General Motors will introduce a 2022 Chevy Silverado 1500 Limited based on the current version of the full-size pickup before releasing the mid-cycle enhancement model at a later date, GM Authority can confirm.
The automaker was previously set to introduce an updated version of the Chevy Silverado 1500 for the 2022 model year, which will feature revised exterior styling, an overhauled interior and other changes. GM Authority has now learned this mid-cycle enhancement for the Chevy Silverado 1500 has been pushed back, with a 2022 Chevy Silverado 1500 Limited continuation model set to arrive in its place.
The Chevy Silverado 1500 Limited will carry over all aspects of the pre-update 2021 model year Chevy Silverado 1500, including trim levels, options and exterior and interior colors. The Limited will serve as a stop-gap to the mid-cycle enhancement model, which now may not arrive until late in the 2022 model year or at the start of the 2023 model year. Production of the 2022 Chevy Silverado 1500 Limited will begin at the GM Silao plant in Mexico on September 20th and at the GM Fort Wayne Assembly plant in Indiana on September 27th. Order books for the 2022 Chevy Silverado lineup will open on July 15th.
This is the same strategy GM is taking with the updated 2022 GMC Sierra 1500, which was set to arrive at the same time as the updated Silverado 1500. Like the Silverado, the updated Sierra has been delayed indefinitely, with a Sierra 1500 Limited continuation model set to arrive in its place. The updated GMC Sierra 1500 likely will not arrive until late in the 2022 model year or the beginning of the 2023 model year.
GM used a similar strategy when the T1 platform GMC Sierra 1500 was released for the 2019 model year. The automaker briefly offered GMC Sierra 1500 Limited model at the time, which was based on the previous-generation Sierra 1500 and offered customers a budget alternative to the newly updated truck. So while this strategy isn’t too common in the industry, it’s not unheard of for GM’s line of full-size pickups.
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Another year of a Limited cheap, crappy interior! Typical gm, they had to go back to the drawing board because their new interior is still inferior to Ford and RAM. While your at it gm, give us more interior colors instead of boring black and put the Escalade dash in trucks, you’ll save money instead of redesigning current monstrosity.
I find it interesting that GM’s bland, horrible interior is actually outselling the new F150 this year. Yes, individually, Ford is still leading (and with Ram pushing their classic old body trucks to about 1/3 of sales, they are doing very well), but the GM trucks combined are actually outselling them all, which means the interior can’t be that bad (and no, GM doesn’t have any larger incentives than Ford on trucks during this period of non-existent inventory.
All manu’s are having stock issues, chips shortages, etc, so everyone is on a level playing field for the most part.
Full-size truck sales: 1st Half 2021
Model 1st Half 2021 1st Half 2020 Change (%)
GM Trucks (COMBINED) 424,822 371,275 +14.4%
Ford F-Series 362,032 367,387 -1.5%
Ram Trucks 313,068 246,253 +27.1%
Chevy Silverado 286,410 264,442 +8.3%
GMC Sierra 138,412 106,833 +29.6%
Toyota Tundra 43,865 48,880 -10.3%
Nissan Titan 17,776 12,196 45.8%
— — —
–TOTAL: 1,586,385 1,417,266 11.9%
The interior isn’t terrible.
It’s just not a great evolution from the previous generation, where knobs that are easy to turn with gloves on and big, well marked buttons are now replaced by rows of difficult-to-find small buttons.
It would be nice to see GM do a dual-interior option, like the GMT-900s had. Utilitarian or SUV interior – customer choice.
