[MUSIC PLAYING] CARLOS LAGO: It is a 2020 Chevy Silverado Path Boss. And it is a fairly rad truck. Now, the Silverado was redesigned and all new for 2019. However for 2020, there’s been a few updates and adjustments. On this video, we will discuss what these are, and what you need to know, and likewise assessment this particular truck. Now for the sake of coming clear, I personal a 1972 Chevy C10. That is the truck that led to this one about 48 years in the past.
If that pegs your private bias meter, you possibly can cope with that now. However for the remainder of you, like, remark, subscribe, and go to Edmunds.com to search out extra details about automobiles like this. Hello, there. Fashionable vans are actually large, actually tall. So Silverados for 2020 now have 6 out there engine decisions. You begin with the bottom V6. After which there’s, sure, a turbocharged 4-cylinder identical to you’d get in a compact economic system SUV. However it’s bought 310 horsepower, that 4-cylinder, which is greater than what my C10 made with its 350 V8 again in ’72, so do not snicker. Now, most Silverados will even have a 5.3 Liter V8. And that engine is available in a couple of totally different flavors. After which, for 2020, Chevy has additionally launched the three Liter Turbo Diesel Duramax. This, although, is the 6.2 Liter V8. It is the highest canine and doubtless probably the most fascinating engine out of all of the Silverados until you actually are within the diesels. So it is the highest canine, so we must always in all probability first discuss gasoline economic system. And on this configuration, with the crew cab, shortbread, you get about 17 mpg mixed.
And in case you line that up towards the choices from Ford and RAM V8 crew cab, quick mattress, similar configurations, four-wheel drive, the few economic system is about the identical. And that is type of stunning, as a result of Chevy’s touted this Silverado as a really fuel-efficient truck. It is bought cylinder deactivation. It is bought stop-start. In reality, there’s like 16 or 17 totally different patterns of cylinder deactivation that may occur inside these engines. All save gasoline. Why is not the gasoline economic system higher? Properly, it is as a result of this engine is highly effective, 420 horsepower and 460 or 480 pound ft of torque, someplace round there. And that is greater than what you get out of the comparable V8s within the Ford and the Ram. Ford has a extra highly effective Twin Turbo V6 within the Raptor, however that is a distinct truck. We’re speaking about V8s. And likewise there is a new F-150 about to be introduced.
We’re filming this earlier than that announcement comes out, so all this may increasingly change when that information comes out. Now, what you’ll want to bear in mind is that, with that energy turns into some further necessities. And the important thing factor is, it’s a must to run premium gasoline on this engine. The proprietor’s handbook truly recommends, for high efficiency, that you just run 93 octane. When you reside in a state, like me, the place you do not have entry to 93 octane– one of the best we get in California and another states round right here is 91– you are able to do that. Simply do not anticipate probably the most energy out of this engine. However it’ll be wonderful. Nonetheless price it. [MUSIC PLAYING] Full measurement vans are available a ton of various varieties and configurations. That is the LT Path Boss, proper, which is Chevy’s off street providing. It is shut by way of functionality add value to the Ram Insurgent and F-150 FX4 Relying on the way you configure it, it will be about $50,000. Now we have it right here because the Crew Cab Quick Mattress configuration.
Now, what makes it the offroad providing? Properly, you get a 2 inch elevate equipment. You get Rancho shocks. You get skid plates. You get hill descent management. You get a 2 velocity switch case. That is offers you low vary for crawling. And also you get an automated locking rear differential. Now, this truck is black on black as a result of it has the Midnight package deal. And that provides you black wheels and black paint and black badges, apart from the 6.2 liter badge on the hood, since you opted for the engine. And you continue to wish to present that off. Now, as this truck sits right here, the MSPR, together with vacation spot, is about $60,000. [MUSIC PLAYING] Earlier than we discuss wheels and tires, I wish to touch upon design. When the Silverado got here out in 2019, when this era of it did, we had been all type of stunned and confused by the design. I’ve bought to say, although, on this configuration, this black with the purple tow hooks, this has truly type of grown on me, the way in which it seems, with this elevate, too. Now, wheels and tires, while you get the Path Boss package deal, you get the Z71 package deal, as a result of Chevy choice codes are very complicated to grasp. This is what you’ll want to know.
