The up-and-coming 2022 GMC Sierra 1500 will come equipped with a new fully digital driver instrument cluster.
General Motors recently made an announcement via press release that the 2022 GMC Sierra 1500 Denali would offer the Super Cruise hands-free driver assistance feature as a late-availability option. The announcement included an image of a new digital instrument cluster running Super Cruise.
As GM Authority was the first to report, General Motors is preparing an update for its full-size, half-ton pickup line, including the GMC Sierra 1500 and the Chevy Silverado 1500. The update is slated to arrive for the 2022 model year. In addition to a revamped exterior design, the new 2022 GMC Sierra will also come with a heavily revised cockpit, an updated infotainment system cluster and new, larger screen, as well as a new center stack similar to the one found in the 2021 GMC Yukon.
As confirmed in the recent announcement, the 2022 GMC Sierra 1500 will also feature a fully digital driver instrument cluster.
2022 GMC Sierra 1500 prototype
With regard to the addition of Super Cruise, the 2022 GMC Sierra 1500 Denali will offer drivers the ability to remove their hands from the steering wheel during extended highway traveling. So far, Super Cruise has only been offered on Cadillac vehicles.
Critically, the Super Cruise feature slated for the 2022 GMC Sierra 1500 will have the capability to tow while in hands-free driving mode, which could make it a popular choice for those drivers that travel long distances with a trailer.
The recent announcement did not specify how much the new digital instrument cluster would cost or which trims would offer it. Pricing for the new Super Cruise feature was also not provided, although General Motors did indicate that the semi-autonomous driver assist feature would have late availability for the 2022 model year, which means it will not be offered at launch.
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I thought you guys “exclusively learned” from a close source that only the center console would be updated. And one of your cronies corrected me when I said otherwise and I tried to explain your confusion of center stack versus center console.
Yet here we are, and at least the better news won out.
I’ll be placing my order for a 2022 CC 6.2L LTZ 6.5ft in about 14 months. Skipping the supercruise.
Just what we need a digital gauge.
Nothing will beat the original hand gauges.
I hope the nice gauges will not be a “Denali” or “high country” only item.
of course they will you want a 6.2 or other fancy stuff they want to squeeze the big bucks out of you
Do the new features translate to the H-D series on the 22 models?
1500’s first
And when does this hit the SUVs?
No doubt the new F150 pushed GM to do this. I want to see them put a generator in the truck bed like Ford. This is something all brands need to copy if they are smart. I know GM is proud of their tailgate but the generator is the best feature I have seen in a log time.
After running power tools, saws, etc off the Ford 7.2W battery for a couple hours, the truck’s engine needs to run in order to keep supplying power because that battery stays within predetermined percentages of charge (never goes to zero). Would you rather have your truck engine running half the day, putting hours and wear on your engine, or simply run an actual jobsite generator that you can move around the site easily, and will run all day on half the gas?
Nice cool idea, but in reality not the most efficient way to provide power on a jobsite.
Dpach you can find something negative to say about almost any feature. Let’s get out of denial and admit that it can be real handy for things like storms, power outages, camping and tailgating.
In Canada, it is $5700 to go to the hybrid over just the 3.5L Ecoboost, plus another $900+ to get the largest 7.2 battery. And the hybrid still doesn’t match the fuel economy a GM with the diesel (for only a $3000’ish extra cost). Sure, its cool for tailgating, or power outages or camping. But when camping, who wants to have a truck running (after a couple hours of battery use) all day as you run radios, camp fridges, electric coolers, camp lights at night, etc. Or if one person leave the camp site to run for supplies, those left have no power. All this could be ran off a $300-400 power supply pack (or two if you use a lot of power) that was charged at home before you left, and not use gas and put hours on the truck.
Yes, there will be those who must have it, but most of them will hardly ever use it. Or they will use it so they can say they used it and the cool factor, never realizing just what it cost them to do that. Better places to spend that much money.
Thanks for repeating what I already said. You can find something negative to say about any feature. Not everyone wants the multipro tailgate, in fact some have to make a special order just to avoid it on their Denali. Some don’t like the price, some don’t like the way it looks. Honestly, I have yet to see a single Denali going down the road using the tailgate. Still it is something that is useful, just like the generator. No denying that.
You’re comparing a gimmick generator that requires power to a tailgate/door turned into a multi functional tool? That’s not the same thing at all. You also can barely tell if you opt for the Multipro since it looks identical to the Sierras without it. The costs to have your bed’s door turned into a efficient tool is well worth it if you’re someone that will actually put your bed to use. It also doesn’t affect anything if you have the option and don’t use it often. It still functions regularly too. They already make mobile generators, we don’t need our trucks to replace them.
Yea, because we all need speakers in a tailgate. When the Ford guy fires back at you and calls the musical tailgate a gimmick, just be sure to take it in stride my friend. Get out of denial sir.
For a nicely equipped truck you’re looking at $60,000+…..for a 1/2 to truck without a V8 diesel, the interior needs to be redesigned to match the $60,000+ price tag.
Welcome back to the 80s.
people liked them back in the day but they did not want to pay for them 30 yrs. later the cost should not be that much
And knowing how GM is this will be a $9,000 option on the highest most expensive Denali trim level.
I hope they ditch the column shifter on the top trims
We will have to agree to disagree on this one. Every time you load/unload something from inside the bed, the multi-pro tailgate is used as you can reach further in to get your heavy cargo. I don’t think it gets used as an office pad, or as a cargo restraint much, like they say it can be used, but it is used by owners every time they climb into their bed too.
And it’s not almost $7000 (Canadian) to get.
I’m not saying either one better or worse than the other; just that there’s much better places to spend $7K and not run up the hours and wear on you engine.
GM spent that money on other things people use such as trailer blind spot that allows the blind spot monitoring to add in the length of your trailer, 18 different camera views around and down the side of your truck plus including the thru-trailer camera so you can see what’s behind your trailer when backing, jack-knife warning system when you are backing your trailer along with trailer grid lines when back up, stolen trailer alert system (either audible or to your phone app) when someone unhooks your electrical plus to steal your trailer. There’s far more people who tow and would use these features than an onboard generator that will cost more per hour to run once the truck engine kicks in than a regular portable power plant.
That IP looks like why-tech. The tach displays counterclockwise, contrary to conventional wisdom. The extremely thin bar graph gauges across to bottom are reminiscent of 80’s Buicks and will not be intuitive or easy to glance and recognize data quickly. The speedo and tach format is similar to those blue rotating disc used in the ’88-’91 GM pickups that were soundly ridiculed. Lastly, everything is all over the place…two gauges under the tach, one under the speedo, one in the middle; a clock and temperature display in the speedo, fuel economy in the tach. I applaud the technology evolution, but the execution is ridiculously weak.
they can shrink tachs IMO you can not over rev an engine any way
Apologies for the second nearly identical comment – it took 4 hours and posting the second one for the first one to show up…and now I can’t delete either. It’s 2020!
Not totally digital. Both Speedo on left side and Tach are analog gauges. Digital means digits not bar graphs.
The speed reading at top center is digital. Tach is analog as it can’t be read in digital format because it changes too fast. 1984-1989 C4 dash demonstrated the futility of digital tach. Luckily, it had an analog bar graph as back up.
Embarrassing that this wasn’t already an option on the trucks and SUVs given how expensive some of the models are. There are econoboxes out there with this tech already. I’m not a huge fan digital gauges myself, but anything over $50K and designed within the last 2-3 years, should at least have the OPTION to include digital gauges.
Has anyone been to The Vapor Place? 🙂