- CHARTING THE CHANGES. CAR AND DRIVER. OCT/2019
New Cars for 20 20 Cadillac — Chevrolet
is still available, though. Both
engines are mated to a nine-
speed automatic. The Sport
trim offers quicker steering
and better damping control.
Cadillac’s best-seller sees
a few minor styling tweaks,
inside and out, and a more
capable infotainment system
with a revised interface.
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XT6: See review, page 48.
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Minor trim changes:
Escalade, XT4
Dead: XTS
Silverado HD: If you need
to move 35,500 pounds of
heaven and earth and buy
only Chevys, then the new
Silverado HD—specifically a
regular-cab Silverado 3500
with the optional 6.6-liter
diesel V-8 delivering 910
pound-feet to the dualie’s rear
axle—is your truck. Chevy’s
three-quarter-ton and one-ton
trucks get styling that parrots
the smaller 1500’s and haveChevrolet
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Blazer: A 230-hp turbo
2.0-liter inline-four slots in
between the base 193-hp
2.5-liter four and the optional
308-hp 3.6-liter V-6.
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Bolt EV: Chevy upped the
Bolt’s range from 238 miles
to 259 by tweaking the cell
chemistry in its battery pack;
capacity is now 66.0 kilowatt-
hours, up from 60.0.
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Camaro: After a controversial
refresh for 2019, Chevy revised
the SS’s front end for 2020.
It’s slightly less awful now. A
new bare-bones model, the
LT1, offers a more affordable
way to get the burly 6.2-liter
V-8 from the SS. And Chevy
quietly made the 10-speed
automatic available on the ZL1
with the track-focused 1LE
pack late in the 2019 model
year. Lap times should shrink
slightly. But don’t worry, the
1LE still offers a manual.
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Colorado: The six-speed
manual is gone, leaving the
Jeep Gladiator, the Nissan
Frontier, and the Toyota
Tacoma to carry the torch for
stick-shift pickups.
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Equinox: The 1.6-liter diesel
vanishes. An assortment of
active safety features becomes
standard but adaptive cruise
remains optional.
Chevrolet Corvette: Minor trim changes. That’s a joke. The eighth-gen (C8)
Corvette is all new and joins the elite company of the Ferrari Testa Rossa in
the rather exclusive club of former front-engined cars that have seen the light and
moved to mid. Ferrari took more than 20 years between redheads to make it happen
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Corvette name. Based on the spec sheet, the 6.2-liter V-8 might appear to be a carry-
over, but Chevy changed it enough to increase the output to 490 horsepower (or 495
with the optional performance exhaust). It also ditched the manual, replacing it with
a new eight-speed dual-clutch automatic featuring launch control. A sub-three-sec-
ond zero-to-60-mph time is promised. Two sets of golf clubs or the removable targa
_\\SdVYY¼aV[aUR_RN_PN_T\U\YQYRNcV[TaURZ\QR`aS_b[Xa\PN__ff\b_Rea_NONYY`plenty of optional tech to keep
you and your trailer out of
harm’s way, including a crafty
rearview monitor that stitches
camera views together to
make it seem as if you can see
through your trailer. Trippy.
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Sonic: If for economic or
personal reasons (or out of
loyalty to Sega) you choose to
drive a Sonic, you will now do
so without a clutch pedal.Trailblazer: Coming early
next year as a 2021 model, the
Trailblazer tugs at sentimental
heartstrings in name only. This
small, unibody, transverse-
engined ute slots between
the micro Trax and compact
Equinox. Odds are that
Chevrolet will sunset the
Trax next year to avoid too
much overlap. Details are still
under wraps, but we suspect
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