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What is it?
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In an automotive bazaar area there is a barter for every charge and for every commute, from acreage to banking sector, accessible to tow aggregate from a abundant bag of advantage to a affectionate account of the HMS Beagle, there has been an alone atom for the aftermost few years. That atom was gradually alone over the aftermost 20 years as midsize trucks either grew a admeasurement beyond or were larboard to atrophy afore actuality canceled.
General Motors addressed this audacious blank by introducing the Chevrolet Colorado and the GMC Canyon for the 2015 archetypal year backward aftermost fall, trucks that accept an absolute adventitious of applicable into burghal garages.
The Chevrolet Colorado and its Professional Grade accompanying are acquired from GM's new midsize Global Barter platform, aboriginal alien in Thailand and added countries area these machines are advised large. Designed to action SUV-like administration and amenities alongside acumen and a birr of economy, the Chevrolet Colorado is meant to address to buyers who do not necessarily appetite the bigger barter for their buck...and for whom a V8 underhood is not a must.
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The Chevrolet Colorado does not action a V8; ability comes from a 2.5-liter four-cylinder acceptable for 200 hp and 191 lb-ft of torque, or a 3.6-liter V6 acceptable for 305 hp and 269 lb-ft of torque. Both engines are aimed at economy, with the abate assemblage laying affirmation to an EPA-estimated 27 mpg highway, with the V6 not too far abaft with a actual admirable 26 mpg artery appraisement (2WD models). Accessible in extended-cab and crew-cab guises, the Colorado can be had in 2WD and 4WD form, with a best of automated or six-speed chiral transmissions depending on trim akin and engine. The continued cab archetypal is offered with a 6'2" bed, while the aggregation cab adaptation can be had with a 5'2" bed or a 6'2" bed.
The Colorado is offered in three basal flavors: Assignment Barter (WT), LT and Z71. The Z71 is the adventuresome one of the leash and it comes with 17-inch aluminum auto cutting all-terrain tires (16-inch animate and aluminum auto appear on the lower models) in accession to projector headlights and a few stylistic adjustments, including a gunmetal grille surround.
Even admitting the Colorado is positioned beneath the Silverado -- Chevy's entry-level barter until actual afresh -- that doesn't beggarly it skimps on autogenous abundance and connectivity. Accessible covering seats, a 3.5-inch awning in the apparatus cluster, a accepted rearview camera, an accessible Bose exceptional seven-speaker complete system, OnStar 4G LTE alternating congenital Wi-Fi hotspot, and no beneath than four accepted USB ports appear accepted on the Z71 model. As accepted equipment, the Z71 additionally includes a rear window defogger, boiler advanced seats, a alien starter, and sliding rear window. In accession to all this, the Colorado additionally boasts the segment's accomplished bivouac appraisement of 7,000 pounds with the accessible able towing amalgamation and a V6 engine.
With a starting amount of $31,300 for the Z71, there is affluence of overlap with the Chevrolet Silverado; that charge accept been the scariest allotment of the accommodation for GM to accompany a adaptation of this barter to the States. Their alertness to action beneath barter for not abundant beneath money (especially in top blueprint out-the-door price) speaks volumes about their aplomb in the Colorado.
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The aggregation cab adaptation is accessible with a best of two bed lengths. Photo by Jay Ramey
What's it like to drive?
Our time with the V6-engined Colorado Z71 coincided with the much-feared meteorological cable-news abnormality accepted as Snowpocalypse 2015. This hashtag-spewing accumulation active our Colorado in about two and a bisected anxiety of Telluride-grade powder.
Since trucks like the Colorado are generally purchased due to the achievability of statewide emergencies and the charge to sometimes buy abundant packs of cardboard backyard accoutrements at Home Depot, we had a attenuate adventitious to see what it could do in an accident that deposited parka-wearing account crews to the abandon of interstates.
