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These days, there aren’t many compact trucks for those with a lead foot. The Dodge Dakota is available with a Chevrolet Colorado V-8, but it’s a lot bigger than a true compact truck-it’s somewhere between a compact and a midsize.

There are some high-performance dealer-installed or specialty options (such as adding a supercharger), but for red-blooded American compact-truck performance, there’s really only one choice: the Chevrolet Colorado V-8.

While a basic Colorado comes with a choice of a 2.9L I-4 or 3.7L I-5, GM has made V-8 power available in its smallest pickup, providing a truly tantalizing weight-to-power ratio. It is the good of 2009 Chevrolet Colorado.

The other good of this truck is when I tested the truck, a two-wheel-drive crew cab, weighs 4073 lb as equipped and uses a 300-hp, 320-lb-ft version of the company’s 5.3L V-8 backed by a Hydra-Matic 4L60 four-speed auto (that same engine puts out 320 hp in the Tahoe).