The 2023 Chevy Silverado 1500 debuts a selection of updates compared to the preceding, refreshed 2022 Chevy Silverado 1500, with the 2023 Silverado arriving as the fifth model year of the current fourth-generation light-duty pickup truck. Notably, GM Authority has learned that the 2023 Chevy Silverado LT Trail Boss will be heavily constrained.
According to GM Authority sources, units of the 2023 Chevy Silverado LT Trail Boss will be under constraint at 12 percent, which means just 12 percent of GM’s planned production for the LT Trail Boss trim level will be built. At present, it’s believed this constraint will last for the entirety of the 2023 model year, at least until further notice.
Critically, the constraint is not related to the global microchip shortage, nor is it related to a supplier issue. As GM Authority covered previously, the 2023 Chevy Silverado ZR2 off-roader is facing a similar constraint, with a mere 5 percent of the original 2023 Silverado ZR2 unit total set to be produced. Meanwhile, the Chevy Silverado Custom Trail Boss is currently constrained at 7 percent.
For those readers who may be unaware, the 2023 Chevy Silverado LT Trail Boss takes a spot around the upper half of the Silverado 1500 trim level cadence, slotting in between the RST and LTZ. Standout features include a 2-inch factory suspension lift with the Z71 Off-Road Package, 18-inch High Gloss Black-painted wheels wrapped in Goodyear Wrangler Duratrac tires, an Autotrac 2-speed transfer case, and a raised hood with a stylized insert.
Under the hood, the 2023 Chevy Silverado 1500 is offered with a quartet of powerplant options. These include the turbocharged 2.7L I4 L3B gasoline engine, the atmospheric 5.3L V8 L84 gasoline engine, the atmospheric 6.2L V8 L87 gasoline engine, and the new 3.0L I6 LZ0 turbodiesel Duramax engine. As GM Authority covered previously, the 3.0L I6 LZ0 diesel engine replaces the 3.0L I6 LM2 diesel engine offered previously. Under the skin is the GM T1 platform.
Production of the 2023 Chevy Silverado 1500 kicked off on August 29th, taking place at GM Fort Wayne plant in Indiana and the GM Oshawa plant in Canada. Silverado production at the GM Silao plant in Mexico was delayed by one week.
Subscribe to GM Authority for more Chevy Silverado news, Chevy news, GM business news, and around-the-clock GM news coverage.
Comments
Yes, I had a ZR2 on order, but never happened! G. M. Chevy issued a certificate to purchase a new Chevy on the lot or order! How disappointed I am, I have a 2018 All-terrain, I want to purchase a GMC at4 but I’m having a problem switching the certificate to GMC which is also GM products another disappointment I guess for me if I can issue me a certificate for a GMC pickup!
I originally ordered a trail boss LT 6.2 around June 23 and around august 20 they told me my order had constraints so I had to remove a lot of options/ Convenience package. So I put it a order for the Silverado ZR2 August 25th. So is it vey unlikely my order won’t get accepted because of the Constraints? Anyone please let me know.
Buy a Ram or an F150
I can help you get a ZR2
I am at a dealer that has 2 right now
So why are these trucks under constraint if it’s not supplier or microchip related?
Come one, GMA. Most of the faithful readers of this site know which engine choices are available with every model and we don’t need the cut-and-paste tag ending describing engine options. However, with the lede stating, “constraint is not related to supplier or chip shortage issues” we expect to learn information regarding the reason for the constraint.
Otherwise this article could have been written in 25 words – we learned nothing beyond it’s headline.
For those that don’t know the ZR2, AT4X, and Trailboss are exclusively manufactured in Mexico. I’m wondering if this is a labor issue, cartel issue, border issue. Maybe if GM manufactured them in the US GM wouldn’t have those issues.
My guess is that they’ll move production to china before they bring it back to the United States
It’s all about that cheap labor, which they can’t seem to get enough of, they’ve gotten too comfortable with it now.
