we know not every midsize pickup truck buyers gonna take their pickup truck off
road but we think it should be part of the capability bandwidth of any new
pickup truck that's why we've come here to bunny hill off road park where we've
pushed these vehicles the entire competitor of the mid-size segment to
their limits
here's what we have to say the Chevy have the same tires as the Toyota but
then it needed a lot more momentum the contraction in the same situations it
doesn't take too long to drive the chevy colorado off-road to understand this is
kind of an old-school ladder frame chassis and suspension lot of chatter
when the road gets bad and the four-by-four dial when you do want to go
into low range or for high you kind of have to crane your neck and reach
underneath him and turn the dial in a way that doesn't make it very easy to do
when you're on the fly
now what i like about the canyon is there's not much off-road I mean this is
just not meant to be out here my least favorite feature about the GMC are the
tires we didn't have the z71 package so we had street tires on our truck trying
to go through the mud and trying to climb Hills made a huge but my favorite
aspect to the GMC canyon is the all-wheel drive capability to the
transfer case no other vehicle has a two-wheel drive all wheel drive
four-wheel drive lock for
that's a great what I really liked about the GMC off-road was the shorter
wheelbase really helps crest hills a lot easier
you're not worried about getting hung up on anything i was amazed at how well the
honda did on street tires and attraction that it could maintain and float over
Sandy services so what I like about the honda ridgeline is that I think it
surprised all of us here is super-smart all-wheel-drive system was just king of
the sand and gravel what don't i like about the handover to way but you get a
very good vehicle for what it does well but when you try to go off road
especially trying to keep up with the other segments competitors very
difficult to do that no low-range very street tire so no grip trying to grab
your way up a hill and also there's no ground clearance and you son got things
done in the old-fashioned way with a good aggressive tire old-school four by
four components but i like most about the nissan frontier is that it's the
most rugged vehicle here that makes sense it's the oldest of our competitors
but I like least about the frontiers there's very little technology it's an
old-school platformer so maybe that makes sense but it would be nice if they
did a better job of providing traction where it's needed instead of just trying
to provide big wheels and tires and a big gear to fight its way through all
the rough terrain what I really liked about the nissan frontier off-road was
the fact that the suspension is absolutely made for this kind of duty
you can barrel across some of the rougher stuff and it really handles it
without a problem and what I don't like about the frontier is that it's a
frontier this thing's ancient it's not nice to drive there aren't a lot of
features that you get some of the other trucks now it gets the job done
off-road but Manuel
are not off-road you have to drive this thing to work it didn't know I don't
want it i thought the two it was the best all-around four-by-four today but I
like driving a best without the call control the place where the tacoma
underwhelmed me the most was in its engine performance development it does
not have a very responsive throttle so when you want to romp on it and start
bahaar racing down and open stretch of dirt road
it just wasn't there either the traction control system broke in and shut things
down or it just wasn't responding the way that we wanted it to or the way even
some of the other competitors in the second step now the tacoma you can bring
it to a recreation off road park like this and you know what
it's in its habitat so those are just the highlights from our judges but you
can bet they had a lot more to say about each one of our competitors for more on
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