You get 32 inch Goodyear Wrangler DuraTracs. They’re 275/65-18. That is an on-road off-road twin objective tire. And the tread blocks are literally fairly meaty. In order that’s a pleasant factor to see on an off-road meant truck. And likewise, if we had been to show the wheel and look behind right here, you’d truly see the Rancho shocks, which is fairly neat, as a result of they’re shiny purple and white and have the phrase Rancho on them. And while you pay for upgraded {hardware}, you need to have the ability to see it while you present it off to your folks. Get your cash’s price. Now, it is also cool to see, as a result of that 2 inch elevate is what offers this truck actually beneficiant strategy and departure angles. Now, what’s an strategy and departure angle? Properly, think about it like this, in case you’re approaching a hill that is at a selected incline, the extra aggressive the incline, the extra aggressive the angle of that hill, that signifies that chances are high, you are going to contact the hill together with your bumper earlier than you contact it together with your tire, until you’ve a extremely excessive strategy angle. And which means this bumper goes to get out of the way in which and let the tire climb up. I imply, give it some thought like a line like that.
The departure angle is similar for the rear. Now, within the case of this Path Boss, these figures are literally higher than what you get on the F-150 and the Ram. The departure angle is definitely the identical on the Ram. However it’s nonetheless aggressive. And that is spectacular, as a result of the Ram Insurgent has an air suspension that may elevate and decrease. And this does not, in order that elevate will get a whole lot of that work accomplished mechanically with out the necessity for an air suspension. That is a extremely cool factor to have from the manufacturing facility in your truck. The Silverado, identical to the F-150 and the Ram, is available in three mattress sizes. And that is the smallest one at 5 foot 8 inches. Of the small mattress choices of all the main pickup vans, that is truly the largest by advantage of it being longer and taller than what you get with the small beds on Ram and F-150. Now, that has professionals and cons.
Professionals, you possibly can match extra stuff. The con is that when the mattress will get even taller with the two inch elevate, it will get more durable to throw stuff in. I am 5 foot 10. The mattress is mainly as much as my shoulder. When you’re shorter than me, that might be an issue. I do like, although, on the again of the Silverado, the tailgate. It isn’t fancy folding or something like that, however it’s energy launch. And you are able to do that with the important thing fob and contained in the cab, too. That is very nice and managed. We will additionally take a minute to admire the cup holders, proper right here, very good. But in addition, that is actually gentle. That makes it very easy to elevate up and put again. Now, as we get again right here, we will additionally speak towing and payload. Chevy touts a max tow ranking of the Silverado for about 13,400 kilos and a max payload of two,250 kilos.
The explanation you should not care an excessive amount of about these numbers is as a result of getting them requires getting a selected cab, mattress, engine, choice package deal, all that stuff. Most vans will not even have these figures. Most Silverados do not. This explicit truck, on this configuration, has the max trailer tow package deal. And that is what offers you the trailer hitch and the connectors, proper right here, which is good and cleanly built-in. And as this truck is provided, the max tow ranking is 9,300 kilos and the max payload is about 1,500 kilos.
The very first thing I observed once I hopped on this truck was the column shifter. That is nice. I like it. It is how all automatics ought to be. The factor you may in all probability discover while you hop on this truck is that this middle display. It seems type of small, would not it? Particularly while you evaluate it to what you get within the Ram, the non-obligatory 12 inch display, which is like– takes up that a lot area in that truck middle stack. This display simply seems small. It is truly 8 inches, which should not be too dangerous. However I believe it is simply the way in which it is positioned on the sprint, which makes it look the way in which it does. The software program behind it really works pretty nicely. I had no bother with it throughout my drive. And it additionally helps Android Auto and Apple CarPlay, which I am plugged into too. And that works flawlessly while you get all of it plugged in and arrange, able to go. And by way of energy ports, you’ve got bought two USB right here, USB-C, conventional USB or the older USB proper subsequent to that, 12 volt, 110 volt, after which, within the storage bin right here, you’ve two extra USB ports and AUX port as nicely, good array of issues to plug into. And very similar to the display being not probably the most aesthetically pleasing however useful, the inside is just about the identical manner relative to the Ram.
