Confirmed: The Holden Rodeo Is Dead! Chevrolet Colorado To The Rescue

[Robert Ryan]

The old Rodeo was unsafe, so they replaced it with the (terrible) Colorado. Which happens to be on the same platform, so it probably means that the front end on the Colly is stronger. Saftey > "Styling" (both of them are ugly IMO)

The US Colorado would have the same crashworthiness as the Rodeo, they are built on the same platform. Front ends have nothing to do with it.

he old Rodeo was unsafe, so they replaced it with the (terrible) Colorado.

No that is not the reason the name was changed, it is because of a dispute with Isuzu

[RedVee8]

Well that sucks, naming a pickup after a brand of shoes..........

Anyway it sucks all over.
One, It seems Isuzu are not going to use the name Rodeo in Australia anyway. Prefering D-Max.
Two, I prefer the Rodeo look over the facelifted Colorado.
Three, Colorado? may as well call it the Utah .

Grampian MonaroSS? that'd be the Olds version.
"Not the truck your Grampian drove...."

BTW when the GM/Isuzu split happened I read an article that quoted a GM-H exec saying that in the agreement a clause was included that Holden now controls the Thai factory and therefore the Rodeo. What happened to that??

[isolbar]

My understanding of the Rodeo architecture is that Holden owns it. So Holden can continue selling the Rodeo but under a different name.

[otaku_ex]

Hi there! I have a Chevrolet D-max, but everything on it is isuzu. I want to know if the rear diferential is the same in colorado and D-max, I'm looking for the eaton differential.

[benroethig]

The D-Max and the Thai Colorado/Holden Rodeo are more or less the same exact truck.

[benroethig]

Originally Posted by isolbar

My understanding of the Rodeo architecture is that Holden owns it. So Holden can continue selling the Rodeo but under a different name.

The Rodeo is based on GMT355 which is a joint GM/Izuzu platform designed to replace both the GMT325 platform (S10/Sonoma) and the Izuzu TF platform which the previous generations of the Rodeo were on. In fact, the Rodeo name, which is a trade mark of Izuzu was made by them. Recently they had a falling out with Izuzu. While each gets to keep use the jointly held plants and IP, GM can no longer use the Rodeo name