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Expositores a medida de metacrilato
Una de las modalidades más eficaces que hay de demostrar tus productos es usando expositores de metacrilato y material PLV, o lo cual es lo mismo, publicidad en el Sitio de Comercialización.
Tipos de Expositores de metacrilato
Dichos son ciertos de los expositores a medida de metacrilato y material PLV prediseñados que encontrarás en nuestra parte.
Para mantener una foto o un objeto con elegancia y discreción, nada mejor que una de las peanas o toleres de metacrilato que encontrarás en esta parte. Lo cual expongas se llevará toda el valor ya que las peanas y toleres cumplen discretamente su funcionalidad.
La trascendencia del diseño
En el mercado de artículos de lujo, muchas organizaciones permanecen eligiendo una unidad de visualización de metacrilato para exponer sus productos.
Una herramienta de publicidad
Así sea un destino en el interior o al aire independiente, este expositor está elegantemente creado para atraer a los ojos de los transeúntes y animarles a ver los carteles, folletos y productos semejantes.
Un diseño con personalización
Al igual que en diversos sectores a saber, relojes, cosméticos y productos de ella, con su diseño posibilita la personalización para exhibir productos simultáneamente alentar a los consumidores a pedir información acerca de ellos.
Para obtener más visibilidad
Con metacrilato, la organización opta por tener en su poder un instrumento transparente para una perspectiva clara de lo cual desea enseñar a los consumidores.
Ventajas de los expositores de metacrilato ante otros materiales
Un expositor de metacrilato no podría ser tan frágil como uno de cartón, permitiéndonos de esta forma demostrar más artículos, sin preocuparnos de que la composición del expositor se vea comprometida por el peso.
Otra virtud de dichos expositores es su alta resistencia a la intemperie, aspecto que beneficia a los comerciantes, permitiéndoles utilizar el espacio externo de su local, pudiendo de esta forma enseñar más mercancía y generando más ventas.
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Manipulador expositores de cartón
Manipulador expositores de cartón
EMPRESA ARTES GRÁFICAS EN SADABELL. BUSCA INCORPORAR: PERSONA CON EXPERIENCIA CON LA PISTOLA DE COLA, RAPIDEZ EN MANIPULACIÓN DEL CARTÓN. SE HACEN EXPOSITORES Y MATERIAL PLV PARA EL PUNTO DE VENTA. PERSONA RÁPIDA Y CON MUCHAS GANAS DE APRENDER. QUE SEA POLIVALENTE Y CAPAZ DE DAR SOPORTE A IMPRESIÓN …
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Propostas ligadas à segurança pública foram o destaque da semana no Senado
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Propostas ligadas à segurança pública foram o destaque da semana no Senado
Saiba como foi a semana de votações e debates no Senado.
Combate às milícias
A Polícia Federal poderá se responsabilizar pela investigação de crimes praticados por organizações paramilitares e milícias armadas, caso se comprove o envolvimento de agente de órgão de segurança pública estadual. É o que estabelece o PLS 548/2011, aprovado esta semana. A matéria segue para a Câmara.
Ainda na questão da segurança, já foi recebida pelo Congresso a MP 821/2018, que criou o Ministério Extraordinário da Segurança Pública. O novo ministério surge do desmembramento do Ministério da Justiça e Segurança Pública. Entre as principais atribuições da nova pasta está a integração da segurança pública em todo o território nacional, em cooperação com os demais entes federativos (estados, municípios e Distrito Federal).
MPs que já viraram lei
O Senado aprovou e já foi sancionada a MP 803/2017, que prorrogou de 28 de fevereiro para 30 de abril o prazo para a adesão ao Programa de Regularização Tributária Rural (PRR), também chamado de Refis Rural. O PRR permite o parcelamento, com descontos, de débitos de produtores rurais com a contribuição social de 2,1% sobre a receita bruta, conhecida popularmente como Funrural.
Outra matéria aprovada no Senado e que já virou lei foi a MP 801/2017, que dispensou os estados, Distrito Federal e municípios de uma série de exigências para renegociar suas dívidas com a União. A justificativa do governo ao editar a MP foi de que, mesmo com as novas condições previstas nas leis que possibilitaram a renegociação, os estados não estavam conseguindo refinanciar seus débitos por causa da documentação exigida.
Pequenas e microempresas
O Senado aprovou, em votação simbólica, o PLV 1/2018 da MP 802/2017, que modificou o Programa Nacional de Microcrédito Produtivo Orientado, para conceder pequenos empréstimos a empreendedores de baixa renda. O PLV segue para sanção presidencial.
Também foi aprovado o PLS 285/2011 - Complementar, que facilita a recuperação judicial das microempresas e empresas de pequeno porte, ao dispensá-las de apresentar certidões negativas de débitos tributários para obtenção de vantagens previstas em lei. O texto vai para a Câmara.
Universidades federais
Também foram aprovados dois projetos que determinam a criação de três universidades públicas: Universidade Federal de Rondonópolis (UFR), Universidade Federal do Delta do Parnaíba (UFDPar) e Universidade Federal do Agreste de Pernambuco (Ufape). O PLC 2/2018, que segue para sanção, determina a criação da UFR a partir do desmembramento do campus da Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso (UFMT). Já o PLC 6/2018 terá de voltar para nova análise da Câmara. Isso porque o projeto criava apenas a UFDPar, a partir do campus da Universidade Federal do Piauí (UFPI) em Parnaíba, mas os senadores incluíram no texto a criação da Ufape, que nasce do campus da Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco (UFRPE) em Garanhuns.
Técnicos industriais e agrículas
O Senado aprovou ainda o PLC 145/2017, que cria o Conselho Federal dos Técnicos Industriais e Agrícolas e os respectivos conselhos regionais.
Acordos internacionais
Foram aprovados ainda três projetos de decreto legislativo que confirmam acordos de cooperação técnica do Brasil com outros países. O PDS 240/2017 trata do Acordo de Cooperação Técnica entre o Brasil e o governo do Djibouti, país do nordeste da África. O PDS 241/2017 deriva do Acordo de Cooperação Técnica entre o Brasil e o Governo da União das Comores. E o PDS 242/2017 aprova o Acordo Básico de Cooperação Técnica entre o Brasil e a Secretaria-Geral Ibero-Americana, assinado em 2012. O Plenário aprovou também o PDS 2/2018, que trata da Programação Monetária para o 3º trimestre de 2017.
Reembolso de passagem não utilizada
A Comissão de Transparência, Governança, Fiscalização e Controle e Defesa do Consumidor (CTFC) confirmou, em turno suplementar, o PLS 313/2013, que dá prazo máximo de sete dias para as empresas aéreas reembolsarem os passageiros por bilhetes não utilizados. O consumidor deverá receber o valor pago pela passagem, corrigido monetariamente. Pelo texto, a empresa que descumprir a lei será punida com multa de 100% sobre o valor devido ao passageiro. Se não houver recurso, o PLS segue para a Câmara.
Injúria por questão de gênero e orientação sexual
A Comissão de Constituição, Justiça e Cidadania (CCJ) aprovou o PLS 291/2015, que torna crime a injúria praticada por questões de gênero e de orientação sexual. Atualmente, o Código Penal pune o ato de injuriar alguém, com ofensas à dignidade ou ao decoro da vítima, com detenção de um a seis meses ou multa. O PLS altera o dispositivo que estabelece como agravante desse crime o uso de elementos referentes a raça, cor, etnia, religião, origem ou condição de pessoa idosa ou com deficiência, acrescentando a questão de gênero entre esses agravantes.
Emenda da relatora, senadora Marta Suplicy (PMDB-SP), inclui ainda a orientação sexual ou a identidade de gênero. Em todos esses casos, a pena é de um a três anos de reclusão mais multa. Como a decisão foi terminativa, o texto segue para a Câmara a não ser que haja recurso para votação em Plenário.
Material escolar
As escolas particulares poderão ser obrigadas a fornecer todo o material de uso coletivo a ser utilizado durante o ano letivo. Essa é a condição a ser imposta caso o estabelecimento decida adotar material escolar padronizado para seus alunos, de acordo com o PLS 51/2014, aprovado na CCJ. O PLS reitera a vedação à cobrança de qualquer quantia para custeio do material fornecido. O projeto proíbe — com exceção de livros — a adoção de marca específica para os materiais escolares. O descumprimento dessas exigências poderá levar a instituição a ser punida nos termos do Código de Defesa do Consumidor (CDC), que prevê desde a aplicação de multa até a cassação de licença do estabelecimento.
Destino das multas
Os órgãos e entidades do Sistema Nacional de Trânsito podem ser obrigados a divulgar como aplicam o dinheiro arrecadado com multas, determina o PLS 567/2015, também aprovado terminativamente na CCJ. Pelo texto, os órgãos e entidades que compõem o Sistema Nacional de Trânsito deverão divulgar mensalmente a receita obtida com a aplicação de multas, a despesa executada e, se for o caso, os valores contingenciados. A relatora, Marta Suplicy, fez uma alteração na proposta para incluir a obrigação também na Lei de Acesso à Informação. A recusa em publicar essas informações será caracterizada como improbidade administrativa.
