U.S.-based Chevy Silverado fans eager to get the Bow Tie brand’s iconic pickup truck with a Regular Cab, Standard Box body style will be happy to learn that General Motors will offer that very soon with the refreshed 2022 Chevy Silverado 1500.
2021 Chevy Silverado Regular Cab Standard Bed Work Truck (WT)
According to GM Authority sources, General Motors will once again offer a Regular Cab, Standard Box configuration of the Chevy Silverado in the U.S. with the launch of the fully refreshed 2022 Chevy Silverado 1500. However, the Regular Cab, Standard Box will only be available on the base-model 2022 Chevy Silverado 1500 Work Truck trim level, also known as the WT.
Notably, General Motors already sells Chevy Silverado Regular Cab, Standard Box model variants in a number of markets around the world, including in South America and the Middle East. Notably, the Middle East also gets offers the Regular Cab, Standard Box configuration in the RST and Trail Boss trims.
Chevrolet Silverado 1500 Z71 LT Trail Boss Regular Cab Standard Box for Middle East market
For those fans that have longed for the return of the Regular Cab, Standard Box Silverado in the U.S., this no doubt comes as great news. That said, the fact the body style will only be available with the base-model WT trim level may dampen the excitement a bit for some.
2021 Chevy Silverado Regular Cab Standard Bed Work Truck (WT)
As a reminder, General Motors unveiled the fully refreshed 2022 Chevy Silverado 1500 pickup truck in September, debuting a variety of changes and updates over the stop-gap 2022 Chevy Silverado 1500 Limited and pre-refresh 2021 Chevy Silverado 1500.
The refreshed 2022 model year is headlined by the introduction of a completely new interior, which is offered on LT trims and above (LT, LT Trail Boss, RST, ZR2, LTZ, High Country).
Highlights inside include a revised cockpit, including a new a digital 12.3-inch configurable instrument cluster, a large 13.4-inch color touchscreen, a range of new tech features plus a new console-style shifter (for models with the front bucket seats, as the column shifter will remain available on trucks with the front bench seat). Additionally, the range-topping High Country trim will offer the GM Super Cruise semi-autonomous driver assist system with towing capability.
2022 Silverado ZR2 Crew Cab Short Box
The refreshed 2022 Chevy Silverado also includes revised exterior styling on all models, more power and torque from the turbocharged 2.7L I4 L3B gasoline engine, and greater towing capacity for the 3.0L I6 LM2 turbodiesel Duramax engine. Finally, the refreshed Silverado also introduces the new ZR2 off-road trim level.
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Editor’s note: an earlier version of this article referred to the body configuration in question as the Regular Cab Short Bed/Box, which is technically not correct. First, we should note that that the Silverado offers three box sizes:
- Short: 70 inches long
- Standard: 80 inches long
- Long: 98 inches long
With that in mind, the configuration that GM will add for the refreshed 2022 Silverado in the U.S. market is the Regular Cab with the Standard Bed (80 inches). This is where things get dicey: since the Standard Bed is the shortest available box for the Silverado Regular Cab, it’s also sometimes referred to as the Short Bed. In any event, the Regular Cab and the 80-inch-long Standard Bed is what’s being added for the 2022 model year. Meanwhile, the Regular Cab Short Bed (70-inch-long box) configuration is not available in any market.
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Step in right direction but still frustrating. Give us a break. Such a tease.
YEP!!!!!! Here you go people! But……not all the bells and whistles. WHY?????? Sure, sell it built to the hilt, in other places, but not here. Makes no sense at all. You can’t tell me that making this truck a Z/71 or better, is any more difficult than the work truck. I will stay away for a while yet. Oh, how I miss my old short box step sides.
About time
Good news indeed. This with a 5.3 and 4×4 is what i want. I’ll add things as needed later. Will test drive an updated 2.7 to be sure
Agreed, as someone with modest needs I too am interested in the 2.7 engine. I’d like to GM make the decision to allow us to special order the On Star w/sat radio an nav/system on the WT level. For those of us out there everyday the sat/radio is a luxury, but the nav/system a must … I luv my sat radio.
