What sort of automotive is the 2023 Chevrolet Colorado? What does it evaluate to?

The Chevy Colorado is a mid-size pickup truck associated to the GMC Canyon. It competes not simply with the Nissan Frontier and Ford Ranger, but in addition smaller vans such because the Ford Maverick and Hyundai Santa Cruz and full-size vans such because the Chevy Silverado and Ford F-150.

Is the 2023 Chevrolet Colorado truck?

Assessment continues beneath

We’ll have to attend till we drive it, however the redesigned Colorado appears to be like and seems like a winner, and its customary options and alluring inside promise to enhance on the outdated mannequin’s TCC Ranking of 5.0 out of 10. (Learn extra about how we fee automobiles.)

What’s new for the 2023 Chevrolet Colorado?

Many of the 2023 Colorado is new, with a contemporary exterior look, a contemporary inside unfold, and a single powertrain shared with the bigger Chevrolet Silverado. Bought in Work Truck, LT, Trailboss, Z71, and ZR2 grades, every mannequin provides a special spin on how homeowners would possibly use the truck, or extra importantly, how they need to be seen whereas utilizing the truck.

All of them sport a ridge down the hood that dips down into skinny headlights throughout the highest of the grille. The remainder of the nostril is a heavy black plastic grille, with the bottom WT having all of the character of a piece boot with a toe cap. Its 17-inch metal wheels beneath squared-off fenders lead down a physique that solely is available in a crew cab configuration with a brief 5-foot-2 mattress. 

The Path Boss provides a grey decrease lip to emulate a skid plate, and black fender flares that showcase its 2.0-inch manufacturing facility raise in addition to its 18-inch wheels wrapped in knobby all-terrain tires. 

The LT opts for a extra street-friendly look, with 17-inch wheels and all season tires, in addition to a physique shade bar that splits the higher and decrease grille parts to welcome impact. 

The sporty Z71 takes it a step additional with a gloss black grille, black bumper and mirror caps, and LED lighting back and front. 

Like the child on the playground you already know to not trifle with, the ZR2 looms taller, wider, and burlier with its 3.0-inch manufacturing facility raise. It wraps 33-inch mud terrain tires round 17-inch wheels, has a pronounced skid plate beneath the entrance finish for a larger strategy angle, and wears a twin black bar throughout the face like a dumbbell. There’s loads of equipment to flex the off-road bully much more.

Inside, the brand new Colorado has a way more refined take, with twin screens spanning a horizontally themed sprint flanked on both aspect by turbine fashion vents just like the Chevy Blazer. The assorted trims sport totally different prospers, similar to silver accents and soft-touch trim on the LT, and black artificial leather-based with pink accents on the Z71. Local weather dials and a quantity knob grace the interface, however the middle console takes an asymmetrical shift, with drive mode and digital parking brake buttons on the driving force aspect, and the mechanical gear shifter on the passenger aspect. It makes the mode selector simpler to succeed in for the driving force, Chevy says.  

Efficiency

There are as much as 5 drive modes, starting from Tow/Haul that adjusts the 8-speed automated transmission to raised tow as much as 7,700 lb, to a Terrain mode for crawling and a Baja mode for zipping by off-road programs with out obstacles. Powering all of those expeditions is a 2.7-liter turbo-4 shared with the full-size Silverado, however tuned in three totally different keys. The bottom output, customary on WT and LT grades, is 237 hp and 259 lb-ft of torque; they’ll tow as much as 3,500 lb. 

The Turbo Plus churns out 310 hp and 390 lb ft, and is customary on Z71 and Path Boss, however accessible on the opposite two grades. Towing maxes out at 7,700 lb. 

The ZR2 comes customary with the high-output engine making 310 hp and 430 lb-ft, although it may be optioned on different fashions by sellers. Towing capability drops to six,000 lb on the ZR2, however on different grades with the excessive output turbo-4 the tow ranking stays at 7,700 lb. 

The ZR2’s engine is used within the base Silverado, and in our testing it proved punchy, responsive, and serenely quiet for a full-size truck, but it surely may begin to run out of breath when pushed to go at freeway speeds. 

Chevy says even the bottom turbo-4 has 18% extra horsepower and 36% extra torque than the present Colorado’s 2.5-liter inline-4 (we positive hope so), and the opposite turbo-4 grades are enhancements over V-6 and turbodiesel choices on the outgoing Colorado. 

Chevy claims the 8-speed automated is a brand new iteration with faster downshifts, and the Colorado eschews the 10-speed automated ubiquitous in different Chevy large rigs as a result of the Colorado doesn’t want the ratios, in keeping with Chevy. 

4-wheel drive is on the market throughout the lineup, however customary on Path Boss, Z71, and ZR2. The entrance wheels experience on coil-over shocks and the rear suspension incorporates a stable axle on leaf springs, although the ZR2 will get Multimatic dampers. It additionally has locking entrance and rear differentials. Path Boss and Z71 grades add an digital limited-slip rear differential.

Dimension

The Colorado stretches out on a wheelbase that’s 3.1 inches longer, although the general size is inside a fraction of an inch. It has the identical 5-foot-2 quick mattress, however Chevy hadn’t confirmed inside specs by press time and mentioned the longer wheelbase accounts for a bigger engine compartment, so we don’t count on the crew cab to be any roomier. The bottom clearance on WT and LT vans rises from 8.3 to eight.7 inches, and the peak will increase by half an inch.

The mattress has eight tie downs customary, however it may be accessorized with 9 extra, and 14 pockets present the sort of group that may please Marie Kondo. Two tire grooves within the entrance mattress wall, and a gate that may be half raised whereas supporting 500 lb add some versatility to what may be hauled within the mattress. Although the tailgate doesn’t flex the multifunction functionality of GM’s bigger vans, there may be an accessible storage characteristic within the tailgate itself. When it’s down, a locking lid hinges as much as reveal a 4.0-inch deep and 45-inch lengthy storage space with a drain, so it could actually double as a toolbox or a cooler, good for work, higher for the weekend. Payload maxes out at 1,684 lb in WT and LT grades. 

Towing ought to be simpler with customary hitch steerage strains within the rearview digicam and a zoomed-in angle of the hitch. Optionally available options embody 10 digicam views, with one beneath the physique of Z71 and ZR2 fashions to offer extra eyes when off-roading or towing. 

How a lot does the 2023 Chevrolet Colorado price?

Pricing gained’t be introduced till early 2023, however count on it to price a couple of thousand {dollars} greater than the present $30,000 base truck. The WT lives as much as its identify for 2023 with 17-inch metal wheels and manually adjustable entrance seats lined in fabric, but it surely additionally makes large strides in customary expertise with an 11.3-inch touchscreen with wi-fi smartphone connectivity, an 8.0-inch digital instrument cluster, and two USB ports. Choices vary from artificial leather-based and 8-way energy entrance seats to a sunroof, which is a primary in a Colorado. 

The usual bounty continues with driver-assist options meant to make hauling safer. It comes with automated emergency braking with pedestrian detection, energetic lane management, and automated excessive beams. Optionally available are blind-spot displays, adaptive cruise management, and a surround-view digicam system, but it surely gained’t include GM’s Tremendous Cruise hands-free freeway driving system fairly but.  

The place is the 2023 Chevrolet Colorado made?

In Wentzville, Missouri, at GM’s Wentzville Meeting.