The 2023 Chevy Malibu adds three new exterior colors to its palette: Riverside Blue Metallic, Radiant Red Tintcoat, and Sterling Gray Metallic. Here’s our first look at the new Gray hue.
Assigned RPO code GXD and touch-up paint code WA-130H, Sterling Gray Metallic is one of seven exterior colors offered on the midsize sedan, which include:
- Dark Ash Metallic
- Mineral Gray Metallic
- Mosaic Black Metallic
- Summit White
- Radiant Red Tintcoat (new for 2023)
- Riverside Blue Metallic (new for 2023)
- Sterling Gray Metallic (new for 2023)
The Sterling Gray Metallic color is no-cost item that is available on all trim levels and can be combined with all available interior colorways.
For reference, here are all three available interior colorways offered on the 2023 Malibu:
- Dark Atmosphere/Medium Ash Gray (LS and 1LT only)
- Jet Black (all trims)
- Dark Atmosphere/Light Wheat (2LT only)
The 2023 Chevy Malibu ushers in a variety of relatively minor but still important changes and updates over the preceding 2022 model year. For instance, the midsize sedan will no longer offer the Premier trim level nor the turbocharged 2.0L I4 LTG gasoline engine an GM 9-speed automatic transmission that served as the trim’s powertrain.
Going forward, the 2023 Malibu is available exclusively with the turbocharged 1.5L I4 LFV gasoline engine, which mates to the Continuously Variable Automatic Transmission (CVT, RPO code MRG). This combination was previously offered for all 2022 model-year Chevy Malibu trim levels, with the exception of the range-topping Premier. Output is rated at 163 horsepower and 184 pound-feet of torque.
For the 2023 model year, Chevy has repackaged the Premier trim as a new 2LT trim level on the Malibu. As a result, the 2023 Malibu’s top trim now costs $2,000 less than that of the 2022 model. Additionally, two of the Malibu’s dealer-installed convenience packages are no longer available to order.
Production of the 2023 Chevy Malibu kicked off at the GM Fairfax plant in Kansas City on September 7th, 2022. The online configurator tool is now live for the 2023 Malibu.
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Comments
Sterling Gray Metallic is a terrible colour in person… unless under bright showroom lighting or direct sunlight.
Old Paint Gray . I have no idea why this dreadful melange is on vehicles. It’s like generic color. Color for people who can’t think.
Triphorn19: Your comment made me laugh. Back in 2019, one of my co-workers leased a new Volvo S60 sedan and he got osmium gray with black plastic………………..ah leatherette seats. And he’s in his mid 20’s!! I kept asking him why he got his in casket gray. I think he took enough ribbing that he then sold it and got into a white Alfa sedan. He had that for a year and sold it for a BMW sedan also in white.
Was I too hard on him? haha. No.
This is a perfect illustration of the ‘contractual obligation’ model years that many GM vehicles go through. Change up the colors, strip away the least-selling options…almost nobody will notice except for the workers at the factory that has the pre-allocated production capacity.
We had a 2022 Maliboo rental. “It worked” really is the best thing I could say about it.
I think that was actually the tag line for the Citation in the early 80’s….”It works”.
Who is in charge of deleting popular paint colors and introducing these new colors. It’s a GM disaster!
Is there no one at GM monitoring this paint colour nonsense? Clearly, someone who makes these paint colour decisions needs to be fired. Indeed, it is a “disaster!”
Unless I’m missing something here they replaced silver with……………silver?
Disaster seems to be a bit hyperbolic.
Forget the ugly color, no more 2.0 turbo engine and now all Malibu’s have the piece of sh-t CVT transmission.
yep, seems like the easiest way to kill a car without actually killing the car on paper.
Another boring color.
Where I work, Volvo offers a lot (I mean, a LOT) of grays. It goes from really dark (almost black) to near silver. Anyhow, they have one that I really love and it’s called Thunder Gray. Mazda also offers several grays, and the one I like is Poly Metal Gray. It’s almost exactly like the Volvo color. I’d love to see GM offer the Malibu in a thunder gray instead of this one.
Been saying it for years. It used to be that you could go into a dealership and order your car is many different colors. You had solid and two-tones. You had 4 to 8 different interior colors. Now compare that to today’s choices or lack of. From the count above, you have exactly 7 color choices with 3 (really more like 2) interiors. Funny thing is if you take the 7 exterior colors for the Malibu, you have one blue, one red, one white, one black and 3 shades of gray.
It’s a color for color blind people.
This car wasn’t too shabby when it came onto the market. I loved the design. Cars are pretty girls: there’s always a prettier one coming along soon. Ms Malibu is sort of sitting there with her towel waiting and the only guys interested are Mr Hertz and his buds.
My only experience of one is a rental. Those seats numbed my ass like novocaine on a 600 mile ride. I felt the bars poking me after 100 miles and it turned into a sort of London Dungeon torture by the end. It worked ok. Kind of heavy on gas compared to a Sonata. Better than an Altima and Camry for sure.
I wonder about folks who drop $$$ on cars like this considering the alternates.
GM sure loves their 50 shades of grey and everything black interiors that have been putting people to sleep the past 22 plus years