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The Colorado is Chevrolet’s entrant in the midsize-pickup segment. Smaller and more manageable than the bow-tie brand’s half-ton Silverado, this product squares off with rivals like the Toyota Tacoma and Ford Ranger.
When it’s time to spec out a Colorado, you might be surprised to learn it offers quite a bit of choice, in some areas much more than competing models. Two body styles, bed lengths and transmissions are available; three engines are on the menu, as are, depending on how you count, five trim levels.
This truck can be had in a wide array of variants. Value-minded drivers can get an entry-level Base model with a four-cylinder engine. Mainstream customers are able to build one with a peppy V6 and crew-cab body. Even hard-core off-road enthusiasts are well taken care of by the rough-and-ready ZR2 Bison model.
Chevy’s Colorado is maneuverable thanks to its trim dimensions. If you have trouble parking a full-size pickup, consider this midsizer. It’s also quite refined. Even the available diesel engine is silky and nearly silent in its operation, a rarity for compression ignition. While the Colorado’s cabin won’t win any awards, being constructed mostly of hard plastic, this truck’s interior is at least well built and rich enough for this relatively rough-and-tumble class of vehicle.
Speaking of diesel, properly equipped trucks with that powerplant can return a segment-best 30 miles per gallon on the highway, an impressive figure to be certain. But nothing stops the unending march of progress, and Chevrolet’s brand-new diesel-powered Silverado does even better than that, up to 33 mpg on interstate drives, a ground-breaking figure for a full-size truck.
Not only does the compression-ignition Colorado offer incredible efficiency, it’s also impressively capable. Again, diesel-powered examples can tow up to 7,700 pounds, another best-in-class figure.
The Chevrolet Colorado and its corporate twin, the GMC Canyon, are bolted together in General Motors’ Wentzville Assembly plant located northwest of St. Louis in the U.S. state of Missouri.