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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I don’t think that’s odd at all! I think it’s beautiful!
Why not, only fc chevy pick up was the corvair 95 rampside 1961-64 . jeep had a fc 150 fc 170
When can I order it?
I assume it will have typical cheap Walmart interior.
Head over to Whole Foods your EV soy milk is waiting.
Four Door Deora!
I’m 6’4″, so I could ‘probably’ climb in over the front wheel. A 2 motor Ultium platform would work for this.
This is just a dumb, simple photoshop. Not a concept rendering.
VW T3 (vanagon truck) had proper cab over with actual foot wells. This doesn’t.
Dude cropped and pasted the cab. For modern safety, foot well would need to clear the wheel and add another 2 feet in height to the cab. This will never happen.
The modern VW van EV concept WILL happen, even without cab-over.
It’s not photoshopped. It’s a guy who drew his vision of a future Silverado. He’s an artist. Pens and pencils.
Then it’s a very stupid artist who doesn’t understand humans have legs.
I give up. If you can draw a better design, go for it. Post it on this forum and let us give you our opinions.
Already gave you the vision. Feet in front of wheel like VW or high up cab like regular cab-over.
Considering the direction GM is heading (they keep making absolutely hideous cars), this very well could happen…. unfortunately.
It isn’t GM that wants it it’s MARY who wants it.
I see Corvair truck.
Look it’s a 1966 Dodge A100!
The cabover looks much like the design VW used decades ago . Perhaps instead of sitting on the engine the designer could mid engine it. Mount just behind the cab with a simple removeable cover or one that tilts for access .
flat floor, flat battery, tiny EV motor, silent power – bliss.
Please make an EV van like this!
That’s actually a great idea.
No its not.
Hey, it might sell if the bed is 9 or 10 feet and offer a dualie.
Reminds me of the Corvair bedded vehicles from the early 60’s.
So IF the driver gets in, where can he put his feet to drive??? Past that, it looks pretty good.
this could easily be done with the chevy express which already meets safety standards
I think it’s slick looking. It’s probably easy to drive and park. But, like others have said, crash protection may be weak, and unless it’s pure electric, the engine would intrude into the passenger compartment. But, if Smart Cars can be made with a crash shell, then maybe the passengers could survive. Starting in 2035 GM is supposed to only make electric vehicles.
A truck with the power of a golf cart? Go back to your prius.
I like this render. With some proper engineering, it can work you know!
Looks like a old one G . M. made in sixty called the Corvair . But that had a rear engine . This looks petty good to me , and a larger cargo area where more products can be carried.
Engine? Definitely looks electric to me! Better to leave some hood so it can have extra storage in the front and a better crash zone.
What is it with all the electric fanboys on this site all of a sudden? This is a TRUCK not a golf cart.
Do you not understand the power and torque of an electric motor? Have you not driven a Tesla? What is this golf cart stuff? Do you remember Cushman golf carts? They were gas. They were slow and had no power. I love the power of electric! But I sure do miss the roar of a good exhaust system. If you don’t learn to adapt, the world will leave you behind.
No EV is as as fast as a gas car.
But, of course „cab over engine trucks“ do exist, as you can find out by looking at the image „VW T5 Doppelkabine-Pritsche-Plane links-hinten LWS3142.JPG“ on commons.wikimedia dot org, which, BTW, is a really truck as not having passenger car like body clad around an open trunk, but a real truck bed.
URL: commons.wikimedia dot org slash wiki/File:VW_T5_Doppelkabine-Pritsche-Plane_links-hinten_LWS3142 dot JPG
(there are more images of the same vehicle from other angles, and of more examples of the same model in the commons category “Volkswagen T5 double cab”)
I would totally buy a chevy cab over pickup with 4×4 and the big gas engine
As a retired ashphalt pilot… I’d have to say no to a cabover. Rough ride, 1st to the accident. Remember the joke What’s the last thing on a bugs mind as it crashes into your windshield ? It’s a……! But would make a good wheel stander if you put the engine in the back. Anybody remember the little red express ? Just say n… for a… friend