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I just hope your friends do you a solid and fill it up before they return it.

With an EPA-rated 14/18/15 city/highway/combined, it’s not the worst fuel economy I’ve had this year, but if you spend a lot of time in stop-and-go traffic you’ll spend a lot of time at the gas station. You do suffer a bit on fuel economy… a 6.2-liter V8 will do that, no matter how much cylinder-deactivation wizardry GM stuffs under the hood. Hauling things is why you buy a truck, after all - the other luxury stuff is just fluff - and the Custom Trail Boss does it with aplomb, with great looks and a great price. Most importantly, it has a bed in which to put things and a spacious rear seating area which can store more things if you fold the seats up. Place to insert a key and turn it to make the engine go cupholders air conditioning two glove boxes. Inside, it’s spartan compared to some of the $80,000 luxotrucks I’ve driven, but it has everything you actually need in day-to-day life: cruise control The Chevrolet Silverado’s all-new 3.0L Duramax inline-six turbo-diesel engine offers segment-leading torque and horsepower, in addition to a focus on fuel economy and capability. The chrome exhaust tips fitted to the black plastic bumper just worked, somehow.Ĭlimbing inside wasn’t the easiest thing to do, so side-steps would be nice, but you don’t really need them if you’re young and athletic (or middle-aged and able to use the well-placed A-pillar grab handles). The lift combined with the blacked out grille and black wheels is deeply attractive, and my Red Hot paint job meant it was easy to find in a crowded parking lot. This truck actually looks awesome, and I got numerous compliments on it during my week driving around SoCal. There’s an awesome two-inch lift kit and gorgeous 18-inch high-gloss black aluminum wheels, along with skid plates, an auto-locking rear-differential, and off-road ready tires. It’s where a lot of your money is going, at the expense of fancy luxury stuff that you don’t really need. You get lots of other cool stuff for your $44,510 though, including great truck-stuff like a five-foot bed, a cloth 40/20/40 folding bench seat up front, a rear cloth 60/40 folding bench seat in back, a 7-inch touchscreen that includes Bluetooth and Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, a (single) USB port, and red front recovery hooks which Look Good.Īctually, a lot of this truck is about Looking Good.

I have no idea what you get for air conditioning if you don’t spend the $100. It had only four options fitted: a $2,495 upcharge for the 6.2-liter “Ecotec3” V8 engine with 10-speed transmission (up from a puny 4.3-liter V6 with a 6-speed), a $545 spray-in bedliner, a $275 infotainment package (SiriusXM radio, OnStar, and 4G LTE Wi-Fi), and $100 for single-zone semi-automatic air conditioning. My test unit weighed in at a (relatively) svelte $44,510 which, believe it or not, is what passes for affordable in today’s half-ton truck segment. The 2020 Chevy Silverado 1500 comes in a mind-bending eight different trim levels, but it may be that the Custom Trail Boss is the best of the bunch. Maybe I should buy a 2020 Chevy Silverado 1500 Custom Trail Boss because it’s reasonably priced and includes all the stuff you need on a truck without all the stuff that makes a modern pickup truck wildly overpriced. That’s understandable, I guess, but now I don’t have a truck I can borrow whenever I need one. My friend Bryan used to be my Friend-With-A-Truck but then he moved across the country because he wanted to live in the mountains of Colorado. This is, in some ways, far preferable because then you get a built-in helper with whatever it is you need doing - and having a helper is super useful for all truck-related tasks. If you don’t own a truck, it is essential to have a Friend-With-A-Truck.
