As GM Authority covered previously, General Motors is introducing a new trim level for the 2021 Chevy Silverado and 2021 GMC Sierra. The new trim for the Chevy Silverado is tagged with RPO code 2FL and is based on the LT, while the new trim for the GMC Sierra trim is tagged with RPO code 3VL and is based on the Elevation. However, the question is this – why did GM introduce these new trim levels for the Chevy Silverado and GMC Sierra?
Before we launch into the why behind the new Chevy Silverado and GMC Sierra trim levels, let’s start by looking at the what. Both new trims are available exclusively in Double Cab 4WD and Crew Cab / Short Bed 4WD body configurations, and come equipped with the turbocharged 2.7L I4 L3B gasoline engine and GM eight-speed automatic transmission. Both also come with all-terrain blackwall tires offered as optional on other trims, while the new Silverado trim gets an eight-inch touchscreen and wired Apple CarPlay / Android Auto as standard.
Breaking it down, it looks as though the new trim levels for the Chevy Silverado and GMC Sierra will offer a better lease deal than the respective trims upon which they are based, which in this case would be the LT trim for the Silverado (RPO code 1LT) and the Elevation trim for the Sierra (RPO code 3SB). The reasoning behind this is higher residual values for the new trims, namely the 2FL trim for the Silverado, and the 3VL trim for the Sierra. Thus, GM will be able to “discount” the standard turbocharged engine with regard to the vehicle sticker price.
In other words, General Motors is expecting a higher residual value for the new trim levels, which means lower lease payments given the overall vehicle depreciation factor.
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They made these packages to make more money and increase sales.
Speak slowly and clearly. We intelligent people are not fluent in IDIOT. nobody cares that you don’t like this truck. Go buy a POS Toyota!!!!
Toyota a POS? Hardly. Toyota Tacoma is the class leader. Tundra owners love the reliablility and don’t care about the F150 hype. They live in reality.
Love all the fanboy thumbs down. This is why US auto industry was in dumps for decades. They puff chest and can’t admit the competition can ever do things better. Fact: Tacoma leads sales to Colorado 2:1. That means it’s preferred. And that makes you give thumbs down? Truth hurts doesn’t it?
Move to Japan, see how happy you are there!
You’re a total meathead. Exactly what I’m talking about. USA#1 WOO HOO! Go drink your Pabst and keep telling yourself that anything other than GM or Ford is junk.
PBR me ASAP
I’ve driven the tacoma and colorado. Have you? The tacoma is junk regardless of sales. The seating position, motor, and everything else in the toyota sucks. Not even close.
I owned a TRD 4×4 off road. It wasn’t perfect, seating position subjective, but it was superb quality. They run forever and they have the highest resale value of any car on the planet. Colorado, not bad but it doens’t have consistent reliability. That kills truck loyalty and sales. GM can’t be Toyota’s TQR total quality and reliability. GM isn’t wired that way. Tacoma’s are built in San Antonio with higher US parts content than GM or Ford. It was designed in the US in Ann Arbor.
That explains everything but you on a GM site pushing Tokyo’s junk, BTW it’s “assembled ” in Texas but best believe it has Japanese parts in it.
Don’t start that. I don’t want to have to hear about all the Chinese parts in the GM products.
You mean Toyota uses the same Chinese parts since they sell in China also?.
Read the window sticker. Per federal guidelines, parts content has to be published per country of origin. Tacoma has higher US parts content than GM or Ford. Not Japanese parts. It just bothers homers like you to no end that a foreign company can design, engineer and build a vehicle in the US with higher US parts content than Detroit. With better reliability to boot.
I believe it.I think a Honda is at the top for US or N. american content. I think the Japanese are China resistant more than the Us is.
Oh no, they have a higher perceived quality, people buy them because they think they are getting the same over engineered long lasting 1980’s Toyota, which they are far from. Go to the Tacoma forums and there are countless threads with issues both major and minor and many trade them in after a while because of those issues and not getting what they thought they were. That is why Toyota sells so well, that and the resale that god knows why is so much but the other brands are catching up. A Colorado is such a better vehicle is most ways it isn’t even funny and the resale value is extremely close while being able to purchase it for less. And the reliability, well the 3.6 is know to last a long time, they have had quite a long time to continue to work and perfect it.
