2023 GMC Sierra HD Refresh Spied Testing With Production Headlights
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The 2023 GMC Sierra HD is set to introduce a model refresh with a variety of changes and updates, including new styling. Now, we’re getting an early look at the heavy-duty pickup’s revised exterior with the following spy photos.
Initial prototypes for the refreshed 2023 GMC Sierra HD included early placeholder lighting. Now, however, development for the heavy-duty pickup’s upcoming facelift has progressed, and as such, we’re getting an eyeful of a prototype testing on public roads with the production-spec headlights.
In fact, this is our first look at the 2023 GMC Sierra HD’s new LED lighting signature and headlight unit, which are visible through small cutouts in the camouflage mesh covering the refreshed front end.
Interestingly, the refreshed 2023 GMC Sierra headlights appear to have a new “projector beam” design. Rather than the vertically stacked three-light cluster equipped by the current pickup, these revised headlights may instead incorporate a four-light cluster that’s arranged higher in the front fascia.
Current GMC Sierra HD
2023 GMC Sierra HD
What’s more, the refreshed 2023 GMC Sierra HD also appears to have an updated LED lighting signature highlighting the top portion of the new headlight cluster. The new LED signature has a more organic shape to it, revising the blocky signature of the current model. The new LED signature is very bright, possibly even brighter than the current model’s LED signature. Indeed, the new LED lighting is quite intense, even in the daylight.
Originally, GM Authority reported that the GMC Sierra HD model refresh would debut with the introduction of the 2023 model year, but due to complications stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing global microchip shortage, it was later stated that the refresh could be delayed to the 2024 model year. Now, however, GM Authority has learned that the refreshed GMC Sierra HD is back on track for the 2023 model year, at least for the time being.
In addition to new exterior styling up front, the refreshed 2023 GMC Sierra HD is also expected to introduce new styling in the rear, a new interior, and potentially a few powertrain updates as well.
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Why doesn’t the GMC Sierra HD offer a crew cab with short bed?
It does
GM switched there refresh back to 2023 instead of 2024 because Ford super duty is refreshing in 2023. LOOK at the stupid looking door mounted mirrors in the photo , all the dark paint colors, dark ugly wheels, black wall tires , no two tone options, cheap unfinished black plastics all over the truck, painted bumpers that chip so easy from road debris, and you open the door of the truck to cheap interiors full of blown plastic, thin cheap seats, No wow factory in a GM truck that says buy me. If you remove the high country emblem or denali emblem off the door, GM looks like a work truck for 40 grand not like a 80 grand truck it should be.
How embarrassing for you Mickey, I’m pretty sure my 5’th grader has a better command of the English language. If you’re no longer in school, do yourself a favor and either stop posting comments online, or go back to school. Stupid comments from a clearly stupid person.
gm switched the release date from 2024 MY back to the 2023 MY due to their resolve in the chip shortage issue and not because Ford is updating their Super Duty Truck.
Someone very informed at the closed FB-site
L5P Duramax Owners
claims that all of this talk about 505 hp and so on it´s a false rumour that was initiated by TFL truck.
James , you been asleep for 40 years , most crew cabs they build are short beds
Mickey you don’t know what you talking about they don’t make a GMC Sierra 2500HD in a crew cab with a 69.92″short bed.
They don’t make an HD with a 5 foot bed because it would look stupid, and is useless for people that actually use it as a truck.
Someone must be asleep because when I try to build a GMC Sierra 2500HD it only offers a crew cab standard bed box 82.20″ and a crew cab long bed at 98.27″ that is not a short bed my 1500 has short bed 69.92″ someone else needs to wake up.
Anyone that dare speculate when this classleading SD will be revealed and when it´s going to be massproduced?
NAIAS is moved to Sept this year and the coming.
Mickey, I’m curious as to whether or not you own one of these “cheap looking” GM trucks? As a proud owner of a 21’ 3500 AT4 longbed, I can assure you there’s nothing “cheap” about these trucks. The fit and finish of these trucks is unlike anything I’ve seen in terms of detail and quality. From the smallest stitching details in the seats, to control ergonomics, it’s all there. I personally like the rough look of the fender molds, side step inserts, rear step inserts, etc. A spray in bedliner with the AT4 logo embossed, the color matched lower lined rockers, well liners, etc., etc. Ive got features I haven’t even discovered yet. You talk about cheap color matched front fascia probe to chipping? My 19’ 2500 Ram with sport appearance package had 10x more rock chips in it than my AT4, and I work construction. It’s unfair to the general public to introduce such a biased opinion based on nothing but a walk around. Own one first and then give some honest feedback.
James , a gmc sierra HD does not have a 5 and a half foot bed like the 1500 series, never has ever. itys has a short bed 6.5′ bed, or an 8′ long.
I know that I wished they would put the 5 and a half on the GMC Sierra HD.
Get a Tahoe/Yukon or a Prius then.
GEORGE, Yes I own a cheap 2019 Gmc Denali 2500 , All the crap issues from quality and GM cost cutting are right on the money.
Your new AT4 might have some better upgrades or some better stiching because gm is trying to fix there cheap interiors. THe black unfinished plastics on bed steps, rear step, wheel lip moldings , running boards ect are just that, cheap unfinished plastic, two years from now let me know what you think when the paint on truck still shines and all the cheap unfinished plastics are all weathered and turning white. these trucks cost to much money for them to look so bad after 2 years and they do. i got the spray in bedliner too, but that to will be all faded out in 2 years. the seats in your truck like mine are cheap and thin. your Ram seats were much nicer and I know that too because I own a brand new 2021 Ram 3500 Mega cab HO Diesel, Aisin transmission and yes I have painted bumpers on my Ram as I do on the denali. My denali has chips, and yes my new Ram has 3 chips already, chrome never chips. Your AT4 will chip too, The Ram with 1075lb of Torque will yank the AT4 900lb torque duramax down the road sideways Because the cummins HO motor does nothing but want to pull, pull, pull. GM puts cheap good year tires on them. and your new truck sits 3″ higher than last years models, Im a GC in florida, I stand 6’1” tall and my dam tool box lid sits at eye level, its dumb how high these trucks are now. by the way , if you buy a gm truck you get a cheap black blown plastic interior or you get a cheap black interior with walnut accents, gm dont offer any other color. when I drive my denali, the stupid tech of lane change , collision, ect is flawed badly. warning sensors go off and there aint nothing there. the engine brake on a duramax is weak at best, the Ram slows in a heart beat. the denali does ride good because of the torshion bar front suspension. you ever notice the cab steps on your AT4 are mounted to the bottom of the doors with the same bracket that is on a 1500 series, its cost cutting crap. Ram and Ford both make a different bracket so the boards hang a little lower for easier access. Ram has is quarks too, but the Ram is not cheap looking. Like I said earlier If you take the word high country or denali off the door, its looks like a custom work truck.
Putting a 5.5′ bed on an HD would be problem with the RV crowd and anyone else that actually works out of it. Pulling a fifth wheel with a 6.5′ bed can be a challenge depending on the trailer. A bed that is a foot shorter would very difficult. Also believe it or not, many actually use these trucks to work out of. A 6.5′ bed can make that difficult sometimes, and a 5.5′ would be a waste of time. Also the shorter wheelbase on an HD suspension would be rough riding. The short bed works in the half ton crowd, but the HD buyers are not the same people as the half ton buyers.
That last picture looks photoshopped to me. The tire to pavement contact looks off. Also the shadow of the door handles on the driver side are well defined, yet the mirror shadow is just a gray blob. Is it just me?