Should You Buy a 2024 Chevrolet Trax? Thorough Review By A Mechanic

Hello and welcome to the Car Canyon Reviews channel and welcome to the 2024 Chevrolet Trax. A very interesting car and actually it's the first Chevrolet that we review on the channel and let's hope more to come. In today's video we're going to do a proper technical review. We're going to take a look under the hood, underneath the car, inside it and outside it. We're talking about some things we'd like, some things we do not like, right after this. Let's start our technical review under the hood, starting with the engine. This is a 1.2 liter, three-cylinder, turbo direct-injected engine. It does have many names, some of them are GME Turbo engine and the other one is the 8th generation Ecotec. We're just going to look at this engine, let's forget about the names. Let's start with its mechanical construction. This engine has a plastic valve cover at the top, seems to be the medium build quality, not the highest quality we've seen, not the lowest, just medium. And then the cylinder head is a single-piece cylinder head, which is a very interesting design. We'll talk about it a little bit later in the video. So, single-piece cylinder head with roller rockers and hydraulic lifters, which is nice. This is of course a very modern engine. The cylinder head is aluminum and then the block is also aluminum. The pistons are cast aluminum, which is nice. It's pretty standard stuff with the automotive industry these days. This does have dual overhead cams with 12 valves. I just had to say that because it's a very strange number to say because it's a three-cylinder engine. It does have dual variable valve timing. They are oil controlled. You have little actuators in the front. That's the simplest way to do it and the most effective way and I think that's pretty good. Now, here is the interesting thing about this engine. It's kind of a surprise. So, this engine is a timing belt engine. It not only has one timing belt, it has two. Pretty interesting, but that's not actually the surprising part. This has a wet timing belt. Let me explain what that means. Normally, timing belt engines will have the timing belt external to the engine and they have seals on the on the camshafts and seal on the crank and the timing belt is external because it's rubber. That's the cheapest way to do it, but this has the timing belt internal, which means the timing belt gets oil on it. In the past, I mean, that was the biggest problem because you get oil from the seals leaking. Now, the timing belt deteriorates quickly and oh my god, this timing belt is actually designed to run with oil. That's not a problem. It's not going to deteriorate early because it's designed to do that and that is fine. However, service is a problem with the timing belt because here's what they decided to do with the cylinder head. Something only the Germans have done in the past and still do and unexplainable why that is the case. So, the way the cylinder head is designed, it has a cavity in the front that is closed. You cannot remove that cavity and open it up and that's where the timing gears are. So, the belt goes over the timing gears and then down and you have a little cover, a service cover that has sealer on it. That service cover is a one-time use. So, every time you do a timing belt in addition to the timing belt and all this stuff, you have to replace this cover. You remove that cover, you see the bottom half of the timing belt, but you can't see the top because it is covered with that kind of a cavity part of the cylinder head. So, in order to service this timing belt, you have to use a lot of special tools. Lock the cams, lock the crank, remove both variable valve timing gears, remove them with the timing belt on them, and then put the timing belt on them, install them, install them, tighten them, and then route your timing belt. And the second timing belt just goes from the crank to the oil pump. Oil pump's power is mounted to the upper oil pan. Pretty simple stuff there, but I don't know why they did that. Added so much complication. Every time you want to do a timing belt here, valve cover has to come off. The whole thing has to come off. It's a very complicated process, actually, unnecessarily. If they would have made this in a non-wet timing belt, also would have been fine. Or at least if you did that, okay, put a removable piece in the front where we don't have to remove the variable valve timing gears every time we do a timing belt. But they didn't, and that's okay. Now, the biggest thing about this, which is a radical departure from anything in the past with small GM engines, the water pump is external. It's not even driven by the timing belt. It's just driven by the drive belt, which is very nice. Folks, they used to put their water pump driven by the chain. So, when that fails, you're taking half the engine apart just to change the water pump. That was not a good idea, but no longer here, which is really nice. That is a big deal. Now, this engine is turbocharged. It has a turbo sitting all the way in the back. A decent-sized turbo, actually. It's not a tiny turbo. It is oil and coolant cooled. It does have an electronic wastegate. Not the best idea in a hot area, but it works. And then, it has an air-to-air intercooler, so you have all the piping going to the front and all that. I wish they would have done a liquid-to-air, but I suppose that would add a lot of cost to the car, which is very reasonably priced. We're going to talk about this in a bit. Now, the cooling system on this engine is extremely basic. No nonsense. Things