The Chevy Colorado entered an all-new third generation for the 2023 model year, with the 2024 Chevy Colorado introducing a few important updates and changes. Customers have five trim levels to choose from, including WT (Work Truck), LT, Trail Boss, Z71, and ZR2. Now, GM Authority has learned which Chevy Colorado trim level currently turns the fastest on dealer lots.
Colorado ZR2
According to GM Authority sources, the range-topping Chevy Colorado ZR2 is the fastest-turning trim level in the third-generation Colorado lineup, spending the least amount of time on dealer lots before it’s scooped up by a customer. The Colorado ZR2 starts at $48,295, excluding tax, title, license, dealer fees, and optional equipment. As the most off-road-capable trim level of the lineup, the ZR2 is equipped with the ZR2 Off-Road Package, which includes DSSV Multimatic suspension dampers, a three-inch factory-installed lift, a unique off-road front fascia, rear bumper, and fenders flares, and a taller, wider stance. The Colorado ZR2 is also available with the ZR2 Bison Edition package with the 2024 model year, which adds in a bevy of equipment sourced from American Expedition Vehicles (AEV), such as a stamped-steel front bumper, a stamped-steel rear bumper, and wheel flares, as well as auxiliary off-road lights, skid plates, and 17-inch beadlock capable wheels, among other components.
Colorado Trail Boss
Following the Colorado ZR2, the second-fastest-turning third-gen Colorado trim level is the Trail Boss, offered as the mid-range model and equipped as standard with a two-inch factory lift and 18-inch High Gloss Black wheels, as well as 18-inch all-terrain tires.
Per previous GM Authority coverage, Chevy Colorado sales slipped 40 percent during the fourth quarter of the 2023 calendar year, with the nameplate falling to third place in the midsize mainstream pickup segment.
As a reminder, the 2024 Colorado offers two powertrain options, including the turbocharged 2.7L I4 L2R gasoline engine and the 2.7L I4 L3B gasoline engine, now called TurboMax. The mid-range Turbo Plus 2.7L I4 L3B engine option was dropped for the 2024 model year.
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And none of them will be used “OFF-ROAD”. Just pavement pounding princesses!
Lifted trucks are like black wheels……can they please go away!
Would love a new Colorado…but multiple problems:
Price- not worth it. Folks, your vehicle should be 10% of your salary. You make $100K, you drive a $10k vehicle
Reliability- these trucks are having major quality issues. Just saw where GM ranks right next to Jeep in latest rankings for worst quality. Brutal. Too much tech and crap in these vehicles that jack up the price and bring down durability.
Software- being tethered to forced system updates is not smart
they are a service call waiting to happen. What do you currently drive?
Your vehicle value should be 10% of 1 years salary? Good luck with that. 100k is pretty decent pay, but a 10k vehicle is junk these days.
I have a 2011 Buick Regal with 113k miles (bought 5 years ago for $8600) a 2006 Chevy Colorado with 165k miles and a 2013 Nissan Juke with 84k miles (bought last year for $8000)
Never owned a brand new car. My last 2 trucks were a gen 1 Tacoma and a 1978 Chevy 3/4 ton.
I’m probably in the minority but it just isn’t worth it driving a fun new truck based on the cost.
Admittedly, if I was at $200k annual salary, I’d break the rule and buy the new Colorado
Hey Dave give us. A break.
This is a superior truck to the last gen in almost every way and I would trade in my 2020 ZR2 Duramax in a heartbeat for a new one if they still offered the diesel option. Love the outboard shocks and 35’s, but don’t trust the 2.7L or the ‘improved’ 8-speed transmission.
Not sure about the better in almost every way comment, but clearly not a vehicle for towing a travel trailer with that small of turbocharged gas engine. But that’s seemingly true of most all the midsize trucks now.
This is more of a toy than a heavy duty truck – I use my truck off road in the mountain west. Its fine for home depot runs, transporting mountain bikes and light duty chores. Beyond the superior suspension specs and updated technology, the interior is vastly better than the last gen. But I don’t trust the transmission or the 2.7L turbo.
I’ve only read reviews, which weren’t as glowing as yours. But I’d like to at least sit in one. I have a hard time believing that the interior is all that much better given how much of an improvement the 2nd generation was over the first. But clearly the tech needed improvement on the 2nd, so that’s not surprising. From the pictures it looks like the mirrors/blindspot issues are still just as bad, but at least now there’s tech to help with that.
no one has ever considered the Colorado a heavy duty truck.
You haven’t felt the torque of a good turbo engine. The GM 2.7 is pretty decent, but not outstanding.
I get the feeling you’re another old timer out of your depth.
Know what’s not good at towing? The 5.3l V8.
It’s not the power (HP or Torque), it’s the fuel mileage. The smaller the gas engine, the more it will be under boost and the richer the fuel mixture. The richer the fuel mixture, the worse the MPG. I’d be happy with a 3.5 boosted gasser, but not a 2.7. The only reason I even looked at a Colorado was the small turbo engine in the “new” Ranger, combined with a small gas tank on that vehicle.
Mr Mike I have owned a 5.3 which towed a 3 horse horse trailer with absolutely no problems and when I sold the truck with 232,000 miles the only thing I had to change other than normal wear items was the water pump. I would like to add that that I towed the horse trailer loaded several times a year in mountain country and was wondering do you think your 2.7 turbo can match up or was your statement just another gen z remark?
Just another old timer asking, old timer with turbo drag racing experience.
I have felt the torque of the 2.7L turbo and its even better than the 2.8L turbo diesel, but the fuel economy is sh!t vs the diesel where I get 25-27MPG on the highway with 33’s and no worse than 20MPG in the city. And for off road situations, I prefer the immediate torque at lower RPM vs revving the 2.7L to get the torque. I also prefer the 6 speed transmission with the diesel vs the ‘fixed’ 8-speed carryover. I’ve driven the new ZR2 off road and its fast and a better desert runner for sure, but the diesel is better suited for rock crawling and overlanding IMO.
For just ordinary uses I’d go with the 2.7 gasser, even though I get over 30 mpg freeway with my Colorado Duramax. I’ll take your word that diesel is better off-road, as it is with towing a travel trailer. For a boat I might go gasser.
Fuel economy aside, the 2.7 is 10x smoother and quieter than the 2.8L Duramax in urban driving. I tend to drive my truck to work on heavy snow or mountain bike days – not the best daily driver.
2.7 is not small for 4 cylinder. Besides it’s built like the diesel 4 everyone loved.