Family friendly 2018 Chevy Traverse
Featuring a bold and refined new look, the completely redesigned 2018 Chevrolet Traverse is built of style and purpose. The all-new Traverse offers customers best-in-class cargo space and convenience features that make loading and unloading a breeze.
Featuring a bold and refined new look, the completely redesigned 2018 Chevrolet Traverse is built of style and purpose. The all-new Traverse offers customers best-in-class cargo space and convenience features that make loading and unloading a breeze.
Featuring a bold and refined new look, the completely redesigned 2018 Chevrolet Traverse is built of style and purpose. The all-new Traverse offers customers best-in-class cargo space and convenience features that make loading and unloading a breeze.
Featuring a bold and refined new look, the completely redesigned 2018 Chevrolet Traverse is built of style and purpose. The all-new Traverse offers customers best-in-class cargo space and convenience features that make loading and unloading a breeze.
Featuring a bold and refined new look, the completely redesigned 2018 Chevrolet Traverse is built of style and purpose. The all-new Traverse offers customers best-in-class cargo space and convenience features that make loading and unloading a breeze.
The 2018 Traverse High Country trim features premium content and technology, including a unique interior trim featuring Loft Brown leather appointments with suede accents, 20-in polished wheels, High Country badging, D-Optic headlamps and standard twin-clutch AWD.
The 2018 Traverse’s enhanced Smart Slide® seat allows the curbside seat to tip up and slide forward, even with a forward-facing child seat in place, providing open and easy access to the third row. Third row legroom is expected to be the most spacious in the segment at 33.7 inches (856 mm).
Featuring a bold and refined new look, the completely redesigned 2018 Chevrolet Traverse is built of style and purpose. The all-new Traverse offers customers best-in-class cargo space and convenience features that make loading and unloading a breeze.
Featuring a bold and refined new look, the completely redesigned 2018 Chevrolet Traverse is built of style and purpose. The all-new Traverse offers customers best-in-class cargo space and convenience features that make loading and unloading a breeze.
Craig and Deanne Conover
Sunday Drive
Over the past couple of years, Chevrolet has been redesigning and coming out with great all-new models to complete their SUV lineup. Starting with the Tahoe and Suburban, moving to the Trax and Equinox, along with an all-new edition of the EV Bolt, they now have completed the family with a completely redesigned Traverse.
We would be the first to admit that we were not completely enamored with the new look that came with the Tahoe and Suburban, finding them to be a little box-like. However, the new Traverse has a completely different feel to it, much more upscale and luxury-like, with curves in all the right places. In fact, there are no box-like elements involved on the exterior. We would bet most folks would not know it was a Chevy without the bowtie emblem on the front.
It just so happened that during our week with the Traverse, Craig and new Daily Herald publisher Rhett Long had planned a sales trip to St. George, Utah and Mesquite, Nevada. He figured, what better way to really get to know the new SUV than on a daylong trip down and back from Provo.
Having the Premier edition of the Traverse made a long day of driving very comfortable and refreshing. Both driver and passenger seats were power adjustable and heated and cooled standard with the Premier package. This feature became extremely important as they left for warmer climes of the south very early in the morning in October, when heated seats are the best part of the ride. That and the included heated steering wheel, according to Craig.
It’s not often that we get the chance to start with heated seats, get to use the chillers later in the day and get back to heat in the end, but Craig and Rhett did just that as temperatures started in the low 30s in Provo but were in the low 90s in the afternoon in Mesquite. What a difference four hours of driving can make.
The new Traverse comes standard with a new V6 3.6-liter engine that is mated to a 9-speed automatic transmission. Very soon, Chevrolet will introduce the RS version of the Traverse that will have a smaller 2.0-liter-sized motor that will, however, be turbocharged. This will be an interesting mix for such a large SUV, and we look forward to getting a chance to drive it and feel the difference.
The V6 engine preforms very well and we would think that most will opt for it with this seven-seat family hauler. We averaged just over 23 miles per gallon that included the trip to Mesquite during the week, so over 650 miles of driving. Craig and Rhett got right around 25 mpg for the day on the run down south with a full tank getting them from Provo to Mesquite and back to St. George before a refill was needed.
The included Wi-Fi access was a nice addition as Craig was able to use it to hook up his laptop and do business almost like he was back in the office. In the past, we have not had many reasons to use a Wi-Fi system on a vehicle other than hooking up iPads on a long trip for movie downloads, but this proved to be a great addition for business use.
A couple of other additions to the Traverse that we liked and would make it very family friendly were the enhanced Smart Slide second row seat curbside that allows the seat to tilt forward and slide up, making access to the rear seats easier. It could even work with a child seat installed. The Rear Seat Reminder would beep anytime something was in one of the rear seats that had any weight in it.
While Chevy is saying that the third row will have best-in-class legroom, it does seem to be entirely true, but it is still not the place an average adult would want to spend for a long journey. However, for the soccer moms out there, it has three extra spaces for the kids to sit. Along with the third row of seating, there is still plenty of room in the rear for other things. We would think room enough for carry-on bags for everyone in the Traverse, or — in Craig and Rhett’s case — room for a couple of bags of golf clubs. Even if they didn’t have the chance to use them, best to be prepared!
On the safety side, the Traverse comes standard with a rear cross path alert, rear parking assist and blind spot monitoring — all very helpful in everyday driving. The $475 driver confidence package added low speed forward braking, forward collision alert, lane keep assist with lane departure warning, a following distance indicator and intelligent high beam headlamps. The only thing more we would ask for is adaptive cruise control with emergency braking, especially for the long trips with the family all tucked in the back.
LED lights are the norm all around on the new Traverse, as we would have expected, and gave the SUV just that little extra manly look. We did enjoy the 8-inch Mylink touchscreen system mounted front and center in the dashboard. It hooked up flawlessly using Apple CarPlay to whichever phone was plugged into the USB port up front. There were also USB plugs scattered throughout the cabin to make charging a breeze for all inside.
The new Traverse fits right in a perfect niche, being that it is large enough for a family, but still not as large as a Tahoe and much easier to maneuver around in for everyday driving. It will make for a great family hauler. See one today at Doug Smith Chevrolet in Spanish Fork, 1341 North Main, (801) 841-3131, Ken Garff Chevrolet in American Fork, 548 E. 1000 South, (801) 756-3546, or Larry H. Miller Chevrolet in Provo, 2125 North University Parkway, (801) 709-9016.
Base Price: $44,450
Price as Driven: $46,265
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