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That's nice, but its still not alot of power, especially for a truck.
What GM needs to do, is have a ground effects/hood option with wheels. Have you seen the S-runner/X-runner tacoma's? They should't even bother with puting a v8 in it, as long as some supercharger is available from the dealer.
GM should've of been on that 5 years ago.




Toyota never advertises this truck, that's why no one knows about it, and why it isn't a big seller.

 

Well they have the Xtreme right? IMO the Xtreme looks very nice!

 

I can't find that on the Chevy website. Is it being sold right now?
Actaully, now that I think about it, GM shouldn't consider my opinion. I'm too young to afford one of their cars with options like this.

 

 

Thats GM's deffinition of Extreme?
I can't tell the difference.

 

Well, its extremely yellow

 

Hey, at least the ground effects don't hang a couple of inches off the ground like the old S10 Extreme.

 

All the Colorado needs is an LSx motor to make it sell. WHY they keep farting around with the 5 cylinder is beyond me. I've driven quite a few new Dakotas since starting the dealership a month ago, and the ONLY thing significantly better about the Dakota than the Colorado is the engine...

And an engine in a pickup makes all the difference in the world...

 

 

Did you do work on that one too?

 

In 2004 the Colorados 220HP was the most powerful non-V8 small truck ever built 242HP is right up there with Toyota now and ahead of Dodge and Ford V6 engines.

If this was a 6 cyl. putting out the same HP you would not hear a complaint, but the fact that it is a 5 cyl. freaks people out. Add direct injection and power would be up around 275HP and I bet people would still freak.

Truck buyers love V8s and almost for marketing and customer perception reasons alone GM should put a V8 in this truck. They would sell a lot of V8 ZQ8 and Z71 Colorados.

The added HP is very welcome

 

I never worked on a GMT355 small block, if there is such a program... ( )

Of course, that doesn't mean other people are not ...

 

i dunno why people hate the exterior of that truck, i think it looks pretty cool.


the interior on the other hand is garbage.

 

I think it looks good, too, though I prefer the Canyon's front end.

As for the interior, I think it is "garbage" only when compared to some of the nicer full size trucks (or nicer cars). Compared to an economy car (of which the Colorado is the truck equivalent) or other compact trucks (Tacoma, Frontier, Dakota), I think the interior is fine. The Tacoma might have a little fresher looking dash (mainly in the stereo/hvac head unit area), but ALL of them in that price range use cheap, hard plastics for the dash, doors, etc. The Frontier and Dakota in particular have horrid dashboards (but again, these are cheap, small "econo" trucks, so I'm not expecting a Caddy or Lexus). When the new Frontier, Tacoma, and Dakota debuted all around the same time (basically one season after) the Colorad/Canyon came out, I made a particular point of checking out all of their interiors at NAIAS.

My $0.02.