It all seems pretty fair. Spend 1500 less and get a Chevrolet/Holden-type car. Spend 1500 more and

That s partly because Chevrolet thinks you don t care. We ve previously been led to believe that UK tuning of the Trax was on the cards, having found the car dynamically flawed during test drives in both Europe and the USA.
But while the car has been through a tuning program in the UK, Europe and Korea, UK roads and tastes won't be specifically catered for. Selling a model with a UK-specific suspension tune may increase the cost of the car to a point that would be unfavourable for buyers on a budget.
For one, a lot of car for not a lot of cash. This Skoda Yeti rival has large doors, a convenient edit foto driving position and a good-sized cabin and boot. The interior s finish is workmanlike but isn t without a bit of style, the seats are comfortable, and broadly speaking, the engines produce adequate power and economy.
But adequate wouldn t be the word you d use to describe edit foto the mechanical refinement of our 1.7-litre diesel test car. Vocal at low revs, the motor rose to a harsh thrash at higher speed, where the six-speed auto box, with its short intermediate ratios, edit foto took that engine all too often.
And the car doesn t show very much dynamic quality elsewhere. It rides bad roads in slightly wooden, thumping fashion, and while the Trax handles manageably enough, it only does so via a light and spongey steering system that s seldom a pleasure to use.
Not if you can avoid it. And we can only assume the army of Chevrolet buyers referred to earlier don t know they could get a near-identical car for only 1500 more in the shape of an equivalent Vauxhall Mokka . Or a much cheaper and more likeable austerity SUV in the Dacia Duster .
Whatever the alternative, the Trax seems a like a good car spoiled by something edit foto of a lacklustre execution, which is a shame from a brand that s been showing progress and growing credibility of late. 
Price 19,955; 0-62mph 9.4sec; Top speed 113mph; Economy 53.2mpg; CO2 139g/km; Kerb weight 1387kg; Engine 4 cyls, 1686cc, turbodiesel; Power 128bhp at 4000rpm; Torque 221lb ft at 2000rpm; Gearbox 6-speed automatic
Interesting to read another review where a Dacia is noted as being a better alternative ... Renault must be praising the day it decided to launch edit foto its budget brand in the UK ...It is a pity about the Trax as it has the looks ... But obviously it's only skin deep ...
It all seems pretty fair. Spend 1500 less and get a Chevrolet/Holden-type car. Spend 1500 more and get a Vauxhall/Opel/Buick-type car. You get what you pay for, which makes sense.You edit foto don't expect a Skoda or a Seat to be a Volkswagen or an Audi or for a Dacia to be a Renault.Sensible edit foto market segmetation.
The Mokka is no better, My wife had one for weekend test drive, possibly one of the worst cars I've driven, felt like a pickup truck from 10 years ago, I believe their currently one of Vauxhalls best selling cars too. 
I laughed when I read the comment, under "What is it like ?", "For one, a lot of car for not a lot of cash." Get real guys, 20,000 !!  I don't think there are too many readers who would agree with you. "Not a lot of cash" in terms of a car must be about 10,000 or less.After reading that comment I picked up this week's copy of the magazine and happened to see the article about Mr Cropley collecting his nice new Range Rover Autobiography TDV6 which cost a mere 94,660 edit foto (yes, really !) as delivered, and across the top of that page was a list of the long-term cars that Autocar are running currently. Suffice it to say that it includes a BMW M135i, a Jaguar XKR-S, McLaren 12C, M-B CLS Shooting edit foto Brake, a Morgan Plus 8, Range Rover Evoque and a VW CC GT. Autocar staffers obviously live in a slightly different world to the rest of us. No wonder the price of the magazine is now 3.30.
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