New "compact" Colorado truck

"El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First!" (lightningzone) 11/12/2013 at 12:18 • Filed to: None

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Is almost as big as the Silverado, GM is full of shit when it comes to building a real compact truck.

It also looks boxier than the one sold in places that are not 'murica...

For Sweden > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 11/12/2013 at 12:20

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I'm sure that's an unaltered image.

Party-vi > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 11/12/2013 at 12:21

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It's probably the Cheyenne .

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HammerheadFistpunch > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 11/12/2013 at 12:22

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So stoked for this reveal. I know it wont be 100% what I want, but nothing is (diesel awd manual wagon?) but what I've read about it has me pretty optimistic.

El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! > Party-vi 11/12/2013 at 12:24

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It looks a bit narrower, and Chevrolet teased it on Facebook with the following comment:

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BlazinAce - Doctor of Internal Combustion > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 11/12/2013 at 12:25

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My parents have one of those, called TrailBlazer here in Brazil

It's a pretty neat vehicle, but nowhere near small, at least compared to what I'm used to. In fact, I think there aren't many cars available in Brazil larger than this one...

Party-vi > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 11/12/2013 at 12:26

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Hmm. I guess GM got tired of seeing their dollars go to Dodge and Toyota?

El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! > For Sweden 11/12/2013 at 12:27

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Aren't 99.99 of teasers that way ?

PelicanHazard > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 11/12/2013 at 12:29

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Sizes are deceiving.

The global Ranger is closer in size to the old Ranger than the F-150. It's shorter than its bigger brethren by more than two feet. Doesn't sound like a lot, but ~2 feet is the difference between my compact Dart and a Mercedes S-class. (Coincidentally, these new small trucks are about the length of a Mercedes S-class. That'll give them a leg up on the bigger trucks inside cities.)

The global Colorado competes with the global Ranger, so new US styling aside, we can surmise that the differences in dimensions between the Colorado and Silverado will be comparable. It will be significantly smaller. If you want smaller than that, you're out of luck unless Chevy/FIAT/VW brings up their Montana/Strada/Saveiro from Latin America.

El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! > BlazinAce - Doctor of Internal Combustion 11/12/2013 at 12:35

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Wanna bet?

Also, is that where your nickname comes from ?

Squid > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 11/12/2013 at 12:36

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Thats a pile of boxes covered with a sheet and put through the photoshop regimen to give an illusion of the truck being there.

El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! > PelicanHazard 11/12/2013 at 12:40

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What about the One Ford, mambo jambo?

PelicanHazard > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 11/12/2013 at 12:44

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One Ford, different regions. Ford execs don't think they can make a case for the S-Max, Ranger, and other stuff here, so we don't get them. It's also why the 2015 Transit looks different in the US compared to Europe; Americans and Europeans have different styling tastes in their trucks (though FIAT/RAM and the ProMaster are seeing if that's still a thing).

The global Ranger can still come here if the Colorado sells well. If it fails and Chevy stops selling it again, then the Ranger won't come back.

Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 11/12/2013 at 12:49

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The fact I still own my Sonoma is a testament to how good the Colorado/Canyon GM trucks have been. I'm still hoping this is something worth buying though.

carcrasher88 > Party-vi 11/12/2013 at 12:50

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Correction: Nissan and Toyota. They're the only other brands that sell similar sized trucks in the US. Dodge/Ram killed off the Dakota a few years back, just before Ford did the same with the Ranger.

At least it's good to know these smaller trucks are American made (the Colorado/Canyon being built in Missouri, the Frontier in Tennessee, and the Tacoma in Texas).

RW53104 > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 11/12/2013 at 12:51

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Yeah, never understood their sizing. My mom has a Crew Cab Colorado and it's very hard to understand the difference to a small Silverado.

Is the inline 5 coming back again?

Moves-Like-Senna > HammerheadFistpunch 11/12/2013 at 12:56

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You're forgetting brown

JSchultzie > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 11/12/2013 at 13:11

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I'd rather it be boxier than those non-American abominations. They look like a Traverse with a bed. The four door one is especially awful.

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > PelicanHazard 11/12/2013 at 13:11

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Hold the phone here.

Those Rangers are apples and oranges. Your showing the 4 door high-rider XLT 4x4 versus a low rider 2.5 door truck. I'm not saying it's not bigger, but it's not an F150. And even if it rides almost as high as an F150, its a lot shorter in length and definitely significantly skinnier. Yes I've driven both. I drove the 4 door high rider you showed a pic of in your stat sheet.

