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Chevrolet Colorado ALL THE TRUCK YOU NEED.
AT SOME POINT, YOU COME TO GRIPS back without drawing lesser planetary bodies with the fact that you need a truck. Driving into their orbits. We’d opt for the 3.6-liter V-6 over the base your track rat six hours to VIR may have been okay when it was also your only mode of trans- 200-hp, 2.5-liter, direct-injected four-cylinder. portation. Perhaps as you’ve matured, however, This is the same quad-cam, direct-injected V-6 you’ve come to appreciate finery like air condi- that normally finds itself putting power to the tioning, a radio, and maybe even a headliner. front wheels of any number of General Motors Modern full-size pickups like the Ford F-150, sedans, but intake and exhaust tuning as well as the Chevy Silverado, and the Ram 1500 can a few calibration tweaks help it turn out 305 hp at 6800 rpm and 269 lb-ft of torque tow your entire house to Tibet and at 4000 rpm in this application. back, but God help you if you have PRICE $20,995 POWERTRAIN Those numbers fall short of to traverse a packed Whole Foods 2.5-liter I-4, 200 hp, the engine’s output in the other parking lot. The solution? A truck 191 lb-ft; RWD, 6-speed manual 3.6-liter, V-6-powered, rear-drive that fits the job. Chevy, the Camaro, where it makes The 2015 Chevrolet Colorado WEIGHT 3960 lb 323 hp and 278 lb-ft. The engine and the mechanically identical EPA CITY/HWY 19/26 mpg still likes to rev, but the torque peak GMC Canyon represent the first ON SALE Now in the Colorado arrives 800 rpm real effort in the mid-size truck segment in some 20 years. With a maximum tow sooner and there’s more low-end pull. A six-speed automatic transmission and subrating of 7000 pounds and all the refinement of the full-size pickups, the new GM trucks can stantial aero work, including active grille shutmerrily shuck you and a toy to the track and ters, help the four-wheel-drive, V-6 Colorado
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