General Motors produced the GMC TopKick, as well as its corporate cousin, the Chevrolet Kodiak, between 1980 and 2009. Offered as a medium-duty workhorse designed to tackle various jobs as a cargo hauler, dump truck, fire truck, and other such duties, the GMC TopKick was eventually discontinued after three generations, with the final example, a GMC TopKick 5500, leaving the Flint Truck Assembly plant in July of 2009. However, that hasn’t stopped GM designers from dreaming up a possible future model, as seen in the following rendering.
Posted to social media by the official GM Design Instagram account, @generalmotorsdesign, this rendering was produced by Geoffrey Richmond in 2014. Richmond is the same GM designer that created the Chevy Impala rendering we recently covered, and like the Chevy, the futuristic styling cues are once again in full effect with this impressive GMC TopKick.
Up front, the truck comes with an upright fascia, including a black grille insert and bright-red GMC badge. The lower fascia is done in polished metal and comes with two prominent tow hooks mounted on opposite ends of the bumper. The lighting arrangement is also quite interesting, with a quartet of small lighting elements mounted to the left and right of the bumper, and all the way to the corners of the front fascia along the grille line.
The cab itself is hunkered down and low, and gets a cool geometric shape that adds to the curvy metal. The sideview mirrors are quite thin, hanging off the top of the windshield line, and a small step-up is placed in the flanks.
And of course, we can’t ignore those enormous wheels, which get an awesome deep-dish design and mammoth diameter, lending this GMC TopKick an impressive, larger-than-life stance.
General Motors offered a successor to the GMC TopKick and Chevrolet Kodiak with the introduction of the Chevrolet Silverado Medium Duty Trucks, which includes the 4500HD, 5500HD, and 6500HD, as well as multiple configurations, wheelbases, and GVWRs. The new Silverado Medium Duty debuted at the 2018 Work Truck Show in Indianapolis, and is jointly developed by GM and Navistar. However, there is currently no GMC-branded equivalent.
And while this rendering is essentially little more than cool design, and almost definitely wouldn’t make it to production in any recognizable fashion even if it did get the green light, it’s still a fun exercise to think about what could be.
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“I want my……I want my MTV.”
Sitting around day dreaming? Must not be much else going on…….
Makes me think of Optimus Prime from the Transformers.
so let get this straight this thing is suppose to tow and be luxury truck it is the rendering on this truck is ugly
If they have time to do designs for models that have been discontinued, there is NO excuse for having boring or lackluster designs for the four GM USA brands Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, and GMC! Paraphrasing Bob Lutz, it costs no more to design a great car than it does to design an uninspiring one.
Looks nice.
Reminds me of the black GMC from the first transformers movie. That whole movie was basically one big GM commercial. If they tried doing that now, every transformer would change into a crossover lol
Interesting. Leeds me to believe GM is thinking about more commercial trucks, perhaps a class 6/7. there have been rumors….
Really cool sketches. But I wonder how on earth they’d translate these shapes into a real, functional truck.
Looks like a monster size ant.
Uglier than sin.
Really dumb looking for a work truck, everything above 3500 is a work truck and people work using a truck want efficiency, comfort, and simplicity. This looks like a reject from a sci-fi movie, good luck selling this to a company as a dump truck or cargo van.
Uglier than sin!
Had an image of a pickup rendering that should have been the 2019 Silverado. Was unable to download it.
Absolutely love the design it’s what a truck guy looks for in a new design because when it’s scaled back it will be cool. I would drive one happily.
I’d drive the crap out of that !!!! Awesome!!
Eh I don’t know if I’m a fan, it’s definitely out there, from the side view I can see snub nose truck from the late 50s early 60s in there but, from the front I can see the late 50s truck cab. Give me some time and I’m sure it’ll grow on me. If you want people to shut up about the design claiming that they all look the same well, this one’s different.
Love it I would buy and enjoy,
Yes it’s cool but what kind of mind thought this up.
Makes you realize it isn’t just the drug addicts on the street doing all these drugs when you see a design like this.
If you build it they will come. I want one for my 5th wheel.
Ugliest thing I’ve ever seen come out of Detroit
I like it. But the price is high. I love Chev truck,s.
Hi I like the truck. It’s cool looking. I would buy one.
With those vertical A-pillars, they could bring back the vent windows from 1954-60. Wraparound windshields!
I truly wonder what GMC would be like, if they were allowed to have their own design language and models? This design is cool and interesting, but what would it translate to in reality? Since GMC does rake in cash for GM, they should be allowed to separate themselves somewhat from Chevy with truly unique takes on models. Besides that stop shifting those features to Chevy models, at least until the next gen version of the GMC is created.
Like the Impala from a few days ago, there are 2 DIFFERENT designs pictured.
They should build an actual live concept model to truly gain a more honest feel about this truck, where’s that Class 8 Model that GM was talking about almost 2 years ago, perhaps this truck could fit the mold with it’s near-Cab Over looking design, Models could range from a 7500 to a top level 8500 with a Towing capacity of 60,000 lbs or more based on Diesel Engine options, overall, I like the look.
That front clip is bad azz and mean looking! …They need to put it on the 2500/3500 HD’s along with a front beam axle and Dodge is history.
Has possibilities. Is it electric?
It’s a little…much. But there are elements here that I could see GM using if they ever returned to selling medium-duty trucks under the GMC brand.