Holden's next Colorado revealed

Neil Dowling

Contributing Journalist

1 min read

Since Ford Australia stamped the word Australia on the next Ranger and sent it out into the unforgiving commercial world.

Now it's Holden's turn. The wraps have just come off on the new Chevrolet - read Holden - Colorado that boldly announces the end of GM's handshake with Isuzu.

The Colorado ute goes on sale in its domestic market of Thailand later this year and early in 2012 for Australia.

GM unveiled the new ute yesterday at a function that preceded the Bangkok International Motor Show.

The show ute has a 2.8-litre turbo-diesel engine, 20-inch wheels and a hardtop tonneau - most of which are unlikely for the ute's prime market.

The new Colorado will be built for Australia in Thailand but has been designed and engineered from GM's offices in Brazil.

Meanwhile, Isuzu is rumoured to be preparing its all-new ute for an early 2012 launch to replace the current D-Max.

Ford is preparing its rival, the stylish Ranger, for sale in Australia in the second half of this year.

Neil Dowling

Contributing Journalist

GoAutoMedia Cars have been the corner stone to Neil’s passion, beginning at pre-school age, through school but then pushed sideways while he studied accounting. It was rekindled when he started contributing to magazines including Bushdriver and then when he started a motoring section in Perth’s The Western Mail. He was then appointed as a finance writer for the evening Daily News, supplemented by writing its motoring column. He moved to The Sunday Times as finance editor and after a nine-year term, finally drove back into motoring when in 1998 he was asked to rebrand and restyle the newspaper’s motoring section, expanding it over 12 years from a two-page section to a 36-page lift-out. In 2010 he was selected to join News Ltd’s national motoring group Carsguide and covered national and international events, launches, news conferences and Car of the Year awards until November 2014 when he moved into freelancing, working for GoAuto, The West Australian, Western 4WDriver magazine, Bauer Media and as an online content writer for one of Australia’s biggest car groups. He has involved himself in all aspects including motorsport where he has competed in everything from motocross to motorkhanas and rallies including Targa West and the ARC Forest Rally. He loves all facets of the car industry, from design, manufacture, testing, marketing and even business structures and believes cars are one of the few high-volume consumables to combine a very high degree of engineering enlivened with an even higher degree of emotion from its consumers.
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