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A PONY PICKUP? With its sport suspension, the Colorado is a truck even a tuner could love.(News)
Byline: LARRY EDSALL
If you believe the midsize Chevrolet Colorado pickup truck should be shopped against the Nissan Frontier, Dodge Dakota or Toyota Tacoma, Chevy officials would like you to think otherwise. Equip a rear-wheel-drive 2004 Colorado with the ZQ8 sport suspension, and Chevy believes the Pontiac Vibe GT, Ford Mustang V6 and Chrysler PT Cruiser GT are the proper competitive set.
Riiight: A pickup that handles like a pony car?
"I picked the Vibe as a target vehicle,'' says Joe Taverna, the engineer who sets up the suspension and handling characteristics of General Motors' midsize pickup trucks-the Colorado and its cousin, the GMC Canyon (which does not get the ZQ8 setup).
At GM's Desert Proving Grounds in Mesa, Arizona, laps click off every 50 seconds or so around the vehicle dynamics road course. Taverna promises the ZQ8-equipped Colorado is within two-tenths of a second of the Vibe GT's best, and beats the Mustang V6 and Cruiser GT. Of course, the people at Ford and DaimlerChrysler might like their own shot at setting the pace...
What makes up the ZQ8 setup? For around $1,500, depending on the specific model, it includes:
* A quicker steering gear that reduces the effort to 2.92 turns, lock to lock, vs. 3.20 or 3.31 for other versions of the GMT355.
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