The refreshed 2024 Chevy Silverado HD was just caught conducting some real-world testing, providing our first look at the heavy duty pickup in prototype form.
This particular model is configured in the Crew Cab / Long Bed body style, and is covered in heavy camouflage. This model also appears to be a mid-tier trim level, given the lack of shiny trim bits that characterize higher trims. Nevertheless, there are still several noteworthy features to point out on this prototype 2024 Chevy Silverado HD, starting with the reworked front fascia, where we spot headlights with LED lighting signatures.
While the headlights seen here are only placeholder units, the configuration points to a new, simpler design than the current model. The clusters have two forward-facing lighting elements placed horizontally, above which sits an LED lighting signature strip.
This 2024 Chevy Silverado HD also has a revised front fascia also boasts a new grille, with broad horizontal slats that seem to offer a simplified and cleaner design than that of the current Silverado HD. The rear end will also be revised with the upcoming refresh.
Although the interior was likewise covered in heavy camo, the refreshed 2024 Chevy Silverado HD will also arrive with a refreshed cabin space.
Further revisions with the 2024 Chevy Silverado HD refresh include powertrain updates, as GM Authority covered previously. The powertrain updates will likely be applied to the atmospheric 6.6L V8 L8T and 6.6L V8 L5P turbodiesel Duramax. The same updates will be applied to the Chevy Silverado HD’s corporate cousin, the GMC Sierra HD, which will also to receive a refresh for the 2024 model year.
Originally expected to receive a refresh for the 2023 model year, the Chevy Silverado HD refresh will now in fact take place for the 2024 model year. The model refresh cycle has been pushed back a model year as a result of several factors, including delays stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic and the global microchip shortage. What’s more, the current heavy duty models continue to sell quite well in the market place.
Chevrolet Silverado Sales Detail - Q2 2021 - USA
| Model | Q2 2021 / Q2 2020 | Q2 2021 | Q2 2020 | YTD 2021 / YTD 2020 | YTD 2021 | YTD 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | +34.5% | 164,731 | 122,432 | +9% | 291,322 | 267,166 |
| Silverado LD | +31.1% | 117,275 | 89,465 | +2.8% | 207,980 | 202,390 |
| Silverado HD | +42% | 44,431 | 31,279 | +26.4% | 78,430 | 62,052 |
| Silverado MD | +79.2% | 3,025 | 1,688 | +80.3% | 4,912 | 2,724 |
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These vehicles were in desperate need of a new front end. Hopefully this version will at least look decent.
I will start with the good and say I’m very glad to see the headlights are moving back to the upper part of the fascia. (No more worn out upside down jokes!) Also glad to see overdue powertrain and interior updates are coming. Now for the bad, 2024…. are they seriously making HD buyers wait until 2024 now?
Which means the overauled Silverado and Sierra 1500 that is due for that same year could get pushed back to 2025?, I can’t justify that being a fact but let’s just hope that a solution to this microchip shortage B.S. comes to surface well before either one of those two Model Years.
Which means they have to angle down the headlights further so as to not blind on coming traffic since they are much higher these days. They did that for a reason, the lower the light the further they can project it down the road without impacting traffic. But people whine because it isn’t attractive (it is a truck, it shouldn’t be pretty it should be useful) and they keep letting these yuppies have a say in design and features. You know what is going to happen, there are going to be countless complaint threads on forums about not being able to see as far at night with the new generation and a bunch of people adjusting them up and blinding on coming traffic/those they are behind. Leave the lights where they are, trucks design is fine, go ahead and tweak it some as you should with a refresh but keep it functional number one. Look on the bright side, it won’t be Tesla Truck ugly, not even close…
I don’t want to get my hopes up too much, But this is long overdue. The Current Chevy HD looks hideous and looks like it’s trying to cater to all the Bro Country and “Tough” guys. I don’t mind the interiors on the new trucks, even though its a sea of plastic, but They are in desperate need of a new front end. The current one is comical.
