While regular cab pickup trucks have largely fallen out of favor in the United States, they’re still popular in one of GMC’s global markets. In the Middle East, GMC unveiled the 2019 Sierra AT4 and Elevation regular cab trucks on Wednesday.
Both trucks pack their respective trim’s goodies, but they look pretty awesome with a single set of doors and a bed behind the driver. GMC unveiled the trucks at the Dana Ramadan tent in City Walk Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
The regular cab models join the 2019 GMC Sierra crew cab models, which have been on sale in the region for some time now. Here in the U.S., the absolute only way to purchase a regular cab Sierra is through a base model. Even mid-range trims only go as small as double cabs. Obviously, a base model lacks a lot of modern comforts buyers come to expect from GM’s premium truck and SUV brand. The truck is also only available with a long box, not a regular box.
It’s a little difficult to tell from the photos provided, but it appears the Sierra Elevation and AT4 regular cab models for the Middle East feature the standard or short bed. The look is compact and quite attractive. We’d imagine the GMC Canyon has something to do with the lack of regular cab variants in the Sierra’s home market.
With the AT4 trim, buyers will receive a host of upgrades to boost off-road performance. Standard features include a 2-inch factory lift kit, the MultiPro tailgate, off-road suspension with Rancho shocks, and the 5.3-liter V8 engine with Dynamic Fuel Management. The Sierra Elevation houses a monochromatic look, 20-inch wheels, and a 2.7-liter turbocharged four-cylinder engine as standard.
Prices for the new regular cab models are not yet available, but don’t count on the trucks making their way to the U.S. They will go on sale alongside the short bed Chevrolet Silverado variants this summer. The Middle East will not receive single cab “long bed” variants of these trucks.
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Isn’t it amazing the things we don’t get in the states! The choices just keep dwindling except for 50 shades of CUV.
What a joke that these are not available in USA.
Unless it’s the “No Frills” Work Truck version with the Long Box….Smh, sadly that’s as good as it gets over here unless you spend thousands more Out-Of-Pocket to personalize it.
This is like ,’what is the best way to piss-off and alienate the regular cab guys’? Boggles the mind. Are these built in Mexico? They can’t drop some off in Texas?
Simple: Get More People To Buy Them and They Will Sell Them.
You blame GM for not catering to 2% of the market yet you say nothing about the 98% that just do not buy them.
I live a standard cab but i also understand there is no money in the N American market for them. Dealers will not stock em and people just do not buy enough of them to make it profitable.
The greatest challenge is dealers will just not stock them.
I thought it was 8% of sales the last few years ?….If so that is pretty significant, you just can’t make the humongous profits they make on the crew cabs.
AND as you say dealers don’t stock many of them, that doesn’t help for sure.
8% is nothing on a lower priced model.
Dealers would carry them if they had enough call for them but they too often get stuck with them. Even dealer trades are difficult. You can order one is about the only way to get what you want.
You can’t blame the dealers not stocking them as they just lose money on them in too many cases.
I wonder if they even crash tested and CAFE tested the new trucks for our market.
A potential special 1/2 ton model will test better (faster) as a regular cab standard box. You’re right about less people normally wanting them. Dealers might be skewing things similar to a signal amplifier.
Even so, anyone would be a moron to order a personally spec’ed GMC or Chevy at full/near msrp, and for me, I’m not interested in cozying up to many dealers for a better chance. Their role in optioning vehicles should be minimized.
No. Your argument would be valid if they didn’t make a regular cab and they didn’t want to spend the money and R&D, but they clearly do. 8% of sales is a lot considering it’s their top selling model.
No good excuse.
Money is made and lost on many levels. If dealers had a demand for these they would stock them, If People would buy these in greater numbers GM would build them for here.
But the dealers do not want to have a truck sitting around for 8 months waiting for a buyer on their floor plan.
Bring more buyers demanding it and they will bring it here.
I would wager that in this entire thread I bet most here do not even own a truck and there are no short bed regular cab owners. Add to that even if offered no one here would even pay to own one.
People like to run on about what they think GM should do on the web but when GM does what they ask and no one shows up well that cost money. These folks are all hat and no steer.
I have an ’03 GMC Sierra SLE Z71 4×4 Regular Cab short box – with 171,000 miles & I’d replace it with a 2020 AT4 in a second IF one were available!
