it used to be that in the world of midsize pickup truck off-roading there
was only one Dominator and that was the Toyota Tacoma TRD pro but now with the
inclusion of 2017 Chevy Colorado zr2 that's all changed and that's why we've
put them in head-to-head competition so I'm joined by my colleague Brian Wong
from cars comm and we're going to put these trucks to the test our first off
was too hungry valley off road part where we started our test clawing our
way up the steep hill climb one of the coolest pieces of technology that make
this a great operator is Toyota's crawl control take a look essentially this
technology is pointing to shoot them in low range put it in first gear activate
crawl control and adjust the setting to my speed and I just take off it does all
the work all I'm doing is steering I'm not touching the throttle not touching
the brake it's taking us off an incredibly steep hill adjusting the
traction depending on where it needs senses the tires incentive the speed
adjustment just go fine does it all by itself going to shoot well but the color
gets the job done with whiz-bang gadgetry the Colorado is a much more
analog solution and it also had one big advantage over the Tacoma and that
different cabin isolation let me show you have now you find yourself situation
drop on intuition where on articulation those be desired the two trucks really
have two different approaches to they oughta have that really are crawl
control system which will pull you down nothing that doesn't call router you got
to modulate the brawl yourself lever what it does have is the air suspension
travel so what we're talking here warrant innovation both on the frontier
at glance from the rear logic is that means that even on rock horse like this
get a little hairy in time all I do
sports bra no and in other words warming inside super thumping I can see part of
getting jobs women's group is elbow pain as a property attribute a magazine if
that was a shoe offered and they went on to join him but incredible almost rancor
until another demon really does it's that way you have so much twist run into
their intro very close though that has great feel going up the hill but after
we finished up the hill climb it was time to take these two trucks down into
the dirt washes and see how they did running fast over hard terrain with box
shop
driving around
my contrast here in session Wow isn't actually flash still 235 40 miles an
hour almost 45 miles an hour and this thing is made well specifically
here's why at each corner multimatic DSS be shock absorbers with spool valve
technology they're not discs but spool valves in fact these rear shock
absorbers have four spool valves in them to make them exceptionally flexible
during slow and high speed driving and that means a good old-fashioned drag
race we found an open stretch of road and
we're ready to hit it Brian how are we going to set up these
truck let's go ahead and put them in four-wheel drive high with traction
control off but a fee on because it is 105 degrees out here
excellent we're going to have F in our top shooter drop the flag you jump in
the Chevy I'll take the Toyo
Wow how fun was that empty gravel road wide
open throttle - very cool trucks that was a lot of fun we both had a chance to
get into the Chevy and the Toyota swap back and forth get into different lanes
what are your a : so the Toyota consistently came out ahead because of
that high horsepower from the gas engine now the Colorado for me was much quicker
off the line so they had a little bit more tire and a low-end grunt from that
diesel but the second or third gear the Toyota would just walk away yeah it was
amazing to me because I think I felt the same kind of thing more consistency from
the Chevy but when you got that Toyota dialed in the right way it was it was
pulling well past the finish line and you could definitely see it wanted to
room yeah it was quite a ride when we finished it was still powering through
it was still accelerating so I mean the engine it will respond if you get it
high in the air pianist but that's a challenge getting a high and keeping it
there but drag racing isn't the only thing that we want to do here right yep
let's go rip up some sand
of course this is just a small piece of our big comparison test and if you want
to know more about our impressions and who the final winner is go to pickup
trucks calm
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