welcome to Tech in the Car direct from Hollywood this is a Chevrolet bison zr2 pickup truck big
thank you to Chevrolet for loaning me this truck while i'm in california i'm actually coming to
you from right behind the hollywood sign you can't see it here but it's just around the corner there
and where better a place to talk about this car than a place where looks is very very important
and this is undoubtedly a looker of a pickup truck now i've never driven a pickup truck i've
never been in one of these and when i collected it from the airport i was totally amazed by how big
this thing is now this is a mid-sized pickup truck it's not even the largest pickup truck
is very much the off-road version of the colorado pickup truck this is designed for handling those
rugged areas where you wouldn't normally be able to take your truck and it's designed with
that so it's got high clearance it's got locking differentials it's got a design which you can see
gives it a lot of clearance for dealing with those scenarios which maybe wouldn't be that
easy to deal with in other tracks so this is the most versatile version and it is a absolute head
turner i am honestly surprised at how many people stop and look at this truck i don't know whether
it's the color the dune sound metallic or whether it's just because this is a unique truck there are
not many zr2s around for whatever reason people are always looking at this which i find super
super interesting and they come up to me and they say nice truck so you know and i can't take the
credit for that because it's not my truck so i tell them chevrolet make it chevrolet gave it to
me and they're like huh so i think this is pretty good advertising for chevrolet if i'm honest with
you which is obviously why we made these videos so the general feeling that i'm getting are
people love seeing this truck i'm enjoying driving this truck knowing that i have that
high position that versatility that space and then on top of that it's just a really really i don't
know i just feel really american driving around in the truck it's just really interesting to see that
about some of the specs on this the zr2 bison and we go through that and have a walk around this
has a glossy black front we've got this sand dune metallic color we've got this power dome this car
i get so many looks from people as i'm driving around it's unbelievable and i feel like a bit
of an imposter a british guy in a pickup truck listening to country music i don't know if that's
right or wrong maybe that should be illegal and this zr2 bison is the super off-road version
built with the help of aev which is the american expeditionary vehicles and they're based in
montana and they've added loads of cool stuff and you can see here it's got a higher ride
height than you would normally get from an zr2 it essentially is two inches higher because it
is the off-road version so what makes this version other than the slightly higher ride height so good
for off-roading well av you've added lots of cool things for example steel imprinted front bumpers
front and rear there's five skid plates underneath the body on the bottom of the truck so if you
go over rocks or something it doesn't damage the bottom of the car they protect the oil pan and the
rear differential it's got a multi-matic special suspension designed specifically for off-roading
and it's got these really cool wheels which are absolutely massive in terms of that rubber you
don't get tires like these in europe i can tell you that much and these are really cool graphite
gray with an aluminium finish and they look fantastic this vehicle is 54 950 as spec and
it has a four-cylinder 2.8 liter diesel engine there is also a v6 engine available this car has
181 horsepower and around 300 pound feet of torque and it's four-wheel drive and it has locking
differentials so you can lock either front or back when you go off-road so it's got everything
covered for me as a british person well you know if you watch my driving section here you'll hear
my impressions of what it's like to drive a pickup truck which i've never driven before how it feels
for me on the road being so big not big for the us but big for somebody in europe even though
this is mid-size and what i think about trying to park it which is an interesting experience
let's have a look at the side and the back of this now this truck has got space for three people in
the back there's two seats plus one in the middle so this is got a larger cab but the bed here is
normal size it's not extended the other thing you'll notice is these steel bars protect the
body work their frame protectors so if you're going over any off-road areas the rocks are not
going to damage the side of the door which is a good thing to take into consideration also
big credit for the matte black effect around the windows not glossy not glossy because glossy gets
scratched and doesn't look very good so that's a big improvement and then as we come towards the
back here you can see these flared arches so this vehicle is about three and a half inches wider
than a typical colorado again it's because it's a bison it's the off-road version but it's wider
it's taller and it's more versatile in terms of its design what about the back of the zr2 bison
so we've got this tailgate it's soft closed or open i should say it's soft open and there's
tons of space you can put loads of stuff in here it looks like it's about four and a half feet to
the back there i rode down to the car part where i parked this with a bicycle from my hotel i was
able to put that in there and then go back not a powered closing tailgate but those are quite
rare in a scheme of things and then at the back here you've got these skid plates again down
here underneath and these frame protectors which protects the back of the car and it's just very
solid again steel bumpers for the rear courtesy of aev so it's got lots of versatility in terms
of design the chevrolet logo is imprinted here and we've got the aev logo with the bison on here
from montana and the colorado logo and we've of course got a sliding rear window there so you
can see out the back note the sports exhaust down here which comes out to the side it's not coming
out the back so again it's designed to try and be protected when you're off-road as well what about
space in the back of the colorado pickup truck so i have to jump in because it's two inches higher
off the ground being the bison and you can see this front seat is pushed really far back so i
have lots of space in the front for my bags but i've got a ton of space i've still got a knee
room even with that all the way back if it was in its right position i'd have another probably six
to seven inches space in front of me i've got tons of head room i've got tons of shoulder room inside
here we've got pockets we've got two usbs we've got a 12 volt charger these doors have quite wide
windows and there's space for your drinks as well so there's a lot of space here so what about space
on the inside so first of all i have to climb up as you can see which i find incredibly amusing
not being used to having to climb into vehicles but once you're in here you've got this massive
really good view of the road you've got so much road presence and everything is really logically
placed in here we've got our touch screen here which has got android auto and apple carplay
we've got little buttons here for back forwards make it nice and easy your volume controls your
okay button and then underneath we've got your climate control which has got physical buttons
and then we've got our buttons down here for the off-road for the locking differentials
for the exhaust brake for all of the settings that you would want there and then we've got our heated
and ventilated seats pretty cool we've also got two cup holders we've got a space here where
you can put your stuff and there's a usb two usbs here and then we've got wireless charging and then
we've got a really deep center console i put my arm all the way to the bottom there
which is very large and uh continues the idea of having a lot of space in a pickup truck
we've also got our glove box here and then i've got a nice easy-to-see mirror this has got on star
so i can call and ask for assistance it's also actually got a heated steering wheel this model
doesn't have digital displays in front of the driver but it's very clear and easy to
see and then to the left here we have our light controls and our two and four wheel
drive mode settings obviously we've got our traditional window settings on the side here
these seats are incredibly comfortable they are very very nice they're like bucket seats chevrolet
calls them i'm not sure i would necessarily call them bucket seats and they have the aev american
expeditionary vehicles logo embroidered into the top here which is an optional extra which comes
with the bison so what are my impressions of this truck well i've been driving it for a few days
and i've grown to really really enjoy driving a truck don't get me wrong i still like having
a nimble sporty saloon but the road presence the ability to not worry about wherever you're going
the unrivaled space and the comfort and luxury you feel is something which nothing else compares
to there's nothing else in terms of vehicles that comes close pickup trucks are a breed until their
own and they're very very exciting and this is a particularly fine and good and enjoyable
vehicle so check out the zr2 bison big thank you to chevrolet again so i had to get the hollywood
sign into focus into the shot so there we go it makes it much more fun please don't forget to
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