I have a 2007 Sierra RCSB 5.3 with the Z60 package. Been a great truck and have cash put away was going to buy a replacement as soon as they came out (been watching this rollout since it started) but I guess GM doesn’t want my money. Obviously they have put the R&D into it, why not let people order what they want? I don’t need a school bus but still need, want and use a pickup.
Sorry Scott, it’s not enthusiast’s responsibility to get people to buy GM’s decaying product line, it is GM’s!
I agree and giving them what sells is what works. Stocking standard cabs that do not move at dealers does nothing to help GM, Dealers or anyone else outside the few who what this combo.
Like manual transmissions if you find more buyers then you would have more options.
It is not for the companies to cater to money losing segments just because a few people reside there. GM did that before and went broke.
Dealers did not stock them because GM would put $8000 rebates and discounts on the hood of the Silverado 1500 Double Cabs, but only $2000 on a Silverado 1500 Regular Cabs. Customers could not understand why it was same price for a double cab than a Regular cab!!!! So customers naturally bought the Double Cabs instead. GM literally created the Regular Cab ‘problem’ that they are now solving by not selling in the USA. Typical GM. Have a consistent price ladder for the Silverado models/trims and they will sell like they did back in the days when Regular Cabs were $3000-4000 less than Double Cabs
People buy the double cabs for the same reasons they buy the sedans over coupes and CUV models. Utility. The back seat area is not that much more and adds more utility.
Those who buy the regular cabs are generally going for a look or style but those buyers have faded away. I love the look of a regular cab with 22″ wheels but when it comes to life I need the back seat for the price I am paying.
Except CUV’s outsell sedans in North America, and have for years now.
In fact, only this past year both Ford and GM have stated as much publicly, and discontinued many sedan models in favor of coups and CUV’s.
correction the Regular cab Silverado shot bed makes up 12% of GM sales, witch is still a significant percentage
What a crock of s***!
They’re actually building regular cab short beds somewhere and they can’t bring ANY of them here??
BS!!!!
You can order a truck and still pay under MSRP that is not an issue. The place you may get hurt is on deals and Incentives that may not be offered when it arrives.
They’re built in the US and shipped over there. Maybe someone can get their hands on a frame and build their own.
I haven’t been able to get the trim level/options I want in reg cab for over 20yrs. So I’m stuck buying the bigger cab which I don’t want or use….ever. I even tried to special order on two separate occasions & dealers wouldn’t do it. Look, I understand reg cab trucks don’t sell as well, but….if they offered better trim levels/options, I bet sales would increase sharply. I would buy one today, & I know I’m not alone in this. So reading that GM is now offering these options on trucks in the Middle East but not here in America, tends to be very frustrating to say the least. Pleasing the customer is GONE. It’s all about profit & they don’t care what they have to do to get it. They certainly are VERY, VERY transparent about that fact lately.
Hey it’s perfect for ISIS and the Taliban. Why should Toyota get all the business? Price point should be right in their wheel house also.
That was the first thing I thought of after teading the article title.
Hey thumbs down 7 lighten up please. Plus it’s a face. Why Toyota’s
There was a story on this a while back. Sales were handled through a broker for thousands of trucks. Toyota pleaded ignorance. It kept the guys in Kentucky busy for a while.
https://www.automobilemag.com/news/2019-toyota-tacoma-trd-pro-off-road-review/?wc_mid=4035:16784&wc_rid=4035:27977598&_wcsid=536DCDBFDD281AA89E30488F2FF23568BB1E69DE84B23C33
Thus the Desert Model. See these guys are shall we say in it for the $. I was serious
Great looking truck! Have always been partial to regular cab short bed pickups. Unfortunately we in the US market have no way of getting it and that’s a shame. Leave it to GM in it’s quest for profits to not offer what is arguably the best looking full size truck around. If they should make it available to order count me in for either a Trail Boss or AT4.??
Chevy/GMC wants to be #1 in truck sales? This isn’t how you do it. Crazy.
GM still offers a regular cab long bed in the WT trim.
Ram doesn’t even have a regular cab at all with the 2019.
I still have my 2008 Reg. Cab chrome edition. Still running great, and getting complements on it. I was in the market for a newer model (leave the 08 for my grand kids) this year. After hearin this I am out of the market
Why everybody needs three rows SUVS and 4 door pick-ups is beyond my comprehension. A regular cab truck with decent options and a short box looks and drives great. Unlike all these school buses type of vehicles…
It’s all about what you need. Some people have families and need a crew cab. Sone don’t and still need a shorter wheelbase with a decent sized bed.
