General Motors’ VIN decoder document spilled a lot of news last week. The latest news follows the current-generation 2018 Chevrolet Silverado and the all-new 2019 Chevrolet Silverado. Both trucks will live on alongside one another.
The VIN documents, first reported by The Truth About Cars last Friday, said Chevy will rebrand the current Silverado as the “Silverado Legacy.” The “old” truck will be built in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, while the new truck remains assembled at the Flint, Michigan, and Fort Wayne, Indiana, plants. Additionally, the 2019 GMC Sierra will also see the current-generation pickup continue on. GMC will name its old pickup the Sierra Limited.
While we don’t know what will power the 2019 Silverado just yet, the familiar engines found in the current truck will be a part of the Silverado Legacy’s… well, legacy. The 4.3-liter V6, two 6.0-liter V8s (gasoline- and CNG-powered) and the 6.6-liter Duramax diesel V8 will all stick around.
The trucks will no doubt be popular with fleet operators as a lower-priced option over the brand-new pickup. GM has employed a similar strategy in the past with the GMC Acadia and Chevrolet Impala, notably.
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Thank God!! I love the new look, but I prefer the old 2500 better. I’m hoping they stick around to at least 2020.
The big question is what will the base MSRPs, MPGs and to a lesser degree the max payloads are between “old” and “new”…
If the strategy has worked in GM’s favor in the past. There’s no reason for it not to work in the larger truck market. Obviously FCA thinks this strategy will work in it’s favor against GM, so then it should work in GM’s favor against FOMOCO. If so, it would negate FCA’s attempt at overtaking GM and give both the opportunity to take sales away from the F-series truck.
My guess? Is that FOMOCO is unable to do this with what was a very expensive change over to the all aluminum truck construction. That would be an unexpected ricochet from that decision. For however long this strategy lasts.
this gives GM time to work out any bugs in the 2019 trucks before millions get on the road
This is a great idea then GM can sell a ton of these trucks to fleet and rental companies and keep the factories humming along!
Here we go again! This has shades of 1999-2000 & 2007 written all over it when both body style trucks were being produced. This can be confusing to us GM parts people.
To sell to the buyers that really don’t like the looks of the 2019’s.