Homicídio de jovens
A CCJ também aprovou o PLS 240/2016, que institui o Plano Nacional de Enfrentamento ao Homicídio de Jovens. A proposta é resultado dos trabalhos da Comissão Parlamentar de Inquérito do Assassinato de Jovens, que funcionou no Senado entre 2015 e 2016. O plano tem o objetivo de reverter os altos índices de violência contra os jovens no prazo de dez anos. O foco dessa ação serão os jovens negros e pobres, que lideram o ranking de mortes no país. O texto vai a Plenário em caráter de urgência.
Veículos importados
Outras propostas aprovadas esta semana na CCJ foram: criação de fundo de reserva para cobrir parcerias entre a administração pública e organizações da sociedade civil (PLS 22/2017), proibição de órgãos públicos de comprar veículos importados (PLC 78/2012), atribuição de fé pública a carteiras de identidade funcionais de senadores, deputados federais, estaduais, municipais e distritais (PLS 56/2015) e criação do Diário Eletrônico da Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil-OAB (PLS 156/2014).
Ressocialização de presos
A Comissão de Assuntos Sociais (CAS) aprovou o PLS 651/2015, que inclui a categoria de educador social na composição das Comissões Técnicas de Classificação e dos Conselhos da Comunidade. A comissão técnica, existente em cada estabelecimento prisional, tem a função de classificar os condenados e presos provisórios segundo seus antecedentes e personalidade, orientando a individualização da execução penal. Cabe a ela elaborar o programa individualizador da pena privativa de liberdade adequada ao preso. Já os conselhos da comunidade têm como função visitar, ao menos uma vez por mês, os estabelecimentos penais existentes na comarca, entrevistar presos, apresentar relatórios mensais ao juiz da execução e atuar na obtenção de recursos materiais e humanos, melhorando a assistência ao preso. O PLS vai para análise da CCJ.
Plantio de árvores
As cidades poderão ter uma fonte de recursos para a arborização e a restauração de áreas degradadas. A Comissão de Assuntos Econômicos (CAE) aprovou o PLC 188/2015, que determina que 10% do valor das multas ambientais e a totalidade das taxas de autorização de poda e corte de árvores serão destinados à arborização urbana e à recuperação de áreas degradadas. A proposta segue agora para análise da Comissão de Meio Ambiente (CMA).
Satélite
A Comissão de Relações Exteriores (CRE) ratificou o texto do acordo assinado entre os governos do Brasil e dos EUA, para a cooperação no uso pacífico do espaço (PDS 245/2017). A relatora, senadora Ana Amélia (PP-RS), lembrou que o primeiro acordo assinado entre os dois países com esse objetivo, em 1996, expirou em janeiro. A formalização do novo acordo, disse ela, é necessária para que o Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (Inpe) e o Instituto Tecnológico da Aeronáutica (ITA) lancem, em parceria com a agência espacial norte-americana (Nasa), um satélite de monitoramento do clima espacial. O veículo deverá auxiliar o Brasil na exploração marítima de petróleo, na agricultura de precisão e na navegação aérea, segundo a senadora. A matéria segue para o Plenário.
JK
A Comissão de Educação, Cultura e Esporte (CE) aprovou a inclusão do nome do ex-presidente Juscelino Kubitschek (1902-1976) no Livro dos Heróis da Pátria (PLC 122/2017). Na defesa do relatório, Antonio Anastasia (PSDB-MG) lembrou que a presidência de JK (de 1955 a 1960) ficou conhecida como os "50 anos em 5", como determinava seu Plano de Metas, focado no desenvolvimentismo econômico. Ele entrou para a história pela construção de Brasília e pela perseguição que sofreu do regime militar, lembrou o senador.
Venezuelanos
Saúde e segurança são os principais problemas enfrentados pelos governos de Roraima e dos municípios afetados pelo fluxo massivo de imigrantes venezuelanos que chegam todos os dias ao Brasil. Essa foi uma das conclusões da audiência pública esta semana na Comissão de Direitos Humanos e Legislação Participativa (CDH). Milhares de imigrantes venezuelanos entraram no Brasil nos últimos meses, e continuam entrando, principalmente por Pacaraima, em Roraima. Eles deixam seu país por causa da prolongada crise político-econômica que atinge a Venezuela. O embaixador Tarcísio Costa, representante do Itamaraty, observou que o fluxo migratório exige mais investimentos em infraestrutura, saúde, segurança e educação. E observou que compromissos internacionais do Brasil impedem que o país feche as fronteiras.
Fonte: Propostas ligadas à segurança pública foram o destaque da semana no Senado
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Vendedor/a - comercial (cádiz)
Cádiz - ¿Te apasiona el sector de la distribución? ¿Has trabajado alguna vez en el canal HORECA? ¿Te apasiona la actividad comercial? Si es así... ¡TE ESTAMOS BUSCANDO! Adecco selecciona para importante empresa multinacional del sector distribución a un/a vendedor/a comercial para la zona de Jerez de la Frontera y alrededores. ¿Qué funciones vas a llevar a cabo? - Toma de pedidos - Atender a los Clientes enrutados a través de visitas presenciales a los PdV, con una periodicidad semanal, quincenal o incluso mensual. - Revisar el stock de productos de CCIPen el almacén del Cliente. - Tomar el pedido de las referencias con un stock por debajo del mínimo establecido por el cliente. - Activar el punto de venta - Introducir referencias nuevas - Implantar las acciones promocionales que CCIP tenga en marcha. - Proporcionar material PLV en el establecimiento. - Resolver incidencias en el PdV que sean inmediatas. - Comunicar al departamento correspondiente incidencias en el ... http://dlvr.it/QHL2jx
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Captador/a comercial (GPV) Canal Impulso, HORECA
Gran Multinacional espanola - Algeciras, Cádiz - Gran empresa con presencia internacional, selecciona un/a Gestor /a Punto de Venta (GPV), con al menos 2 años de experiencia en canal impulso/ horeca, para trabajar congran marca nacional, que cuenta con grandes inversiones en medios y enorme prestigio y relevancia para el consumidor. La persona seleccionada, trabajará en jornada de 40 horas semanales de lunes a viernes, responsabilizándose de la gestión de los Puntos de Venta asignados en ALGECIRAS. Principales responsabilidades del puesto: 1. Gestión de la cartera de PDV asignado: - Visita a los PDV de la cartera asignada. - Análisis de rotación de producto para la implementación de las acciones comerciales necesarias en el PDV. - Argumentación comercial específica de cada producto. - Incremento de la rotación de producto en PDV mediante formación en ventas al PDVy dinamización de las ventas constante. - Análisis y definición del nivel de inversión necesario en el PDV para la gestión del material PLV. - Seguimiento de la... http://dlvr.it/Q3wklj #empleo #Algeciras
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Ricoh presenta el tóner rosa neón en Print 17 y en LabelExpo
Ricoh saca al mercado un nuevo tóner rosa neón para ampliar las posibilidades creativas de la impresión, desde posters hasta invitaciones, pasando por entradas y elementos publicitarios.
El tóner rosa neón se ha desarrollado para la quinta estación de color de la impresora de producción digital Ricoh Pro™ C7100X. Con este tono nuevo, los usuarios pueden conseguir resultados que atrapen al consumidor con campañas de comunicación muy efectivas.
El tóner amplía la gama cromática, mejora las imágenes y puede usarse como tinta plana, realce o color de máquina. Además, si se combina con cuatricromía, se puede crear una paleta de colores de neón. El tóner es reflectante cuando recibe luz UV, así que amplía las posibilidades de impresión de la cuatricromía estándar, el blanco o el tóner transparente de la Pro C7100X.
Este nuevo producto puede suponer una gran expansión de mercado para el usuario, que puede emplear efectos especiales en la impresión de revistas, publicidad directa y material de PLV, tal y como destaca la consultora InfoTrends en su informe «Beyond CMYK: The Use of Special Effects in Digital Printing» («Más allá de la cuatricromía: el uso de efectos especiales en la impresión digital»).
Según este documento, a casi 1,8 billones de páginas en color en EE.UU. y Europa occidental ‒o lo que es lo mismo, alrededor del 30 % de toda la producción de páginas impresas en color‒ se les aplica actualmente algún tipo de efecto especial. Según el estudio, “la tecnología de tratamiento de imágenes digitales con efectos especiales tiene un potencial de crecimiento enorme”.
“El tóner rosa neón sigue los pasos del amarillo neón, que ha tenido una gran acogida y ya ha ayudado a numerosos proveedores creativos a conseguir impresiones con colores sorprendentes y vivos”, dice Eef de Ridder, director de impresión comercial e industrial de Ricoh Europa.
