It's a 300-hp, 6.6-liter V-8 diesel with 520 pound-feet of torque - that's 63 more than a Lamborghini Diablo twists out - and it rumbles like a polite Corvette. Before you turn the page, be advised that this is a turbocharged, four-valve-per-cylinder, fractured-con-rod, nitrided-crank oil-burner that you could drive for a week and think was a big-block gas motor.
The big GM news is its new engines, especially the diesel. Think of it as a bargain for a very powerful, big-V-8, luxurious four-door vehicle with capabilities no car could ever match. GM's new HD line runs from $22,159 for a base Chevy Silverado rear-drive, two-door, short-bed 2500HD to $37,254 for a Chevy Silverado 3500 crew-cab four-wheel-drive with LT trim. (Dodge's V-10 and Cummins-diesel-engined Rams are also players, but in third place.)Īlthough pickups are enormously profitable for their manufacturers - largely because of economy-of-scale savings in their manufacture, since so many are sold - they can also be thought of as superb values. No, what the bad boys need is one of the General's new three-quarter and one-ton heavy-duty dudes, totally redesigned and reengined for 2001 in hopes of taking the working-class market away from Ford. Nor would they use one of the ordinary half-ton pickups with car engines, favored by newbies who figure they'll give this truck deal a shot. Certainly not one of the toy mini-trucks driven by contractors who haven't bought all their tools yet. To do it in style, they need to hook them not to just a pickup but a PICKUP. All of their toys travel in full, arrogant view. Horses, Harleys, Airstreams, super-modifieds, powerboats big enough to flatten the perfect storm. Not dragsters but draggers, guys who quantify their cojones by the size of whatever they're hauling behind them. A substantial slice of American male-dom is made up of draggers.
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