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We have two in my household, my wife bought an 05 LT with all the toys except AWD and soon after she purchased hers my employer furnished me with an 06 LT also w/o the AWD. I drive about 1k miles a week and can say that as far as mileage I can easily average about 25-27 mpg when doing 70-72 on the hwy. anything more than that and I get about 20 mpg at 80 mph. I have towed with my wife's equinox a small utility trailer +/- 2000 pounds and where it didn't totally weight the vehicle down I did feel the extra load. Then again I am used to towing the same load with my Jeep Grand Cherokee with the 5.2 L V8 where I really can't feel that load. Her equinox she averages about 300 miles per tank on a hwy and city combination. Both of us along with every equinox driver I have met hates the emergency brake location. It is a terrible design on account that it is located between the front seats closer to the driver's seat underneath the pull out cupholder, which means that to engange the parking brake the driver's cup in the cupholder will come out of the cupholder. (hope I explained that right) .
The ride is a comfortable one in my 1k + weekly miles, quite for a crossover, smooth and good visibility of the road. Hope this helps.