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The Chevrolet Colorado – Value for money
The Chevy Colorado is an excellent compact pickup truck. Technically speaking, though, the Colorado is more midsize, which is a good thing if you’re looking for a reasonably priced truck that is great for hauling, but if you’re looking for something really hardcore and industrial, you should probably stay away from the Chevy Colorado. It’s very easy to maneuver, but that doesn’t take away from its aggressive attitude. The Colorado’s handling is pretty sweet both on-road as well as off it. It’s not as powerful as some would like their truck to be, and that’s the fault of its engines which are four and five cylinders. Through the years, the engines have increased in power, and you can even get a V8 engine now. After the praise comes the criticism. The Chevy Colorado, many agree, could have done without the plethora of in-cabin hard plastics, build quality that’s anything but consistent, and style is not a word you can use in the same sentence as ‘Chevy Colorado’.
Presently, the Chevrolet Colorado pickup truck is available in standard cab, extended cab as well as in crew cab configurations. The cargo beds of the regular and extended cab models are 6-feet-long, and the one in the crew cab version is 5-feet long. The regular Colorado seats three persons, the extended cab ones seat five and the crew cabs seat six, although it’ll be quite a tight fit in the latter two models.
All you want to know about pickup trucks
When we were kids, we’d hear all about how the ‘tough guys’ drove pickups, and the guys would all say they want one when they start working. The fascination with pickups ends for some with the first tastes of high-school driving, for some with college cars and for yet some others, when they enter corporate life. But for some of us, the fascination remains. If you get excited about pickup trucks or own one or would want to own one, you should read this article. Let’s begin with the basics first.
What’s a pick-up truck, you want to know? A pickup truck is essentially a light motor vehicle whose cargo area – called the ‘bed’ in trucking parlance – does not have a top. The ‘bed’ in most pickup trucks is separate from the actual cab (cabin) in order to make allowance for what is known as ‘chassis flex’ when hauling or towing heavy loads or vehicles. Now, many vehicles in North America are equipped with beds, but they’re not proper trucks. For example, vehicles like the Chevrolet El Camino or the Ford Ranchero are built on station wagon platforms. Most trucks have a channel rail or a tubular chassis along with a ‘fully floating’ cabin and also a completely separate cargo section so as to keep the sheet metal from warping and also to provide leeway for chassis flex. Continue reading
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