It is a extremely useful inside. The whole lot is laid out by way of the way in which you’d anticipate, it simply would not have that sense of refinement or polish that you just get within the larger finish variations of the Rams, the Rams that price about this sort of cash. Storage is completely ample. You get double glove packing containers. You’ve gotten an enormous middle bin right here. However once more, versus the Ram, the middle console within the Ram is a bit bit higher thought out, as a result of it is bought trays that slide up and down and forwards and backwards. This simply has a deep bin and type of a shallow bin. And this storage on your telephone, proper right here, that is not going to comprise Arnie. He’ll fall over as quickly as I speed up. Let’s discuss a couple of issues I like in regards to the Silverado although. And that is while you get heated seats, you possibly can decide to seat again and seat backside or simply seat again. That is good. Get a heated steering wheel, too. And I additionally like the extra controls you get on the again of the steering wheel, quantity up and down on this facet and, I believe observe ahead and again on the opposite facet. That is additionally a factor that, I believe, Ram did first. However, hey, if it really works, why not do it on this truck too. As we get into the backseat, you see there is a ton of area again right here. It is actually, actually spacious on this again seat. For the three adults that you may match throughout the again, what are they going to face by way of consolation and usefulness? Properly, you bought two extra USB ports right here, once more, a USB-C and an older sort proper subsequent to it, 12 volt energy outlet proper there, two cup holders with a bit hole right here for stuff, after which, within the middle, you’ve got bought this flip down armrest that has two cup holders and, it seems like, one other telephone holder. Let’s do one other Arnie containment check. Arnie has been contained.
Now, what I like in regards to the storage on this truck is that the seat bottoms on either side flip up actually simply. That is fairly good. They usually drop down simply while you pull it. Makes that storage very easy to entry. Although there isn’t any beneath ground storage, what you do have on each outboard seat backs is a bit container proper there that is positively not for contraband. Keep protected, youngsters. Now, these seats do not recline, however there’s sufficient area the place any common sized grownup goes to be lots snug again right here. [MUSIC PLAYING] This isn’t a severe off-road check. What we’re doing is for example the consequences that you just get in a Path Boss. I’m in low vary. I’m in first gear. I’ve bought stability management off. So we discovered that the breakover angle is compromised by the operating boards. If you need a bit bit more room to navigate over obstacles, do not get operating boards, or pull them off. That is going to present you a bit more room.
And over these bumps, proper now, what I wish to display is how the rear differential truck works. A rear differential locks the 2 wheels collectively, so that they spin on the similar charge. And quite a bit of-off street vans, that’s activated manually. You press a button to show it on. Within the Chevy truck– and it has been like this for an extended time– this rear differential robotically locks. You need not hit a button or something. As quickly because it senses slip in a single wheel, it begins partaking clutch packs to verify the 2 wheels flip on the similar velocity. And that is could be good and dangerous, relying in your choice. On one hand, it takes your enter out of it. It simply does it robotically. And on the dangerous facet, it takes your enter out of it and does it robotically, whether or not you prefer it or not. It is type of as much as you. [MUSIC PLAYING] Now, as we get to the driving part of this assessment, I’ll come to a whole cease, as a result of there’s one factor that is bought to be crucial with this 6.2 Liter V8 on this truck. And that’s acceleration. Full cease. I’ll stomp it. Let’s have a look at the way it feels. [ENGINE REVVING] That feels good.
