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Chevrolet Trax

Chevrolet already sells the ample Captiva SUV in the UK, but sales haven’t absolutely been booming. So can the US cast accept a little bit added success with the Nissan Juke-rivalling Trax?

Take one attending at the new car and it’s bright that it’s an absolutely altered hypothesis to the Juke – it’s hardly longer, added and a accomplished lot added practical. The Trax offers a best baggage accommodation of 1,372 litres, while the Juke has alone 830 litres.

Chevrolet has based the Trax on the accessible Vauxhall Mokka, but it looks added masculine, with a bolder adenoids and split-level grille. Larger wheelarches, foglamps and atramentous off-road cladding for the bumpers add to the beheld appeal.

Inside, the Trax has the aforementioned angular centre animate as the Mokka, but the apparatus array is aggressive by the Camaro beef car, while the birr gets a soft-touch covering. There’s a aerial active position and affluence of amplitude for taller drivers.

Being so far head of the starting gun means that the car can only be driven with several provisos in mind. First, these are pre-production models (although only be a slender margin) and second, they are all in Canadian spec.

Not much of an issue, you might think, but unlike Ford, Chevrolet still likes to tune its cars to what it regards as regional tastes, and that means that suspension settings, tyre choice, steering tune and even gear ratios are all going to subtly change before delivery to Europe begins.

Nevertheless, while the manufacturer may have only just begun work on building its variant for the old world, it is that market’s ballooning appetite for compact SUVs which has made the Trax a no-brain introduction to Chevrolet showrooms.

The aim is to hit the high-sided B-segment sweet spot where the likeable Skoda Yeti and overrated Nissan Juke currently reside. To that end, the Trax, like most of the brand’s offerings, is a largely orthodox piece of packaging.

The car follows hard on the heels of the well received Aveo – appropriate, as it shares its Gamma II platform, albeit in lengthened, fattened and strengthened format, and with the option of four-wheel-drive versions.

Precise details on pricing and trim levels are yet to be set in concrete, but it would be relatively safe to assume that Chevrolet will re-run its familiar LS, LT and LTZ line-up, that it will be well equipped and almost certainly undercut whatever sticker its cousin at Vauxhall wears.