You lost all credibility when you said put the Escalade dash in the trucks. These are trucks, they need to be functional and that is not at all functional for work. Can you imagine plumber Joe driving a WT with that in it? Come on man, we know you aren’t a truck guy but stop trying to troll everyone by putting your car based views on these trucks. They are selling very well for a reason, more so than you know. Take a seat in the corner and let mom make you some pizza rolls kid…
Excellent comment Shockandawe, I 100% agree!!! It would also help if GM stopped competing GM trucks against each other as they do with Chevy and GMC. Do you see Ford competing any other Ford against their F150, 250…? How about Mopar, do you see Ram competing any other Mopar offering against it’s Ram 1500, 2500…? The answer is NO, and that allows them to offer a much better product an interior. In fact, it was this same competing of the same brands that got automakers in trouble during the Obama years. Think of it, with the new GM T1 platform that began in 2019, Chevrolet had to rethink it’s engine offerings when they ran across towing issues against the competition which finally led them to offering the 6.2L in several Silverado trims as opposed to being reserved for GMC Sierra’s. GM needs to develop one truck line, either GMC or Chevrolet, but not both, having both gives us customers a crap product. The only reason I purchased a 2019 Chevrolet Silverado is because they upfitted it by SCA as a Black Widow. If it wasn’t for the Chevrolet Silverado SCA Black Widow, I would be either an F150 or Ram 1500 owner. Sad, because I have been a GM guy since I was 18 and my first Chevrolet Chevette through my absolute favorite Pontiac Fiero GT and on to several Tahoe’s and Silverado’s. I really want to see GM put together a competitive truck that looks great, has great gas or diesel power (hint: GM STOP the electric crap!!!), has a really keen and functional interior and……and….A panoramic sun/moon roof, enough of these little 1962 picture window sun/moon roofs. The one thing I would encourage GM to do more of is upfitting via SCA, Rocky Ridge or Tuscany and make them available on dealer lots, this is a great marketing strategy and the custom community and demand is really growing.
With GM selling more full size trucks than Ford and Ram so far in 2021, I really think some people are making more of the ‘crappy’ interior than what is really being said by most buyers. Could it be nicer, hell yes. But it is quite apparent it is not stopping people from buying them, especially since no one manufacturer has any real crazy incentives on during this vehicle shortage, which means they are pretty much on level playing fields. It is also apparent that having two trucks to choose from is a good strategy, because having two different looking but exact same underpinned trucks is selling more trucks. The proof is in the numbers.
Also, Ram is selling two trucks against each other: the new generation and the old generation are still being sold side by side in 2021 competing against each other as the upper priced old body overlaps the new body offerings in pricing. They just get to call them all RAMS.
There is nothing wrong with GM’s engine choices versus the competition. The 5.3 is proven (yes, it could use a power boost, but the 10-speed really woke that powertrain up), the 6.2 is there for those who demand power, and the diesel is the best rated diesel on the market in a half ton. Every single review on it says it out-performs the RAM and Ford diesels in real world power, driving, and especially real world fuel economy.
The expansion of the 6.2 availability in various trims had nothing really to do with competition towing specs, but the time it took for GM to increase production capability of the 6.2L since it is used in so many different GM vehicles. Plus GM needed to keep their overall carbon totals for all vehicle lines within government limits, which meant the more 2.7L’s that began to sell once people tested them out, the more 6.2L’s GM could sell to balance off pollution limits. There is a lot more behind powertrain offerings than most people realize. Ford usually has to buy pollution credits each year to balance off theirs to make the mandated limits, costing Ford a ton of money.
Every manufacturer can improve their trucks. Ford should be focusing on the programming of their horrendous version of the 10-speed. I have also heard a few 2018 and newer ecobooms rattling as I sit beside them at lights. Ram may look pretty, but the RAM forums are full of owners with electrical, programming and quality control issues. They don’t have many powertrain issues…… because that hemi and 8-speed are 20 yrs old and should be fine by now.
The Silverado Custom interior is as good if not better than comparable F150 STX…. definitely not cheap or crappy! RAM? Not really interested either way….
They might as well just wait till the 2025 redesign
Someone knows please if this means that the updated (2023?) model will be launched in a year, since the 2022 model will be available on July 15th ?
I’ve been waiting for the upgraded version, if this limited model comes with a nice list of options at a good price, might buy it instead. I’m also looking at other options (brands) since the updated model takes a long time to arrive.
It looks like it will not be launched until the end of 2022 or start of 2023.
The email we received from GM about it stated that they would be announcing the refreshed model “later this fall.” Like you, I’m waiting to get my hands on it. Hopefully a fall announcement means that we could expect it in late winter or spring 2022.
-Chevy Sales
And during that timeline, the refresh models won’t be on sale for too long before the 2024 Redesigned Trucks come on board, or will they possibly push that date back to 2025?, too early to tell.
Why the limited bs. if you are not going to sell the refreshed model till after Jan 1 call it a 23
Makes a whole lot of sense to me also.
Well as I feared no new Denali 3500 for me this year, and no new 1500 off-road diesel package silverado daily driver either. Thank goodness to gm I am a blind fanboy! I will wait.
This makes absolutely no sense. GM has announced that the ZR2 will arrive this fall….. so September. How will they release the ZR2 with the new updates (are they really going to keep the old Facia and interior on the trim for 6 months? The only thing that makes sense is that the “limited trim” will be a parts bin combination that they can sell at maximum discount while the new ones roll out…. likely this fall with the ZR2. Why else in the world make a limited trim? That would cut into sales of the LTZ and LT trims assuming no update released.