Give me the GMC with a Denali interior and I will order one today and sell my 2001 RCSB Sportside. Until then I am not buying.
Yeah….. between you and the other 2 buyers in that demographic I’m sure GM is going to make those available.
Back in the day a mid trim level was available in a RC but was a slow seller due to the ever growing popularity of crew,and ex./dbl. cabs and the high price that gm put on that trim in a RC and the rebates were always many Ks lower on a RC than the other cabs making buying a RC not such a fiscally wise move.
My RCSB stepside LT hibernates for the winter and I will keep it alive as long as i am.
Hey GM ! Listen/Read very hard. I can go with the WT Trim level … but. You’ve GOT TO OFFER TWO OPTIONS WITH THE ON STAR FEATURE …. sat/radio an nav/system. Those of us whose job requires travel need this and will thank you for it. We are simple people with simple needs … auto / air / cruise / cloth seats / carpeting (quieter) / am-fm-sat radio w/nav system / pwr windows & locks / tinted glass, normal stuff … you force us to buy what we don’t need … and sourcing three trucks right now and Ford’s F-150 in the SWB offers all the above … you should too. Then maybe next year we’d see a full sized 2-door Blazer, and another old friend I’d love to see in my drive way again … the Astro Cargo an Passenger van … I put close to 500,000 miles on two Astros … bullet proof. For those to young to know the 2 door full sized Blazer and the humble Astro were based on the SWB 1500 pickup … and GM how about you give us a 5 lug, 15″ rim so those who’d like those old school Crager 5 lug wheels could be used, the 6 lug just don’t look right.
🤣🤣🤣🤣 geez man. Time to move on.
One day you will be an old timer like Brad and myself.
Jeff, read my post to Miles ……..
Let’s see, 28 folks agreed with me, 2 disagreed with you … makes my score 30 to 1. Maybe it time for you to move on to the fact people want what they want without spending thousands more to get two options.
Offer it with the new interior and bucket seats with a 6.2 engine and BAM…the Silverado SS is born again…..they would sell the heck out of them. But nope, we get a work truck with vinyl and a 4-banger.
I Don’t get the complaints, it makes 310hp 420 tq. The famous 1st gen 454 SS, Lightning or 5.9 R/T didn’t make that much power, it’s probably a scoot to drive in a RCSB also you can option the W/T with LT options like wheels, paint and infotainment.
You are going to have to find a clean older one and put a 6.2 in it.
easy swap
It seems that marketing final gave a green light for a Reg/Short box in the USA but only targeting a small market. For one is who wants this configuration? I would say the young guys who likes the cool look. Those with limited resources allows them to get into a truck and able to do add on as you can afford. I’m sure the first add ones will be to add a lift kit and upgrade wheels and tires. The four cylinder 2.7l gets an upgrade for 2022 in torque and the light weight of the standard/short box will be more than enough to keep but it will be missing the cool factor.
Who wants this configuration? Countless utility districts. Park and Rec departments. Add 4WD, and you have ranchers and farmers who want a TRUCK and nothing more. Outfits that run parts out of a warehouse. Think NAPA, think industrial parts suppliers.
The vast majority of the places you listed order regular cab long beds.. even when the short bed was offered.
Valid point, but think about this …. the market needs common sense vehicles, GM needs to understand it’s better to sell what we want, or we will go elsewhere. GM, it’s better to have say 20% of something, than 100% of nothing. And GM, Ford, Dodge … better get worried, makes with names like Mahindra and Hyundai have work trucks that are not pretty, but they get the job done and you can be dern sure they are looking at ways to meet the federal requirements to be sold in Canada, the United States, and Mexico. And being work trucks they will have a good price point. In NC the Japanese Mini Trucks are legal to drive as long as you drive on roads with speed limits that are less than 55 mph. And they are selling, yes they are from 10 to 15 years old, but most have less than 25,000 miles, many have 4WD, auto/air or manual. The really nice ones sell for about $12K, others from $7K to $9K. For quite a few customers from VERY different demographics. I’d estimate maybe 8% will be off road only, the other 92% on the road. That’s who wants this configuration.
