{"id":537091,"date":"2026-02-18T16:59:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T05:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dmarge.com\/?p=537091"},"modified":"2026-02-18T17:29:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T06:29:54","slug":"we-drove-a-six-metre-american-pickup-to-bathurst-but-is-australia-ready-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dmarge.com\/cars\/we-drove-a-six-metre-american-pickup-to-bathurst-but-is-australia-ready-for-it","title":{"rendered":"We Drove a Six-Metre American Pickup to Bathurst… But Is Australia Ready For It?"},"content":{"rendered":"

We were at the Bathurst 12 Hour for the Corvette. If you haven\u2019t seen the Z06 in the flesh, doing laps of Mount Panorama at pace, add it to the list. It\u2019s one of those things that recalibrates your sense of what a car actually is. But that\u2019s a story for another day<\/a>, because on the way there, something else entirely stole the show.<\/p>

The Chevrolet Silverado 2500 HD<\/a>. Six metres long, 6.6-litre Duramax turbo-diesel V8 under the bonnet, and 1,322 newton metres of torque on tap. That last number is worth sitting with for a second. Thirteen hundred newton metres. In a ute. The kind of torque figure you normally associate with mining equipment or something pulling a 747 across a tarmac for shits and giggles.<\/p>

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Photo: Romer Macapuno \/ DMARGE<\/figcaption><\/figure>

Here\u2019s the thing about the Silverado. It doesn\u2019t pretend to be something it\u2019s not. Every other dual-cab on the market is playing lifestyle. They want to be seen at the school pick-up, on the ski fields, maybe towing a jet ski once a year to justify the towball. <\/p>

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