More like summer or late summer 2023 is when they will be released
Not a 2024, I’d say a 2022.5. Now that we know the half tons will be revealed early next month, it will be 6-8 months for the HD’s, if that, as not much is changing besides interior and some exterior panels. The HD’s are more important now than ever as more people are moving up from the LD’s to the HD’s. Chevy can’t afford to wait now that ranchers have moved their status vehicle from 1500’s to 2500’s. I do want to see some mild updates to the 6.6 gasser especially the inclusion of the 10l90 tranny.
I think the refreshed HD’s are coming sooner, what I have heard is late 2022 as a 2023 model, about 15 months from now.
If the chip shortage continues though, all bets are off…
I like your optimism but I agree with Donavan on this. With the refreshed 1500’s already being released late, I really don’t see the refreshed HD’s coming in 6-8 months. Trust me when I say I’m hoping to be wrong!
But why wait? Refreshed HD’s normally are a year latter cause they normally get a whole new body/powetrain/chassis, etc etc. that’s not the case here. This is a cosmetic update, with hopefully some increase in capability/new trail boss trim. They are not changing much and HD’s are becoming a more popular buy these days as they have become more refined. Early next spring is a very realistic date for a reveal and sales beginning early summer. Remember, ranchers and boat owners need that new interior with the Denali HD. A 2024 reveal would let that interior’s newness factor rub off.
Yes Jake, typical is 1 year, but these are not typical times, and the delays were not due to engineering or testing not being on time, its just the needed microprocessors for the new VIP (vehicle intelligence platform) systems going in the new trucks are not available at scale yet. Notice they have slowed production CT4 and CT5, those also use VIP platform.
1500’s are delayed due to the chip shortage, the engineering and testing is for the most part done, and work on Ft Wayne to get it ready for the changeover is ongoing. If the chip shortage softens at the end of 2021, GM will launch the refresh 1500’s in Q1 2022 (6 month delay) and the HD’s at the end of 2022 (3 month delay) It is all up to the Chips, and spread of Covid. Covid has been taking off in Malaysia, which is pushing GM’s plans out as that is where they have been getting many of the needed chips.
I hope for 3 things, better seats, better steering and brake feel, and better forward visibility (lower the front of the hood). Other then that I like my 2020 HD Denali.
I’m hoping the crappy interior stays, it’s very manly!
echo in here? or broken record
He needs some interior to tickle his beerbelly while DUI….
I agree!
Hopefully Chevy gets it’s own bed can’t stand the GMC taillights on the dually .. they look ten years old jmo.
I’m thinking this might be the Sierra HD, not the Silverado, or more specifically the Sierra HD in AT4 trim. Those wheels look like 8 lug versions of the 1500 AT4’s optional 6 lug 20″ wheels. Also, unlike the higher trim SLT and Denali, which do feature bright trim as pointed out in the article, the AT4 has body color and blacked out trim.
I think I saw this truck, or a similar one, about three weeks ago while travelling through Michigan. I was on 94 near Ann Arbor, when I saw a camouflaged black GM pick up heading west, travelling with a Ram HD and an F-250, that were obviously with it.
As to when they get here, I’m guessing it won’t be anytime soon. The LD refresh is over a year past when it was originally planned for release, and I wouldn’t be surprised to see the HD’s release dragging out quite a while too.
You can tell this is a Chevy by the hood-line and thinner flares. It also has flat black B-pillars (vs shiny on the AT4) and flat black door handles (vs painted on the AT4).
Yeah Chevys and gmc look like Fords they need to stop copping Ford serious
Ford copied the C-shaped daytime running lights from GMC and the center bar grille and split headlights design from Chevy so!
Just please make the 6.6 gasser less oil hungry. My 2020 has 11k on it now. Both oil changes were over a quart low. I can tell it is time by the excessive ticking after 3500 miles into an oil change. My dealer says this is normal. My buddy has the same truck…after first oil change at 5,018 miles towing heavy trailers often… no oil loss. New seat cover at 7,000 miles because it fell apart. I see why people I know have gone RAM.
