2011 Chevrolet Silverado HD 2500 Crew Cab 4x4 Diesel - Short Take Road Test - Car and Driver
Nowhere is this more true than in the heavy-duty sector, which for 2011 sees the freshened Chevrolet Silverado HD and its GMC Sierra HD twin locking horns with a new Ford F-series Super Duty. Yet despite Ford’s claim to the title of most-powerful diesel engine—its 6. 7-liter turbo-diesel V-8 was updated in mid-2010 to a nice, round 400 hp and 800 lb-ft of torque—the GMC Sierra 2500HD Denali crew cab handily outpaced a similar F-250 at... Shocked by the performance of GMC’s big boy, we had to take a look at a blue-collar Chevrolet Silverado 2500HD. Dropping the Hammer. Both models start at $28,960 for a rear-drive, standard-cab work truck, but there’s nothing blue-collar about the $60,000-plus limit for a fully loaded crew cab, four-wheel-drive diesel version of the GMC or Chevy. Like the heavy-duty Denali, our 4x4 Silverado 2500HD crew cab was powered by the revised-for-2011 6. 6-liter Duramax turbo-diesel V-8, which is backed by an Allison six-speed automatic transmission. This Chevy also had 260 fewer pounds to lug around than did the last 4x4 F-250 crew-cab diesel we tested—7580 pounds for the Silverado versus 7840 for the Ford. Source: www.caranddriver.com
