The 2022 Chevy Colorado is perhaps the most customizable midsize truck, available as everything from a bare-bones workhorse with a torque-heavy diesel engine to an off-roader with luxury touches and a 308-horsepower V6. But it’s been around since 2014, and truck design has come a long way in those few years. Where its crossover-like ride quality once led the segment, today, it’s just okay.
But Chevy has a new Colorado waiting in the wings.
Obscured by Sand
The bowtie brand showed off the next truck named after The Highest State in a brief video posted to Instagram yesterday. The clip shows the off-road-ready ZR2 edition romping around the desert, kicking up a lot of dust and keeping anyone from getting a good look at the truck.
Closeups show us it will get a new front fascia, with a square grille flanked by narrow LED headlights much smaller than the set on today’s Colorado. The ZR2 wears a “safari bar” to protect the front end from brush, but a warning flashed on the screen notes that it could block the front camera view and inhibit the functioning of the “HD Surround Vision system.”
So apparently, there’s a new 360-degree camera setup called the HD Surround Vision system.
Glimpses of the rear show a large roll bar with an LED lighting strip and black plastic fender flares. A quick glance at the interior shows…nothing discernable. The steering wheel has a Chevy logo on it. The driver wears a wedding ring. That’s about all we can get from it.
The teaser leaves more questions than answers. But it ends with a promise to unveil the truck on July 28, so we’ll have answers to your questions soon.
A Class Full of New Trucks
It enters a renewed midsize truck field. A new Colorado also likely means a new GMC Canyon. Nissan introduced a brand new Frontier for 2022. Ford has an all-new Ranger in the works, complete with the first Ranger Raptor off-road model. So we expect our list of the Best Midsize Trucks to reshuffle significantly in the coming months.
