2025 Chevy Traverse Just Discontinued These Trim Levels

The third-gen Chevy Traverse launched for the 2024 model year, bringing with it an all-new exterior, a brand new interior, and all kinds of other new features. Now, the 2025 Chevy Traverse is dropping some trim levels.

Specifically, the 2024 Traverse was offered in four trim levels: LS, LT, Z71 and RS. However, the 2025 Chevy Traverse is dropping the base LS trim (along with its fleet-oriented 1FL equivalent), making LT the new base, while adding a new High Country trim as a premium choice.

The deletion of the LS and 1FL trims is likely part of a business strategy being implemented by Chevrolet parent, General Motors, called Winning with Simplicity, meant to save hundreds of millions of dollars by reducing trim levels, color options, components, and similar items. In fact, General Motors has removed 2,700 parts from its production process, or about 10 percent of the components used. As we’ve noted previously, reducing choices could be dangerous as rivals looking to gain an advantage could simply offer more of them. We outlined this very scenario on the Chevy Society podcast, embedded below.

Regardless, removing the LS trim from the 2025 Chevy Traverse brings it in line with its smaller stable mate, the 2025 Equinox, which has similarly deleted the LS trim and made LT the base.

The now base-level FWD LT starts at $41,995, while the most expensive model – the AWD RS – has a starting MSRP of $58,795. These figures include a $1,395 destination freight charge.

Like the 2024 model, the 2025 Chevy Traverse continues to be powered by a turbocharged 2.5L I4 gasoline engine (production code LK0) rated at 328 horsepower and 326 pound-feet of torque. And, like all third-gen Traverses, the 2025 model continues to be underpinned by the GM C1-2 platform and assembly takes place at the GM Lansing Delta plant in Michigan.