“Cada vez son más las empresas que buscan poder ofrecer impresiones personalizadas y de calidad de manera rápida, sencilla y rentable, y que verdaderamente se desmarquen de otros productos. Con este nuevo color, las oportunidades interesantes se multiplican”.
El tóner rosa neón saldrá a la venta en los próximos meses y es adaptable, es decir, los clientes pueden instalarlo en las impresoras Ricoh Pro C7100X ya existentes, en un nuevo ejemplo del compromiso de Ricoh con la protección de la inversión de sus clientes.
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First Drive: 2018 Chevrolet Traverse Premier
LAKE GEORGE, Michigan — The first-generation Chevrolet Traverse represented a brand and its corporation in transition, having launched the model year before General Motors’ bankruptcy. American families were starting to trade in truck-based sport/utility vehicles like the Chevy TrailBlazer for more carlike unibody front-wheel-drive-based SUVs. Ten years later, Chevrolet is stepping up its game in this segment, taking on leaders like the best-selling Ford Explorer, as well as the likes of the Jeep Grand Cherokee, Toyota Highlander, Hyundai Santa Fe and Honda Pilot, all of which are more popular than the Traverse. Even Chevrolet’s bigger, traditional Chevy Tahoe/Suburban combo outsold Traverse by more than 46,000 units last year.
So the 2018 Chevrolet Traverse and its smaller compact sibling, the Equinox, are two key models in Chevy’s goal of becoming America’s number-one brand again. That means it must first catch Toyota, and then Ford, the latter of which outsold Chevrolet by nearly 391,000 units last year.
To drive its competitive points home, Chevy offered journalists a chance to take their families to various Michigan resorts (yes, we have them) for the weekend in order to best enjoy the Traverse’s qualities. No one among Automobile’s Detroit Bureau-based staff has kids, but my wife, Donna, and I have three collies in our family. We took up Chevy on its offer of a new Traverse for the weekend, and turned down the resort lodging offered as our destination in favor of our newly purchased, dog-friendly cabin off Lake George in the north-central part of the state, about 180 miles away.
There will be fur.
Outside, the new Traverse shares Chevy’s very handsome design language and its coke-bottle body forms with the new Equinox. The two SUVs recall the organic, fuselage-style profiles of Chevy’s glory years in the 1960s and early ‘70s. Chevy says that the all-new Traverse is only slightly larger than the first model, with a 2.0-inch longer wheelbase and a slight increase in overall length, but significantly more interior space.
“We wanted the feeling and the presence of a truck,” says designer Rich Scheer. It has ‘Tahoe DNA’—more SUV than CUV, he says.
I think the new Chevy Traverse looks much sleeker, tighter and less people-mover-like than the old Traverse.
“The fact that the truck studio designed this model is not a happy accident,” says Steve Majoros, marketing director for Chevrolet cars and crossovers.
That’s a major hint. We know the 2019 Chevrolet Silverado and 2020 Chevy Tahoe/Suburban will be radically updated, with sleeker, more aerodynamic styling, so it’s pretty clear that the 2018 Chevy Traverse is a 7/8-scale preview of those full-size trucks. Imagine the next Tahoe/Suburban as a larger, longer Traverse. Cut the top off aft the b- or c-pillar, throw a solid rear axle back in, and you have the next Silverado. Whether this styling translates into being more truck-like or not, it works, and it should move the metal among mainstream consumers, who typically list “styling” as a major purchase consideration.
Underneath, the 2018 Traverse is all-new. It rides on the C1Y platform shared with the smaller GMC Acadia and the coming Mark II Buick Enclave. Its 3.6-liter V-6 is the only carryover piece, and only engine choice thus far. This is not the 3649-cc V-6 with Active Fuel Management (cylinder shut-off) introduced in the Cadillac CT6, but instead an updated version of the 3564-cc High-Feature V-6 that’s been on the market for more than a decade. It’s coupled to GM’s new 9-speed automatic transmission, and features stop/start technology, with no shutoff switch for the driver. Manumatic control is limited to a button on the gearshift, and the driver may select a range of gears among the nine while in tow mode.
The suspension of the Traverse has MacPherson struts up front and a five-link rear. Chief engineer Dean Perelli points to the Sachs PLV passive dampers with rebound springs in the rear as an important addition. A urethane vertical bar inside the spring coils, called a Spring Aid, serves as a jounce bumper.
The result is a soft, supple ride, but with good handling, Perelli says. The electrically assisted power steering has variable effort, and the turning diameter of 39 feet is about 1.5-feet tighter than the old model’s.
Base wheels are 18-inchers, but our spiffy-looking Traverse Premier’s $2,495 Redline Edition appearance package adds 20-inch aluminum wheels and paints them black with red accents. It also blacks out the chrome trim and the bowtie badges and adds a dual Skyscape sunroof and the trailering package.
Donna and I headed for the cabin late Friday afternoon, the Traverse loaded up with our three collies and just a couple of bags. The Traverse’s three rows of seats meant nothing to us. We folded down the second-row captains chairs and the third row bench, and tried to fill in the space between those second-row seats with bags in order to keep the floor as flat as possible for the dogs. If you have dogs and no kids, you’ll want the second-row bench.
The updated V-6 is smooth and powerful, with really nice throttle tip-in. Keep your right foot in it and the 3.6 rewards you with a subtle motorboat trill as you smoothly and quickly reach the mid- and upper-rev ranges. Chevy says 0-60 mph comes in less than 7 seconds, respectable for a 4,362-pound three-row SUV. Ours was a front-wheel-drive model, closer to the stated curb weight than one with the optional all-wheel-drive system.
Because collie Hugo was born blind and has obsessive-compulsive disorder, we can’t buckle him in—and so we don’t buckle in Django or Maude, either. (We usually put up some netting behind the front seats.) Driving with three dogs means being less aggressive on the highway and leaving more space for gentler braking. I made good use of the surround vision cameras, which make backing into parking spaces easy, though we had no use for the “teen driver technology.”
The Traverse’s suspension and steering work as Perelli advertised. It’s probably the smoothest and most comfortable ride among SUVs in this segment, nicely soaking up the expansion strips and the crumbling bits of Michigan’s I-96 and State Highway 127. The jounce control means that dive isn’t bad when sudden brake lights ahead force a harder-than-usual stop. The steering is precise and light, offering good feedback, though the ratio isn’t so quick as to feel too twitchy for such a big, tall sport/utility. This is a comfortable, well-balanced SUV that will suit a family with a sportier, more enthusiast-oriented car on the other side of the garage.
Donna was happy to find that the front passenger seat, like the driver’s seat, has power lumbar support, a feature all too rare, even in luxury models. We ran the front seat coolers on the way up to Lake George. Interior materials and fit-and-finish are state-of-the-art for a brand offering luxury at a commodity price, with rich-looking padding on the dashboard and better-than-average plastic finish on the lower parts of the doors. The Traverse has a lot of convenient storage, including a hidden compartment behind the power-operated radio/navigation screen and a deep compartment under the cargo load floor that’s good for carrying food right under the dogs’ paws. Our $47,930 Chevy Traverse Premier Redline is priced up there with Buick Enclaves and Infiniti QX60s, though the base Traverse starts at $30,875, and the popular Traverse LT with cloth seats begins at $35,495.
We enjoyed the Bose Premium 10-speaker hi-fi, standard with the Premium trim, listening to a mix of public radio and XM channel 67, but we didn’t bother with Apple CarPlay (what are we going to do – call each other?) nor the OnStar or 4G LTE wi-fi hotspot. Longer trips, maybe. Everything operates by touchscreen, though. Chevrolet eschewed the tuning knob in the new Traverse, as well as the Equinox, which makes finding that out-of-town radio station too distracting.
We did use the navigation system and its eight-inch color touchscreen on Saturday night to find a restaurant in Cadillac. The navigation took us out of our way by maybe half a mile, through a closed-loop cul de sac in our lake area community, before directing us to the town about 35 miles away.
On Sunday morning, I drove to a dirt road near our cabin, where there’s some deep sand on parts of the mile-long stretch that goes unplowed during wintertime. I could have had some fun with the twin-clutch Advanced AWD system that disconnects the propshaft for better fuel efficiency. It’s standard on the new top-of-the-range $52,995-base Traverse High Country.
The High Country’s Advanced AWD has four driver-selectable modes (our FWD model came with three; standard, snow-mode and trailer, of which Traverse can tow up to 5,000 pounds). In AWD off-road mode, the system turns the Chevy Traverse High Country into something of a rally car around dirt-road corners, “like a WRX,” says chief engineer Perelli. For me, with my FWD Premier Redline, the road made only a decent photo-op.
It acquitted itself well back in Metro Detroit Monday, when I subjected the SUV to my standard local cloverleaf of right-turn sweepers. There’s no wallow to accompany the soft, comfortable ride, and the SUV steers through such turns with mild, predictable understeer and moderate yaw. You can go sufficiently fast without alerting any stability control nannies, unlike, say the segment-leading Ford Explorer with its overly intrusive Curve Control.