You’re not getting better than 1 quart out of 8, in 6000 miles, with any modern engine. I don’t know why people complain about it. Passenger cars are regularly burning 1 quart in 3000 these days. It doesn’t matter unless the engine has a DPF/GPF.
When there’s no oil consumption, that’s actually a bad sign. What is going on is condensation or fuel dilution (which is a bigger issue in DI engines, and carbureted engines back in the day) is replacing the oil consumption, often coupled with a drive cycle (short trips) that prevents evaporation.
Interesting the you have oil consumption, but your buddy who tows does not? Hmm, you should run your truck hard for a tank of fuel. Hook on a trailer and go climb some big hills and push it, or run it through a series of hard accelerations to 5000 rpm. Sometimes if you drive very light footed all the time you never build enough heat in the cylinders to properly seat the rings. My grandma had this problem, her car even smoked at 18K miles. I took it out and ran the heck out of it for a tank of fuel and it was fixed.
I have a 2021 silverado hd with 6.6 gas drove it 600 miles then towed a 8500# travel trailer from Asheville, NC to San Francisco and back. Got oil changed in St Louis at 7100 miles did not use a drop. Now at 9500 miles and still no oil used. Truck did great towing love my truck.
Ah, the old Italian tune-up!
I really wish that Chevy designed new better-looking side mirrors for that truck. Although they offer great visibility, they are hard to look at.
I concur. The mirrors are atrocious on both 1/2 tons and 1 tons. I would like to see them mounted back on the corner of the window, versus on the door.
They are more functional, who cares how they look? If people that had no business buying a truck and only do it for the image would stop we would have more useful and durable trucks. Oh, the mirrors aren’t attractive, go buy a nice luxury sedan…
Complain all you want about the current looks of the GM HD’s, they are selling more HD’s now compared to the other guys than they ever have. The dealers all over have waiting lists, when the trucks hit the ground, the ones that have not been presold seldom make it off the truck before they are sold. I am not saying the looks couldn’t be improved, but it is far from the disaster that many try to make it out to be.
Chevy HD has the ugliest grill out there. gm grill designs have been bad for years. However, their interiors are a bigger problem. Out of date, inferior materials. Why my wife switched to RAM after 20 years of gm trucks. She loves her new RAM.
A lot of wives do like the Ram. I think estrogen helps with that.
She liked the RAM interior much better than GMC. I have to admit I also did. She was also impressed by the softer ride delivered by the rear coil springs and air ride. It was 100% her decision. So far the RAM has been flawless. Several of her horse owner friends now drive RAMs.
Yup, lets put attractiveness and dolled up interiors over actual functional truck duties and ease of use. Heck with a durable and functional interior that lasts and rather get the one that looks like it is straight out of a car. Instead of complaining about that, maybe take a look at how they added 20% of capacity (if my memory recalls correctly) to the bed, strengthened the frames and drive trains with bigger axles. Developed new engines and transmissions and concentrated on you know, truck stuff. How do they get rewarded, buy yuppies complaining that the interior isn’t pretty and the grill/mirrors are ugly. It is about function, The mirrors leave more visibility, the lower headlights allow light to project further down the road without blinding traffic with how tall trucks have gotten. I bet that is part of the reason Ford went with a stacked 4 headlight always on design, they can project further down with the lights lower…
Hope the power train upgrades will compare with Ford. No drag behind with less.
Guess I’m strange…. I like the look of the 2021 HD.
I like them too, best looking truck on the road in my opinion
I have a 2002 heavy duty three-quarter ton with a 8.1 liter gas motor I purchased this new and have had it all these years it now has just over 200,000 miles , still has factory brakes love the Allison automatic and the pushbutton 4 x 4 ! I would not purchase any of the new ones that I’ve seen on the market for l 2002 through 2004 ! !
Lon in OREGON
Should say 2021 thru 2024