are extremely basic. Mechanical water pump driven by the drive belt, external, very easy to access and service. Goes to the heater core, no fancy valves, nothing of that nature. They just kept things very, very simple, which is really nice. And the fuel system in this engine is direct-injected only. So, you have three direct injectors. You have the high-pressure fuel pump. But I love how they did this. It's pretty interesting. So, they put the three injectors on the side of the cylinder head, not on top of the valve cover, which is really nice. Because if you're going to take that valve cover all the time to do a timing belt, that would be a real big hassle. But they took it to the next step with that. Because they know you're going to take this for service, they actually put the high-pressure fuel pump on the side of the cylinder head instead of on top, where everybody else would, because they were thinking of service of the timing belt to make things even simpler, which is really nice. Now, this being a direct-injected engine only, carbon buildup is a possibility. So, good maintenance and good driving habits will really help lower that chance. But it still potentially will creep up again, because that's unfortunately the downside of direct injection only. Now, something nice and really interesting to know about this engine, it does have an oil cooler. Usually, engines this small and like this, they don't have an oil cooler. This one does. And something very interesting about this engine, it is quiet and it's very refined. And actually, even being a three-cylinder, it makes 137 horsepower for a car this size. That's plenty of power. And the other thing is, it's very smooth. And it revs, it doesn't drone and shake the whole car. No, it's very smooth. And that's really a surprise. You expect a three-cylinder to be very buzzy and it's horrendous. This one is very refined. It does have to do with that timing belt. That's why the engine is quiet. I suppose you trade the good with the bad. The good is, having this wet timing belt, it's very quiet. I mean, you compare it to any modern car with a chain, this is significantly quieter, which is really nice. Now, the transmission in this car is a six-speed automatic transmission, not a CVT, which is a huge deal in this segment of cars. I mean, this is a regular torque converter transmission, actually a very small transmission, only six-speed, not 10 and 12 and 17 like everybody else, not a CVT, which is a very smooth shifting transmission. This transmission is super smooth. Paired with this engine, this powertrain is very refined. Now, I haven't said that this car only comes in front-wheel drive. You can't have an all-wheel drive, and this is typical GM stuff. So, this car is slightly larger than the Trailblazer, which is a better, more expensive car. So, they decided this one only gets front-wheel drive, and that one can get all-wheel drive. That's fine. I think this will, being front-wheel drive, it will be fine in heavy weather or whatnot, but this powertrain is very refined, and that's the biggest takeaway. But having said that, let me talk you through, kind of me as a mechanic, just looking around here. I've actually worked on some GMs in the past, so I have a little experience with some of their typical ways of doing things. I see a lot of good stuff. Some of the engine stuff, they seem better built, and I like that. It's kind of a move in the right direction. I also see the same typical stuff that they love to do from the past, like the plastic stuff. It's okay to have plastic stuff. I mean, everybody uses plastic under the hood, and that's fine, but the lack of quality of the plastic stuff is what's concerning, especially in the coolant department. The cooling system does have a lot of plasticky stuff, and these quick disconnects, and it's just not very pretty. And something with GM and their continuous insistence on putting this kind of fuse block junction thing on top of the battery. I mean, put it somewhere else. It makes the change in the battery such a cumbersome process, versus any other car. They just take the terminals, the clamp, and it's out. Here, you have a giant contraption on top of it. Why? Get rid of that. It absolutely makes no sense. And then the other thing is the little stuff. They love to do this. I don't think any other manufacturer does this. Some of the domestic ones do. The hood lats. So, there's a secondary safety release, so in case the hood is popped open, it won't just come flying. There's a secondary catch. But GM always loves to do this. They put a cable, a second cable, that goes to that secondary release. Couldn't we find a better way, when we design this car, to just maybe a longer rod or something? That's one more thing that's going to corrode down the road, and now it doesn't want to open, and we're fighting with it. They love to do this stuff. Not the end of the world, but if we're gonna, if we really improve this car, as you'll see in this video, I mean, they really did this well. This little stuff could have used a few tweaks, too. Let's take a look underneath the 2024 Chevrolet Trax. And this, one small thing, this is not an expensive car. I have to say that, because things are not covered at all. And surprisingly, even though they're not covered, it's not the loudest car on the planet to sit in and drive. So, I suppose that is good. But let's start with the front suspension here. So, this is a typical McPherson design. You do have an aluminum knuckle, with a steel lower control arm, with the ball joint that is part of the control arm. I wish that was not the