The Traverse’s steering initially required a bit of mid-curve correction. Even with 266 pound-feet going to the front wheels, there was no detectable torque-steer. I heard and felt the un-defeatable stop/start start up just once, on the way back to the office from this modest handling exercise. Otherwise, the fuel-saving feature was undetectable without an eye on the tachometer. It’s the best stop/start in the business.
The three-hour drive back to Metro Detroit a day earlier was uneventful in a good way, even with traffic jams south on 127 and east on 96 as other weekenders tried to get home. Yes, it’s a drive-and-forget sort of vehicle, with a plethora of entertainment options for three-hour-plus trips, with the best-looking styling in the segment. By Monday, I had driven the 2018 Chevrolet Traverse Premier Redline more than 600 miles, the last 256.7 off a fill-up in Cadillac. Indicated fuel mileage was 25.3 mpg at an average speed of 46.7 mph, but by my calculation (and with three or four extra clicks on the regular unleaded pump), I averaged 23.9 mpg. I returned the Traverse to Chevy with the weekend’s bugs and dirt washed off, and just about all of the fur vacuumed from the interior.
2018 Chevrolet Traverse Premier Specifications
ON SALE Now PRICE $45,395/$47,930 (base/as tested) ENGINE 3.6L DOHC 24-valve V-6/310 hp @ 6,800 rpm, 266 lb-ft @ 2,800 rpm TRANSMISSION 9-speed automatic LAYOUT 4-door, 7-passenger, front-engine, FWD SUV EPA MILEAGE 18/27 mpg (city/hwy) L x W x H 204.3 x 78.6 x 70.7 in WHEELBASE 120.9 in WEIGHT 4,362 lb 0-60 MPH 6.9 sec (est) TOP SPEED N/A
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First Drive: 2018 Chevrolet Traverse Premier
LAKE GEORGE, Michigan — The first-generation Chevrolet Traverse represented a brand and its corporation in transition, having launched the model year before General Motors’ bankruptcy. American families were starting to trade in truck-based sport/utility vehicles like the Chevy TrailBlazer for more carlike unibody front-wheel-drive-based SUVs. Ten years later, Chevrolet is stepping up its game in this segment, taking on leaders like the best-selling Ford Explorer, as well as the likes of the Jeep Grand Cherokee, Toyota Highlander, Hyundai Santa Fe and Honda Pilot, all of which are more popular than the Traverse. Even Chevrolet’s bigger, traditional Chevy Tahoe/Suburban combo outsold Traverse by more than 46,000 units last year.
So the 2018 Chevrolet Traverse and its smaller compact sibling, the Equinox, are two key models in Chevy’s goal of becoming America’s number-one brand again. That means it must first catch Toyota, and then Ford, the latter of which outsold Chevrolet by nearly 391,000 units last year.
To drive its competitive points home, Chevy offered journalists a chance to take their families to various Michigan resorts (yes, we have them) for the weekend in order to best enjoy the Traverse’s qualities. No one among Automobile’s Detroit Bureau-based staff has kids, but my wife, Donna, and I have three collies in our family. We took up Chevy on its offer of a new Traverse for the weekend, and turned down the resort lodging offered as our destination in favor of our newly purchased, dog-friendly cabin off Lake George in the north-central part of the state, about 180 miles away.
There will be fur.
Outside, the new Traverse shares Chevy’s very handsome design language and its coke-bottle body forms with the new Equinox. The two SUVs recall the organic, fuselage-style profiles of Chevy’s glory years in the 1960s and early ‘70s. Chevy says that the all-new Traverse is only slightly larger than the first model, with a 2.0-inch longer wheelbase and a slight increase in overall length, but significantly more interior space.
“We wanted the feeling and the presence of a truck,” says designer Rich Scheer. It has ‘Tahoe DNA’—more SUV than CUV, he says.
I think the new Chevy Traverse looks much sleeker, tighter and less people-mover-like than the old Traverse.
“The fact that the truck studio designed this model is not a happy accident,” says Steve Majoros, marketing director for Chevrolet cars and crossovers.
That’s a major hint. We know the 2019 Chevrolet Silverado and 2020 Chevy Tahoe/Suburban will be radically updated, with sleeker, more aerodynamic styling, so it’s pretty clear that the 2018 Chevy Traverse is a 7/8-scale preview of those full-size trucks. Imagine the next Tahoe/Suburban as a larger, longer Traverse. Cut the top off aft the b- or c-pillar, throw a solid rear axle back in, and you have the next Silverado. Whether this styling translates into being more truck-like or not, it works, and it should move the metal among mainstream consumers, who typically list “styling” as a major purchase consideration.
Underneath, the 2018 Traverse is all-new. It rides on the C1Y platform shared with the smaller GMC Acadia and the coming Mark II Buick Enclave. Its 3.6-liter V-6 is the only carryover piece, and only engine choice thus far. This is not the 3649-cc V-6 with Active Fuel Management (cylinder shut-off) introduced in the Cadillac CT6, but instead an updated version of the 3564-cc High-Feature V-6 that’s been on the market for more than a decade. It’s coupled to GM’s new 9-speed automatic transmission, and features stop/start technology, with no shutoff switch for the driver. Manumatic control is limited to a button on the gearshift, and the driver may select a range of gears among the nine while in tow mode.
The suspension of the Traverse has MacPherson struts up front and a five-link rear. Chief engineer Dean Perelli points to the Sachs PLV passive dampers with rebound springs in the rear as an important addition. A urethane vertical bar inside the spring coils, called a Spring Aid, serves as a jounce bumper.
The result is a soft, supple ride, but with good handling, Perelli says. The electrically assisted power steering has variable effort, and the turning diameter of 39 feet is about 1.5-feet tighter than the old model’s.
Base wheels are 18-inchers, but our spiffy-looking Traverse Premier’s $2,495 Redline Edition appearance package adds 20-inch aluminum wheels and paints them black with red accents. It also blacks out the chrome trim and the bowtie badges and adds a dual Skyscape sunroof and the trailering package.
Donna and I headed for the cabin late Friday afternoon, the Traverse loaded up with our three collies and just a couple of bags. The Traverse’s three rows of seats meant nothing to us. We folded down the second-row captains chairs and the third row bench, and tried to fill in the space between those second-row seats with bags in order to keep the floor as flat as possible for the dogs. If you have dogs and no kids, you’ll want the second-row bench.
The updated V-6 is smooth and powerful, with really nice throttle tip-in. Keep your right foot in it and the 3.6 rewards you with a subtle motorboat trill as you smoothly and quickly reach the mid- and upper-rev ranges. Chevy says 0-60 mph comes in less than 7 seconds, respectable for a 4,362-pound three-row SUV. Ours was a front-wheel-drive model, closer to the stated curb weight than one with the optional all-wheel-drive system.
Because collie Hugo was born blind and has obsessive-compulsive disorder, we can’t buckle him in—and so we don’t buckle in Django or Maude, either. (We usually put up some netting behind the front seats.) Driving with three dogs means being less aggressive on the highway and leaving more space for gentler braking. I made good use of the surround vision cameras, which make backing into parking spaces easy, though we had no use for the “teen driver technology.”
The Traverse’s suspension and steering work as Perelli advertised. It’s probably the smoothest and most comfortable ride among SUVs in this segment, nicely soaking up the expansion strips and the crumbling bits of Michigan’s I-96 and State Highway 127. The jounce control means that dive isn’t bad when sudden brake lights ahead force a harder-than-usual stop. The steering is precise and light, offering good feedback, though the ratio isn’t so quick as to feel too twitchy for such a big, tall sport/utility. This is a comfortable, well-balanced SUV that will suit a family with a sportier, more enthusiast-oriented car on the other side of the garage.
Donna was happy to find that the front passenger seat, like the driver’s seat, has power lumbar support, a feature all too rare, even in luxury models. We ran the front seat coolers on the way up to Lake George. Interior materials and fit-and-finish are state-of-the-art for a brand offering luxury at a commodity price, with rich-looking padding on the dashboard and better-than-average plastic finish on the lower parts of the doors. The Traverse has a lot of convenient storage, including a hidden compartment behind the power-operated radio/navigation screen and a deep compartment under the cargo load floor that’s good for carrying food right under the dogs’ paws. Our $47,930 Chevy Traverse Premier Redline is priced up there with Buick Enclaves and Infiniti QX60s, though the base Traverse starts at $30,875, and the popular Traverse LT with cloth seats begins at $35,495.
We enjoyed the Bose Premium 10-speaker hi-fi, standard with the Premium trim, listening to a mix of public radio and XM channel 67, but we didn’t bother with Apple CarPlay (what are we going to do – call each other?) nor the OnStar or 4G LTE wi-fi hotspot. Longer trips, maybe. Everything operates by touchscreen, though. Chevrolet eschewed the tuning knob in the new Traverse, as well as the Equinox, which makes finding that out-of-town radio station too distracting.
