2014 Chevrolet Silverado V-6 - Car and Driver
Sometime during the seven model years of the previous-generation Silverado, we lost track of how many different engines Chevrolet offered. There were V-8s in four different displacements, one of which, the 5. 3-liter, came in both iron- and aluminum-block versions, and with and without FlexFuel E85 capability. Yet, a V-6 returns as the base engine in the redesigned 2014 Silverado in consideration of the new strain of frugality afflicting full-size trucks. It even has a new name, Ecotec3, to help distinguish it from last year’s 195-hp 4. 3-liter Vortec V-6 with its cast-iron block and heads. This helped our V-6–powered Silverado turn a quarter-mile time of 15. 7 seconds at 89 mph. That’s a tenth of a second faster than the 6. 0-liter V-8 “VortecMAX” Silverado we tested back in 2007. But there is a catch: We had E85 in the tank this time. GM’s latest FlexFuel truck engines get an output bump from ethanol, which helps the new V-6 make 297 horses and 330 pound-feet of torque. the EPA combined estimate for a V-6, four-wheel-drive Silverado drops. Source: www.caranddriver.com
