Holden Colorado we’d have: 2025 Chevrolet S10 is the updated way we could have it to compete with Ford Ranger and Toyota HiLux – Car News

Holden Colorado we’d have: 2025 Chevrolet S10 is the updated way we could have it to compete with Ford Ranger and Toyota HiLux – Car News


Holden Colorado’s Brazilian-built cousin, the Chevrolet S10, has been updated for its home market, giving us a look at what the ute might look like if it were still on sale in Australia.

Aside from the exterior, which takes on new elements of Chevrolet’s design language, like a black trim ‘bar’ on the grill to house the bowtie logo, the S10 also gets a heavily updated interior.

Compared to the limited interior that the Colorado did with, an 11.0-inch multimedia screen and an 8.0-inch driver display are integrated with wireless phone charging, USB-A and USB-C, as well as a series of safety features such as back. -traffic alert, automatic high beam, and instant tracking.

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The S10 gets technical changes under the bonnet, with its 2.8-litre Duramax turbo-diesel four-cylinder engine capable of producing 154kW. Chevrolet Brazil claims it will hit 100km/h in just 9.4 seconds, seconds less than before.

Efficiency depends on what the Brazilian model used to achieve, too, with the brand claiming 8.8 liters per 100 kilometers of highway fuel consumption and 10.5L/100km in the city. Here in Australia the official fuel consumption figure was 8.6L/100km for the previous Colorado.

The Chevrolet S10 has been updated for its home market, giving us a look at what the ute might look like if it were still on sale in Australia.

Further improvements come in the form of suspension and shock absorbers, steering, and a new set of acoustic panels to reduce noise.

Chevrolet Brazil will even throw some hunting equipment at the first buyers of the updated S10.

    The S10 has also received a significantly updated interior. The S10 has also received a significantly updated interior.

The S10 update is a preview of the ute Holden might have released today if it had gone ahead – it focused on some of the second-generation Colorado’s facelift on the North American S10.

The two models were not the same – the S10 is slightly larger, and the Australian Colorado was built in the now defunct GM plant in Thailand.

Several years ago, the Holden Colorado was fighting for a place on the sales podium. Several years ago, the Holden Colorado was fighting for a place on the sales podium.

A couple of years ago, the Holden Colorado was fighting for a place on the ute sales podium, having sold 21,579 units in 2017, but it was all done by the end of 2020 with the last 7559 units sold – 27 examples of them in December of that year.