The point isn’t to say one is better, they each fit different people.
Want to make headlines GM? Regular cab short box 6.2. It’s a parts bin hot rod truck that doesn’t need a high pricetag. Available 6 speed and the cost to certify it will be justifiable by the headlines and press. Maybe they’ll only break even vs offering an automatic only. Think outside the box a little.
If GM knew that you can’t find a Ford F150 regular cab anywhere everyone is buying them I’m a GM guy and never had a ford but I’m looking for me a f150 regular cab modern day hot rod and it look pretty good
About time…..I am tired of seeing them dang Toyota’s with 50 cal machine guns as the official truck of the terrorist…..now the Taliban can use GMC…..boy, can’t wait for the memes…….GMC…..official truck of the Taliban
Gunny,
Isis/Taliban/terrorists buy a lot of trucks and many are made in the US. There are some real bonuses in these sales: They pay cash (no repos), never come back for warranty work and replacements are very high with no trade-ins. ? You also get free advertising on all news outlets. Why has Toyota cornered that market?
I was not being political but kind of tongue in cheek, but I do ask the question. That has to be a real money windfall for Toyota. How do they get delivered? Container Ship? Doubt they go to Baghdad Toyota and pick them up. Who does the new car prep? All valid questions so I just say maybe GM would like a piece of that action is all. Thanks Gunny
Hey thumbs down 7 lighten up please. Plus it’s a face. Why Toyota’s
It’s a borderline racist assumption that because a truck is sold in the ME means it’s going to Islamic terrorists, like a truck sold in Latin America means it’s a Coyotes or a drug lords truck or sold in the southeast US means it’s going to a Klan rally…..
Well there is someone who can’t laugh. Have you fought in the Middle East? No I have not either but my nephew has and he told me Toyota is the Truck of choice. So if you think I’m racist go ahead I’m sick of people like you calling names to people you don’t know. Someone like you would get a truck with the small 4 anyway.
Lol, getting under your skin?, I didn’t even insult ya. Use kerosene for your next crossburn, the fumes not as toxic to fellow Klanman and better for the environment, heee-hawww!!!.
Canadian hey? Here goes ok Ass Hole. Now go weave your basket and vote for Trudeau so you can keep up the good work. That is my last response. You can do last word.
Looks like someone in small town butt *uck USA went a little too hard on the opioids today. Eventually the bad trip will wear off… Or not.
Guess BilleBob don’t have his doggone harmonica and spitcan , must been Dem colored boys steeling form good white folk again (banjo music playing)….
The shorter wheel base trucks look great to me but they drive like ass imo. My father has a 16 Sierra regular cab 6 1/2 foot bed and it’s miserable to drive for more than a short trip. You feel every bump and I feel so closed in while driving it. The longer trucks just cruise down the road so much nicer and if you go drive a newer Denali with magnetic ride it’s an even bigger difference. There might be the small group of people rallying for them to stay but I can’t wait to see them go.
Regular Cabs Light Duty are exclusively made in Mexico. GM Fort Wayne gave up on those while getting about half the Crew Cab production.
But agree, if the vehicle is already produced in the regular cab why not selling it any place that customers want. Perhaps if GM dealers do not want to pile them up, ordering and delivering would take a little bit more (not that much more, since trucks are transported by rail every day to the US and only takes a few days) but at the end, customers will have what they want.
By the way, not only Middle East gets the GMC and Silverado Regular Cabs loaded models, but also Mexico market gets both.
Why aren’t we given the right to a reg cab short box in the USA? Why do you make a product and ship 100 percent to the Middle East? Come on GM, I have been a Chevy man ALL my life but am changing to FORD, and that will be the purchase of all my future vehicles, nice going.
Shame on you, GM. The reg cab short box built your company, could not get one in the states, so I went Ford. Not that I wanted too, you could not me what I wanted. You build these and ship them to the Middle East. Greed always wins with large companies now a days.
GM has always been my choice in vehicles and the new models, especially the truck, look great. I just can’t understand why you wouldn’t offer the single cab short box and with a V8 to the U.S., where it began and where it belongs! Please make them available to us that love them here in the US, even if it’s just for special order to customers. Thx!
I would buy one!!