Now that I have the Colorado in hand, I can report 2 days' ownership experience.
First point of note: that suspension... Ho-lee-wow! We have an issue with our well requiring us to drink bottled water until I get it fixed (super close, lots of code to write...), and I fill 1 gallon jugs at the grocery store twice a week as an excuse to get out of the house and run errands. In my Dakota, I fold up the rear bench seat bottom and put them in the rear foot wells; six to a side, down low so they stay put. They never stay put. Every time, I get to the store and I have to fish the empties from all over the place. When full, if I have a full compliment, it's no big deal, but any less than that and they'll slide around (twisty mountain roads). The Colorado's rear seat folding situation is less than ideal... The seat folds up, but there's a big bin/support thing there preventing the floor from being very usable. The seat back also folds down, and that's pretty flat, but really high. I ended up putting the jugs between the other 40 seat back and the c-pillar. That was good for five jugs, but the other five weren't really held in place by anything other than the friction of the carpeted seat back. Now, I'm still breaking the thing in, so I wasn't exactly flogging it, but I used to DD a '62 VW bus, and drive like I still do, so it's not like I ever flog anything that isn't really asking for it... When I got to the store, all of them were still in place... For some reason it didn't impress upon me at the time, but when I got home and was unloading, the full jugs were also all still in place despite nothing really holding them there. Wow! I noticed that it corners really flat, but this calls for some experimentation once things have broken in... So I guess that's two notes really... The rear seat system sorta sucks, but that suspension is living up to the hype.
Third point: Got my first QC issue on only day 2. When I took it home from the dealership, it was dark. I didn't really get a chance to look at it. The next morning, I took it down to the flats to have the snows mounted, and I noticed the DEF tank had leaked all over the fender from the fill neck. I cleaned it up, and figured they just spilled some when they topped it off at the dealership, and it took some time to dry up and crystalize. When I got to the grocery store this morning, I noticed the side of the bed was covered in DEF fluid crystals again! When I got home, I did a few minutes of internet sleuthing, called the dealer service department, and in short order discovered the existence of a TSB for the rubber grommet not being fully seated around the filler neck causing the cap to not fully seat. Pushed the grommet down, and done. I poured a gallon or two of warm water from the sink down the drain tube and wiped the fender down again just to make sure there are no corrosion problems later. .01 bananas. Not the greatest note in the world, but it beats having to POR15 the spots on the frame that rubbed through on the train ride from Dana to the Jeep assembly plant on a brand new Wrangler (my wife's new car repair) or cross threaded and not fully seated top bolts.