They announce it will “arrive” this fall, which likely means that is when they will debut it, with production starting at a later date. Or the other scenario will be that production will start this fall (late fall, like October) and trucks being delivered to dealers in December or January like the regular trim levels.
Also, the Limited is not a trim, it is the actual model. So all early 2022 Silverado’s with the current 2021 styling will be Limiteds. They used to call them Classics, meaning the previous generation body style. They call them Limiteds because there will be a limited number of the old-body 2022’s built until the new body 2022’s can get rolled out. So the Limiteds will still have the various trims (WT, Custom, Cust TB, LT, RST, LT-TB, LTZ and HC), they will just be 2022’s with the “old” or 2021 body style.
They did this in 2019 when the current body style rolled out. They also had 2019 Limits, which were 2019’s with the old 2017-2018 body style.
This often happens because it costs hundreds of millions to shut down 2 or 3 plants all at once to retool the production line for a new body, interior. It means 1-2 mths of not building any trucks. So instead they shut down 2 while keeping the third open, building trucks in the previous generation body style so they can still get some trucks to dealerships to sell. The last plant gets shut down and retooled once the first two are up and building the new body style.
I think they are doing what Ram is doing….selling a cheaper truck alongside their more expensive models.
This is probably more about keeping production humming along during a chip shortage than it is about delaying the redesign.
None of this is due to a chip shortage, look at Ford, they introduced new F-150 and Bronco, yet gm can’t give us a new interior. This is due more to Mary’s stupid electrics, she takes all the profits from the trucks and uses on her Lectrics.
I don’t see Ford canabalizing their ICE vehicles to build electric vehicles.
They are just doing it so they can squeeze extra profit out of a dated interior that should have never came out on the 19.It will now cost them a few bucks more for a up to date interior and they cant go crazy on raising prices or sales will suffer.
I think its about time for a new CEO at GM. In the end they are the person responsible. I’ve been a lifelong GM owner but my last two purchases (2017 Acadia) has been nothing but a $52K rattle box POS. The 2013 Tahoe prior to it was an oil burning turd with multiple problems with the AFM system. They can’t even get their stuff together on release dates let alone build a quality vehicle. I am not impressed with GM’s direction over the last 10 years.
Yeah, because the company hasn’t become increasingly profitable, have had a solid increase in stocks, simplified their portfolio and increased ATP while she has been at the helm. She has done a good job, too much flack goes against her and it seems it is just because she is a woman…
Seems to me you need to embrace your screen name and get some. If you actually think GM has been competitive in the auto market over the last 10 years maybe you should do some research. Just look how bad their vehicles are preforming in reliability studies, customer satisfaction and side by side comparisons with other vehicle manufactures. GM can’t even get their release dates right. GM’s CEO has not done a good job of leading the company in making quality vehicles; which is a whole lot more important to the consumer than profits and stock value. Making a sub-par product will hurt GM’s bottom line in the long run. Man or woman has nothing to do with it. But I suppose people like you always have to default to sexism.
Which studies are you speaking of? Do you mean the 2020 JDPowers reliability ratings that has Buick, Cadillac and Chevy all above the industry average (while Ram is below and Ford is way below)? Or JDPowers Best vehicles of 2020 where Chevy was the second most awarded brand? Or their most dependable cars where GM won 3 out of 4 categories? Or are you relying on good old unreliable Consumer reports where they have Tesla having the most satisfied customers while Tesla actually had the worst reliability rating in JDPowers quality surveys? Hard to believe CR can have a survey showing Tesla has the most satisfied customers yet JDPowers showed Tesla having the lowest quality of all brands in 2020. I guess Tesla owners don’t mind poor quality? Good old CR.
The fact GM has sold more full size trucks in 2021 so far than Ford has, says that they are extremely competitive in the market.
General Motors was the best-selling brand in the US in 2019 (2,870,165 units) and 2020 (2,537,590 units) above Toyota (number 2) and Ford (number 3). Again, proving GM is very competitive in the auto market.
