2017/18 Tacoma vs 2018 Chevy ZR2

Found myself earlier this morning on the dark side of YouTube, seems like Chevy knocked it out of the park with their midsize 4x4, everything you need right out of the box. Check out the video link below. Thoughts?
https://youtu.be/BZEK4DTOVpg

 

Automatic only.

 

Where's the clutch pedal?

 

Buy it and report back!

“Thanks to tinkering from engineers from the Hummer program”....”fun mode”......gawd this narrator is truly the worlds biggest dweeb.

 

I mean when you factor in taxes and fees, you're gonna end up spending around $50,000 for it. If you're trying to have everything right off the bat why not just go for something like a raptor, probably around the same price? Seems a little ridiculous to me

 

Buy a used one in 5 years and tell me how to goes.
Actually buy a used one of either in 2 years and let me know how it goes.

 

But you do get a bit of that Blazer 2 lineage! I mean, the hummer engineers don’t joke around.

 

Chevy makes good trucks now a car unless it has an ls motor run

 

The only thing I heard was front locker and fake rock sliders .. Cool stock front bumper too. No reason to sell my truck.

 

I can't remember GM putting in this much effort in their small Trucks before. Still wouldn't buy one though. Happy with my Toyota.

 

you saying the ls is a bad engine? llol

 

Exactly! And if you're in Canada, $54k!

 

They now there’s a lot of money to be spent in the smaller truck class, they pretty much have the full size class covered

 

No I’m saying it’s an awesome motor bulletproof and with mods it’s a beast!

 

raptors are 80 grand here. quite the jump

 

I'll take a TRD PRO Tacoma over one of these any day, something about the design of the Colorado (even in the ZR2) reminds me of a truck version of an 2000's Impala.

 

Dude look at the Tacoma pros those aren’t cheap either

 

I am interested that Chevy put a front locker in. I wonder how that will work for them. Front lockers need careful consideration on an IFS truck. You can really tear your front end apart if you are not careful in its use. In short.......IFS front lockers are not for the inexperienced, uninformed, or unaware, IMHO.

I would like to know which of these statements is true (just guesses):

#1 - GM put incredibly robust CV joints and other front end components in this truck so newbs can wheel the snot out of the truck with the front locker on, no issues at all. Thing is a tank.

#2- GM has a system that disengages the front locker before the breaking point is reached.

#3- GM is banking on less than 1% of drivers ever locking the front and can suffer a few warranty claims for those that do. The front locker is simply a sales gimmick feature that a few hardcore wheelers will understand and use correctly, most will never use, and a few with grenade the whole system, but that’s ok.

I don’t think it would take much to have a front E-locker in a Tacoma, but I think Toyota hesitates as a lot of people actually take their Tacoma’s off road and I think Toyota is worried about the sheer number of warranty issues etc with busted front ends if they offered an IFS truck with front locker. Their solid axle landcruisers have front and rear lockers.

 

Colorado's beds look like they trying to pick up a penny with how slanted down forward they are. The tailgate is so tall too, the whole bed just looks so off.

 

Very well said, valid points that I didn't even think about.