Brady Barefoot; Ok $$ trucks that are imported. Is it really the truck itself selling or the price point. GM can build a $12k truck, they’ll just need to pay everyone minimum wages. But these trucks that are limited to certain roads speeds sound like they barely can meet DOT and crash standards. They are small where I wouldn’t want to be in.
The market isn’t up to you or me … it’s up to the buyer. Are those Japanese mini trucks that are small, you betch’a , like you they aren’t for me. My only grip with the one I drove and it was a big one, they are hot to drive as you’re sitting on top of the engine in the summer time. As for those from Hyundai an Mahindra the price point is important for sure. And paying the workers … those in the factories are like most politicians, over valued an over paid. In 1987 Lee Iacocca was the CEO of Chrysler, he introduced the world to 20 an Out, a union rule that needs to go. The 1987 Plymouth Grand Voyager’s dealer cost was about $18K … Chrysler’s actual material cost. less than $5K … the rest was union benefits … about $13K per vehicle as a union worker could retire will full benefits after just 20 years in. Iacocca’s book “Talking Straight” goes into better detail. And some people wonder why GM, Ford, an Chrysler build cars outside the US.
You are getting close GM. I still have my 1993 Reg Cab Short bed with Power bucket seats in the Z71. 300,000 miles and still going strong. Build something like that, maybe with the 3.0 would be nice.
Same here , but 93 swb single gmc with 220k . i do everything in this truck. I tell people all the time , i don’t want a new truck I want my truck new.
This is good news, gm could have at least limit it two 2 Trim Levels, WT and Custom, that could have gave customers just a little something more to work with, but there might be some future buyers out there who may have the cash to turn that Work Truck into something special if they choose, though I feel the Online Package Options might be limited, at least the 3.0 Liter will be optional.
And please have a manual as an option.
That would be nice, the only thing is, if the Heavy Duty Silverado with the 6.6 Diesel does not even come with an optional Manual Trans., you can bet that we won’t see one in the Base Model 1500.
The stick is dead.
With a very low take rate,the cost of engineering and the added cost of buying it from a supplier like Getrag and it will probably be a 2 large option for a stick!!!
And then you have fuel economy,with double digit geared slushboxes,MPG will go down and that will get Bernie’s and AOC’s bowels in an uproar.
Well at least it’s a start. Will be waiting on the short bed Trail Boss like the red one in the picture. Any way to import one ?
5.3 option, or it’s a flop!
5.3 is available as an option. According to the 2022 Silverado web page.
All the sought after classic pick up s are short bed s. All the full size trucks I ever owned have been short beds – 84 f150 ,89 Silverado ,94 ram,13 ram , easy to park .easy u turns like driving a K 5 blazer 80s bronco .Ford F-150 can still get a V8 I’m looking at one for 2022
Give me a regular cab with a 8′ box in other options other than the WT model. Short box regular cab would be cool too. Put the fancy options on but also give it a better look with a two tone paint job.
It was already available.
Just make the option sheet just that….Options. If one wants to pay for it, build it!!!!! They all go down the same line. All the hot auction sales are SWB stepsides and fleet sides. Not many LWB, get big money. 1/2 ton long boxes are waste of money. Want a LWB, get a one ton!.
Price and Build configurator on Chevrolet dot com is not 100% for the 2022. All pictures are 2021 models. Packages and trim options all look the same. Of course it shows the price increase, $1100 for the LTZ trim. Standard cab short box is not yet listed.
The current configurator is the 2022 Silverado Limited, which is the stop-gap model before the 2022 Silverado refresh. Details:
https://gmauthority.com/blog/2021/07/gm-to-introduce-2022-chevy-silverado-1500-limited-before-model-refresh/
and
https://gmauthority.com/blog/2021/11/chevy-silverado-limited-to-go-away-when-refreshed-2022-silverado-arrives/
An American company only building a sport model for other countries suck. After 50 yrs of Bow ties, I think I’m going Blue oval. Sorry Chevy, you brought this on and others will follow.
I’m really confused why do people keep saying they don’t offer the regular cab in the US? I have seen multiple people on this website say this. You can go to the build and price and build the regular cab so why is it not offered here.