case, but that is the case. And you do have a single piston caliper here. Pretty decent size caliper for the size of car, which is all nice. Now, looking at the engine here, interestingly, they mentioned that this was a steel pan. This is actually an aluminum pan, which is a very strange looking one. I mean, it's definitely not magnetized. That was our test for it. And it did mention clearly that it's steel, but maybe aluminum, which is kind of an interesting shape to it. So, the transmission here does have a front pan. This is something that the automotive industry is going towards. This is a plastic front pan, which I feel like is too exposed, this area. I wish they had some kind of cover here, so things wouldn't go straight at the water pump here, electric water pump right there. But that's what they did, and that's okay. Now, historically, any car design that has this style mount at the bottom, it's usually the kind that shakes a lot, and just you feel every single vibration. But this engine is actually pretty smooth. But again, this is a new car. Then there's this little contraption that I don't know what the purpose of this is. It just looks like a little pipe, and it just sits here, hooks on to the mount on one side, hooks on to the lower oil panel on the other, maybe some kind of stabilization or something. The only cover they have is the one you have to remove for basically everything. So, I don't understand why manufacturers sometimes do that. It's like put the cover in one place that you will have to remove it for anything you do with the engine, but that's what they did here. Moving to the back, we talked about the timing belt, the wet timing belt. We talked about that one cover that is a one-time use. If you look all the way up here, you can actually see that cover right in that area. You see it nice and shiny and put an arrow on it here. That's the one-time use cover for some reason. I guess when you take it out, it just gets mangled maybe. That's why they want you to replace it every time. Then the exhaust. Historically, GM has not had the best exhaust in the planet, and this one included. It just looks not long-lasting. We have this giant flux pipe right here. Flux pipes are not a great idea, but they do have some heat insulation. I mean, this seems decent. It doesn't have nuts, though. It has this little clip, which that's the cheap way of doing this, but it's okay. Nothing is covered here, though. Everything is wide open. I don't have any concerns with the sealer application. Everything looks decent, although these body plugs kind of have, I don't know if that's glue or something on it. Probably going to make it a little interesting to remove, should you need to remove them one day. But this is, of course, only front-wheel drive. That's something we talked about. Fuel tank is right here. It does have a little shield on it, shielded from the exhaust. And then the charcoal canister is right here, and yeah, let's pretend we didn't do that. Charcoal canister is right here, and it does have this little protrusion to protect it, and equally on the other side, it also has this protrusion that protects the fuel tank from anything incoming this way, which I suppose is a nice, nice thing. Looking at the back, this has beam suspension, and that is an interesting decision. But you know what? Even though this has beam suspension, it's actually not bad. I mean, it's not a sports car in any way, shape, or form, but doesn't feel like it's all over the place. Steering wheel is a little bit on the lighter, too light of a side, but even though it has beam suspension, it's actually not bad. Rear brakes, also single piston caliper with the integrated parking brake motor here. This is something that basically the entire automotive industry is going towards. Single muffler here, which we're going to pretend we didn't see this part. And of course, just like the entire automotive industry, this is wide open. Same thing on the other side, that's what all manufacturers are doing. But you know what? And look at this. This is nice seam sealer application, and things look decent underneath. Now, it doesn't, and this is another typical thing, why I wonder what happened here. So, this exhaust hanger was so cheap that we ended up putting a strap around it to make it actually hold. That's what that tells me. I'm pretty sure that's not the case, but yeah, it's things like that always make me wonder. And just to reiterate that exhaust hangers, when I say they're not strong enough, I mean, that is a lot of movement, but it's not a problem. It's just like, it was a little. There's one wire that, actually two, that just make me wonder, Mr. Engineers, why do we do things like that? This particular wire, this, I believe, is for the speed sensor. Let's look at it real quick. Yes. No, actually, it's not. It's for the parking brake motor. So, here's what I'm seeing here. You see how close this is to the tire? Very close. That's okay. It's not a problem. But the only thing holding this wire from going and hitting the tire and getting completely cut, now we have all kinds of problems, is this tiny little clip that mounts on a tiny little bracket that's welded to the beam. I mean, anything hits this debris from the road is going to break this little clamp, and here goes the wire against the tire. I don't know why they do this. Couldn't we just wrap it against the body of the top? This is, of course, manufacturing stuff, but it's little stuff like this. I wish the manufacturers would do better. And one last thing that I don't understand why they do this stuff. If you come