Ya the JD one that has Buick and Cadillac rated lower than Toyota, Kia, and a couple others. Chevrolet 12th on the list and GMC 26th on the list. Hardly anything to be proud of when your “flagship” division Cadillac rates lower than Kia and Toyota. As far as industry reviews, I read several. The consensus seems to be GM is falling behind. I too think consumer reports is a complete joke, I don’t waste my time reading their magazines. As far as sales go (trucks), I’m sure that has a lot more to do with availability. We will see next year when the market stabilizes. To date me and my family have only owned GM products. I’m not young; I’ve owned several. My guess is far more than you have. After all I am retired and have time to comment on message boards like this one. My last two have been crap. The couple prior to them were not that great either. They were not exactly Cobalts and Sparks either. They were some of the nicer vehicles GM had to offer at the time. My next purchase won’t be GM because of this. That’s the beauty of living in the US, we are all free to purchase what we like. I’m just no longer a blinded GM loyalist.
As far as global sales GM is not the best selling brand. It varies from 3rd to 6th depending on which article you choose to believe.
I agree. I am strongly considering a Traverse though as I think it’s one of their bright spots (and the Tahoes except they’re overpriced). My 2018 Silverado has been basically problem free but it’s got a lot of other “issues” like poor ride quality, rattles, quirks, wavy body panels etc.
Poor ride quaility? It is a truck, not a car. It can do work, it won’t ride like a Cadillac and it shouldn’t. The new Dodge’s ride nice, but can’t carry the same load or have a complicated air rides that aren’t reliable. Too many car guys buying trucks because they think it looks cool for their image and whining about the ride or truck like interior. Hello mcfly, it is a truck…
too much flack goes against Mr. Mike and it seems it is just because he is a man…
GM… WTF are you doing, man? (Facepalm)
So unless GM makes other changes which they won’t do these interior updates will be dated before they even hit the dealers…. Wtf!
My 2014 Silverado is still going strong no issues. I was wanting to upgrade to the new model with new interior 9 ( since the current looks to much like my 2014), Looks like I will have to wait till……… who real knows. May just wait for the total new design in 2025 or 2026.
The competition charges full steam ahead, while GM lingers endlessly and falls farther and farther behind. How is it the rest of the industry is able to launch new products left and right, but GM can’t? Excuses, excuses…
Launching a new truck (Toyota) and delivering a new truck (F150) are two different things. Ford launched the new F150 before the chip shortage, and was able to secure a set number of chips so they could produce them well into the model year. Now they are having the same supply issue as GM, RAM, etc.
Toyota debuted the new Tundra, but actually delivering them to dealers is a different thing. A local Toyota sales manager told me he expects one or two at a time for the first few months due to chip shortages.
A manufacturer can “launch” as many new vehicles as they care to to start creating the hype for it. But building and getting them to dealerships will be the bottleneck.
You would have to be stupid to buy a GM truck anytime soon. The 1500 trucks, gas AND diesel are both having engine issues. 6.2’s blowing up, diesel engines blowing rear main seals, failing to start, etc. Interiors that are from 2014, hideous styling.
What troll? Have you checked the other brands and the issues they are having? The 6.2’s had a bad batch of valve springs, caught it and fixing it. Diesels not even sure what you are spouting off about here, probably read one or two on the forums and decided to make it out like something all trucks have which is never the case (anyone remember the AFM issues that people made out like it impacted 50% of the trucks when in reality is was like 0.00025% of the millions they produced). Either way, take that nonsense somewhere else. Truck guys want a functional truck, we hate when people like you come from the car world and want a dolled up car interior in the truck because you have zero use for one and just want to purchase it for the image because that is what all you suburban dads drive no a days and you have to fit in. You run up to the 4WP store and level it with big mud tires and black off road wheels (usually of the Fuel or Method variety) and post up at your kids soccer game or startbucks talking about lockers, 35’s and touch screens and vented seats while sipping your complicated coffee order. Take that crap somewhere else and buy a luxury CUV please…
Everything I said is true, you may not want to believe it because you’re one of the stupid people that bought a modern GM 1500 truck.
The V8 engine issues is a time of production thing. Engines built between certain dates had a bad spec valve spring from the supplier (which there would be no way for GM to know about seeing how they don’t test every valve spring before it is put into a vehicle). Both 5.3 and 6.2s within those dates are having the issue. GM knows about it and is replacing them if a customer has an issue.
The diesel has had very few problems. We have sold many of them and have had a couple back for issues (one being a no-start – fix was a computer reflash, and one for another electrical issue). We have had none back for the rear main oil leak. Again, it is an issue a few have had, but again likely a quality issue from the supplier of the seal and there would be no way for GM to know until they see some having leaks.
