For a brief period in the 2000s, Chevy offered its midsize Colorado with a V8 engine. It's quite a street truck.

Chevy’s current Colorado is one of the better midsize pickups out there, offering everything you need but missing the one ...

It happened to the Chevy Colorado and GMC Canyon: For a few years, GM dropped a small-block V8 in its compact pickup, giving fans a sporty little hot-rod truck. Then GM snatched it away.

Had it launched, the V8-powered Colorado would have cost about 80,000 Australian dollars, which represents approximately $57,400 U.S. at the current conversion rate. Head over to Drive for photos ...

General Motors doesn’t currently offer a rival to the Ford Ranger Raptor but had things gone a little differently for Holden, a Camaro-powered Colorado would have hit the market. Holden Special ...

Drive (unaffiliated) reports the V8 Colorado entered development in 2017, around the time Holden was producing its last cars domestically. Holden Special Vehicles (or HSV) was tasked with coming ...

That's when the Colorado entered the equation. HSV already offered several upgrade packages for the truck so giving it more power was the next logical step. Rather than tune the 2.8-liter turbodiesel ...

A top-secret HSV Colorado V8 – designed to topple the Ford Ranger Raptor – was just months away from showrooms before Holden was axed in Australia. Here is the behind-the-scenes story on the ...

Little did we know HSV was actually going down a similar path at the time with a Holden Colorado-based SportsCat V8. In fact, it was mere months away from being released. Yep, HSV parent company ...