When Chevrolet first announced the 2019 Silverado Medium Duty, it said that the new Class 4, 5 and 6 trucks will have an interior that is “very similar” to that used in the K2 platform Silverado HD models – the Silverado 2500HD and Silverado 3500HD. That much is immediately noticeable when spending a few short seconds in the new Medium Duty beast. But those who haven’t yet spent time in the Silverado Medium Duty interior should know that the cabins are not only similar, they are practically indistinguishable.
That’s because the 2019 Silverado Medium Duty uses the cab of the Silverado HD, and that is not at all a bad thing.
2019 Chevrolet Silverado Medium Duty interior
2018 Chevrolet Silverado Heavy Duty interior
By inheriting the cab of the Silverado HD, the Silverado Medium Duty interior automatically gets a very functional cabin with excellent visibility and advanced technologies that make for a better driving and operational experience. Easy-to-reach control buttons and up to ten customizable auxiliary switches help control equipment a more integrated task that is totally hassle-free.
The cab also has triple-sealed doors to help reduce outside road noise, making for a quiet and more comfortable cabin for everyone.
Other functional abilities include upper and lower glove boxes, which provide convenient storage space. Additional cargo space in the Silverado Medium Duty interior is available in the center armrest, which flips up to reveal a bench seat when greater passenger capacity is needed.
The new Chevrolet Silverado Medium Duty line, otherwise called the Silverado Chassis Cab, is made up of the 2019 Silverado 4500HD, Silverado 5500HD and Silverado 6500HD. The range was co-developed by General Motors and Navistar. The models are assembled by Navistar at its Springfield Assembly plant in Ohio, with Navistar also making the cabs at its body shop. Navistar’s version is called the International CV series.
The models are available in either two-door Regular Cab or four-door Crew Cab configurations, while being powered by a GM Duramax 6.6L L5D engine that can be mated to a plethora of transmissions, including an Allison unit.
Meanwhile, the all-new 2020 Silverado HD will have an all-new cab and interior that probably won’t make its way to the Silverado Medium Duty any time soon.
Stay tuned to GM Authority for more Silverado news and Silverado Medium Duty news.Â
Comments
Where are you Brian? This is your chance to say this is a truck and people just want to get to the jobsite and all that, and not get flack for it.
I am right here! And yes this should be the approach of any truck! If the most important thing to you is the dash of a truck then you have no idea how to pick a truck!
Glad to see GM come back to this class and to do it with a dang good looking truck too! Where I’m at here in the deep south you still see a ton of old GM medium duty trucks still in service. Some of them are even 60’s models but mostly ’70’s-’90’s models. Seems like almost every local business in town has had a C 70 at or 4500 at one time or another.
Lets get this Medium Duty to Canada!!
Better looking truck overall than the HD. Now for the silly question? Why is the 4500 thru 6500 call Meaidum duty and the less capable 2500 and 3500 called Heavy duty?
In the world of transportation the GVW of these trucks is, indeed, medium duty. A 3500 being called heavy duty is just in relation to a 1500. It’s pure marketing.
It’s not “pure marketing”, there’s a huge difference in a 2500 or 3500 from a 1500. 25s and 35s are heavy duty. 4500-6500 are called medium duty because that’s what class 4-6 are in US GVW classification.
US GVW classes are clearly defined. 3500 is near the bottom of medium duty. 2500 borders between medium and light duty depending on spec. 1500 is light duty.
Calling a 3500 “heavy duty” is for marketing in the consumer class (1500-3500).
you literally just repeated what he said with different wording?….
sorry, was referring to 8.1 ^