 75, forward collision avoidance with 73 and service brakes with 48. ProblemsByVin (opens in a new tab) counts 227 on the Equinox name alone, and Kelley Blue Book (opens in a new tab) keeps a common-problems page for the year.

EPA rates the 2025 Equinox family at 26 to 109 mpg or MPGe combined and $700 to $2,400 a year in fuel. The Honda CR-V lists 28 to 40 at $1,550 to $2,250, the Toyota RAV4 28 to 39 at $1,600 to $2,250, the Ford Escape 26 to 40 at $1,550 to $2,400 and the Hyundai Tucson 26 to 38 at $1,650 to $2,400, all including hybrids. Only the Equinox EV takes the family's top figure far beyond the others.