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Originally Posted by Zeus
Yea I know, but pretend that I am trying to make a point and lets talk specifics.
What can you do in a Silverado that you can't do in a Tacoma. Specifically. Don't say 'haul more' because I know you can haul more, but if the Tacoma can haul the weight of a boat, then the silverado being able to haul more means jack $hit.
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I can't talk Tacoma because I don't know their specs off the top of my head so I'll talk Colorado instead.
Take my travel trailer as an example. The smallest lightest one I've found, that wasn't a popup, was around 2900lbs dry weight. Towing capacity on my '06 Colorado tops out at about 4000lbs. That doesn't leave a whole lot of extra capacity for all the other stuff that goes in beyond dry weight.
On top of that, based on my prior towing experience ( I towed a load that topped out around 3800lbs once) the Colorado is inadeqate in the power and braking department (even with trailer brakes) for loads that size, even on flat terrain, and gas mileage drops to around 12 mpg..
As a comparison, I've towed north of 5000 lbs with my dads '06 Sierra and had a lot easier time of it. Additionally he tows loads like that pretty regularly and doesn't see nearly as much MPG dropoff as I did towing 3800 lbs. IIRC he said his fuel economy only drops down to about 15mpg at that load.
A diesel could probably overcome a lot of that, but to be really worthwhile I think you'd have to beef up the tranny, suspension and brakes to really get a package that would work.