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Never would have wanted to pay the higher price for the encore but thought the Trax was ugly. This is a huge improvement over the previous looks! Hopefully someone at GM will put the new DI 1.4T into this sooner rather than later, I would not buy with the old engine(its under powered as is the cruze with the same weight).

 

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We saw a Trax yesterday for the first time in the wild, and my wife actually really liked it. She thinks it's cute, and even though she wants a tiny car like a Spark or Sonic, she said she'd be willing to drive a Trax now. Or at least she said that before she read some of the reviews, which said it's slow, not very roomy and has a cheap interior. Hope the 2017 is better!

The trax is the same weight as the cruze and uses the same engine/transmission, so it should be very comparable to the cruze acceleration. I see the Buick Encore(trax sibling) its optional to get the all new 1.4T with direct injection the same engine as the all new 2016+ cruze will use. Hopefully 2017 will see this engine also in the Trax, I would not buy one without the added power and MPG improvements that engine adds.