I’m surprised no 4.3 option since they are making so many 4.3’s. I can’t see towing 6700 lbs with such a small engine. Seems like a struggle.
I think 369 lb-ft is enough to pull 6700lbs, a 5.3 V8 has less than that
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Not digging it the interior is nice but not a fan of the exterior at all. Also having the power to pull something and having the truck to pull something are too completely different things. Not sure how big these are going to end up actually being but I wouldnt want to pull 6000+lbs with a small truck any time no matter how much power it has.
Everyone worries about how much power they need to pull “x” amount of weight. It’s all in the gearing. You could pull 6700lbs with 150hp with a set of 3.73’s in back. The hard part about towing is coming to a stop, going around a corner, and making an evasive maneuver. Take a Colorado and pull a bass boat/trailer. You’ll feel the 3000lbs in everything you do. Now do the same with a full-size Silverado. You won’t even know it’s back there. Try to tow a car on an open trailer with a small truck, and you’ll be white-knuckling it when things get rough. Full-size trucks typically have 11.5-12.5" brakes, a foot wider track, 2 feet longer wheelbases, and weigh 750-1000lbs more. When you go around a corner with a dual axle trailer, the trailer wants to keep going perfectly straight. You want your tow vehicle to easily be able to control that. You want more weight, a bigger tire contact patch, and a wider track for stability. Notice how the brochures for the Colorado only show it hauling dirt bikes. That’s what I would limit it to.
Most trailers have brakes that can carry any decent amount of weight. The trailer brakes should be handling the braking of the trailer with the truck not having to stop much more than the truck itself. And I’m sure the towing package of the Colorado to haul this weight, will address brakes. And if you read any owners manual for hauling large amounts of weight, a proper weight distribution system is key to being able to tow the weights listed. This helps to spread weight between all axles of the vehicle and trailer. Without that, yes anything will tow like crap.
How do you think big rig trucks tow three times their weight? By proper weight distribution of the load and the trailer placement on over the axles.
Will Colorado towing 6000 lbs ever feel like a Ram 3500 towing 6000 lbs? No, but through proper weight management, it will not be nearly as bad as you say.
You haven’t towed much have you? Try a panic stop from 40mph and let me know how good trailer brakes work. Trailers use garbage drum brakes, and 6-7" wide tires, all of them. The brakes apply moderate pressure, nothing more. That’s why bigger trucks use an exhaust brake so they don’t cook their own brakes when towing heavy. My point about the Colorado towing 6700lbs was that a simple setup of a car/trailer weighing roughly 5000lbs on a double axle trailer will throw that small truck around. It doesn’t matter what it has under the hood. It is too small of a chassis to trust with moving weight like that.
True trucks use an exhaust brake to prevent overheating, but those trucks also have mandates where they have to stop a certain distance with just their brakes. That’s why a lot of trucks have switched to disc brakes or wider, lighter drums. And yes I’ve been in panic situation before with a heavy trailer and things went perfectly fine because of proper weight handling. It not only handles weight better but allows for better stopping and handling. It’s amazing how many people I see throw there car/trailer setup off of just a simple ball mount with no weight distribution. It’s amazing these people haven’t wrecked yet, let alone those who don’t even have brake controllers to properly use a trailers brakes to begin with.
I would have loved to have trailer brakes when I was hauling my SHO to michigan and wisconson to race on the 2 axle flat bed. My Touareg has absolutely huge brakes but they don’t have shit on a heavy truck pulling 5K. They never left me frightened but I didn’t feel confident if I would have had to stop quickly. Pulling a good sized skid steer was a whole different story. I didn’t realize how heavy those fuckers are. Probably the only time I actually drove 55 on the highway. I knew it was heavy when we drove it onto my flatbed and it just about lifted the back of my truck off the ground. That was a expierence. When we returned the equipment we used justins duramax and it pulled it like it was a toy car on the trailer.
For me small diesel truck would be great. This is something I was really hoping they would have does years ago in the colorado. Same with the ranger. I never understood why none of the manufactures had a middle engine option. small horribly underpowered 4cylinder or massive V6 that gets horrible fuel economy. I am a bit surprised on the engine options chevy is offering. I would not have thought it would have gotten a V6 at all. I think the 2.2 and 2.0 turbo would have been better options and would help fuel aftermarked to keep interest in the vehicle far after the launch.