New Taco TRD vs Chebby Colorado ZR2 - Car & Driver

[Jedadiah]

To Car and Driver's credit, they did mention that they were surprised by the Chevy's performance. Is it what other owners are seeing with new Colorados or a one off?

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[Friday yet?]

To Car and Driver's credit, they did mention that they were surprised by the Chevy's performance. Is it what other owners are seeing with new Colorados or a one off?

I was more surprised by the chebby's horrendous fuel mileage than I was by the overall performance. Seems kind of crazy. Shame 'cause it is one nice looking truck (IMO). Should be popular with the truck crowd. Well, if you can get past the chebby part... which I cannot.

 

[JimG_AZ]

You would be amazed at what you'd see nowadays off roading in Colorado, some high clearance roads on weekends are bumper to bumper, with a fair amount of unskilled drivers and I often marvel at some of the places people get to in marginally capable off road vehicles, and I've seen "blood" trails several times on roads where oil pan and sharp rock came together. Before I had the Ranger I did take the wife's Hyundai Sante fe up to North Fork reservoir , 10 miles of very rocky road with several really narrow bad spots, found myself traversing some bad spots and got high centered a few times and wedged up against a rock face and tore the front bumper off, just put in the back and reattached it when I got home. lesson learned.
I've not watched an entire TFL video in a number of years, don't think most of their tests are anything to be taken seriously but I will hand it to them they have eked out a living dorking around in the back country on mostly loaner vehicles.
Car and Driver at least explains their methodology for their tests and they use consistent methods accounting for stuff like atmospheric conditions.

I maybe watch 15-20% of their videos. Their towing tests are actually pretty interesting. They gave a pretty good idea as to what the tow vehicle can do pulling at close to max rating up and down a steep grade. What would be very interesting would be if they were to add a slalom course in too to see how well the tow vehicle handles the trailer in an abrupt lane change situation. The other thing I have watched is that they will put new vs older models. Now some of the old vehicles they did borrow.

Unless Roman and Andre are lying, they do own some of the test vehicles. They claim to own the Raptor, Tacoma and Colorado.

 

[dtech]

I maybe watch 15-20% of their videos. Their towing tests are actually pretty interesting. They gave a pretty good idea as to what the tow vehicle can do pulling at close to max rating up and down a steep grade. What would be very interesting would be if they were to add a slalom course in too to see how well the tow vehicle handles the trailer in an abrupt lane change situation. The other thing I have watched is that they will put new vs older models. Now some of the old vehicles they did borrow.

Unless Roman and Andre are lying, they do own some of the test vehicles. They claim to own the Raptor, Tacoma and Colorado.

Back in 2013 I watched a video where they tested a subaru outback or forester vs a Hyundai sante fe (I bought one) and gushed over the subaru, turns out they had to rent a Hyundai while Subie provided a loaner. Then some yrs back they screwed up a loaner subject by abusing it so subaru cut ties with them and some say they have dissed subaru ever since, some of tfl comparison tests are ridiculous, like most reviewers tfl are largely coined operated and as tjc suggested I wouldn't be surprised if they intentionally broke the new Taco to draw attention to themselves. As far as I know they never do instrumented tests, mostly use a phone or stopwatch or seat of the pants results. So I don't see much value in them but they do have a large following.

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