They have tons of variations of the global Ranger:

PelicanHazard > MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner 11/12/2013 at 13:14

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I didn't make the graphic, and noticed that the global Ranger chosen is a bigger one than the old one shown, though the comparison was more against the F-150 than the old Ranger. Choosing a smaller Ranger only serves to show how huge the F-150 really is.

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > PelicanHazard 11/12/2013 at 13:18

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oh i know you didn't. I've just seen a lot of that on here in the last couple days so I've been trying to shed some light. The first one on my post would get a lot of people going on here. 2.2L diesel Plus manual in a light truck!

It just seems like the Ranger is getting this perception as being as large as the F150 when even though it can be really tall, its definitely skinny inside compared to an F150.

Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif > RW53104 11/12/2013 at 13:22

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Lord I hope not, hate that fuel guzzling spaz box.

RW53104 > Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif 11/12/2013 at 13:25

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I don't live with it day to day, so I'm coming from a different place here. Feels pretty torquey to me though, and I've always loves the sound.

Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif > RW53104 11/12/2013 at 13:27

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I only have worked on a friends and driven it a bit. For how much the truck cost originally and how much fuel is for the inline-5, its no surprise people just bought a Silverado.

Party-vi > carcrasher88 11/12/2013 at 13:44

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Well. Shit. I had no idea Dodge stopped making the Dakota.

BlazinAce - Doctor of Internal Combustion > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 11/12/2013 at 16:09

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No Land Cruiser in Brazil, sorry... :p

Actually no, my nickname comes from way back in high school, thanks to Poker games during recess and a leather jacket I used to wear with a flaming Ace of Spades card on one of the sleeves. I think I still have that jacket somewhere, I wonder if all the patches are still in place.

El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! > BlazinAce - Doctor of Internal Combustion 11/12/2013 at 16:41

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What? There should be a law that stipulates to sell the Land Cruiser every fucking where, also playing poker in school would've got us at least one hour in detention, when I was in high school...

BlazinAce - Doctor of Internal Combustion > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 11/12/2013 at 16:45

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Really? That's... Actually, that makes a lot of sense. To be honest, my old school was a free for all. Kids were left to their own devices during recess and the "no-rules" policy was so evident, I've lost count of how many fights I picked and how many times I left in the middle of class to go play pool or hit one of the local arcades.

Holy Crap, I think my High School self would've been thrown in jail if I lived in the US...

El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! > BlazinAce - Doctor of Internal Combustion 11/12/2013 at 17:25

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Excuse me if I seem old fashioned, but isn't school suppose to be about studying and learning stuff?

BlazinAce - Doctor of Internal Combustion > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 11/12/2013 at 18:00

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Not at all man, you're 100% correct... Unfortunately, that's not how our utterly failed educational system works.

I think the best way to understand the shortcomings of our schools is by comparing them to the american model. From what I understand (mostly from movies and television, but still) High schools in the US are highly structured, but at the same time place a much bigger responsibility on the students' shoulders. Students start preparing for college in their second year of High School, and said preparation includes good grades, involvement in clubs, sports or other extra curricular activities and there are official tournaments and competitions between schools as a way to put all that into practice. Universities get to select the best students, so students have to put in some real effort to go to the college they want.

In Brazil, it's nothing at all like that. Schools are mostly poorly structured to support the volume of students they're supposed to allocate, extracurricular programs (including sports teams and events) are non existant and the only way to get into college is by passing a random, unfair and arbitrary exam called Vestibular. Even if your grades consistently stay at the very limit of approval during your entire school life and you've spent the last 10 years in jail, all you have to do is pass that one exam and you could get into medical school, for example, school records be damned. Even if that system somehow made sense (it doesn't), schools are unable to prepare students for the Vestibular exams, so people started opening pre vestibular schools, which are basically optional second chances at learning everything you didn't learn in "official" High School. The average student in Brazil spends 3 years in High School and then another 3 years in pre vestibular schools before finally making it into college. Thanks to this system, schools are essentially useless and people just stopped caring. Students, teachers, parents, no one gives a damn about schools. It's impossible to fail and impossible to stand out. There's no reward for a work well done and no punishment for fucking up. In short, there's no educational system in Brazil at all...