The Holden Colorado we could have had: 2025 Chevrolet S10 is the updated ute we could have had to rival the Ford Ranger and Toyota HiLux

The Brazilian-built cousin to the Holden Colorado, the Chevrolet S10, has been updated for its home market, giving us a look at what the ute could have looked like if it was still sold in Australia.

Aside from the exterior, which takes on some new Chevrolet design language features, like a black trim ‘bar’ across the grille to house the bowtie logo, the S10 also scores a heavily updated interior.

Compared to the relatively sparse interior the Colorado made do with, an 11.0-inch screen for multimedia and an 8.0-inch driver display are joined by wireless phone charging, USB-A and USB-C ports, plus a series of safety features like rear-cross traffic alert, auto high-beam, and blind-spot monitoring.

The S10 gets mechanical changes under the bonnet, with its 2.8-litre Duramax turbo-diesel four-cylinder engine powered up to make 154kW. Chevrolet Brazil claims it’ll hit 100km/h in ‘just’ 9.4 seconds, a second less than before.

Efficiency is up on what the Brazilian model used to achieve, too, with the brand claiming 8.8 litres per 100 kilometres of highway fuel use and 10.5L/100km in town. Here in Australia the official fuel consumption figure was 8.6L/100km for the last Colorado.

More refinement comes in the form of tweaked suspension and shock absorbers, steering, and a new series of acoustic panels to reduce noise.

Chevrolet Brazil will even throw in some hunting accessories for the first buyers of the updated S10.

The S10’s update is a glimpse at the ute Holden would likely be offering today if it had remained in operation - it based some of the facelift for the second-gen Colorado on the North American S10.

The two models weren’t identical - the S10 is slightly larger, and the Australian Colorado was built in GM’s now-defunct Thailand plant.

Several years ago, the Holden Colorado was tussling for a place on the ute sales podium, having sold 21,579 units in 2017, but was all done by the end of 2020 with the final 7559 units selling - 27 examples of those in December that year.