i have only driven them on a few test drives and as rentals, and all of those rentals have felt like they were beaten on pretty damn good. I always had a 4x4 inline 5 crew cab for a rental. Good visibility out of the truck, easy controls on the ac/heat and radio (none of that over done fancy shit). The ones i test drove were both the sport suspension 2wd inline 5 trucks, those were better IMO. The GMC Canyon comes with a 5.3 v8 now and I heard a rumor about the Colorado coming with it for 09.