The 2019 GMC Sierra 1500 is turning things up a bit with the freshly announced AT4 Off-Road Performance Package. The package builds off the adventurousness of the standard Sierra AT4 with multiple upgrades to make things meaner, louder, faster, grippier and more expensive-er.
The Off-Road Performance Package is offered exclusively to 2019 GMC Sierra AT4 configurations with the 6.2L V8 engine exclusively mated to a 10-speed automatic transmission. With it, buyers will get Goodyear Wrangler DuraTrac Mud Terrain tires around 18-inch machined aluminum wheels for added grip on the trails, which are otherwise optional. They’ll also enjoy a cat-back performance exhaust system and performance air intake, which too is sold a la carte. The upgrades boost the power figures to 435 horsepower and 469 lb-ft of torque — up 15 horsepower and 9 lb-ft of torque from standard.
According to the 2019 GMC Sierra configurator, an AT4 with a 6.2L L87 V8 commands nearly $53,000, and the Performance Package adds another $4,940. For the sake of comparison, a 2019 Ford F-150 Raptor can be had for under $53,000. There’s no arguing that the Ford still the most off-road capable full-sized truck out there, by far. And if capability is the primary driver for a purchase, then the Sierra AT4’s pricing makes the Raptor look like a steal. But if you’re a GMC loyalist, and just want a decent amount of off-road prowess, the 2019 Sierra AT4 Off-Road Performance Package should suit you just fine.
With this announcement, we expect a similar offering for the 2019 Chevrolet Silverado Trail Boss shortly.
The base 2019 GMC Sierra AT4 includes the following content standard:
- Suspension:
- 2-inch factory-installed suspension lift
- Off-road-tuned Rancho monotube shock absorbers
- Drivetrain:
- 5.3L V-8 engine coupled with an 8-speed automatic transmission
- 4WD with a two-speed transfer case, locking rear differential and skid plates
- Tires:
- 18-inch wheels with all-terrain tires, or:
- Available mud terrain-rated Goodyear Wrangler Duratrac tire, or
- Available 20-inch wheels with all-terrain tires
- Wheels:
- Exclusive wheel design with machined-face, dark-tinted appearance
- Terrain Management:
- Hill Descent Control
- Traction Select System
- Tailgate:
- GMC exclusive, industry-first MultiPro Tailgate
- Styling:
- Body-color grille surround, door handles and bumpers
- Knurled texture grille design finished in black chrome
- Black chrome finish on the fog lamp bezels, fender surround and grille insert
- C-shapred LED lighting signatures
- High-gloss black finish window trim, mirror caps, skid plate
- Red touches complete the package, including:
- Red vertical recovery hooks
- All-new AT4 signature emblems
- Interior:
- Darkened, AT4-specific trim, including dark-tinted and textured aluminum finished on the steering wheel, center stack and sill plates
- Unique Jet Black interior color with Kalahari accents in the seats and live stitching
- Leather-appointed seating with embroidered AT4 badging on the headrests and all-weather floormats are standard
The exterior details create a distinct and modern personality for the AT4 that projects GMC confidence and capability. Meanwhile, the interior supports customers’ active lifestyles and AT4’s mission of delivering capability with uncompromising durability and comfort.
Available content on the 2019 Sierra AT4 includes:
- Segment-first Multi-Color Head-Up Display
- Segment-first Rear Camera Mirror
- GMC exclusive, industry-first Carbon Fiber Pickup Box
- A full suite of advanced safety features, including:
- Surround Vision
- Lane Change Alert with Side Blind Zone Alert
- Front Pedestrian Brakin
- Low Speed Forward Automatic Braking
- Two engines:
- 6.2L V-8, or
- Duramax 3.0LÂ inline-six turbo-diesel
- Both engines are paired with a 10-speed automatic transmission
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Comments
Does it come with Duratracs or does it come with mud tires? Duratracs at an AT tire. A mud tire would be like the Wrangler MTR
Not disagreeing that the Raptor is the off-road king. But price for price what you’re lacking in off-road kit on the AT4 you’ll make up for in features. I’d assume the AT4 has leather versus clothe in the raptor. And so on.
It looks like another price gouging option from the factory. One that should cost no more than $2000. Another great day for GM loyalists. BOHICA
yea no doubt the price is steep. but for anyone who doesn’t want to be bother with finding a CAI, and finding an exhaust, then finding and paying a shop to install. And worry about risking warranty.
The package is about twice what it should be, but that’s business. Just like how GM truck appearance packs command high dollar and only return cheap decals. work it into your financing and its $40 bi-weekly.
Intakes aren’t really worth the money on GM truck V8s to begin with, the gains aren’t worth it. You can get a non-oil washable panel filter (like AEM DryFlow) then modify the stock air box (open it up to the fender and lower bumper valance).
