The U.S. Army's Chevy Colorado ZH2 Looks Ready For World War IV

We knew Chevrolet was turning the Colorado pickup truck into some kind of military test bed, but I was not expecting the thing to look straight out of Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare. Forget a Raptor rival, GM has gone totally Hollywood and I kind of love it.

Let’s get this out of the way first– the Colorado ZH₂ is technically “real” (though these media shots look a lot like illustrations) but you will not be running in fear while these things roam the streets any time soon.
Don’t let it be your excuse for enlisting either: I wouldn’t count on satellite radio or Recaro seats making it onto the battlefield.

The ZH₂ was born out of the U.S. Army’s desire to test the viability of hydrogen as a fuel for ground vehicles. But I can assure you it only got that Hollywood body kit out of Chevrolet’s desire to have some cool pictures for a press release.

Not that I’m complaining, I’ll never knock an opportunity for a car designer to get let off the leash a little.
But at least it sounds like the ZH₂ will get a little further off the car show carpet than the last ZR2 concept did; the Army actually is taking this thing out to their enormous sand boxes to see how hydrogen holds up in the kinds of hell that soldiers call their office over the next year.

GM reports that they worked directly with the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center to take the Colorado ZH₂ “from contract to concept in less than a year.”

You probably recognize the crew cab from the civilian Colorado as introduced in 2015, but the chassis has been stretched and body ended up at over 6.5 feet tall and 7 feet wide.