The Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon have been on the market in their current forms for four model years now, which puts them about due for a refresh. On Monday, a new report claimed the Canyon is in for a refresh this year, and we can only suspect the Colorado will follow.
Both trucks are near carbon copies save for exterior and interior design; the oily bits and structure are identical. It will mark the first substantial change in the pickups since their introduction. Since then, the Colorado and Canyon gained a 2.8-liter Duramax turbodiesel engine. The Canyon introduced a Denali trim and the Colorado earned an off-road focused ZR2 variant.
It’s unclear what the refreshes will bring, but updated designs seem quite likely. The refreshes will come as Ford prepares to launch its Ranger mid-size pickup in the United States after years of absence. Ford will likely introduce the Ranger this year as a 2019 model.
The freshened pickups will likely further strengthen Chevy and GMC’s pickup offerings as the 2019 Silverado and 2019 Sierra prepare for launch this year.
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News must really be slow if you have to split this into two stories. LOL!
Detroit can’t come soon enough.
It will be design language to bring them in line with the 2019 full-size but just as they are now, will be more progressive and car-like.
I hope it’s more than just aesthetics and we get updated engines and new engine offerings (2.0T) and 8/10spd trans across the range.
I wish they would offer the 2.8L Duramax in the base trim. Some business/ fleet owners don’t want to pay $37,000 for great MPG and safety features that are really not needed in a work truck. I know many business owners who have not bought the Colorado (Myself included) because you cant get the diesel. A few ended up buying the Eco Diesel (which is even more expensive) but a few have recently bought the Equinox with the 1.6L. Personally I’m waiting and currently looking for a used Colorado.
The ZR2 appears to be a great truck, hey GM how about a V-8 powered Colorado, most of us old muscle like horsepower and lots of torque, com-on boys wake up
It’s too little, too late GM.
No sunroof, no push button start, no HomeLink and way too slow period!!!
Buying a Ranger Raptor with all features mentioned above rolling on 33 inch tires.
I am absolutely appalled by the tiny ZR2 low profile looking tires.
Needs a proper V8 LT1 or LT4 to sound right, could live with a 450 horsepower V6 twin turbo.
Tired of being let down by GM year after year with weak, little and wimpy trucks.
And stop squatting on the HUMMER name for 10 years already, give it to Ford to make some Super Duty based off-road luxury vehicles, something I might actually want to own for a change!!!
I’m done.
“Needs a proper V8 LT1 or LT4 to sound right, could live with a 450 horsepower V6 twin turbo.”
450 HP in a mid-size? Care to join the rest of us on planet Earth?
350hp should be good for these trucks. Drop a small V8 in already!
“I know many business owners who have not bought the Colorado (Myself included) because you cant get the diesel.”
The statement above is meaninglesss and they are always annoying. It’s like a garage saying “We don’t see many Tacoma’s coming in for repairs; therefore they are pretty reliable trucks”. Equally meaningless due to a huge number of variables such as number of Tacoma’s owned in the area, number of people who want to bring their vehicle to that garage, type of work the garage does, what the garage charges, where the garage is located, and the list goes on and on.
It’s an opinion and no way indicates any kind of trend. To make a substantive statement you’d need to determine the number of businesses, in multiple areas of the U.S., that didn’t buy Colorado’s because they couldn’t get the Diesel engine.