My ’21 Trail Boss was made in Ft. Wayne, IN
Smithers, Unless I read my previous 2022 Silverado LTD LT Trail Boss’s vin wrong, it was manufactured at Ft Wayne, IN. I turned it in as a Lemon due to transmission issue at 800miles.
Sounds like deliberate reduction in production to keep the per-unit margins high.
Single digit production percentage numbers?
The fact that this is being announced before the trucks are even rolling down the line shows it’s a decision being made.
I remember a classic Monty Python sketch about a cheese shop with no cheese available,
reminds me of GM these days… 🙂
I’m in contact with the GM office but I haven’t heard from him in a week but I do have the person of interest her extension number hopefully she will reach out to me for my pickup shows up it was built 6 days ago that’s the situation take it or leave it!
Smithers, if it comes back to the US, perhaps can be halted due to a mass shooting issue; if it goes to China, then a virus issue and if it goes to Taiwan.. who knows? Politics? War?
I wanted a Chevy Trax Redline and the dealer could not tell me why I may never get it. We learnt through GMA that there is also a constraint. Why? Those are made in Korea..
If you read the article they’re claiming it’s not a supplier issue. GM isn’t going to hold back production to improve resale value. They only make money on the truck once and through service. There’s another issue they’re not discussing and it could be related to it only being produced in one country.
They are just holding back production now to keep margins high. Mary is going to put them out of business
Now I’m not a insider or anything like that but I know that the government and epa mandate that a automobile company must have a certain average mpg by adding up every model’s mpg average then dividing by the number of vehicles and models to get a company wide mpg average so for example a truck that gets 25 mpg average you will need a vehicle getting a 75 mpg average to balance out to the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) of 49 mpg, (2024) i can’t find the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) for 2023 but this might play a part in the grand scheme being that it is a lifted truck with bigger tires, I wonder if they could go back In time and put the lift kit and rims and tires in the bed so the truck gets the same average as any other 1500 but you get the package installed separately (like old muscle cars came with headers in the trunk) or like the 69 z28 came with headers and a duntov or smokey yunick intake in the trunk
I ordered a truck with my dealer and the order hasn’t gone through yet, with the constraints will I be able to order it?
Lol.. I leave a post informing GM Authority viewers of facts regarding there interest in the Trail Boss and the Authority take down my replies…lol I guess there no such thing as free speach…. It’s too bad they don’t want the truths to better inform the public..
I’ve been weeks ahead of the forum on my quest to find out why i haven’t been able to order a new truck !
SGarcia this website has always been a clone of consumer distorts reports… i recognize an anti-GM bias in their daily GM Authority post
Well there goes the quest for the top pickup sold in America as it’s now between Ram and Ford, R.I.P Chevrolet Silverado.
I ordered a trail boss lt diesel last february….. and still waiting for it! Order processed 2 weeks ago!
Maybe you should be thankful for that. Perhaps the new LZ0 3.0 Duramax will not have the same “no start/delayed start” issues that the current LM2 offering does. The newer version is also more powerful from what I recall. I’m glad I waited… now just have to wait for the LZ0 to be optioned into the SUV family, so I can get my Yukon Denali!
Good Luck, at least yours got accepted. I could not get a diesel LT Trail Boss to get accepted and I went to 3 different dealers.
Pull the ads on TV if your not going to produce the vehicles to buy GM. I had an order in May 2022 for LT Trail Boss with LM2 diesel. Told me in July it would have to be a 2023, ok great get the LZO now. Told me in August order not picked up yet. Told me in Sept now that the model I want is heavy constrained for potentially ALL YEAR!! Glad I didnt sell my Ford yet. Looks like I will be putting my toolbox back in my Ford and driving it until my new RAM or Ford gets bought. Chevy seems to be out of the truck business for me!
One thing to consider, think about giving a deposit on a pu. I find a AT4 put a 500$ hold on it. I took a while to figure out if I could use this certificate and they all sudden told me they were going to sell the truck because they had to sell it in order to allocate more vehicles needless to say I stole my $500
So, be careful who you give your money to, Dave Cross GMC of Missouri make a note of that they ripped me off. Another gouging dealership pretty sad.