As far as that made in the US crap, you do know where all the profits go right? They don’t just magically stay here, they are reported back to corporate, taxed heavily at their home country (not the US) then (and here is the key) allocated back to the plants and workers here. If you buy a Tundra or Tacoma, you are helping the Japanese economy more than the US, taxes are a big player in this. So no, you aren’t being more American because the truck is made here, you are being mislead. Finance 101, works will all the big global corporations. Peterbilt for example reports everything back to PACCAR and then is allocated funds, same applies for Toyota and TMNA…
Toyota is a multi-national like GM with a US HQ in Texas, employing 186,000 US employees. All that money pays for mortgages and supports communities. A total of 28 billion direct investment in the US. Not to mention their support for US suppliers. You can focus on where profits go all you want, it irrelevant. The shareholders reap the rewards. Toyota supports the US economy whether you like it or not.
I have both Tacoma and GMC Canyon…..both are good trucks Canyon is better….better fuel mileage, rides and handles better nicer interior….Toyota is 2017 Canyon is 2018. Both have been completely trouble free, both are higher end trim packages ….however the Toyota’s tires are wearing out much faster.
So talk to somebody that is not brand loyal and owns both if you really want the truth..
My crew also likes driving Canyon better…by the way a traded a 2016 Colorado in for the Canyon with 99,000 miles and never had a problem with it either.
We will be trading in the Toyota this year undecided which way to go however with gas prices going up….the Canyon or Colorado is in the lead.
One more note out of my four employees (all four would rather drive or ride in the Canyon to the job site) .
Not the ones I’ve talked to.
02 taco w/ 230k ins. payout 12k just sayin
More diversity to draw in more customers. Funny how this works, after all the de-contenting chased everyone away.
No-they want to make the new 4 cylinder very attractive so guys will lease them to help move that particular piece of inventory. Following the truck boards this motor is facing some major skepticism.
It is hard to find double cabs with max trailer package.I have been looking for 6 months.
The last I heard they are not making dbl’s to get crews inventory stabilized
Moot point. Lots are bare. Chevy and GMC dealers here separated by about a mile, not 3 new trucks combined. Right between them? FORD dealer with a lot FULL. Even if we assume this means GM killed it and sold everything while FORD floundered, it doesn’t bode well for future sales. Can’t sell trucks from an empty lot….. new trim package wont fix that.
You have to go in and see what is on order or in-transit they sell a lot of them before they get the chance to make it to the front lot.
Who in the world is in charge of GM design these days? This truck looks awful!
Finally some common sense. The GM trucks are over designed. The Australian guy who was in charge of GM trucks (no longer there) who couldn’t pronounce Silverado (SAY SILVA-WADO) explained (on youtube) at the over-hyped launch that they surveyed 10’s of thousands of customers input. In other words design-by-committee. Rememebr the Malibu and dreadful Malibu Maxx? That was design-by-committee also. Take a look at the Super Duty and then the GM trucks. Tell me the Super-Duty isn’t better looking.
Ok, I’ll bite. The GM trucks look better than the Fords. Ford’s styling seems to be phoned in, whereas GM is actually putting in effort. You don’t like it, but that doesn’t invalidate everyone else’s opinion (styling preferences are HIGHLY subjective).
It is subjective. In Nevada although, Ford Super Duty outnumbers Silverado/Sierra Hd’s-it’s not even close. Trucks almost outnumber cars out here. However, the tale is in the numbers. The new GM trucks were supposed to be the answer to Ford. They launch a new product and you have to admit, the HD trucks are highly controversial even on this site. That means GM missed. Secondly, the interior is a rehash of the prior generation. It has the same look like the center dash is giving birth to the radio and HVAC. The very fact GM is introducing a new interior in 22 says it all. GM even admitted, because Chrysler got their trucks out earlier than predicted GM had to rush their truck to the market foregoing an all new interior. The design didn’t win because Ford is still outselling Chevy. I’m no fan of Ford but the Super-Duty is a sharp truck.
Chevy outsells Ford in the Northeast. More importantly, GM trucks combined outsold Ford last year. Had Ram not stepped up their interior game, no one would be complaining about GM’s interiors. They are inoffensive and, most importantly, functional. Ram did, however, which caught everyone off guard. These things happen in the industry. Ram and Chevy unveiled their trucks very close together, and GM already had their interior locked in.
