While many C/D staffers were slurping up snails and cold soup at the Paris auto show, I was in the Lone Star State scarfing down barbecue with fried Jell-O chasers and driving heavy-duty pickups, on the occasion of the Texas State Fair. It?s truck country?approximately one out of every six full-size pickups currently sold in the U.S. calls Texas home. And it was our first opportunity for a stint?albeit a short one?behind the wheel of the 2017 Chevrolet Silverado heavy-duty pickup equipped with a significantly revised and more powerful Duramax 6.6-liter turbocharged diesel V-8.  READ MORE ??
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