:lmao::lmao::lmao::lmao:
C&D must be surviving on the
filthy lucre from the Negative Advertorial Campaign for Silverado 2.7T.......
Going all in..... also has the worst performance numbers as well, including below some of GM's verbiage on it - which is always solidly ultra conservative.
Strange how they
still keep leaving any and all mention of all their other PU MPG fail ( excluding the 2019 Silverado DFM 5.3 8AT ) and perhaps most notably, their 2018 F 150 2.7T EB 10AT 4 x 2 MPG fail.
(Although given how they are rolling with this..... you can expect that to be the finishing piece and thereby the finishing touch - watch and see...
Maybe they flogged the hell out of the motor when it was green and cold x2 ?????
Anyway....
There was this one - the best one from back in November -
“We’re not trying to convert V-8 customers,” Luchansky says.
“We’re trying for converts that are coming out of either cars or sedans or another application that has a 2.0-liter turbo. If you have a turbo engine, you’re going to want another turbo engine.”
That’s a shame, because the only thing stopping this 2.7 from supplanting the 5.3 entirely is the rusty old falsehood that V-8s are for trucks and four cylinders are for cars. That mountain of instantly available torque means that there’s power everywhere. We’ve grown accustomed to responsive turbocharged engines,
but this is something new, the instant rush of a small-displacement diesel in a gasoline powerplant.
Coupled with the eight-speed automatic, the Silverado turbo is properly quick, getting to 60 mph in
6.8 seconds. That’s partly thanks to the fact that the new Silverado is much lighter than the outgoing model. Compared to a similarly equipped truck with the old 4.3-liter V-8, the 2019 pickup weighs 380 pounds less. The smaller engine makes up 80 of those.
We spent a morning
chasing the hills around Phoenix in a four-wheel drive, double-cab Silverado LT that rang in at $44,900.
Climbing the 3,500 feet of elevation from Scottsdale to the Tonto National Forest, the 2.7 simply dug in, parked itself at 2,000 rpm and tractored up the grades with zero drama. As we’ve come to expect from GM’s cylinder deactivation, the system is seamless, all but imperceptible. From behind the wheel, there is no way we would have guessed that the engine under the hood was a four-cylinder, a shock given that for all its weight savings, the truck still weighs in at
4,693 pounds, unladen.
And as surprising as that is for a small-displacement engine in a massive pickup,
we were more impressed with the way the Silverado drives. This is effectively a front mid-engine vehicle, with the engine’s crank pulley sitting on the front axle line. It’s no sports car, but it drives far better than a four-wheel drive pickup has any right to. Everything—steering, cornering, and braking—is a mile ahead of the old machine.
Nor does the four-cylinder require any great sacrifice in capability. GM hasn’t released official payload or towing capacities, but the company estimates the 2.7-liter-equipped Silverado will be able to pull between 6,700 and 7,000 pounds. Likewise, GM hasn’t released official EPA fuel economy estimates.
We saw between 20 and 26.5 mpg indicated in mixed driving during our time behind the wheel. It’s internally estimating 20/23 mpg city/highway.
It’s a rare thing for a vehicle
to so thoroughly exceed our expectations, but that’s what the 2019 Silverado and its new 2.7-liter engine has managed to do.
It’s more truck than most half-ton pickup buyers will ever need or use: efficient, powerful, and quiet, all from a turbocharged four-cylinder.
https://www.automobilemag.com/news/2019-chevrolet-silverado-four-cylinder-review-first-drive/
One can usefully recommend the entire ( much larger ) article -
Oh and yeah............
Lil' birdy sez.... the Diesel is in fact going to be "Awesome".
(Also more than a few
here and there ...... suggest this is the best tuned GM 8AT to date, and fully competent as well - finally.
