The first 2022 Chevy Silverado HD built at the GM Oshawa Assembly plant in southern Ontario rolled off the assembly line in early November – marking the first vehicle built at the plant since it was temporarily shuttered at the end of 2019.
Now Oshawa-built Chevy Silverado HD models have been to arrive at Chevy dealers. According to Automotive News, the first Chevy Silverado HD examples built at Oshawa Assembly began shipping to Chevy dealers in the United States and Canada early this month.
The first 2022 Chevy Silverado HD that was built in Oshawa, which is tagged with VIN001, was shipped to Paillé Chevrolet-Buick-GMC in Berthierville, Quebec in early December. The rights to purchase this vehicle were raffled off in a dealer contest that was open to GM Canada dealerships, with all proceeds from the raffle donated to the Durham Children’s Aid Foundation (DCAF).
GM invested roughly $1.3 billion CAD in Oshawa Assembly to prepare it to produce both the light-duty and heavy-duty versions of the Chevy Silverado. As GM Authority reported previously, the Oshawa plant will not produce the GMC Sierra 1500 or the GMC Sierra HD, making it the only GM plant dedicated to building the Silverado.
GM builds the Chevy Silverado HD and GMC Sierra HD alongside each other at its Flint Assembly plant in Michigan, while the GM Fort Wayne Assembly plant in Indiana and GM Silao Assembly plant in Mexico produce the light-duty versions of the two pickups.
As we noted previously, the Oshawa plant is only building the Chevy Silverado HD at the moment, with light-duty production set to begin there in spring 2022.
Oshawa Assembly was shuttered in December 2019 when GM cancelled the Cadillac XTS and Chevy Impala model lines. The automaker kept a small portion of the plant open for limited parts production and also used the space to help make PPE amid the COVID-19 pandemic before re-opening it this year to add more pickup production capacity.
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What is the planned capacity of this plant?
They spent over a billion dollars on the plant, but couldn’t do anything for the hideous front end on that truck.
Yep hideous, that’s the word, now I know a better design could have been found somewhere by someone.
I agree Nate the front end needs to be redone.
I wonder if these designs are researched, or just the mindset of GM’s design team, they spend millions making the trucks lighter and more fuel efficient, then stick a front end on it that resembles a Freightliner ! With the high price of fuel, they should be streamlining their trucks, these things are like pushing a sheet of plywood through the air ! I am a Chevy guy to the core, and have had many Chevy Trucks over the years, just disappointed with the direction these designs have taken in the last few years !
That plant always won quality awards and was supposed to always be the flex line. Glad GM actually just idled it instead of shuttered it. There’s not reason that can’t find something to build there.
Honestly I actually like the look of the trucks. Brakes the mold as the pickups were starting to look very similar. The HD has a military look and the 1500 a sport look. Online people only complain, they look good in person!
The first time I saw one was in person at a high school homecoming game. They drove out on the field and half the parents in the stands starting laughing at them.
I’m not exaggerating.
You’re a liar sir.
Emphasis on the word “mold”. Then again, HD trucks are seldom purchased for looks.
Buyers, whether individuals or fleet buyers, look at the specs; consider what they already have (commonality of expendables like filters, wiper blades, etc) and make their decisions.
My Cherry red Silverado 3500 LTZ crew-cab, long-bed, Duramax, dually is on the train in Missouri, just above Arkansas headed to me in Frisco, Tx. It’s been there for 3 days. I guess it’s delayed because of the holidays. Oh well, sooner or later I guess.
Just think if you spent that much on a plant in the U.S. like Toyota build in Texas !!!
Howard families would be able to live on that plant ????
Can you make a more ugly truck? The front end looks like you got in a test crash and thought to smooth out the rough edges and add headlights