We did use the navigation system and its eight-inch color touchscreen on Saturday night to find a restaurant in Cadillac. The navigation took us out of our way by maybe half a mile, through a closed-loop cul de sac in our lake area community, before directing us to the town about 35 miles away.
On Sunday morning, I drove to a dirt road near our cabin, where there’s some deep sand on parts of the mile-long stretch that goes unplowed during wintertime. I could have had some fun with the twin-clutch Advanced AWD system that disconnects the propshaft for better fuel efficiency. It’s standard on the new top-of-the-range $52,995-base Traverse High Country.
The High Country’s Advanced AWD has four driver-selectable modes (our FWD model came with three; standard, snow-mode and trailer, of which Traverse can tow up to 5,000 pounds). In AWD off-road mode, the system turns the Chevy Traverse High Country into something of a rally car around dirt-road corners, “like a WRX,” says chief engineer Perelli. For me, with my FWD Premier Redline, the road made only a decent photo-op.
It acquitted itself well back in Metro Detroit Monday, when I subjected the SUV to my standard local cloverleaf of right-turn sweepers. There’s no wallow to accompany the soft, comfortable ride, and the SUV steers through such turns with mild, predictable understeer and moderate yaw. You can go sufficiently fast without alerting any stability control nannies, unlike, say the segment-leading Ford Explorer with its overly intrusive Curve Control.
The Traverse’s steering initially required a bit of mid-curve correction. Even with 266 pound-feet going to the front wheels, there was no detectable torque-steer. I heard and felt the un-defeatable stop/start start up just once, on the way back to the office from this modest handling exercise. Otherwise, the fuel-saving feature was undetectable without an eye on the tachometer. It’s the best stop/start in the business.
The three-hour drive back to Metro Detroit a day earlier was uneventful in a good way, even with traffic jams south on 127 and east on 96 as other weekenders tried to get home. Yes, it’s a drive-and-forget sort of vehicle, with a plethora of entertainment options for three-hour-plus trips, with the best-looking styling in the segment. By Monday, I had driven the 2018 Chevrolet Traverse Premier Redline more than 600 miles, the last 256.7 off a fill-up in Cadillac. Indicated fuel mileage was 25.3 mpg at an average speed of 46.7 mph, but by my calculation (and with three or four extra clicks on the regular unleaded pump), I averaged 23.9 mpg. I returned the Traverse to Chevy with the weekend’s bugs and dirt washed off, and just about all of the fur vacuumed from the interior.
2018 Chevrolet Traverse Premier Specifications
ON SALE Now PRICE $45,395/$47,930 (base/as tested) ENGINE 3.6L DOHC 24-valve V-6/310 hp @ 6,800 rpm, 266 lb-ft @ 2,800 rpm TRANSMISSION 9-speed automatic LAYOUT 4-door, 7-passenger, front-engine, FWD SUV EPA MILEAGE 18/27 mpg (city/hwy) L x W x H 204.3 x 78.6 x 70.7 in WHEELBASE 120.9 in WEIGHT 4,362 lb 0-60 MPH 6.9 sec (est) TOP SPEED N/A
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First Drive: 2018 Chevrolet Traverse Premier
LAKE GEORGE, Michigan — The first-generation Chevrolet Traverse represented a brand and its corporation in transition, having launched the model year before General Motors’ bankruptcy. American families were starting to trade in truck-based sport/utility vehicles like the Chevy TrailBlazer for more carlike unibody front-wheel-drive-based SUVs. Ten years later, Chevrolet is stepping up its game in this segment, taking on leaders like the best-selling Ford Explorer, as well as the likes of the Jeep Grand Cherokee, Toyota Highlander, Hyundai Santa Fe and Honda Pilot, all of which are more popular than the Traverse. Even Chevrolet’s bigger, traditional Chevy Tahoe/Suburban combo outsold Traverse by more than 46,000 units last year.
So the 2018 Chevrolet Traverse and its smaller compact sibling, the Equinox, are two key models in Chevy’s goal of becoming America’s number-one brand again. That means it must first catch Toyota, and then Ford, the latter of which outsold Chevrolet by nearly 391,000 units last year.
To drive its competitive points home, Chevy offered journalists a chance to take their families to various Michigan resorts (yes, we have them) for the weekend in order to best enjoy the Traverse’s qualities. No one among Automobile’s Detroit Bureau-based staff has kids, but my wife, Donna, and I have three collies in our family. We took up Chevy on its offer of a new Traverse for the weekend, and turned down the resort lodging offered as our destination in favor of our newly purchased, dog-friendly cabin off Lake George in the north-central part of the state, about 180 miles away.
There will be fur.
Outside, the new Traverse shares Chevy’s very handsome design language and its coke-bottle body forms with the new Equinox. The two SUVs recall the organic, fuselage-style profiles of Chevy’s glory years in the 1960s and early ‘70s. Chevy says that the all-new Traverse is only slightly larger than the first model, with a 2.0-inch longer wheelbase and a slight increase in overall length, but significantly more interior space.
“We wanted the feeling and the presence of a truck,” says designer Rich Scheer. It has ‘Tahoe DNA’—more SUV than CUV, he says.
I think the new Chevy Traverse looks much sleeker, tighter and less people-mover-like than the old Traverse.
“The fact that the truck studio designed this model is not a happy accident,” says Steve Majoros, marketing director for Chevrolet cars and crossovers.
That’s a major hint. We know the 2019 Chevrolet Silverado and 2020 Chevy Tahoe/Suburban will be radically updated, with sleeker, more aerodynamic styling, so it’s pretty clear that the 2018 Chevy Traverse is a 7/8-scale preview of those full-size trucks. Imagine the next Tahoe/Suburban as a larger, longer Traverse. Cut the top off aft the b- or c-pillar, throw a solid rear axle back in, and you have the next Silverado. Whether this styling translates into being more truck-like or not, it works, and it should move the metal among mainstream consumers, who typically list “styling” as a major purchase consideration.
Underneath, the 2018 Traverse is all-new. It rides on the C1Y platform shared with the smaller GMC Acadia and the coming Mark II Buick Enclave. Its 3.6-liter V-6 is the only carryover piece, and only engine choice thus far. This is not the 3649-cc V-6 with Active Fuel Management (cylinder shut-off) introduced in the Cadillac CT6, but instead an updated version of the 3564-cc High-Feature V-6 that’s been on the market for more than a decade. It’s coupled to GM’s new 9-speed automatic transmission, and features stop/start technology, with no shutoff switch for the driver. Manumatic control is limited to a button on the gearshift, and the driver may select a range of gears among the nine while in tow mode.
The suspension of the Traverse has MacPherson struts up front and a five-link rear. Chief engineer Dean Perelli points to the Sachs PLV passive dampers with rebound springs in the rear as an important addition. A urethane vertical bar inside the spring coils, called a Spring Aid, serves as a jounce bumper.
The result is a soft, supple ride, but with good handling, Perelli says. The electrically assisted power steering has variable effort, and the turning diameter of 39 feet is about 1.5-feet tighter than the old model’s.
Base wheels are 18-inchers, but our spiffy-looking Traverse Premier’s $2,495 Redline Edition appearance package adds 20-inch aluminum wheels and paints them black with red accents. It also blacks out the chrome trim and the bowtie badges and adds a dual Skyscape sunroof and the trailering package.
Donna and I headed for the cabin late Friday afternoon, the Traverse loaded up with our three collies and just a couple of bags. The Traverse’s three rows of seats meant nothing to us. We folded down the second-row captains chairs and the third row bench, and tried to fill in the space between those second-row seats with bags in order to keep the floor as flat as possible for the dogs. If you have dogs and no kids, you’ll want the second-row bench.
The updated V-6 is smooth and powerful, with really nice throttle tip-in. Keep your right foot in it and the 3.6 rewards you with a subtle motorboat trill as you smoothly and quickly reach the mid- and upper-rev ranges. Chevy says 0-60 mph comes in less than 7 seconds, respectable for a 4,362-pound three-row SUV. Ours was a front-wheel-drive model, closer to the stated curb weight than one with the optional all-wheel-drive system.
Because collie Hugo was born blind and has obsessive-compulsive disorder, we can’t buckle him in—and so we don’t buckle in Django or Maude, either. (We usually put up some netting behind the front seats.) Driving with three dogs means being less aggressive on the highway and leaving more space for gentler braking. I made good use of the surround vision cameras, which make backing into parking spaces easy, though we had no use for the “teen driver technology.”
