Pricing for the 2019 GMC Sierra 1500 Denali CarbonPro and AT4 CarbonPro editions has been revealed. Not surprisingly, these range-topping trucks with the CarbonPro carbon fiber composite bed are not cheap.
The Sierra 1500 Denali CarbonPro will be priced from $70,020, while the Sierra 1500 AT4 CarbonPro will start at $66,635.
In addition to General Motors’ new carbon composite bed, the Sierra 1500 AT4 CarbonPro comes standard with a head-up display, 22-inch wheels, power sidesteps, a sunroof, CarbonPro badging, a host of active safety tech and most importantly, a 6.2-liter V8 engine and 10-speed automatic transmission. The Denali CarbonPro also features all that equipment, but gets unique 22-inch wheels, a Bose audio system, an eight-inch digital driver’s display, and a cat-back performance exhaust, among more.
It’s still not clear how much the CarbonPro bed will cost on its own, although these trucks seem to be about $4,000 more than similarly equipped trucks with the standard bed.
“When you look through the option lists yourself and do the math, what you’ll find is that these customers are getting our best innovation and the carbon fiber bed is included for no incremental cost—they’ll have the envy of the truck industry at a tremendous value,” GMC vice president Duncan Aldred told The Drive.
The Sierra 1500 Denali CarbonPro and AT4 CarbonPro should be available to order shortly, with GM claiming the bed option would become available in early June when it was first announced earlier this year.
Trucks with the CarbonPro bed will benefit from slightly increased payload capabilities and will have no need for a bedliner due to the material’s durability.
2019 GMC Sierra Denali CarbonPro
GM may expand the use of the CarbonPro bed and the carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic material it’s made of,
saying that virtually any component currently made from steel could be made from the material. It is still quite expensive to work with, however, so the automaker is taking a measured approach with it at first.
Source: The Drive
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Other web and media are placing value of $2K-$3K on the bed in the package.
This really isn’t that expensive. No drop in bedliner needed, no spray in bedliner either. There’s cost savings right there. Someone here mentioned the entire thing is carbon inside and out, not just the inner section as I once thought. That means no rust and that’s the biggest win of them all. 5-6 years is all you have where I’m at and the wheel wells start to bubble and rot away on a brand new 60k truck. Doesn’t matter who makes it anymore, they’re all the same. Though I’m not sure how the aluminum Fords will play out. If I’m spending that kind of money on a new truck, I want it to last. Plus I use my truck for actually hauling things and these won’t dent. It’s odd to me that these are being launched on a Denali trim truck and not a HD work truck but whatever. I’m glad they’re here! Just put them on the Chevy Silverado. It would be nice on the Colorado/Canyon too. They sell a lot of Tacoma’s here because of the composite bed alone.
“This really isn’t that expensive. No drop in bedliner needed, no spray in bedliner either. There’s cost savings right there.” I don’t see how paying $4000 for a plastic bed, is a cost savings over not paying $300 for a bedliner. A GMC Accessories bedliner lists for $305, but when I bought my 2016 Sierra SLT, the dealer threw in the bedliner. Most dealers will. Thinking about it, I’ve gotten a free bedliner with 5 of my last 6 GM trucks.
The 2016 SLT 1500 crew I have for my business, sticker’d for about $55,000. I couldn’t justify $3000 or $4000 more for a plastic bed, when a $300 bedliner will do the same job. I can put that $4000 to better use elsewhere, and I’m sure a lot of other buyers will feel the same way.
Wouldn’t it be nice if GM put half as much effort into designing better interiors, as they do designing gimmicky tailgates and over priced plastic beds?
Honda has had a composite box as standard equipment for over 10 years. This should be on all trucks.
I feel like if GM just ran with this box on ALL bed sizes for BOTH Chevy and GMC, that they would have cut costs big time on this venture.
They are playing soft after the ProTec venture. Shame because Tacoma and aluminum Fords. Why not have an edge with the only full size truck with a non corroding box?
I have the 2019 AT4 and I believe they all come with the spray in bedliner as did mine; however, I still bought the GM rubber matt to keep the sprayed bedliner scratch free, not to mention anything I put back there doesn’t slide around nearly as easily as without. I’ve also added the GM cold air intake, as well as a center console lock-box. Now I’m waiting for the Bear Brakes to come out, and I’ll be happy. The 6.2 has the power to get up there fast, I want to be able to stop fast also.
I have a question regarding a 2019 Denali that I’m considering purchasing. Seems to be very bad difficult to move the column shift leaver from Park to Drive. Has anyone encountered this issue?
GM made a composite box back in 2000ish. They also had the Sportside that was nixed in 2004. I guess they didn’t like the fact that these lasted forever. So they go with “The design that fails”. Cuz they don’t want you to keep a truck that long. So carbon fiber rocker panels will be “TOO GOOD’” of an idea.
Makes me wonder…The technology of melting ice without eating cars, is probably out there. But it would be too good of idea. Cuz they want your car to turn to dust before the loan is paid off.