There is no doubt you are blowing things way out of proportion on the issues. GM has sold 425,000 full size trucks year to date between GMC and Chevy, and the valve issue is affecting less than 3% (and only trucks built between certain dates), and of course on the truck forums you probably follow, anyone with the issue is going to be on there complaining, but the hundreds of thousands not having the issue won’t be.
Go read up on the F150 and Ram forums and see all the issues they are having. The F150 10-speed transmission issues is endless (Ford has their own programming for it, which is why they are having issues but GM is not). The RAM is having tons of electrical and computer issues.
And seeing how GM has sold more new trucks (GMC and Silverado) than F150 or Ram in 2021, the interiors can’t be that bad for the vast majority of customers. The proof is in the sales numbers, not your personal opinion.
lol, I don’t even know where to begin. Clearly you work at a small GM dealer and are not well informed. There is no current fix for the diesel no start issue. Period. Whatever old ECM flash you have done for your customers is not a fix; they will be back, GM has no fix currently.
If you don’t have many customers experiencing this then that just means you are a small dealer and haven’t sold many diesel trucks. It is happening to thousands if not tens of thousands of customers, with 2021 trucks. People with 2020 trucks are starting to experience it if they got a newer ECM flash in the last 10 months for another issue.
Are you going to try to argue about the interiors? We should compare some pictures lmfao
I am not saying the issue isn’t happening; just that we have only seen one, and since a reflash the customer hasn’t had a single issue in nearly 4500 kms. We aren’t a giant dealership, but we do have over 100 of these on the road (in a time where there have been few GM trucks to sell in the last 4 mths), and that is the only no-start we have seen. I know there are posts on forums all over with guys having the issue, but how many of these are the same guys on all the forums? GM knows there is an issue, and likely a computer issue. So they will fix it. Plus it never leaves anyone stranded. It is reported to always start instantly on the second attempt. So clearly a programming issue.
Ford still hasn’t come up with a solid fix for the issues with their 10-speed after all this time. Bandaid after bandaid. And I have heard more RAM hemi’s since 2018 ticking/knocking than the old GM 5.3’s from years gone by. We have seven used RAMS on the lot right now, all 2018 – 2020, and four of them sound like a diesel when starting.
My point is all manu’s have problems. There’s over 15,000 parts on a vehicle, most of which are outsourced to suppliers, who also have production issues from time to time.
As for the styling and interior of the trucks, I let the sales numbers do the talking. And with GM outselling Ford and Ram this year on full size trucks so far, I’d say you opinion is in the minority.
The current interior design might not be the most beautiful around but it’s extremely functional and user friendly. It’s a truck not a Lexus or Cadillac. I prefer functionality over IPad looking screens all over the place.
As a GM retiree, owner, and big fan, and also the owner of GM stock, hopefully, this move will help the share price going forward. I was not planning on buying anything for a year or two. I hope an increase in share price will pay for my next purchase.
Then why not just extend the 2021s into the 2022s without the “Limited” and just come out with the refresh starting with 2023s? SMDH…
Sounds like lots of leftover parts so it’s a 2022 but really it’s a 2021-2019.
Like my 2019 LD built with all 2018 K2 parts, body style included!
Can’t think of a reason other than the fact that history shows us that GM dilly – dallies year in and year out when it comes to change. I’ve bought (new) dozens of GM vehicles since 1968 including Vettes, Supersports, sedans, SUVs, econoboxes and pickups. And most were ordered to my tastes.
I now want a shortbed Silverado or Sierra 1500 4X4, V-8.
Chevy sells them abroad and obviously has the frame and bed. The geniuses in marketing likely feel that it can’t justify the numbers. WTF rely on them when you already have the pieces ?? And they will sell – maybe not in extended or crew cab numbers, but they will add to the profit sheet.
Otherwise Ram and Ford wouldn’t offer them.
Once the chip shortage is over( and it soon will be history), they’ll come up with more excuses.
Knew Chevy/GMC would both produce Limited versions. Still anxious to see if Chevy/GMC refreshed pickups or the ’22 Tundra will win the first one to the dealership race.
are we ever going to get a 2wd, regular cab, short bed ?????
I dont see anything wrong with the current appearance of the Chevy Silverado interior. Looks good, and I don’t need some over the top fancy interior. As long as the keep the column shifter im good. I can wait to order one this fall. Going with the Trail Boss.
Spy shots of the 2022 Silverado redesign show an updated dash with the shifter gone for buttons on the center dash (sad) and a bigger radio screen similar to the Tahoe/Suburban current version.