The Traverse’s suspension and steering work as Perelli advertised. It’s probably the smoothest and most comfortable ride among SUVs in this segment, nicely soaking up the expansion strips and the crumbling bits of Michigan’s I-96 and State Highway 127. The jounce control means that dive isn’t bad when sudden brake lights ahead force a harder-than-usual stop. The steering is precise and light, offering good feedback, though the ratio isn’t so quick as to feel too twitchy for such a big, tall sport/utility. This is a comfortable, well-balanced SUV that will suit a family with a sportier, more enthusiast-oriented car on the other side of the garage.
Donna was happy to find that the front passenger seat, like the driver’s seat, has power lumbar support, a feature all too rare, even in luxury models. We ran the front seat coolers on the way up to Lake George. Interior materials and fit-and-finish are state-of-the-art for a brand offering luxury at a commodity price, with rich-looking padding on the dashboard and better-than-average plastic finish on the lower parts of the doors. The Traverse has a lot of convenient storage, including a hidden compartment behind the power-operated radio/navigation screen and a deep compartment under the cargo load floor that’s good for carrying food right under the dogs’ paws. Our $47,930 Chevy Traverse Premier Redline is priced up there with Buick Enclaves and Infiniti QX60s, though the base Traverse starts at $30,875, and the popular Traverse LT with cloth seats begins at $35,495.
We enjoyed the Bose Premium 10-speaker hi-fi, standard with the Premium trim, listening to a mix of public radio and XM channel 67, but we didn’t bother with Apple CarPlay (what are we going to do – call each other?) nor the OnStar or 4G LTE wi-fi hotspot. Longer trips, maybe. Everything operates by touchscreen, though. Chevrolet eschewed the tuning knob in the new Traverse, as well as the Equinox, which makes finding that out-of-town radio station too distracting.
We did use the navigation system and its eight-inch color touchscreen on Saturday night to find a restaurant in Cadillac. The navigation took us out of our way by maybe half a mile, through a closed-loop cul de sac in our lake area community, before directing us to the town about 35 miles away.
On Sunday morning, I drove to a dirt road near our cabin, where there’s some deep sand on parts of the mile-long stretch that goes unplowed during wintertime. I could have had some fun with the twin-clutch Advanced AWD system that disconnects the propshaft for better fuel efficiency. It’s standard on the new top-of-the-range $52,995-base Traverse High Country.
The High Country’s Advanced AWD has four driver-selectable modes (our FWD model came with three; standard, snow-mode and trailer, of which Traverse can tow up to 5,000 pounds). In AWD off-road mode, the system turns the Chevy Traverse High Country into something of a rally car around dirt-road corners, “like a WRX,” says chief engineer Perelli. For me, with my FWD Premier Redline, the road made only a decent photo-op.
It acquitted itself well back in Metro Detroit Monday, when I subjected the SUV to my standard local cloverleaf of right-turn sweepers. There’s no wallow to accompany the soft, comfortable ride, and the SUV steers through such turns with mild, predictable understeer and moderate yaw. You can go sufficiently fast without alerting any stability control nannies, unlike, say the segment-leading Ford Explorer with its overly intrusive Curve Control.
The Traverse’s steering initially required a bit of mid-curve correction. Even with 266 pound-feet going to the front wheels, there was no detectable torque-steer. I heard and felt the un-defeatable stop/start start up just once, on the way back to the office from this modest handling exercise. Otherwise, the fuel-saving feature was undetectable without an eye on the tachometer. It’s the best stop/start in the business.
The three-hour drive back to Metro Detroit a day earlier was uneventful in a good way, even with traffic jams south on 127 and east on 96 as other weekenders tried to get home. Yes, it’s a drive-and-forget sort of vehicle, with a plethora of entertainment options for three-hour-plus trips, with the best-looking styling in the segment. By Monday, I had driven the 2018 Chevrolet Traverse Premier Redline more than 600 miles, the last 256.7 off a fill-up in Cadillac. Indicated fuel mileage was 25.3 mpg at an average speed of 46.7 mph, but by my calculation (and with three or four extra clicks on the regular unleaded pump), I averaged 23.9 mpg. I returned the Traverse to Chevy with the weekend’s bugs and dirt washed off, and just about all of the fur vacuumed from the interior.
2018 Chevrolet Traverse Premier Specifications
ON SALE Now PRICE $45,395/$47,930 (base/as tested) ENGINE 3.6L DOHC 24-valve V-6/310 hp @ 6,800 rpm, 266 lb-ft @ 2,800 rpm TRANSMISSION 9-speed automatic LAYOUT 4-door, 7-passenger, front-engine, FWD SUV EPA MILEAGE 18/27 mpg (city/hwy) L x W x H 204.3 x 78.6 x 70.7 in WHEELBASE 120.9 in WEIGHT 4,362 lb 0-60 MPH 6.9 sec (est) TOP SPEED N/A
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First Drive: 2018 Chevrolet Traverse Premier
LAKE GEORGE, Michigan — The first-generation Chevrolet Traverse represented a brand and its corporation in transition, having launched the model year before General Motors’ bankruptcy. American families were starting to trade in truck-based sport/utility vehicles like the Chevy TrailBlazer for more carlike unibody front-wheel-drive-based SUVs. Ten years later, Chevrolet is stepping up its game in this segment, taking on leaders like the best-selling Ford Explorer, as well as the likes of the Jeep Grand Cherokee, Toyota Highlander, Hyundai Santa Fe and Honda Pilot, all of which are more popular than the Traverse. Even Chevrolet’s bigger, traditional Chevy Tahoe/Suburban combo outsold Traverse by more than 46,000 units last year.
So the 2018 Chevrolet Traverse and its smaller compact sibling, the Equinox, are two key models in Chevy’s goal of becoming America’s number-one brand again. That means it must first catch Toyota, and then Ford, the latter of which outsold Chevrolet by nearly 391,000 units last year.
To drive its competitive points home, Chevy offered journalists a chance to take their families to various Michigan resorts (yes, we have them) for the weekend in order to best enjoy the Traverse’s qualities. No one among Automobile’s Detroit Bureau-based staff has kids, but my wife, Donna, and I have three collies in our family. We took up Chevy on its offer of a new Traverse for the weekend, and turned down the resort lodging offered as our destination in favor of our newly purchased, dog-friendly cabin off Lake George in the north-central part of the state, about 180 miles away.
There will be fur.
Outside, the new Traverse shares Chevy’s very handsome design language and its coke-bottle body forms with the new Equinox. The two SUVs recall the organic, fuselage-style profiles of Chevy’s glory years in the 1960s and early ‘70s. Chevy says that the all-new Traverse is only slightly larger than the first model, with a 2.0-inch longer wheelbase and a slight increase in overall length, but significantly more interior space.
“We wanted the feeling and the presence of a truck,” says designer Rich Scheer. It has ‘Tahoe DNA’—more SUV than CUV, he says.
I think the new Chevy Traverse looks much sleeker, tighter and less people-mover-like than the old Traverse.
“The fact that the truck studio designed this model is not a happy accident,” says Steve Majoros, marketing director for Chevrolet cars and crossovers.
That’s a major hint. We know the 2019 Chevrolet Silverado and 2020 Chevy Tahoe/Suburban will be radically updated, with sleeker, more aerodynamic styling, so it’s pretty clear that the 2018 Chevy Traverse is a 7/8-scale preview of those full-size trucks. Imagine the next Tahoe/Suburban as a larger, longer Traverse. Cut the top off aft the b- or c-pillar, throw a solid rear axle back in, and you have the next Silverado. Whether this styling translates into being more truck-like or not, it works, and it should move the metal among mainstream consumers, who typically list “styling” as a major purchase consideration.
Underneath, the 2018 Traverse is all-new. It rides on the C1Y platform shared with the smaller GMC Acadia and the coming Mark II Buick Enclave. Its 3.6-liter V-6 is the only carryover piece, and only engine choice thus far. This is not the 3649-cc V-6 with Active Fuel Management (cylinder shut-off) introduced in the Cadillac CT6, but instead an updated version of the 3564-cc High-Feature V-6 that’s been on the market for more than a decade. It’s coupled to GM’s new 9-speed automatic transmission, and features stop/start technology, with no shutoff switch for the driver. Manumatic control is limited to a button on the gearshift, and the driver may select a range of gears among the nine while in tow mode.
The suspension of the Traverse has MacPherson struts up front and a five-link rear. Chief engineer Dean Perelli points to the Sachs PLV passive dampers with rebound springs in the rear as an important addition. A urethane vertical bar inside the spring coils, called a Spring Aid, serves as a jounce bumper.
The result is a soft, supple ride, but with good handling, Perelli says. The electrically assisted power steering has variable effort, and the turning diameter of 39 feet is about 1.5-feet tighter than the old model’s.
Base wheels are 18-inchers, but our spiffy-looking Traverse Premier’s $2,495 Redline Edition appearance package adds 20-inch aluminum wheels and paints them black with red accents. It also blacks out the chrome trim and the bowtie badges and adds a dual Skyscape sunroof and the trailering package.
