Chevy Colorado picks up GM's mid-size banner - NorthJersey.com
There's an old adage in the automobile business that applies as well to pickup trucks like the 2015 Chevrolet Colorado: you want a small vehicle to drive big and a big one to drive small. It is classified as a mid-size, which is almost laughable because the Z71 Crew Cab model tested here is nearly 18 feet long. Nevertheless, it is way smaller than a full-size pickup and does drive small with a nimble feel, quick handling, tight turning circle and a decent ride, even empty. The tester is about two feet shorter than its full-size Silverado sibling and about two feet longer than the best-selling midsize Toyota Camry sedan. With four doors, five-passenger seating, a quiet interior and a 17/24/20 city/ highway/combined mpg fuel economy rating, it could substitute for a family car, albeit one with an open air cargo box capacity of 41 cubic feet, or about three times... General Motors took a chance breaking into the mid-size pickup truck market. Competitors like the Ford Ranger and Dodge Dakota fell out of favor and were terminated, partly because incentives on full-size pickups narrowed the price gap to the point where a buyer could get one of the big boys for almost the same money as a... As a result, the mid-size choices were reduced to two: Toyota Tacoma and Nissan Frontier. The Tacoma is on a pace for sales of 150,000 in 2014. The Frontier is running at an annual. Source: www.northjersey.com
