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Watch The Holden (Chevrolet) Colorado Take On Australian Sands: Video

If you’re into off-roading, especially on sand, then the following four-minute-long video should more than tickle your fancy, with plenty of great-looking shots of the new Holden Colorado (aka Chevy Colorado) pickup truck, along with a few OEM accessories, in its natural environment. Watch:

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  1. All I can say is, the grille looks as good in action as it does on the showroom.

    Detroit, if you’re going to tinker, at least don’t tinker so much that we can’t swap grilles with Holden. Colorado looks so much better than the new Silverado.

    Granted, I may be in the minority (especially in Detroit), but I’m also going to be in the pickup market this cycle… and if I can’t get a Ute, I’ll take this… as-is.

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  2. That is off roading? I have more of a challenge driving to work in the winter time.

    The crew cab has a horrid look for proportions. The bed it too short and the rear overhang is too much. Not only does it look odd with the wheels that far forward but just watch how often they drag the rear bumper in the sand.

    If you were at Moab you would be sitting there with the rear bumper on a rock or ledge with the rear wheels in the air.

    Unless it is really cheaper I ponder how well this truck will sell here as with it being nearly full size and the price of the full size 1/2 ton not much more it is a no brainer.

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    1. I have to agree, It was pure theater. I want to see it go up those dunes and find some real dirt getting muddy filthy dirty doing it. It was set up nice and a good looking outfit though.

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  3. Now keep in mind I miss my Sonoma is the worst way and want to like this truck in a Ext cab but I fear that I will pass this one up like the present Colorado but this time not because it was cheap feeling but because it has grown in size.

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  4. Still can’t get leather seats on this truck which is a major problem when its competition offer them in one way or another…

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    1. The leather here on the old Colorado was not easy to get here and when you did it was cheap. The interior here was often the most common complaint and if the new truck can meet the higher standard GM has shown it will help.

      I was ok with the engine and most of the rest of the truck but I could not get past the 80’s feeling interior. My old GMC Sonoma had a better interior.

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  5. Having owned several S-Series trucks, and test-driven a Colorado, I wouldn’t ever consider a GM compact again. What a botched pile of crap. The S-Trucks were on-par with the full-size trucks, but needing the V8. The newer trucks had such a craptastic interior, and no guts. I’ve since moved to full-size. They’ve ruined compact trucks for GM fans.

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    1. If you’re talking about the American Colorado, I would strongly encourage you to test drive the new one when it drops.

      I know it’s hard to give things a second chance, but there’s almost nothing in common between the old Colorado and the new one.

      It’s really like comparing a 2002 Camaro to a 2012 Camaro – nothing in common between them.

      As to HP, we can hope Detroit listens and gives choices there… I’m less hopeful on that one.

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  6. My problem is I do not need or want a full size truck or near full size truck. I have had El Caminos S-10’s and Sonoma’s and they were the size I needed. Large enough to carry a load but not to the point it takes up all of my garage and cost me more in purchase price and to fill with gas.

    I have a 2010 Silverado in the family I use now if I have something to haul and I love the truck but for a daily driver never.

    My 4.3 engines were fine in the small trucks as they are not race cars. Though I did have a Big Block in the Camino but it ran like a turd since it was a 72.

    I would love a small S-10 size truck with a 300 HP Turbo Ecotec.

    You can not tell me there is no market for them as even in the last years the small Ranger sold in good numbers even as old and out dated as it was.

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    1. You Sir, need a Holden VF Ute SS-V Redline… or at least an SV6, SS or SS-V.

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      1. We all do. The problem is convincing GM that we’ll pay up if they will ship them over here.

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      2. I would love that but I am not going to pay $45K for that here.

        I just have a feeling that GM when they replace the VF platform soon it will be with a Alpha based car and we may have a chance they will be built there in Michigan. That will help on price but all the V8 options will never be cheap again as this is the only way GM can limit their sales here to meet the fuel mileage average.

        I have a couple customers at work down under that have Utes and I envy them but there is no way GM can or will bring them here cheaper than the $40K range. This make the full size truck cheaper again.

        I do wish they would offer a full size short bed truck with a lowered suspension and even with the 300 HP V6 it would make a nice package that handles and still can haul a load.

        By the way my Camino was really a 1972 GMC Sprint SP and it was the GMC version of the SS with the cowl hood etc. There were only a few hundred of them. I should have kept it.

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        1. It doesn’t have to be $45k though – GM is doing that with the SS to avoid currency fluctuations because they don’t want to create a dedicated Zeta manufacturing line stateside (where Camaro, SS/GNX/GTO and Ute could be jointly produced).

          That’s why the Chevy SS lacks V6 and L77/base-V8 engine options. There’s no reason a SS or Ute couldn’t be sold stateside in the mid $30k range. Heck, the G8 GT was under $30k for most of its run.

          As I’ve said all along, the fears of FWD-only Holden are I think a false premise… meant partly by GM to woo everyone when Holden “surprises the world” and embraces Alpha over Epsilon.

          The third-gen CTS has shown us all that Alpha is the new newer, lighter Zeta everyone wanted. The “VG” Commodore can take the CTS blueprints and rock similarly.

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