In all the prior times that we’ve come across prototypes of the 2020 Silverado HD, the testers were equipped with provisional placeholder lights. Despite serving the purpose of illuminating the road ahead, the temporary units prevented us from identifying how the production lights will look like. But new spy shots show the next-gen Silverado Heavy Duty testing with production-spec lights, thereby revealing its LED-based headlight signature peeking through the camo.
In fact, the 2020 Silverado HD won’t just have one LED-based front lighting signature, but two. The first is a horizontal line located in the top headlight cluster, while the second is a boomerang-shaped element in the bottom headlight cluster consisting of a horizontal line joined with another near-vertical one.

Official 2020 Silverado HD teaser
In April, Chevy shared an official teaser (below) that showed a partial front end of the next-gen Silverado HD, and these spy pix give us a more complete look at the vehicle. Notable elements from the teaser include:
- A strong dual-port grille treatment with CHEVROLETÂ lettering running the width of the grille
- A powerful hood design with a prominent intake
- Dual-element headlights split by the grille line
- Large wing mirrors with forward-facing LED lights
- Roof-mounted marker lights
Comparing the teaser to the spy shots, we can see the bottom of the “R” in “CHEVROLET” peaking out through a hole in the mesh camo above the grille.
Chevy’s 2020 Silverado HD is expected to launch in the first half of 2019 calendar year as a 2020 model year vehicle. Based on a more robust version of the GM T1 platform introduced by the 2019 Silverado 1500, the Silverado HD will be available in 2500HD, 3500HD and Chassis Cab variants. The 6.6L Duramax Diesel L5P engine will carry over, but expect changes to the gasoline V8 offering. The heavy-duty transmissions for both motors are expected to carry over.
Notably, we recently caught up to the 2020 Silverado HD’s platform mate – the 2020 GMC Sierra HD, giving us an opportunity to spy its LED-based front lighting signature.
Comments
I sincerely hope there are no air curtains on this one.
I like the tow mirrors! Similar to the Ram’s but slide in and out instead of flipping up/down.
Looking very closed to the exposed Full-Body rendering captured in the July edition of Motor Trend Magazine, may have a few detailed differences on the actual production model, but that photo which was displayed in that Magizine, really gave us a good idea as to what we could be seeing, the Sierra however is still in question.
How do you know it isn’t Sierra? Horizontal bar could be camo.
They just revealed the GMC Sierra HD LED signature lighting on this website a couple of days prior to the Silverado HD and it carries out a very similar C- Shaped design signature as the upcoming 1500 , the bar stretching across the grille also indicates this being the Silverado rather than the Sierra.
huh? In your comment above you just said Sierra is still in question…and apparently missed the part about the horizontal bar possibly being camo. Now I am guessing it is the Silverado, but asking how do we know for sure it isn’t Sierra?
When I stated that the design was in question, it had nothing to do with the LED lighting signatures for either of those trucks, my response was in relation to the renderings of the full body exposure pictures illustrated in the July edition of Motor Trend Magizine showing near accuracy of what the Silverado HD might actually look like based on its initial teaser photo shown nationwide earlier this year, but since their is no partially exposed teaser photo of the Sierra HD as of yet, it’s overall design still remains questionable and not just aimed at the light signatures, that’s what I was getting at based on my first response to this topic.
gotchya. I found the Sierra HD spy shots, they are from a week ago. Notice it also has a horizontal bar in the camo.