around, Jose, to the sway bar link. So, the bar is steel, but the ball part right here is plastic. I don't know why manufacturers do this. Please don't do this. We love you, but don't do this, because this is just either make the whole thing even aluminum. I mean, even though they're not the best, but plastic on a sway bar link? That's never a good idea. Let's take a look at the outside of the Chevy Trax. Now, there is one thing that has to be said before we even look at this one and talk about it. In the past, the previous generation Trax was the rental car special. I mean, it was so not good looking and such a not a good car that this is a radical departure from that on the looks department and on everything. But let's talk about the outside look. So, this has a very distinct non-GM-like look. And the reason for that is this was designed and built in GM's factory in Korea and GM's Korean team. So, it has a certain Hyundai-Kia twist to it. It's not a bad thing. They've been putting some really good looking car. This one, it is not the show-stopper, but it is also not bad. It does look pretty decent for an everyday car. You do notice some different things, though. You have this part of the headlight, which is not really a headlight. This is just a running light. And then the headlights are low, a signature thing that Hyundai loves to do in their cars. And here it is on a Chevy. You really tell kind of the Korean design language. And GM, for the longest time, their smaller cars, they just look strange. Their big thing is the big trucks. They do those well. This, the small cars, not their thing. But now they handed it down to their Korean team at GM and they really did a good job because this is a radical departure. We look at this line. I like that they tried. This is the RS trim. You got a little dark chrome here. Chevy badge. And everything around it just, it all works together. I don't think, I think this looks actually pretty cool for an everyday car. And then they didn't get carried away with the design. You look, there's one kind of line in the middle of the hood. And then this one design line here. And that's it. Doesn't give it an offending look. It's not too much. But it's not bland and just extremely basic. I think it looks pretty good. Then we look at the side here. Again, same thing. This looks like a lot of Kia and Hyundai models. You do have the kind of unpainted cladding. And everybody's doing that. Not the best look in the world. But you do have this little curve here to give it the impression of a faraway that is wider. It's actually not. The doors don't have much going on. You have a very Korean-like design language here. You have a line that goes up. And then another line that kind of comes and disappears. Pretty interesting side profile. Looks good. It works. And then this is, believe it or not, a car at this price point. It does have intelligent key or however you want to call it. You can lock and unlock. But it's only from the button. It doesn't have a touch sensor. Obviously for cost savings to you. So the car price wouldn't be more expensive. And then in case the battery dies, you do have a key access right here. But you do have to pop this panel out. Which could have done it a little better. But we'll take that. Of course, we're not expecting one in the back. That is pretty standard. And then we come to here. This area right here. This is where, doesn't this remind you of these few cars? That is pretty interesting. But then when we come around the back and look at this taillight. I feel like two teams worked on this. Because the side profile of this taillight does not match the back profile of this taillight. It just looks like two completely. You don't expect it to end up like this. It's not a bad look. It's strange to me how that ends up. Anyways, moving on from that. I love that they did not go overboard with the badging. Of course, Chevy badge. Trax. And RS. That's all you really need to know. What trim it is. What kind of car it is. And who makes it. Keep it simple. And I love it. And of course, this is following the design language of new cars. There is no bumper. A little bit. But there's no bumper. You hit anything, you're going to hit the back door. Speaking of the back door. It is not power. Which is something you anticipate in a car of this level. Does have this little integrated to new cover. I like that it is not as flimsy. And I like that it's padded a little bit. It's not bad. That's what you expect in a car of this size and price point. Over here. Love that we have a spare tire. So this is a very tiny one. And there's absolutely no insulation here. Again, expected. It's a decent space. Only thing is there is a large protrusion here. It does make up with a little bit space on the sides. But it's a decent size. And the door is pretty light. Because it's not a big car. It doesn't have any complicated electronics to close the door. Power. So this is very basic. And I like it. That's the intended purpose. You do have a wiper here. There's something very interesting. Something we don't see anymore. There's no shark fin. It's an actual antenna here. This particular model. Which is pretty interesting to see. I mean, they started with a shark fin, I feel like. Because the base is oversized. And then you just put an antenna. No complaints there as well. Let's talk about the interior of the 2024 Chevy Trax. And what a surprise to sit in this interior. I mean, usually you're used to sitting in small domestic crossovers like this. And they're very plasticky. There's absolutely no effort in making it any nice. But this is a radical