Refreshed 2022 Silverado Interior Won’t Come With A Column Shifter
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The refreshed 2022 Chevrolet Silverado is coming, and with it, an overhauled design for the pickup’s cabin space. We’ve already spotted prototypes of the up-and-coming Silverado out in the real world undergoing testing, revealing a few interesting tidbits about the truck, including the news that that the 2022 Silverado interior won’t come with a column shifter.
Although the prototypes seen thus far have come draped in heavy layers of camouflage, it appears as though the 2022 Silverado interior does indeed lack a shifting stalk on the steering column. This suggests that the 2022 Silverado interior instead comes with a push-button shifter layout, much like the all-new 2021 GMC Yukon.
While some Silverado fans will no doubt miss the old-school shifter stalk mounted to the steering column, the 2022 Silverado interior will drop in with a completely overhauled design that will address the perceived weak points of the vehicle.
2021 GMC Yukon Denali pictured here.
In addition to moving over to a push-button shifter setup, the 2022 Silverado interior will also likely come with a larger, integrated infotainment screen, and Google Infotainment Services, as GM Authority covered previously. The addition of the Google Infotainment features will arrive as a replacement for existing General Motors infotainment features, likely offering things like Google Voice Assistant and Google Navigation.
What’s more, the overhauled 2022 Silverado interior also looks as though it offers GM’s Super Cruise technology in conjunction with towing duties. As a reminder, Super Cruise is a semi-autonomous driver assist feature that allows the driver to take their hands of the steering wheel during extended highway driving. The feature has not previously been used in conjunction with a vehicle that’s towing.
2022 Chevy Silverado towing with Super Cruise
In addition to the overhauled 2022 Silverado interior and the fresh tech features mentioned above, the upcoming pickup will also debut with revised designs for the front and rear fascias.
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dumbest idea yet BRING back standerd .
I’ll keep my 2017 thats paid off for as long as I can and then just buy a restored sq body!!!
With today’s electronics governing transmissions as well as every other mechanical system in vehicles. I’m not surprised about the electronic transmission control replacing the gear shift.
This reminds me of not being able to slam the phone down to hang up, you can’t do that anymore and when you angrily hang up on someone it doesn’t feel the same pressing the red button hard. When I’m in a truck I like to grunt and flex while I pull the shifter down into drive. I feel so week pushing the little D button, or turning the knob into Drive.
I do not see a big issue people accepted push button transfer case shifter.
I once drove a 57 Merc it had push buttons ,there coming back .
This is one of the worst ideas ever!!!! Been in the automotive field for years! Nothing good comes from push button anything!! Leave it alone, works great just the way it is!! If not at least give the option to have it. Not all customers want computer controlled crap that goes bad!
Putting a push pull system in for the shifter is stupid, it’s a truck it’s supposed to be tough not fancy, and I don’t care if it cleans it up more it’s just one more electrical part that could break, I would very much prefer a column shifter or a conceal shifter. Al least keep them on the 2500 and 3500 models or else it’s more of a luxury instead of a heavy duty beast that is meant to get dirty and beat up no button will withstand what a regular shifter can. If you are going to make a shifter like that don’t force everyone to use that one make it an option if they want it or not and keep the column standard. But put the button system standard on the 1500 high country and the 1500 Denali.
I will admit that I personally am not a so called Truck Customer but I refuse to believe that people do not care about Fancy when they pay 80K for a pickup Truck.
Sorry I do not buy that Customers do not look for High Tech and High Luxury like some here state. The market is dictating something completely different. GM needs to keep pushing forward.
As with all things in a free market we can chose. I need a truck. As a home owner, and small landscaping business owner (part time). Living in New England we need 4wd, we also go off road and have 3 little kids. We own 2 new 4Runners. No one makes anything close as far as capability and reliability. I could buy a new 2500 gmc Crew cab and go from 3 trucks to 2. The huge price, all the electronic gizmos and no manual trans option eliminates any new truck for me. I’ll run my ‘84 C30. It’s almost new now anyway with everything I’ve done…still cheaper than $500 truck payment. They can make the trans a cvt shifted by pixie winks. Newest truck I’d buy would be ‘95 or so
And I dont like to confuse a shift knob with a washer machine knob.
See you soon ford
—or Dodge, where I can get an extended cab with Navigation!
Push button shifters are gross. I hate the new push button ones in the New Chevy and GMC big BOF suv’s. I like that Cadillac went with a console shifter for the Escalade. I also like that ford does the same with some F-150s.
I will say this again as I stated when the Tahoe and Yukon were first shown. I like both interiors a lot but.
GM should have used am Electronic Column Shifter Ala Tesla and Mercedes. It seems like the upcoming Cadillac Lyriq will use one. This would have done two things.
One – Truck buyers would get used to it in two seconds. Would feel normal to them.
Second – Most importantly it allows for a Much Bigger Infotainment screen. I still think that the Tahoe and Yukon screens are too small for todays Market. i mean a Cheap little Hyundai Kona has a 12 Inch screen. So these 80K fully loaded Tahoes and Yukons should have had a bigger screen as an option at the very least. But GM is selling every single one they make so it is what it is.
I prefer the column shifter ( they are gear selectors really). It IS out of the way already. I don’t see the sense in changing just for change. Column shifters in GM trucks work fine and are the best in the industry I think! Good feel and good feedback.
The Ram we have at work causes me to turn a wrong knob every time I drive it. This does seem a better set up. A column shifter is just more intuitive I think though. “Pull stick, select gear”.
I wonder if the lower trims will go push button?
Even Ramblers in the 1960s had put button gear selection. Really helped their sales future.
Those buttons belong in a tesla not in an American Vehicle. Imagine a child hitting buttons…
Whatever has been used to shift the 8-10 speeds in the Escalade needs to be used or what GM trucks are currently using.
Those who say Column shifters are annoying are panzies.
Either Shift on the Floor or column is safer than a button.