Donna and I headed for the cabin late Friday afternoon, the Traverse loaded up with our three collies and just a couple of bags. The Traverse’s three rows of seats meant nothing to us. We folded down the second-row captains chairs and the third row bench, and tried to fill in the space between those second-row seats with bags in order to keep the floor as flat as possible for the dogs. If you have dogs and no kids, you’ll want the second-row bench.
The updated V-6 is smooth and powerful, with really nice throttle tip-in. Keep your right foot in it and the 3.6 rewards you with a subtle motorboat trill as you smoothly and quickly reach the mid- and upper-rev ranges. Chevy says 0-60 mph comes in less than 7 seconds, respectable for a 4,362-pound three-row SUV. Ours was a front-wheel-drive model, closer to the stated curb weight than one with the optional all-wheel-drive system.
Because collie Hugo was born blind and has obsessive-compulsive disorder, we can’t buckle him in—and so we don’t buckle in Django or Maude, either. (We usually put up some netting behind the front seats.) Driving with three dogs means being less aggressive on the highway and leaving more space for gentler braking. I made good use of the surround vision cameras, which make backing into parking spaces easy, though we had no use for the “teen driver technology.”
The Traverse’s suspension and steering work as Perelli advertised. It’s probably the smoothest and most comfortable ride among SUVs in this segment, nicely soaking up the expansion strips and the crumbling bits of Michigan’s I-96 and State Highway 127. The jounce control means that dive isn’t bad when sudden brake lights ahead force a harder-than-usual stop. The steering is precise and light, offering good feedback, though the ratio isn’t so quick as to feel too twitchy for such a big, tall sport/utility. This is a comfortable, well-balanced SUV that will suit a family with a sportier, more enthusiast-oriented car on the other side of the garage.
Donna was happy to find that the front passenger seat, like the driver’s seat, has power lumbar support, a feature all too rare, even in luxury models. We ran the front seat coolers on the way up to Lake George. Interior materials and fit-and-finish are state-of-the-art for a brand offering luxury at a commodity price, with rich-looking padding on the dashboard and better-than-average plastic finish on the lower parts of the doors. The Traverse has a lot of convenient storage, including a hidden compartment behind the power-operated radio/navigation screen and a deep compartment under the cargo load floor that’s good for carrying food right under the dogs’ paws. Our $47,930 Chevy Traverse Premier Redline is priced up there with Buick Enclaves and Infiniti QX60s, though the base Traverse starts at $30,875, and the popular Traverse LT with cloth seats begins at $35,495.
We enjoyed the Bose Premium 10-speaker hi-fi, standard with the Premium trim, listening to a mix of public radio and XM channel 67, but we didn’t bother with Apple CarPlay (what are we going to do – call each other?) nor the OnStar or 4G LTE wi-fi hotspot. Longer trips, maybe. Everything operates by touchscreen, though. Chevrolet eschewed the tuning knob in the new Traverse, as well as the Equinox, which makes finding that out-of-town radio station too distracting.
We did use the navigation system and its eight-inch color touchscreen on Saturday night to find a restaurant in Cadillac. The navigation took us out of our way by maybe half a mile, through a closed-loop cul de sac in our lake area community, before directing us to the town about 35 miles away.
On Sunday morning, I drove to a dirt road near our cabin, where there’s some deep sand on parts of the mile-long stretch that goes unplowed during wintertime. I could have had some fun with the twin-clutch Advanced AWD system that disconnects the propshaft for better fuel efficiency. It’s standard on the new top-of-the-range $52,995-base Traverse High Country.
The High Country’s Advanced AWD has four driver-selectable modes (our FWD model came with three; standard, snow-mode and trailer, of which Traverse can tow up to 5,000 pounds). In AWD off-road mode, the system turns the Chevy Traverse High Country into something of a rally car around dirt-road corners, “like a WRX,” says chief engineer Perelli. For me, with my FWD Premier Redline, the road made only a decent photo-op.
It acquitted itself well back in Metro Detroit Monday, when I subjected the SUV to my standard local cloverleaf of right-turn sweepers. There’s no wallow to accompany the soft, comfortable ride, and the SUV steers through such turns with mild, predictable understeer and moderate yaw. You can go sufficiently fast without alerting any stability control nannies, unlike, say the segment-leading Ford Explorer with its overly intrusive Curve Control.
The Traverse’s steering initially required a bit of mid-curve correction. Even with 266 pound-feet going to the front wheels, there was no detectable torque-steer. I heard and felt the un-defeatable stop/start start up just once, on the way back to the office from this modest handling exercise. Otherwise, the fuel-saving feature was undetectable without an eye on the tachometer. It’s the best stop/start in the business.
The three-hour drive back to Metro Detroit a day earlier was uneventful in a good way, even with traffic jams south on 127 and east on 96 as other weekenders tried to get home. Yes, it’s a drive-and-forget sort of vehicle, with a plethora of entertainment options for three-hour-plus trips, with the best-looking styling in the segment. By Monday, I had driven the 2018 Chevrolet Traverse Premier Redline more than 600 miles, the last 256.7 off a fill-up in Cadillac. Indicated fuel mileage was 25.3 mpg at an average speed of 46.7 mph, but by my calculation (and with three or four extra clicks on the regular unleaded pump), I averaged 23.9 mpg. I returned the Traverse to Chevy with the weekend’s bugs and dirt washed off, and just about all of the fur vacuumed from the interior.
2018 Chevrolet Traverse Premier Specifications
ON SALE Now PRICE $45,395/$47,930 (base/as tested) ENGINE 3.6L DOHC 24-valve V-6/310 hp @ 6,800 rpm, 266 lb-ft @ 2,800 rpm TRANSMISSION 9-speed automatic LAYOUT 4-door, 7-passenger, front-engine, FWD SUV EPA MILEAGE 18/27 mpg (city/hwy) L x W x H 204.3 x 78.6 x 70.7 in WHEELBASE 120.9 in WEIGHT 4,362 lb 0-60 MPH 6.9 sec (est) TOP SPEED N/A
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En la actualidad la compañía tiene NOEX tres áreas independientes de la actividad: la publicidad, los productos farmacéuticos, productos conceptuales. La empresa, que comenzó a operar a partir de la producción de espejos de bicicletas, Doctor en Alaska imperceptiblemente se convirtió en una empresa que es socio y el contratista Material de PLV durante al menos los representantes de varias industrias, tales como la ingeniería eléctrica, industria de alimentos, farmacéutica y la publicidad. En apenas un cuarto de siglo después del inicio, el NOEX empresa tiene una bien merecida reputación en el líder de la industria del plástico y vidrio.
NOEX compañía a 25 años de experiencia y éxito en la producción de plástico es actualmente el método de inyección. No es el moldeo por inyección, sino también el diseño y la construcción de oficinas, herramienta, procesamiento de vidrio, impresión y logística. Compañía NOEX es un grupo de más de 150 empleados cualificados dispuestos a satisfacer incluso el trabajo más difícil en la producción de los detalles, la salida en forma de más de 200 de sus propios productos y completado docenas de ideas de los clientes, la industria de producción: farmacéuticas, publicidad, construcción, artículos eléctricos, devocionales y material de oficina.
Ofrecemos ayuda y asesoramiento durante todo el proceso productivo, desde el concepto, a través del diseño, herramientas de construcción de modelos, acabados y piezas, el montaje de los componentes y de transporte. El éxito de hoy en el mercado y tamaño de las empresas proporcionan una gran cantidad de conocimientos y experiencia de los fundadores de la compañía y de nuestro personal. Desde el comienzo de NOEX-in, nuestro objetivo es ofrecer los productos y servicios que satisfagan a los clientes más exigentes.
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First Drive: 2018 Chevrolet Traverse Premier
LAKE GEORGE, Michigan — The first-generation Chevrolet Traverse represented a brand and its corporation in transition, having launched the model year before General Motors’ bankruptcy. American families were starting to trade in truck-based sport/utility vehicles like the Chevy TrailBlazer for more carlike unibody front-wheel-drive-based SUVs. Ten years later, Chevrolet is stepping up its game in this segment, taking on leaders like the best-selling Ford Explorer, as well as the likes of the Jeep Grand Cherokee, Toyota Highlander, Hyundai Santa Fe and Honda Pilot, all of which are more popular than the Traverse. Even Chevrolet’s bigger, traditional Chevy Tahoe/Suburban combo outsold Traverse by more than 46,000 units last year.
So the 2018 Chevrolet Traverse and its smaller compact sibling, the Equinox, are two key models in Chevy’s goal of becoming America’s number-one brand again. That means it must first catch Toyota, and then Ford, the latter of which outsold Chevrolet by nearly 391,000 units last year.
To drive its competitive points home, Chevy offered journalists a chance to take their families to various Michigan resorts (yes, we have them) for the weekend in order to best enjoy the Traverse’s qualities. No one among Automobile’s Detroit Bureau-based staff has kids, but my wife, Donna, and I have three collies in our family. We took up Chevy on its offer of a new Traverse for the weekend, and turned down the resort lodging offered as our destination in favor of our newly purchased, dog-friendly cabin off Lake George in the north-central part of the state, about 180 miles away.
