2012 CHEVROLET Traverse

Chevy Traverse's are unsafe at any speed.

Comfort Rating: 5 Performance Rating: 3 Interior Rating: 5 Reliability Rating: 2 Safety Rating: 1 Technology Rating: 1 Value Rating: 1

This is a dangerous car, here's why. The transmission won't down shift after a stop. Here is a typical scenario, you pull up to a stop sign on a 55 mph road. You see a vehicle coming, it's 1/4 to 3/8 mile away, in most cars it's safe to pull out and accelerate smartly (don't doddle). Not in a Chevy Traverse car should you do this because the transmission never down shifted while you sat at the stop sign. Here's what will happen, the higher gear will put you out in front of traffic but you won't have torque (power) to go fast/er. You sit and wait to get splatted. What you can do with your children in the back seat or the other couple you're going out to dinner with is FLOOR IT and over-ride the computer. Now you're peeling rubber and driving like a maniac 16 YO who snuck some of Dad's beer while he tries to impress the girls on the corner. This lack of transmission down shifting scenario is a known problem that GM refuses to fix. Better to buy another brand vehicle and live. Another problem, the AC can only be run when the computer says it can. I had all my windows fog up on Rt. 95 at 65 mph with another couple in the car! I could not see to drive! The other guy quickly undid his seat belt and hand wiped the windshield in front of me so I could see out (like we used to do with 1950's & 1960's vehicles). After the excitement everyone commented on what an unsafe POS the Traverse is. Most Traverse problems including the 2 mentioned can be easily fixed "IF" GM would change the computer programming. Then again, they sell more cars if the ones already sold get destroyed in car crashes don't they? There will never be another GM car in our driveway. I don't know how many or what other GM models have similar problems. I'm going back to buying foreign cars because they are safe at every speed.