How We’d Spec It: The Rocky-Mountain-Highest 2015 Chevrolet Colorado ( chevy colorado lifted )

 

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The following wave of smaller-than-good sized pickups is coming, and, nicely, for now it’s flowing solely from standard motors. Whilst Toyota and Nissan seem content peddling decade-antique rigs in this area, GMC and Chevrolet are reviving the Canyon and Colorado nameplates for a couple of all-new mid-size vans. We dig the idea of smaller pickups, if best because parking one is less of a usaS. Agency–stage docking chore than it is in a complete-sizer. Of route, merchandise like the Canyon and Colorado also keep at least the promise for better gas economic system—despite the fact that on paper the Colorado doesn’t pretty supply—and greater cheap rate tags. Now that Chevrolet’s on line configurator for the 2015 Colorado is live, we had no preference but to spec out our first all-new small pickup in a long time.

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Chevrolet Colorado V-6 4×4 team cab, short field (base price: $30,580)

Chevrolet is advertising and marketing the Colorado usually toward those who need a truck for leisure use. The rest of the time, image is the whole lot—so long as it is able to fit in everyday garages and not guzzle gasoline like an Abrams tank. To that cease, we skipped proper over the bottom Colorado paintings Truck (WT in Chevrolet-speak) and went for the one of the best, manly searching Z71 trim stage.

This brings, among different matters, the Colorado’s elective 302-hp, three.6-liter V-6 (it replaces the standard 2.5-liter 4), cool Z71 bedside stickers, the Z71 off-road suspension bundle, an automated locking rear differential, hill-descent manipulate, underbody shields, 17-inch dark-completed aluminum wheels, automatic weather manage, far off start, 4-way electricity heated front seats, a rear-window defroster, and GM’s EZ lift and lower tailgate.
All and sundry who’s paid interest to preceding installments of “How We’d Spec It” may notice that, if a chosen vehicle offers inexperienced paint, it’s possibly how we’d spec it. And so it continues with our hypothetical Colorado—we’re partial to inexperienced, Chevy’s is quite nice, and there we're. In fact, Chevrolet’s Rainforest green steel is so choice, the automaker costs $495 for it. We also optioned our pickup with the $250 Trailering package (basically a two-inch receiver hitch and the proper electrical connectors), a $350 mattress liner and $eighty tailgate liner (an o.E.M spray-in is a good alternative), $one hundred fifty mud flaps, and a $500 Bose audio gadget.

If our alternative choices seem a chunk thin compared to normal, nicely, it’s due to the fact Chevrolet clearly doesn’t provide that many options on the Colorado Z71. Black leatherette/cloth upholstery is the handiest to be had interior for Z71s—the mid-grade Colorado LT offers grey in addition to leather—and a guide transmission is off-limits for all versions store for the prolonged-cab base and paintings vans with the usual four-cylinder engine. Decrease trim stages provide more desire, however additionally they include less stuff as part of the deal. Besides the V-6 engine and off-avenue bits, the top-spec truck receives Chevy’s MyLink infotainment machine with an eight-inch touch screen, four USB ports, OnStar with a 4G LTE records connection, a leather-based-wrapped steerage wheel, and fog lamps.

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That haul makes our almost loaded $36,780 Colorado look like more of a price than it does at the start glance, in particular in a world where nicely-geared up enormous pickups can approach $50K with alarming ease. For a weekend warrior who desires best to tow a few jet skis or a small boat—possibly with an ATV within the bed—the Colorado offers extra than sufficient functionality in a manageably sized and handsome package. Now all that’s left to do is sit down returned and notice whether or not a great number of shoppers to spec this Chevrolet truck for real.