2015 Chevrolet Colorado review: Blending tech with smaller size (for a pickup) - ExtremeTech
America’s best selling cars are actually pickup trucks, the Ford F-150 and Chevrolet Silverado. Now comes a midsize pickup, the Chevrolet Colorado, that is more reasonably scaled and easier to drive around in. It’s also chock full of technology, much the same as you’d get in a passenger car: blind spot detection, lane departure warning, 4G... The combination of its technology and the age of its competitors makes the 2105 Chevrolet Colorado our Editors’ Choice among midsize pickup trucks. Chevrolet and Colorado made a splash at the Super Bowl last month with the “Sexier” commercial asking women: Who is sexier, a guy in front of a generic sedan or a Rock Red Metallic 2015 Chevrolet Colorado. Chevrolet calls this a small pickup truck in some advertising, but it is nothing like the Chevrolet-Ford-Mazda-Nissan-Toyota truly compact pickups of a generation ago. The ride is refined (for a pickup) and it’s not big (for a pickup). But it can get expensive (like a full-size pickup) because of the extensive options lists for box-checkers, the customers who check off every option available. What’s lost in the noise around the multiple truck-of-the-year awards won by Colorado, which noted its truck aspects, is how much technology is in the vehicle. Great infotainment, multiple USB, 4G telematics and WiFi General Motors has a quiet hit with the MyLink infotainment system: big touchscreen icons, big. Source: www.extremetech.com