The attendance of avant-garde absorption ascendancy systems agency that, aloft actuality freed from snow, the Colorado does not fishtail berserk with the appliance of the throttle. As absorbing as that may accept been, our barter aloof dusted itself off and calculating crawled out of its snow alluvion footprint, with the four auto about imperceptibly spinning and captivation still as bare in adjustment for the barter to chargeless itself. The all-terrain tires the Z71 wears may not accept been ideal for snow -- the accurate prepper would fit snow tires for the division -- but they were abundant bigger than the all-season tires the non-Z71 trim levels would accept worn.
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The college arena approval and the able-bodied all-terrain tires advice with abrupt snowpocalypses. Photo by Jay Ramey
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Even unloaded, the Z71 behaves able-bodied in snow after that asymmetric activity advancing from the back. The able-bodied off-road tires are not too bendable and action affluence of anchor alike as the treads ample up with snow. At burghal active speeds, the barter feels able-bodied composed and added like an SUV rather than the baby and commercial-feeling Colorados of the antecedent generation. The aloft ride acme adds to the SUV feel, admitting the anatomy does not let the barter become ever animated or to aberration in the average like two sausage links aback activity over ample clumps of snow adhering to the alley surface. The Colorado additionally resists nosediving during braking, so while the abeyance bureaucracy is geared for a little added biking of the four wheels, that doesn't beggarly that the anatomy feels chargeless to angular aback and alternating on the frame.
The Colorado happens to be a adequate artery cruiser, with absorbing babble abolishment congenital into the cabin. With addition row of covering seats abaft us, it's accessible to balloon that we're in a Chevy barter that additionally has a bed about aback there. The 305-hp V6 actuality offers affluence of power, admitting there is a activity that the gearbox is not in a bustle to absolutely about-face through the gears, and it takes a advanced appliance of the accelerator pedal and an aural jump of the revs to absolutely actuate the Colorado to get going.
The 3.6-liter V6 produces a medium-pitched brownish bombinate at artery speeds, admitting it's accessible to backpack on a chat after accepting to accession your voice. About the alone snowpocalypse-friendly affection that the Colorado does not action is a acrimonious council wheel. The berth feels analytic solid, and alike admitting there is affluence of atramentous artificial to go around, there aren't any areas of the autogenous that feel cheaper than others or area corners accept been cut. Soft-touch abstracts accept been acclimated well, abnormally area it counts. Ergonomics and apparent afterimage is acceptable all around, with the advancement camera authoritative assignment in bound parking garages decidedly easier than they contrarily would accept been.
The autogenous is comfortable but actual SUV-like in feel and appearance. Photo by Jay Ramey
Do I appetite one?
Historic storms notwithstanding, the big catechism for aloof about every abeyant client will abscess bottomward to a allegory with the Silverado. That agency a side-by-side blueprint blueprint will be aching over, and tow ratings of the two trucks will be acclimated and abused. "You can get a Silverado for that much," Colorado shoppers will accordingly apprehend from dentists who drive in dually trucks.
Chevrolet is acquisitive that there is added to barter affairs than addition out which archetypal offers the best application appraisement and the longest bed breadth for a defined budget; at the end of the day, the Z71 is added of an SUV with a bed than a assignment barter or a bartering tool, so bottom-line economics will hopefully comedy a bottom role in the accommodation for buyers. Its alley amenities will abruptness barter shoppers the most, and it has affluence of amenities to affect Ford Explorer Sport Trac owners who are advancing 150,000 miles.
Equipped with the V6 and accepting had the options book befuddled at it, our Colorado stickered out at $36,710, which makes a lot added faculty if you attending at it as an SUV/family truckster acquirement rather than some bare-bones railroad aggregation truck. And aloof anticipate how accessible you'll be for the abutting anniversary snowpocalypse that will accordingly be billed as "The Big One."
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Base Price: $34,990
As Tested Price: $31,300
Powertrain: 3.6-liter V6, 4WD, six-speed automated transmission
Output: 305 hp @ 6800 rpm, 269 lb-ft of torque @4000 rpm
Curb Weight: 5,900 lbs.
0-60 MPH: n/a
Fuel Economy: 17/24/20 city/hwy/combined(EPA City/Hwy/Combined)
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Observed Fuel Economy: n/a
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