departure from that. I mean, this is borderline to a very nice interior. I have to say that. Again, thinking of the price of this car, this feels very nice. I mean, the materials are not high-end materials, but they're not also the cheapest stuff. It's a very nice design for a functional and affordable car like this one. I really like it. I mean, there's a leather-like thing on the steering wheel in a car of this price and this segment. This car I just tested is $27,000. But you can have the base model around $20,000. This is a lot of car for that. And it's actually a nice layout. There's some of the options that are optional and whatnot. But still, for example, you look at the center stack here. Yes, it has a lot of piano black, but it's better than cheap old plastic. At least it looks nice. You clean it, the fingerprints are gone, and we're good. And then physical shifter here, which actually does have a nice feel to it. In this particular RS trim, you do have a little leather boot to it, which is nice. It does have electronic parking brake right here. Things are very simplistic in this interior, yet they're functional. Infotainment screen, while it is super generic software-wise and very glitchy, does have wireless Apple CarPlay in all the trims. I mean, we've tested some very expensive, high-end, supposed luxury cars that don't have wireless Apple CarPlay. And here we are with an economy car that is very reasonably priced, and it has wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. That's pretty cool. Now, the gauges are screen. And let's just say this screen is available in the upper trims. It is completely useless, and it absolutely adds nothing. So, if you're upgrading to a higher trim for the screen, I encourage you to rethink it. Because the lower trims actually have two dials and one little screen, which is exactly the same what this one does. I just thought I'd mention that. Now, what I like about this also is it has physical HVAC controls. Now, this higher trim, you do have automatic climate control, which is nice, and heated seats, which is also nice. But in the lower trim, you have three dials, the manual controls, which work very nice. They're physical. You don't have to think about it. It's very simple. I really like this interior, because it does have a subtle design to it, like the dash is kind of pushed in, and it has a hump in the middle, and then it goes back in. It just, it looks nice. Honestly, the truth has to be said. You know, you expect to sit in the car like this for it to be completely drab and just, here's what you get for being cheap. But this is very nice, and they really done a good job here. It's very functional, feels good. I didn't see in the week that we've had this car now, I didn't have a moment where I thought, why is this like that, with the exception of one thing, small thing. The volume knob is all the way here. Your passenger can't reach it very easily, and then you have to go around the steering wheel, kind of a very unnatural angle. Wish it was somewhere here, maybe on the other side. That would have been nice, but hey, nothing is perfect in life, and that's the only thing. We're doing pretty good. Now, one thing about this car, it has a sunroof, but this particular trim, it is one of the smallest sunroofs I've ever seen. So, if you're into sunroofs, and you want to option one with, just remember it's a tiny one. It's something abnormally small. The seats are decent. They're not the most supportive seats in the planet, but again, there are manual seats, of course. But again, we're talking about a very reasonably priced car that's actually nice. I don't have complaints about the seat. They're not the most comfortable, but they're not uncomfortable either. They're actually decent. That's the thing about this car. This interior is a surprise. Comparing it to the previous generation, this is a big surprise. It's actually a nice interior, and I appreciate that. Let's talk about the back seat of the Chevy Trax. This is my driving position. I'm 5'7". I have plenty of knee room. I have actually decent headroom. I like that. This is not an uncomfortable place to be. One thing I like here, because this is only front-wheel drive, the floor is flat. That is really nice, so you can sit somebody in the middle and not have them kind of huddled up over the hump of the transmission tunnel or the drive shaft. This is completely flat, which is really nice. Now, there are a few interesting things here. There's no back seat pocket here, but there's one on the passenger side. I mean, I can understand they have to cut costs somewhere to keep the car reasonably priced, and then you don't have any AC vents or anything here. You do have a little storage pocket, and you have USB-A, USB-C. That is actually pretty nice, and you even have a light here. So, that you take in the trade of, there's no center console, at least in this particular trim. Not the end of the world, but that is the back seat of the Chevy Trax. Let's talk about some things we do not like about the Chevy Trax. Now, I really like this car. I have to be honest here. I like it for its function. I like it for its price point. I like it because this is a massive improvement over anything small CUV from GM in the past. However, nothing is perfect in life, and we have to address a few things. The first thing is the reliability. It still remains a question mark, because looking under the hood, looking underneath it, I see a lot of those unreliable trends, and then adding that timing belt, that's one huge maintenance item that you have to contend with, and it is