Comparable four-cylinders include the Honda CR-V (20/27 mpg city/highway), Toyota RAV4 (22/28 mpg), Ford Escape (20/28 mpg with an automatic transmission) and Dodge Journey (19/25 mpg).
Final estimates from the EPA aren’t in yet, but manufacturers don’t usually announce such figures without being confident in their own testing.
The 2010 Chevy Equinox goes on sale this June. The base model will start at $22,440.
David Thomas
Former managing editor David Thomas has a thing for wagons and owns a 2010 Subaru Outback and a 2005 Volkswagen Passat wagon.