Artist Imagines A Chevy Silverado Cabover Pickup In New Rendering
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Cab over engine designs are only utilized in commercial trucks these days, but that didn’t stop one Instagram rendering artist from reimagining the iconic Chevy Silverado 1500 as a forward control-style vehicle.
This rendering, which was completed by Instagram artist Oscar Vargas this weekend, is based on a current T1 platform based Chevy Silverado LT Trail Boss finished in the Red Hot exterior color.
It seems as though the truck didn’t take too much fiddling with to transform it from a regular old Crew Cab into an odd-looking COE truck. Vargas appears to have pulled the windshield forward and given it a more upright angle, reshaped the two front doors to fit over the wheel arches, and extended the length of the bed. Apart from these changes, the truck looks mostly like a regular Silverado Trail Boss – retaining its blacked-out grille, LED headlights, gloss black wheels, off-road tires and taillights.
It goes without saying that a design like this would be basically impossible to execute in real life. The ingress/egress from the cabin would be awkward and the engine would likely protrude into the cabin quite a lot, taking up valuable passenger space. It’d be one thing if the Chevy Silverado was designed this way from the outset, but this strange-looking render serves as proof that redesigning the current model into a COE truck wouldn’t go well. On the plus side, this design would give the truck a lot more room in the bed without increasing the size of its overall footprint, so there is at least one positive takeaway from this odd little design exercise.
While we do wish cab over engine trucks for consumers still existed, we’re not sure if the market would respond well to this particular design, but that’s just us. What do you think, readers?
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Nice job!
Could also work as an electric application with a low center of gravity and great handling.
Vanagon EV 🙂
I would never purchase a chevy if they do this. Cab over trucks score extremely low in front collisions. Aka first on scene for an accident. Plus that lightens up the rear end allowing less traction in winter driving weather
Adding 2 feet of height places feet above crush zone. Batteries weigh down rear better than mid cab. You’ll love it!
You mean you’ll HATE it. But you won’t have a choice cause Marys sleeping with Biden.
John,
You’re NOT thinking clearly. COE provides more ‘TRUCK’ space. The larger bed will carry more cargo (heavier) – and the PERFECT platform for electric locomotion – motor in the front – batteries under the bed.
I would NEVER eliminate all gasoline and diesel powered pickup trucks – HOWEVER, there is ONE galactic opportunity for electric vehicles – TRUCKS, BUSES, TAXI CABS, POLICE CARS, MAIL TRUCKS…etc.
I love it i would buy one
Love this design, I would be first in line to have one of they ever went through with it. Seating for 4, 10′ bed.. Love it.
Would be easy to do on the new BT1 platform.
FFS, stop it. What is the leg room in the first row for that ‘imagination’?
People get their legs blown off in war, get em chopped off from diabetes. Not everybody needs a car with legroom.
Insightful, very insightful … please, please, PLEASE grace us with your keen wisdom & intellect on EVERY post!
99% of people still have their legs moron. The batteries don’t weigh enough to keep the bed from being lighter than a regular Chevrolet truck which loses traction especially in winter.
Reader imagines the crash results should be the headline.
Front crash death truck with engine using engine /batteries to crush you . Maybe a good present to a well liked mother-in-law for a gift.
I would not be in one. Would never meet safety or crash test standards I would imagine.
The backseat is probably fine? Just make sure that the mother-in-law does the driving
Hideous. Someone needs some help there.
It would look better if it wasn’t a lame soccer dad crew cab.
Whoa, that’s some serious weed someone’s smoking.
Don’t insult weed like that.
This design could work for Medium Duty, Fleet Related Applications, my wife personally would not want something like this sitting in our driveway as a Family Vehicle.
Looks cool but we can’t market a truck specifically for people with no legs.
So minivans have no front legroom?
I want it.
Could this work if on the Isuzu N series LCF platform?
I don’t think it’s enough tall to create enough space for a gas engine under the cab, by the picture it seems driver gonna have to squat on the wheel arch or sit on spark plugs!!! Also those front doors don’t look like functional, moreover the vehicle seems too front heavy, when the bed is empty ,which is likely most of the time, rear tires will have a little to none grip and driving the thing would be an absolute endeavor.
Oh man, the ugly just keeps coming.
All I can say is that it reminds of the small Chance bakkie in South Africa, perhaps that is the pace where it should be manufactured and sold,especiay , thinking of the body size of avarage Chinese.
I like it! It’d be fun to drive, and I am in favor of getting rid of the unnecessarily large front ends on today’s pickups.
Well, I think it’s cool. It reminds me of my old red 1965 Dodge van. Sitting on top of that front axle. I’m sure this design wouldn’t pass modern day crash tests though. Pity.
1965-67 Dodge Deora Concept ~ still lives ! ! Look it up ! ! Nothing “new” here…
very nice. something that I would buy.
Reminds Me of the 1984 Chevy Van I had with the 6.2 Diesel, 25 mpg every place we went. I would like to have the 8 ft box back with a Crew Cab.
Don Loving
I love it, build it ! Today’s pickup’s have become people movers, not cargo haulers. Time to offer a basic truck that will still carry four people, carry lumber and not be 30 ft. long.
As with COE commercial trucks in case of an accident you are the first one on the scene, Jeep tried this years ago back in the 60’s. It didn’t work for them and it won’t work for Chevy. Toyota had the worst design in cab forward design with their first van where the driver and passenger were actually slightly in front of the front axle. In the case of an emergency stop there were reports of the rear axle raising off the pavement and the front bumper hitting the pavement, they cancelled that design fast.
Look up 1940-50 Chevy or GMC cab overs. I could see a market for them now days. Farm use especially. If electric, wouldn’t have to worry about engine compartment. Under bed battery compartment would work and keep low center of gravity.
Oh yeah! If that was an EV, at a reasonable price, I’d buy it!