Put an exhaust on, headers if you’re feeling spendy. Then get a custom data logged tune to tie everything together and get the most out of your gains. Total cost, with headers $2500. And the truck will likely end up closer to 450hp and 500lb-ft
For about $7000 you can Procharger it
Or sadly if easy power is the main goal you tune an F150 EcoBoost to a healthy 500hp for $400
I bought a Dark Sky Metallic AT4 with the 6.2L. It was the showroom model so it had every bell and whistle except the carbon fiber bed. I’ve got 20″ Good-Year Wrangler Trailreunner AT’s. I’m happy with everything but the gas mileage. My 2018 Silverado with the same engine got 19.5 to 21.5. This AT4’s killing me at 11-12 city!!! I’ve taken it in once, and plan to keep taking it in till they figure out what the issue is. Still a comfortable ride, and it only comes with leather appointments!
The the last time they test the raptors by motor trend in Canada raptors was the last one in the test ,,,
Ram just needed to sell some Power Wagons.
Sure a Raptor can be had for $53k but it is not a truck many will buy or want to buy. Fully loaded that $53k truck turns real fast into a $73k truck as Fords option prices add much to the price in deceptive pricing.
The GMC AT4 while not a Desert runner it will handle most trails and it will do the daily road drive wher most of the truck run much more comfortable at a much lower price than the $73k.
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You get a lot with a base Raptor. You also get a lot with the new Ram Rebel.
you get an extended cab Raptor with clothe seats. that’s enough right there to say it isn’t apples to apples
A Raptor with leather adds about $3,100 and is $200 from an AT4 with the Performance Pack. Not that a couple hundred bucks matters at this price range, but one’s still more capable than the other.
Manoli you’re a till not getting it bud. Crew cab Rap with leather is $67,000 (with dual zone climate). A crew cab Lariat XT4 3.5EB is $53,000, which is more Z71 competitor, not AT4. The AT4 performance pack lands in the middle of those two.
It’s not an apple to apples comparison no matter where your personal preference lies.
Maybe focus on more knowledgeable and higher accuracy articles and less ‘insert here’ op-eds? I dunno
The configurator is online for you to use. You’re referring to a Raptor SuperCrew. I’m referencing the prices on a Raptor SuperCab with only option 801 selected, which adds leather seats ($57,455). The body style is the equivalent of a Sierra AT4 Double Cab w/ the Performance Pack ($57,235). There’s a $200 difference between them, but a chasm of difference between capabilities. But nobody is stopping you from spending over $53,000 on a less capable truck.
Manoli, do to packages, to get two trucks equipped the same right down to sliding rear window, there is a $6k price between them. Whether extended cab or crew cab.
Now with that said, $6k difference isn’t too bad for what you get in a Raptor: Fox shocks, the wide body, 3.5 HO. It’s a great desert runner. But have you ever driven one? Have you driven a lifted truck? Have you even driven a truck long term? The Raptor feels as big as it looks, it lumber along despite it’s twin turbos, and floats down the highway like an old Caddy with a numbness.
These two trucks are different animals. The AT4 is a better daily driver, the Raptor is more of a novelty for daily driving. I like it a lot, but it isn’t the better truck for 98% of the driving the owners of either truck is doing. It is 200% better for appearance credits however.
This argument over value could be said about Ford’s own F150 stable. How about the Limited vs Raptor. It starts at 12 grand more than the Raptor and has the same engine.
If we look at lateral g, figure 8, 0-60, braking distance the AT4 with 6.2 takes the Raptor in each. But hey it’s good the Raptor has 14″ of suspension travel, great for towing the boat to the lake or sitting in traffic on the interstate. You say the AT4 is less capable, it is in one very distinct and rarely used regard, I say it plays the line of offroad onroad perfectly.
There aren’t many folks that are spending $60k on a Raptor and take it desert racing on Sundays. There are people with purpose built $60k trucks that do however. There are people who spend $60k on a truck and tow a boat, get groceries, drive to work, and have a more livable $60k truck.
The Raptor is great at being a showpiece. But ultimately an FX4 Lariat or King Ranch is a better truck.
I’ve had seat time in the AT4, Trail Boss, Raptor, ZR2, Bison and Rebel. I’m actually most familiar with the Raptor, having driven it through off-road trails in Wisconsin, and the Silver Lake Sand Dunes in western Michigan, to name a few things. Even camped with it. It’s a riot, and I hear the ’19 Raptor settles down a lot of the lumbering tendencies you’ve mentioned. It has far more street cred than a lifted Sierra, and a more complete truck if we’re looking for fun:dollar, and can still pull 8,000 lbs, which is a race car and a trailer.
Sure, the GMC is less specialized, but that doesn’t seem to be the focus of the AT4. Plus, the GMC interior isn’t even that nice, and you know it. Then there’s the Rebel, with the best interior of them all, and air suspension with four settings. GM needs to try harder. And let’s leave the other variants out of this. I don’t want to talk about the interior of the Sierra Denali and what they’re charging for it.