There will be fur.
Outside, the new Traverse shares Chevy’s very handsome design language and its coke-bottle body forms with the new Equinox. The two SUVs recall the organic, fuselage-style profiles of Chevy’s glory years in the 1960s and early ‘70s. Chevy says that the all-new Traverse is only slightly larger than the first model, with a 2.0-inch longer wheelbase and a slight increase in overall length, but significantly more interior space.
“We wanted the feeling and the presence of a truck,” says designer Rich Scheer. It has ‘Tahoe DNA’—more SUV than CUV, he says.
I think the new Chevy Traverse looks much sleeker, tighter and less people-mover-like than the old Traverse.
“The fact that the truck studio designed this model is not a happy accident,” says Steve Majoros, marketing director for Chevrolet cars and crossovers.
That’s a major hint. We know the 2019 Chevrolet Silverado and 2020 Chevy Tahoe/Suburban will be radically updated, with sleeker, more aerodynamic styling, so it’s pretty clear that the 2018 Chevy Traverse is a 7/8-scale preview of those full-size trucks. Imagine the next Tahoe/Suburban as a larger, longer Traverse. Cut the top off aft the b- or c-pillar, throw a solid rear axle back in, and you have the next Silverado. Whether this styling translates into being more truck-like or not, it works, and it should move the metal among mainstream consumers, who typically list “styling” as a major purchase consideration.
Underneath, the 2018 Traverse is all-new. It rides on the C1Y platform shared with the smaller GMC Acadia and the coming Mark II Buick Enclave. Its 3.6-liter V-6 is the only carryover piece, and only engine choice thus far. This is not the 3649-cc V-6 with Active Fuel Management (cylinder shut-off) introduced in the Cadillac CT6, but instead an updated version of the 3564-cc High-Feature V-6 that’s been on the market for more than a decade. It’s coupled to GM’s new 9-speed automatic transmission, and features stop/start technology, with no shutoff switch for the driver. Manumatic control is limited to a button on the gearshift, and the driver may select a range of gears among the nine while in tow mode.
The suspension of the Traverse has MacPherson struts up front and a five-link rear. Chief engineer Dean Perelli points to the Sachs PLV passive dampers with rebound springs in the rear as an important addition. A urethane vertical bar inside the spring coils, called a Spring Aid, serves as a jounce bumper.
The result is a soft, supple ride, but with good handling, Perelli says. The electrically assisted power steering has variable effort, and the turning diameter of 39 feet is about 1.5-feet tighter than the old model’s.
Base wheels are 18-inchers, but our spiffy-looking Traverse Premier’s $2,495 Redline Edition appearance package adds 20-inch aluminum wheels and paints them black with red accents. It also blacks out the chrome trim and the bowtie badges and adds a dual Skyscape sunroof and the trailering package.
Donna and I headed for the cabin late Friday afternoon, the Traverse loaded up with our three collies and just a couple of bags. The Traverse’s three rows of seats meant nothing to us. We folded down the second-row captains chairs and the third row bench, and tried to fill in the space between those second-row seats with bags in order to keep the floor as flat as possible for the dogs. If you have dogs and no kids, you’ll want the second-row bench.
The updated V-6 is smooth and powerful, with really nice throttle tip-in. Keep your right foot in it and the 3.6 rewards you with a subtle motorboat trill as you smoothly and quickly reach the mid- and upper-rev ranges. Chevy says 0-60 mph comes in less than 7 seconds, respectable for a 4,362-pound three-row SUV. Ours was a front-wheel-drive model, closer to the stated curb weight than one with the optional all-wheel-drive system.
Because collie Hugo was born blind and has obsessive-compulsive disorder, we can’t buckle him in—and so we don’t buckle in Django or Maude, either. (We usually put up some netting behind the front seats.) Driving with three dogs means being less aggressive on the highway and leaving more space for gentler braking. I made good use of the surround vision cameras, which make backing into parking spaces easy, though we had no use for the “teen driver technology.”
The Traverse’s suspension and steering work as Perelli advertised. It’s probably the smoothest and most comfortable ride among SUVs in this segment, nicely soaking up the expansion strips and the crumbling bits of Michigan’s I-96 and State Highway 127. The jounce control means that dive isn’t bad when sudden brake lights ahead force a harder-than-usual stop. The steering is precise and light, offering good feedback, though the ratio isn’t so quick as to feel too twitchy for such a big, tall sport/utility. This is a comfortable, well-balanced SUV that will suit a family with a sportier, more enthusiast-oriented car on the other side of the garage.
Donna was happy to find that the front passenger seat, like the driver’s seat, has power lumbar support, a feature all too rare, even in luxury models. We ran the front seat coolers on the way up to Lake George. Interior materials and fit-and-finish are state-of-the-art for a brand offering luxury at a commodity price, with rich-looking padding on the dashboard and better-than-average plastic finish on the lower parts of the doors. The Traverse has a lot of convenient storage, including a hidden compartment behind the power-operated radio/navigation screen and a deep compartment under the cargo load floor that’s good for carrying food right under the dogs’ paws. Our $47,930 Chevy Traverse Premier Redline is priced up there with Buick Enclaves and Infiniti QX60s, though the base Traverse starts at $30,875, and the popular Traverse LT with cloth seats begins at $35,495.
We enjoyed the Bose Premium 10-speaker hi-fi, standard with the Premium trim, listening to a mix of public radio and XM channel 67, but we didn’t bother with Apple CarPlay (what are we going to do – call each other?) nor the OnStar or 4G LTE wi-fi hotspot. Longer trips, maybe. Everything operates by touchscreen, though. Chevrolet eschewed the tuning knob in the new Traverse, as well as the Equinox, which makes finding that out-of-town radio station too distracting.
We did use the navigation system and its eight-inch color touchscreen on Saturday night to find a restaurant in Cadillac. The navigation took us out of our way by maybe half a mile, through a closed-loop cul de sac in our lake area community, before directing us to the town about 35 miles away.
On Sunday morning, I drove to a dirt road near our cabin, where there’s some deep sand on parts of the mile-long stretch that goes unplowed during wintertime. I could have had some fun with the twin-clutch Advanced AWD system that disconnects the propshaft for better fuel efficiency. It’s standard on the new top-of-the-range $52,995-base Traverse High Country.
The High Country’s Advanced AWD has four driver-selectable modes (our FWD model came with three; standard, snow-mode and trailer, of which Traverse can tow up to 5,000 pounds). In AWD off-road mode, the system turns the Chevy Traverse High Country into something of a rally car around dirt-road corners, “like a WRX,” says chief engineer Perelli. For me, with my FWD Premier Redline, the road made only a decent photo-op.
It acquitted itself well back in Metro Detroit Monday, when I subjected the SUV to my standard local cloverleaf of right-turn sweepers. There’s no wallow to accompany the soft, comfortable ride, and the SUV steers through such turns with mild, predictable understeer and moderate yaw. You can go sufficiently fast without alerting any stability control nannies, unlike, say the segment-leading Ford Explorer with its overly intrusive Curve Control.
The Traverse’s steering initially required a bit of mid-curve correction. Even with 266 pound-feet going to the front wheels, there was no detectable torque-steer. I heard and felt the un-defeatable stop/start start up just once, on the way back to the office from this modest handling exercise. Otherwise, the fuel-saving feature was undetectable without an eye on the tachometer. It’s the best stop/start in the business.
The three-hour drive back to Metro Detroit a day earlier was uneventful in a good way, even with traffic jams south on 127 and east on 96 as other weekenders tried to get home. Yes, it’s a drive-and-forget sort of vehicle, with a plethora of entertainment options for three-hour-plus trips, with the best-looking styling in the segment. By Monday, I had driven the 2018 Chevrolet Traverse Premier Redline more than 600 miles, the last 256.7 off a fill-up in Cadillac. Indicated fuel mileage was 25.3 mpg at an average speed of 46.7 mph, but by my calculation (and with three or four extra clicks on the regular unleaded pump), I averaged 23.9 mpg. I returned the Traverse to Chevy with the weekend’s bugs and dirt washed off, and just about all of the fur vacuumed from the interior.
2018 Chevrolet Traverse Premier Specifications
ON SALE Now PRICE $45,395/$47,930 (base/as tested) ENGINE 3.6L DOHC 24-valve V-6/310 hp @ 6,800 rpm, 266 lb-ft @ 2,800 rpm TRANSMISSION 9-speed automatic LAYOUT 4-door, 7-passenger, front-engine, FWD SUV EPA MILEAGE 18/27 mpg (city/hwy) L x W x H 204.3 x 78.6 x 70.7 in WHEELBASE 120.9 in WEIGHT 4,362 lb 0-60 MPH 6.9 sec (est) TOP SPEED N/A
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