Long-term 2014 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 LTZ Z71 second-quarter update - Autoweek
We've struck gold with our long-term silverado. And when you’re talking about one as unimpeachable as our long-term Chevrolet Silverado , we prize it as much as anything in our roller-cabinet toolbox. Ironically, that’s the reason behind the drop in miles logged during the truck’s second quarter in our stead. Where the Silverado eclipsed 7,000 miles in the first three months, we barely hit 12,000 through the first half of the year, deploying our favorite tool more frequently but for jobs much closer to home. One editor observed, “This truck is an absolute stud. If everyone had a Silverado, the roads would have been open. Meantime, one reader we heard from remarked on the truck’s $55,170 sticker, questioning the value of a luxury short-box truck, calling it “too much flash, not enough function, and, at $55K, an unfathomable luxury for anyone making a living with... ” While at least one staffer sympathized (“Is this a truck or a crossover with a bed. ”), the remainder of the staff would counter that anyone buying a Silverado configured like ours would likely not be “making a living carting stuff around in the back of this. Source: autoweek.com