That sounds like great adventures in the Raptor, and the other trucks like ZR2 and Bison we’re likely staged settings too. What I’m saying is you have vacation goggles, or in this case journalism goggles. Thailand is a great place to vacation but living there is a different story. The Raptor is a great truck to take to Silver Lake Sand Dunes, but what truck owners are doing the same with their $60k daily driver, and likely on Ford’s dime with a free truck and little to no implication if you F up and crash it.
You can’t take something like an Atom or X-bow to a track, have a blast, then declare it’s the best car and why would anyone want a 911 for twice the price.
I think the utmost key when reviewing a vehicle is reviewing it for the consumer in mind, not reviewing Fords prepared course that specifically suits their product’s strengths.
Same goes for talking about new products. Rehashing a manufacturer’s press release is a 50% job. It’s like copying someone’s assignment in school but changing it just enough to think you’ve fooled the teacher.
If I’ve been wearing goggles then you’re drinking too much koolaid. While I agree that most auto writers wouldn’t dare put themselves in situations with no OEM supervision, you have no idea what you’re talking about when it comes to testing vehicles on my own time. I have more access to GM anyway, so in your assumption, I should be smitten with this truck.
I promise there’s plenty of implication if I called up Ford to say their Raptor was on a 4 hour flat bed ride home because I beaded a tire on the dunes. Or if I had to call Chevy and tell them I bent a ZR2 because it hit a tree. But please, tell me more about how to do my job in the comment section. You couldn’t even figure out how to use an online configurator properly to validate the comparative pricing.
Don’t get sour because I don’t like the GMC as much as you do and consider it a hard sell. If you think I’m talking out of both ends, let’s watch the sales charts at the end of the month, and what the mix is.
lol Manoli I can’t reply to your most recent comment, must be the limit of the comment tree.
I meant no offense to the goggle comment, infact it was in easy out for you. Your perspective is as i explained previously. That as a momentary driver on a closed course, not a consumer, or exactly an expert (again not meaning offense, you just don’t have enough experience in trucks).
Let’s get back to the root, the Raptor is $6000 more when each is optioned to mirror one another, save for the Raptor’s added capability, which is what is in question.
$6000 for Fox shocks, wide body, and 3.5HO. As I said, not a bad deal from factory at all.
The AT4 is not trying to be the Raptor, it’s trying to be the TRD Pro. It’s trying to be pretty capable offroad while also maintaining good on road driving dynamics (relative to a truck) and have pretty good feature content.
It’s ok bud. You can like the Raptor. But take a moment to really understand what each truck is, and what each offers, especially when these are daily drivers for consumers. Your perspective of the Raptor has been as a toy. And kids love toys. But they grow up and need something that does more than play in a sandbox really well.
And actually, sure the Raptor is rated to tow 8000lbs. Have you done so? Needs a brake controller for one to be legal basically anywhere in North America, and two, I bet a V6 1500 would tow with more confidence. And I say more confidence in the regard of towing characteristics, not all out acceleration – the Raptor obviously has plenty of power for that. I’m talking sway (even with bars), braking (even with TBC), suspension sag (even with WDH), the general body roll of the dune jumping suspension.
I don’t really care to keep discussing with you, reply, and I’ll read. Then done. Point is I don’t think you have the truck credentials or experience to understand a $60k toy vs a $60k daily driver. The Raptor sells because of the way it looks, not to run high speed through sand, not to pretend it’s a tow rig, not to crawl trails, not to be a compliant daily truck.
You continue to be incorrect about pricing. $200 difference, when competitively configured and equipped. By your reasoning, everybody that buys a Corvette should also take it to the track. Or a JL Wrangler to the off road trails. But they don’t. Because that’s not the point. Cars like the Corvette, Wrangler and the Raptor fall into the same category of customer. They don’t buy them for the capability, they buy them for the idea, and that’s also what makes them desirable. So again, for the money, it’s the Raptor image over AT4 image, all day. Too few people care about the Tundra TRD Pro for it be a reason why the AT4 is built. It’s sure not reflected in the sales charts if they do.
This setup needs to go into the Silverado RST ASAP! Along with a lowered ride height, Magnetic ride, Brembo brakes, 22″ Performance wheels, a sporty interior, Kicker Stereo upgrade, heads up display, sporty instrument cluster, black housing LED exterior lighting, blacked out grille, red outlined bowties and a hard 1piece sporty bed cover with an integrated lip spoiler, AWD, performance tuned 10-speed auto, etc. This is what the RST needs! Dont get me wrong, it’s cool in an off road truck but we need a street truck for the masses!!!
Yes! Make Rally Sport Truck mean something!
GM needs to offer the supercharged 6.2 and some DSSV shocks to really go after the Raptor. Not sure why this is even being debated or not offered yet.
Saw a GM spokesman on TV saying that they wonder whether the Raptor is worth competing with when it sells in such small numbers. Generally, about a thousand a month, which is barely a drop in the bucket of F-series sales. I’ve never seen one on the road myself.
How many C7 ZR1 Corvettes do you see? How many GT350 Mustangs do you see? How many F-450 Limiteds do you see?