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2010 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 Hybrid - Review

 

Sometimes you need a pickup truck—and nothing else will do. Full-size pickup trucks make up roughly one in every five vehicles sold in the U.S. market, though they’re a vehicle type largely restricted to North America, where gasoline is cheap. The rest of the world is more likely to use what we’d consider midsize or even compact pickups.

They’re also gas hogs. For 2010, only a couple of the full-size pickups from GM (Chevrolet or GMC), Ford, Ram (nee Dodge), Toyota, and Nissan are offered with anything smaller than a V-8 engine. Their bluff profiles, frequent heavy loads, and prodigious torque mean that 15 miles per gallon is about average for pickup-truck fuel economy.

So when we needed to haul several hundred pounds of cabinets and pick up some 12-foot lumber one recent weekend, we decided we’d test the green alternative to a thirsty conventional pickup: the 2010 Chevrolet Silverado Hybrid.

Sales of the Silverado Hybrid (and its near-identical twin,...

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Specs: Select a Trim

2WD (2) MSRP Invoice MPG City MPG Hwy
2WD Crew Cab 143.5" 1HY Specs $38,340 $36,231 21 22
2WD Crew Cab 143.5" 2HY Specs $44,670 $42,213 21 22
4WD (2) MSRP Invoice MPG City MPG Hwy
4WD Crew Cab 143.5" 1HY Specs $41,490 $39,208 21 22
4WD Crew Cab 143.5" 2HY Specs $47,820 $45,189 21 22

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