That sounds good, too, because it ought to, as a result of while you pay for the engine improve, you ought to be rewarded with the engine improve each time you stomp on the gasoline. And I am going to say, at idle, this engine’s truly pretty quiet, disappointingly so, perhaps a bit bit. However while you step on the gasoline to make a go, while you step on the gasoline on an on ramp or simply at a purple gentle, you get rewarded with that sound. And that is very pleasant. Now, in the case of different features of drivability on this truck, actually, the one factor you’ve got bought to concentrate on is the street noise that you just get from these tires. Once you go in direction of a extra aggressive offroad tire– not that that is the world’s most aggressive offroad tire, however one which has some off-road purpose– you get a bit little bit of tire noise. And that is simply the secret. You possibly can type of hear it. I do not know in case you can proper now by means of this microphone, but it surely’s extra pronounced than you’d get by means of a standard road tire. However that is simply what occurs. Now, drivability, trip consolation, dealing with response are all pretty well-controlled for this sort of truck. Now, the Ram has a smoother trip, as a result of it has a rear coil spring suspension. These are on leaf springs for a standard truck arrange, but it surely’s removed from uncomfortable. It looks like what you’d anticipate from a truck.
Whereas, the Ram, it feels extra such as you would anticipate from a car– an SUV. I do not know. One thing like that. This feels fairly good, although, for a truck. Visibility can be pretty sturdy despite the fact that the sprint is tall– the sprint is kind of tall. And I’ve the seat as little as it will get. And I might nonetheless have a reasonably clear view by means of all of the angles that I wish to look. That being stated, that is nonetheless a snug and easy driver. We have not talked quite a bit in regards to the 10-speed automated, as a result of more often than not, you do not even discover that it is there. And that is precisely what a superb transmission ought to do. 10 speeds feels like a whole lot of gears, as a result of it’s. The transmission in my C10 is a 4-speed, of which I take advantage of in all probability two gears, three gears perhaps, as a result of first is the granny gear, actually quick gear. 10-speed is quite a bit to soak up. And that does not offer you an unimaginable ratio vary. What it offers you might be actually tightly spaced gear ratios. Downshifting from tenth to ninth gear is so slight, it is virtually imperceptible. What’s good, although, is while you’re driving casually round city, the shifting is not one thing you discover. I do not know what gear I am in proper now, once I’m in drive. If I roll within the gasoline, there is a downshift. However I do not know what downshift it was to. That is good for driving round city. That is good for freeway use, as a result of why do you wish to listen while you’re simply commuting, while you’re simply driving for pleasure or out of necessity.
Now, while you put it in handbook mode or low mode, you possibly can row by means of the gears identical to you’d anticipate utilizing the column. However why try this while you’re simply cruising? Like another trendy vans, the 4-wheel drive selector in that is attention-grabbing. If you have not been in one in all these vans lately, let’s give a short explainer. The truck keys up into 4-wheel drive auto. It would not preserve into 2 excessive. What’s 4-wheel drive auto? Properly, it is mainly all wheel drive. This truck basically has a middle differential that may management torque break up in order that it would not begin like jerking round when you’ve it in 4-wheel drive. Once you put it in, you continue to have entry to 2 excessive, 4 excessive, 4 low. Once you put it into these modes, it mainly locks that middle differential up and acts like a standard 4-wheel drive system. And it tends to provide the better of each worlds. New, for this 12 months, on the Silverado is adaptive cruise management. However this particular truck would not have it, so cannot actually touch upon that. Robust, however oh, nicely. General, the drivability on this truck may be very sturdy. The consolation is pretty stable. And I might completely, every day drive this factor, no downside. Simply want it had a extra refined exterior digital camera system for parking.
That’d be good in Los Angeles. Most likely no one thing that folks dwelling in Idaho or Texas have to care about, however, hey, it’s what it’s. Now, we at present have the Silverado ranked behind the Ram in our full measurement truck rankings. And that is as a result of, for a similar cash, the Ram has, in our minds, a greater wanting and extra useful inside, additionally a greater trip, because of its rear coil spring suspension. Now, within the Silverado’s nook, it has a 6.2 Liter V8 and 10-speed automated transmission that merely kicks butt. I would like that. I would like this mixture within the Ram. And although this inside is not as engaging, and barely much less useful, it is not dangerous. It will get the job accomplished. So the query is, in case you’re one in all these vans, what’s vital to you? When you do not care about inside richness, and you do not want that further diploma of inside performance, this truck will definitely get the job accomplished. And while you discover the place to make use of it you get to take heed to that V8, which I’ll do shortly. [ENGINE REVVING] That is an actual good sound.