The Trax comes up short in terms of refinement, styling, and safety. It scores for its low price, but that’s about it. Overall, we rate the 2019 Trax at 4.2 out of 10. Our male dogs would need a taller kennel, and though a taller kennel would theoretically fit within the car, I'm not sure how you'd get one through the doors.The 2019 Chevrolet Trax is a city-sized crossover SUV that makes up for its low thrill demeanor with budget-friendly pricing. However, keep in mind that the dog in these photos is under 50 pounds and this Medium Diggs Enventur kennel is maxed out with her inside. A medium-sized kennel could fit in the cargo area or in the seating area, and if you wanted to drop the bigger section of rear seats, you could also run it perpendicular to the door. The Trax has good kennel capacity for its size. You won't necessarily have to spend the rest of your life vacuuming, either-dog hair doesn't stick to these seats or door cards at all and it only took a cursory vacuuming to get the fur-saturated floormats clean. If you put all the seats down, you could probably fit four, maybe five, grown Golden Retrievers in a pile pretty comfortably as long as it wasn't too hot and they weren't too wiggly. Buckling your animals in with a crash-tested harness like the Säker Ascension would go a long way to mitigating this, though. You might also get a tongue or snout in your ear from the other side of the seat, too. Still, it's worth understanding that a Retriever or Shepherd-sized dog can very easily access the center console if you've got them in the back seat. The Trax can physically fit quite a few decent-sized dogs in the back seat and cargo bay, but they really wanted to climb forward into the cockpit! It's not really fair to call this a shortcoming of the car-as I mentioned, the ambient temperature was obscene when we did our testing and the animals were fighting over proximity to the A/C vents. If they could hear the Trax's noise-canceling sounds, these dogs certainly didn't seem bothered by it. I was wondering if that tech would bother a dog's sensitive ears, but our animals showed no aversion at all. Chevrolet uses active noise cancellation (inaudible sound waves from the stereo speakers) to smooth out the tiny engine's exclamations and other ambient noise from the road and tires. It can be manually overridden by shifting to L and using a +/- toggle on the shift knob if you're really feeling ambitious.Ĭabin noise isn't brutal, but the engine does yawn rather loudly when you put it to work. The six-speed automatic transmission in my test car was never in a big rush to get me down a gear to make power. All-wheel drive is more of an unnecessary expense than an advantage when high-quality tires will get you through a Northeastern winter no problem. All Trax models are front-wheel-drive, which is fine. I'd say "grip is good" but I drove the car at approximately the speed limit, so, you'd sure hope so. This 2RS trim runs nice Continental tires on 19-inch wheels that caught my sister-in-law's eye for a "nice wheels" comment-I mention this because I've never heard her say a single thing about any car ever. Climate controls are good old-fashioned hot/cold knobs as they should be. I loved the shapes and look of the Trax's command console-clean, sharp, and complements the exterior, without being overwrought or unintuitive. The whole cockpit architecture is really quite nice. The main gauge cluster is digital too, and soothingly minimalistic. My iPhone connected to Apple CarPlay wirelessly and quickly, though the wireless charging pad only worked sometimes (I never get satisfying performance from these in any car). The 2RS also benefits from a mighty crisp 11-inch touchscreen that's really well-integrated into the dash and tilted toward the driver. The seating position didn't quite agree with me though, especially in the passenger seat-it felt like just a little too much of an obtuse angle. The seats look great, too, with red piping and cool "RS" headrest inserts. I found it comfortable and very easy to clean drool and paw prints off. The 2RS trim I tested has heated front seats and a leather-like synthetic upholstery that GM calls Evotex.
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