Motor Trend first took delivery of its 2016 Chevrolet Colorado Z71 4×4 Duramax long-term test vehicle back in August of 2016, and lived with it for 12 months. During that time, the Colorado racked up 28,155 adventurous miles, and a cumulative maintenance bill of $838.30. It also averaged 23.2 mpg – a significant improvement over the 19.5 mpg achieved by the publication’s 2015 Colorado Z71 4×4 long-termer the year before. In fact, the Colorado Duramax was favored over the gas model in just about every category.
While we reading Motor Trend’s long-term verdict of the 2016 Colorado diesel pickup, we found the following excerpt to be especially telling:
I’ve enjoyed driving the Colorado so much that despite being given the opportunity to drive some of the hotter cars floating around our fleet, I’d almost always stick with the trusty Chevy. The why is pretty simple: There’s nothing in our fleet as flexible as the Colorado Duramax. It’s a rolling Swiss army knife—whether my weekend plans were running local errands, filling the bed with building supplies, road tripping, or off-roading, the Colorado was always ready for anything.
We found this to be rather significant as the author, Christian Seabaugh, has access to some mighty impressive vehicles. So if he finds the usability of the Chevrolet Colorado Z71 Duramax to be more impressive than, say, the performance of a BMW M2 or the luxurious muster of a Jaguar F-Pace, that’s high praise.
Comments
It really is a great little truck, too bad you cant get the diesel in the base model.
What if Chevrolet put the new 3.0 Duramax in the Colorado???
Won’t happen the 3.0L is an in-line 6 cylinder be to tight. Also will effect weight and fuel efficiency
The in-line will not fit but they could boost power a little and do fine.
The Diesel has good torque but still is down on power. They need to get the 0-60 times in line with the V6 and still retain the torque advantage.
If you offer the base truck with the Diesel it will still be expensive and you would not have any options.
They need to adress the shocks mounting to low on the diff. Adress that to improve better ground clearence on off road.
If they do that, they change the suspension geometry which affects ride and handling. That sort of thing is a change usually done with the new model not even at the mid cycle change. So here’s to hoping for 2021.
Don’t ever compare a Chevy Truck to my BMW M2 again. EVER!
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