The year 2018 will be dedicated to Chevrolet trucks’ centennial, but things will come to a crescendo when the brand reveals the 2019 Chevrolet Silverado sometime next year. While many details are still unknown, the 2019 Silverado was spied with less camouflage and we can see it’s sporting very different headlights.
The LED accents, particularly, shine through the skimpier camouflage. They lighting portrays an angular and very different headlight design from the current stacked units on the 2018 Silverado. It also appears the front grille doesn’t split the headlights, either—a Silverado design trend for many years.
At the rear, it’s harder to see what’s going on, but once again, the LED lighting shines through the camo. The lights look potentially thinner, though still vertical. However, we think the camo is doing a good job at distorting their overall size. One thing that is clear from the photos, however: the squared-off wheel arches are gone.
On the powertrain side of things, the next-generation Silverado may retain the current V8 engines, after an anonymous dealer source said the 2019 Sierra Denali was shown with a 6.2-liter V8 engine, potentially identical to the current truck’s. GM’s co-developed 10-speed automatic will likely make an appearance, and we know the 2019 Silverado 1500 will eventually feature a diesel engine, too.
With the prototypes ditching more camo, the final package is clearly coming into focus. Though, it’s unclear where and when Chevrolet will debut the 2019 Silverado.
Spy shots: Pickuptrucks.com
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The annonymous source did not say identical 6.2, only it had a 6.2. It may be identical, but that’s not known at this time.
Wonder if it will be at the end of the centennial celebration in December in Texas at the “special event”
Looks promising. Can’t wait to see the finished product. December would be cool
No split grill.
No squared wheel arches.
Now it looks like not only Cadillac, but GM as a whole is forgetting about history, sad.
Lemme guess, it also comes standard with key-less ignition, electronic parking brake, and a joystick shift knob.
Get with the times grandpa.
Put my 2012 LTZ crew cab 5.3 4×4 on a scale today. 5750lbs, GM says 5300lbs but that has to be the WT crew cab that doesn’t even have power windows. Let’s hope they can ditch 700lbs so the high end models with heavy electronics and motors get down to a sensible weight
2014+ pretty much fully loaded with 6.2 have been weighed multiple times in the 5,6xx-5,7xx range. Not sure if the 2014+ weighs less than the earlier models, but it seems like it may be the case according to your number.
My 2016 F150 crew cab with 5.0 weighs 5,100 pounds, but it’s also not fully loaded. Loading it up adds 150-200 pounds.
Loaded F150s with 3.5 are also 5,500+ pounds from the looks of it.
The 2007-2013 and 2014-current are very similar. The cab is actually the same once you pull the body panels off. The new EcoTec3 engines in the current models likely weigh slightly more than the Vortec engines due to the DI system
It makes sense my LTZ is in the same weight range as the 6.2 2014 you mentioned.
Fords were always a few hundred pounds more than GM trucks. And likely you said the fully loaded Ecovoodt is barely lighter than the steel trucks.
I have no doubt GM will shed a couple hundred pounds under Ford (for crew cabs, single cab the weight difference will obviously be lesser). It would be great to see a loaded crew cab come in at 5100-5200lbs
The cab is not the same under the panels between the 2007-2013’s and the current generation. The current gen’s have a 4 inch longer cab, the door framing is completely different and allows for inset doors and the floor pan is completely different. The rake of the front A-pillars is also increased on the current gen over the previous.
Both Car and Driver and Jalopnik claimed when the 2014 cam out that the cab went unchanged, other than the addition of a B pillar for the extended cab change to double cab.
Trucktrend says the windshield rake was changed by one degree. That’s less than half an inch changed. At that amount the A pillar can change and not affect the structure
Car and Driver and Jalopnik can say what they want, but when you see the two gen’s tore down in a body shop stripped to the cab structure, (like I see in our bodys hop at the GM dealership I am a fleet manager for), you can clearly see they are different cabs. The Crew cab is actually 4 inches longer from the firewall to the back of the cab (moved the firewall forward 4 inches, increased the rake 2.5 degrees actually, moved the b pillars of both cabs forward 3 inches for larger rear crew cab doors, and increased overall length of cab by 4 inches). The cab sides are not as rounded as the previous gen (current gen is more square) and even the dash pan connecting the two sides is wider in the new gen. If the cabs didn’t change, the replacement parts would have the same part number or cross reference numbers, but they don’t.
Did anyone ever think they could put a temporary headlight assembly in until done with testing.