unnecessarily complicated. This engine is relatively new, so reliability is a huge question mark, and looking at the past trends, although things are dramatically changed here, everywhere else, but looking at the past reliability trends, this may be an issue long term. And the last thing is, and this is something not just with this car, this is all GM's. So, you leave your key in your car. Most cars will even make a very soft sound, or it'll flash the lights, or do something, or some cars won't do anything if you shut off the car and leave the keys in it. This one, you open the door, it'll wake up your entire neighborhood. It'll sound like this. Why would GM do this? And not one horn, three times, just to really scare you. I mean, if you forget your keys in the car, and you open the door or close it, it'll scare you very badly. And then the second thing that GM loves to do, every time you park this car at night, and you shut it off, the reverse lights come on. Because their idea is, they want to illuminate everything around the car so you can see, but the problem is, when you park in a parking lot, and then there's a line of cars waiting for you to back up, and they're waiting and waiting, and here you go walking around the car and walking away from it, it's actually a little bit of a safety hazard. People think you're reversing, and you're actually just getting out of your car, and these are the locator lights, or whatever you want to call them. I wish they would change that, because nobody does that, and nobody misses that. It's kind of a safety hazard, in my opinion. So, should you buy a 2024 Chevrolet Trax? Folks, in the previous generation of this car, and actually GM's smaller cars, they're usually lined up in front of the airport car rental agency, and everyone trying to rent a car is scraping every last penny to upgrade and avoid them. That's the truth about them, they were just terribly unreliable, horrible to look at, horrible to sit in. It's just kind of a check mark that that's why they made them. But as soon as you look at this one, just by looking at it from the outside, you know things have changed dramatically. This looks better, drives better, and it just, it will shock you. And if you still think about them that way, I think it's time to change, because they've really done this well. I have to say it, compared to the previous one, this is not even the same car. And then, not only that, we're not only going to compare them to GM's, comparing them to cars in this segment, this is actually a serious contender and has a lot of good things about it. The biggest thing is, it is a functional, sensible car, that's the first thing. Second thing is, this has a proper six-speed automatic transmission with a torque converter. Most cars in this segment will have CVT that'll drone and drone and drone, remind you that you bought an economical small crossover. This one has a proper transmission and a very smooth one. And the biggest thing about this is, it has a certain refinement about the powertrain that's very interesting for this segment. I mean, this engine is actually very quiet. It's a three-cylinder engine, you expect it to be loud and thrashy. It's actually not. Makes decent power for the size of the car. And the biggest reason why it is refined and quiet, it has that wet timing belt we talked about. Now, the wet timing belt has this good thing and bad things. Good thing is, timing belt engines are usually quieter than chain drive engines. And this one being a wet timing belt, it's even more quiet than a normal timing belt engine. The downside of that is cost of maintenance. The way they did that wet timing belt service-wise, very complicated and unnecessarily so, in a very GM fashion. But that's the downside of that. That's an added maintenance that you have to take care of. But otherwise, this powertrain is very refined. But then, when you remember that this is a small crossover, car prices are on the rise. I mean, now the car that you used to buy for $25,000, now it's $35,000 or $40,000. But this is actually very reasonably priced. I mean, if you go to the base model, you're into the low 20s. This is a nice car for that price. And the biggest thing is, this has a very strong Hyundai-Kia flair to it. I mean, just even the looks and the feel inside and everything around it does have that. And that's because this is actually designed by GM's Korean team and built in Korea. Not a bad thing. I think they did this very, very well. And if you're used to the typical kind of sad song of the tracks in the past, I think it's time to change. Skip that track because they really updated this well. It's very functional. Drives like a new car. This is the kind of car you expect it to be horrendous until you get in it. It's like, I am so wrong. This is actually a serious contender now, and I really like it. Now, the truth has to be said, this is still not the most reliable car in the world long term because everything we talked about, there are certain times that things don't change. But at least for the time you have it, it is a nice car to drive. It has a refined powertrain, and it is not a checkmark. It feels like they really put a lot of effort into it. That is a very welcome change of direction for GM's small crossovers. Folks, I hope this video was helpful and informative. I hope you learned something new. If you like it, consider giving a thumbs up. If you're not a subscriber, consider subscribing to the channel. Check out some other videos. Until the next video, folks, may the Lord bless you and keep you, and you have yourself a wonderful day.