The Regular Cab being offered is only with the Long Bed. We’re talking about the Regular Cab with the Standard Bed, which has not been offered in the US. It will be starting with the refreshed 2022 Silverado 1500.
Happy news, happy news . I don’t care for short beds but its great for those that do.
That is awesome news.
Think of it as a blank canvas for you to customize.
Hopefully the V-8 will be available.
I would love to go cruising in a Chevy Shorty.
5.3 will always be available in w/t trim.
customs are now t4 only.
I well be buying one just to have. After fixing it up well be on the level of a Chevrolet LTZ I hope.
Good news! Just in time, I was gonna order a dodge. Regular cab short beds are bloody AMERICAN! thank you GM.
This new configuration is not showing up on the “build your own Silverado web sites” ! Are you pulling our leg GM??? NOT funny!
How about a regular cab short bed “SS” !!! With a 5.3 factory lowered silverado . gentleman’s hot rod!!! Please! ! ! ? ? ?
Now , Give me one with all the bells and whistles like the top of the line models , Not an el’cheapo version
It’s nice too see GM is at least beginning to listen to consumers. Even tho, we still can’t build what we really want. The work truck base model, is really, really cheaply made. it’s almost a shame to call it a Silverado. Used to be, the Silverado was the TOP of the food chain. Not any more! Maybe, just maybe, they will come around to building the trucks the buyers want. One can hope!
This is like telling a kid they can have as much cake and ice cream they want, but they must eat all their Brussel Sprouts first. Come on GM, wake up and get with the program, not everyone wants or needs a 4 door pickup. Give us a Regular cab short bed with a higher trim level than your base truck. It is really sad that other countries can buy a RCSB in Trail Boss trim but the People in America, who made you who you are, can’t buy what other countries can. I may have to go elsewhere for my next truck until GM wakes up and realizes all the Corporate Stupidity they have within the high ranks.
Good.
A rwd rst w/ the 5.3 and 2.7 available would be awesome. Work trucks are more basic than most people remember.
Honestly do not understand why it is not offered. All parts are “off the shelf” and all is needed is to put them together. The model number is available already so the only thing needed is to build it. As the Nike slogan says: Just Do It.
Again, not mentioned here (neither in the past articles) there is no need to go as far as the Middle East or South America. Just go south of the border.
The Chevy Silverado is offered as the Chevrolet Cheyenne in LT trim level. Very well equipped. Regular Cab – Short Box. Aluminum 18″ wheels are the only wheels available though. It can be ordered 4×2 or 4×4. 5.3L engine is the ONLY engine.
The WT Silverado, starting with the 2022 Limited, is ONLY available with the 5.3L engine, 4×2 or 4×4. Cloth seats. Vinyl is not available.
The GMC Sierra is offered in the SLE trim, perhaps with an additional 2 or 3 options compared to the Silverado / Cheyenne sibling. Well equipped, not the Denali, but very decent.
So for someone living in a border city, the irony is that in a 10 mile straight line dealer in Mexico, all these are available to order.
If there is a very strong need, you can buy one and import it back to the US. No need to cross the ocean or the central America rain forest.
Bring vehicle into the US that is built in another country is not that easy. The vehicle will need to be certified, usually by a third party, that it meets DOT requirements even though it could be identical to a manufactured product in the USA or from the same assembly plant in Mexico that imports to the USA. It can be a real hassle and costly. First off, you’ll need the title in hand. Pay tax in Mexico, then pay tax to your state for title and tags if it’s very new.
Like to see a lift kit ,short box 6. 5 ‘ box ideal overlander, Little wide but short wb guess 120”wb overall length 209” ? Lot better break over angle compared to a full size crew cab 145” wb 245” overall , in the 70-80s every one had a short bed . Maybe gm reads our comments??
I’ve always bought the Z71 version in regular cab short beds That’s what I am waiting for
You will be waiting a long time.
Build your own with aftermarket and used parts.
Dealers frequently have take-off Z71 rims and tires for a $1000
You can’t then its a fake Z71 there’s alot more to that designation than just the wheels, I’m not going to cobble up a truck that ruins the resale
You are not cobbling it up.
