2014 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 Z71 LT Crew Long-Term Road Test - Edmunds.com
2014 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 Z71 LT Crew Long-Term Road Test: Introduction July 31, 2013. With houses in disrepair, racecars that need towing and an affinity for flat-box shopping and yard sales, there's nothing like having a pickup truck. And when it comes to pickup trucks, nobody does it like America. Among the Big Three, more than a million new pickup trucks roll into new owners' hands every year, so when one of them releases a new model, it's a huge deal. This year, GM has done just that with the 2014 Chevy Silverado. The styling may be familiar, but this truck is all new from top to bottom. To see how well it pulled off the new truck, we just bought a 2014 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 Z71 LT Crew for our long-term test fleet. There are roughly 950 variations of the 2014 Chevy Silverado, so picking the right one was difficult. This makes the most sense both for our test fleet and for the types of trucks people are shopping for these days. We've had 4WD trucks before and with our SoCal lifestyle they only saw a touch of snow, some mud and a whole lotta dirt. We wanted to get this truck into the fleet ASAP, which means our only engine choices were the new direct-injected Gen 5 5. 3-liter small-block V8 or the 285-horsepower 4. 3-liter V6. A 6. 2-liter V8 will make an appearance later, but we weren't... Source: www.edmunds.com
