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The abiding Chevrolet Colorado at Motor Trend‘s Detroit appointment has become a weekend admired for editors. It has a solid artery ride, 20-plus afar per gallon while cruising, and 4G LTE connectivity, but that’s not what’s cartoon our editors’ attention. No, they appetite that accessible little bed in the back.
I bare the 5-foot-2-inch bed of our aggregation cab Z71 archetypal to dump the charcoal of my kitchen during a remodel. Addition editor helped a acquaintance move some furniture. Still addition bare it for a Home Depot run for bounce plants and mulch. Pickups are a lot like alive dogs. They’re happiest aback they accept a job.
This Colorado should be appealing blessed because this bounce we’re putting it to work. The advanced array of jobs alone confirms why we called the Colorado as Motor Trend’s Barter of the Year. It has met every job with ability and capability. Granted, full-size trucks could do abounding of the tasks, but that we didn’t charge a barter that massive demonstrates how able-bodied the midsize Colorado completes burghal assignment and while applicable in burghal garages.
We’ve additionally fabricated the Colorado a little added roadworthy, installing an all-new tonneau awning by Bak. The RevolverX2 is an able aluminum awning that works abundant like a Rolladen window cover. Individual aluminum strips are affiliated and blow on a simple shelf that is installed on the bed’s edge. An chain bar locks into cleats at anniversary end of the band aback a batten is activated by absolutely closing the system. Aback the tailgate is locked, the absolute awning is about bulletproof and watertight. It has already kept baggage safe and dry on trips from Detroit to Memphis, Tennessee, and Kasota, Minnesota. But aback you charge the bed, it rolls up neatly in beneath than 30 abnormal and still does not assemblage so aerial adjoin the rear window that you can’t see out the back. It’s able and seems to affect every being who has apparent it demonstrated. (This is the additional adaptation of this tonneau awning by Bak.)
The system, which is due to be appear in June, will amount about $800. That’s appreciably added than abounding bed covers, but it can additionally handle up to 400 pounds of weight on top of it, which abounding can’t. The bodies at Bak installed the awning in about 15 minutes, and aloof about anyone with a bend could accept it on the aback of their barter in beneath than bisected an hour. It’s the best tonneau awning I accept anytime apparent or used.
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The Colorado has been appropriately as impressive.
When we aboriginal took control of our Colorado, I anticipation the 5-foot-2-inch bed would be too baby for some jobs and would accept adopted the 6-foot-2 bed that is accepted on the connected cab archetypal and an advantage on the aggregation cab model. But so far, I’ve been wrong.
Either bed can authority about 1,500 pounds, which is a lot added weight than best bodies ability think. I may accept gone over the truck’s 5,900-pound GVWR at one point, but the auto didn’t assume to mind, and it was a abbreviate cruise to the dump. I’m assertive that I am not the aboriginal being to amount a auto above recommended allowances.
Between projects, the Colorado connected to accommodate abundant transportation. My aide Frank Markus cruised bottomward to Memphis and acclaimed the truck’s connectivity never failed, acceptance him to abide online for assignment aback his accomplice drove. Added recently, he ventured bottomward to Florida, afresh acquainted able achievement and nary a botheration all forth the way.
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Meanwhile, on my cruise to Minnesota, the Colorado provided a bland ride and acknowledging handling, and it acquainted about buttoned down. During artery driving, I begin the basement position important for how you abode the accelerator and brake. It’s additionally important to me how the council caster adjusts adjoin you. I’ve developed bound acclimatized to the Colorado’s close seats and cocked basement position. It leaves me active at the end of a continued ride.
I do, however, ambition there was added versatility is the additional row. Although the bank bench seats three adequately calmly and can bend up, the attic amplitude could be added manageable. Chevrolet includes a artificial ledge for the bench to blow on and beneath it is accumulator for things such as the jack. However, that artificial backbone agency the attic amplitude is never collapsed and you can’t bend up the bench and abundance things quickly. It’s a bulky space.
But with the new tonneau cover, that additional row amplitude is as far abaft us as the $24 in assessment fees through 100 afar of Illinois. We kept bags of dollars of camera accessory safe beneath the awning and no one was the wiser. Meanwhile, the Colorado averaged added than 20 mpg with its 305-horsepower V-6.
In aloof bristles abbreviate months, we accept put added than 9,000 afar assimilate the Colorado, and the alone affair we’ve begin is the seatbelt ablaze does not consistently appear on aback the admonishing buzzer does — additional the ahead appear electric grille shutters freezing. In a few instances area we accept larboard article heavy, such as an active computer bag (a computer bag for an auto announcer is the agnate to a auto bed for a architecture worker), on the commuter seat, it has acquired the seatbelt anxiety to go off. But because the ablaze on the birr doesn’t blink, it’s difficult to aboriginal amount out why the anxiety is activity off. This would be beneath of an affair except you’ve already started driving.
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At 7,000 miles, I took the Colorado to a dealership and paid $50 to accept the oil afflicted and the tires rotated. I’ve contrarily spent annihilation on the truck.
The Colorado may be accident some of its new car smell, but that should appear with the area for any pickup. They are accoutrement that charge to be acclimated regularly. And if you’re on a job that doesn’t crave you to sweat, is that absolutely work?
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