Besides the interior markings that say Z71 the shocks,skid plates and exterior badging and painted bumpers are what make a Z71.
I doubt this will have a negative effect on resale,it will probably get you more if you sell it yourself.
There’s more to Z71 than you think, I’m not buying extra parts, when I buy a new truck its what I want or nothing
what else is to it?
Ford briefly offered a regular cab with a SLIGHT exteension. Not enough for jump seats; just enough to put an overnight bag, computer bag, groceries, or a briefcase or similar behind the regular seat. There was a very narrow clam-shell door to get to it. I’m not sure about others, but I, for one, would be interested in something like that.
Hopefully gm will extend the cab out a bit further on that particular model for 2024, it makes sense to me and I’m on board with it.
I don’t understand why they can’t/won’t give us the option the pay for a fully loaded regular cab truck. Change the dashboard, change the gauge cluster and infotainment/radio units, the seats might be slightly different as you now need to tilt the back forward for some interior storage, but they can use the same seats with different materials to cover then in pretty easily. Make it a modern person luxury pickup.
They could make one helluva full-size Blazer adding longer doors and the back end of a Suburban to this truck.
Pleases,please. GM. Bring back ALL the goodies for the short bed reg cab. As I’ve said before. they all go down the same line. If it’s put in something GM makes, it should be able to be built into the ride anybody wants. If someone is ready to dump the cash, GM should say OK. it’s just that simple. Remember, “KISS”. (Keep It Simple Stupid).
They don’t all go down the same line, the crew cabs are built in Mexico, the double and regular cabs are built in the US, they do this because the crew cabs can get around the chicken tax because then they aren’t commercial vehicles, they’re passenger vehicles. But it still stands to reason that anything you get in the double cab other than the rear seat you should be able to get in the regular cab.
Crews are built in Fort Wayne also and Reg.in Mexico.
Even “back in the day” mid trim level Reg cabs had equipment missing that were on mid-trim level crews and extend cabs.
Reg cabs also assembled in Flint too
Build that short box WT
Send info when you have it
My prayers have finally been answered. I will be saving my money now. 👍😁
Now if this stupid chip issue would go away where the manufacturers can start cranking out some steel.
Long live SWB Silverado!!! V8 engine.
I own a 1982 SWB Silverado and 2003 SWB Silverado the best trucks I ever had. Gm needs to let the buyers order and buy the vehicle the way they want.
Such a tease. GM has ruined the refresh by making it uglier than the already polarizing design, they bring back the rcsb in W/T only AND only give it the 2.7 engine. C’mon. At the very least make the 5.3 available on the thing. If you really want some orders add Custom and RST trims.
What happened to buy what you want or need not what the companies telingl you what package you have to buy to get it along with 10 useless items.
I have had one ordered since November of 2020 regular cab long box, all dressed up and still don’t have it ! GM busy taking care of other countries and yuppie s . Don’t care about the average person who just wants a truck instead a luxury car with a little box on the back .
Your all pissin up a rope, it ain t gonna happen, GM don’t care about us. Their stupid, its a disease brought on by to much education. Commonsense is an oxymoron now like mankind,
this country is going to hell in a hand basket break neck speed but Dr Ruth says its healthy to fantasize so keep dreamin.
I’ve been waiting for a regular cab, short or regular box for a while. BUT, it needs to be more than a work truck & well equiped. An RST or Trail Boss would be great. I like driving a truck but the dual cab or a long box is too big. I’m open to any of the big 4 bringing (including Toyota) this to market, & I’m in. Why can’t I buy a truck made on the U.S. but shipped to Saudi. Comon-on guys, I’m ready to buy.
Ok, I was wrong and am sorry, GM has surprised even me. The GMC Sierra “is” available in the ( regular cab “standard” bed) confiquoration for the first time in three years. But not the silverado… So far this info is correct. The turbo four cylinder is the only engine offered-disapointingly. white is free and silver, blue, black or red is five hundred bucks more. that’s the latest! Were talking 1500 series trucks here! Hot Rodders are not interested in 2500 or 3500 series trucks or looong beds. This is the target market,,, ” hot rodders”, now if we could just get these geniuses to offer a V8 we would be in buisness!!!