Locked in as cheap as possible.
Locked in because there were no complaints on the previous interior (actually, the previous interior was considered very well against its competitors), so they opted for an evolutionary approach, which, had Ram not raised the bar, would have been totally fine.
SILVA-WADO!
General Motors should make it easier to select individual items when ordering a new truck instead of having to spend $2,650. just to get a auto dimming interior mirror for example.
I’m a Chevy/GMC fan but these requirement are absolutely horrific. These package type of deals are absurd. They require you order stuff you wouldn’t buy in a million years & for an insane price..
I agree. I order a RST in early January (still waiting for delivery) and the 2 options I wanted were power folding mirrors and braking assistance. Had to go up to a level or two and I didn’t see the value for the additional cost. Meanwhile you can buy a basic car with the braking option from other brands.
In case you have not noticed the trend has been moving to packages and up-selling to higher trim levels.
It’s really not just to charge more, they know customers are price conscious and will go elsewhere if they can get a cheaper truck without extras they don’t want. It is hell in the factory if every single option is independent. And some of them it’s just not physically possible. You have to try to bundle stuff commonly desired together into packages. It’s not perfect, obviously everyone has slightly different preferences in what they want but you can’t do one-off builds at the kind of volumes they are producing. The more customization you allow, the higher the price and the lower the quality, plus dealer inventory is impossible because you’ll never have the exact config someone wants on the lot. I agree it’s frustrating, I ordered a Ford last year and I got a couple things I don’t care for either but it is what it is.
Let’s look at MR7112003’s example making mirror options stand alone. Off the top of my head there would be 6 different options for the small mirror (power fold, heat, LED markers, tow/small size, mirror caps, power glass), and 7 for the tow mirrors (also have power extend I think). Each of those options has 2 possible choices, except the mirror caps which I think has 8 colors (notice how a High Country has less paint color options to limit the amount of unique part numbers for the items that are body colored in that trim). So that’s 768 unique mirror assemblies per side of the truck, 1,536 total. Plus that drives changes to the dash, door panels, buttons, wiring harnesses, relays, software, fuses, etc. It just gets complicated really fast, and then service parts also is a nightmare because you have to stock an unbelievable amount of parts for the next 20 years. And that makes repairs more expensive and take longer.
Extrapolate that out from just the mirror to every part of the truck and the numbers are staggering. Ford did a project for the ’09 model year to limit build configurations. In ’08, they had BILLIONS of possible order configurations on the F-150. They were selling about 400k trucks/year. That means you could theoretically produce the ’08 for THOUSANDS of years and never have a repeat truck. And dealers were complaining because it was so complicated to order trucks and have the right one on the lot for a customer. They dropped it to 10 million configs for ’09….so still an unbelievable amount of options. And Chevy I’m sure is very similar if not more when you include GMC. Compare that to the other extreme of a Tesla Model S. 3 powertrain configs, 5 paint colors, 2 wheels, 3 interior colors, and self driving. 180 total order combinations….and their new truck won’t even have paint color choices. More options in a Chevy mirror than an entire Tesla.
I mostly agree with you,but still feel that there is a motive to increase transaction prices Wiring harnesses and fuse blocks are mostly standardized to avoid confusion on the line but for example no fog lights available on a non Z71 LT when all it takes is a different headlight switch and bcm programming.
I just want them to return to making a regular cab long bed 1500 in the LT. Hate the ugly work truck!
GM needs to add 2 cylinders to the 2.7 liter to make it actual desirable engine, it would be about 4 liters and 465 horses.
That is fords MO
GM needs to add two more cylinders to the 2.7 liter turbo and make it actual desirable engine, it would be about 4 liters and 465 horses.
The Mini-Duramax 3.0 lit. In line 6 Cyl. Diesel with 470 ft. lbs. of torque and over thirty mpg it’s very appealing with the standard 10 speed transmission.
Wait until the gas prices go up to 15.00 per gallon, you will have all the trucks you want at great prices.
Don
Donald-
Gas isn’t going to reach $15.00 a gallon in your lifetime.
GM needs to design cra$$y interior ASAP!
Where have you been,that should have been done in 18 it will be done for 22,23 for HD. They are pinching pennies for EV development.
Just fix the cra**y interior ASAP!
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