The fourth-generation, T1-based Chevy Silverado 1500 launched for the 2019 model year, and despite an initial dip in sales, Chevy’s full-size pickup now sits comfortably in second place with regard to segment sales volume. Initially, the fourth-gen Silverado 1500 was criticized, with customers and industry observers alike lambasting the Silverado’s interior design. That eventually changed, but even so, we want to know – what changes and improvements would you like to see in the Chevy Silverado interior?
2019 Chevy Silverado interior
When it initially launched, critics found the fourth-gen Silverado interior to be lacking, with some stating that the cabin of the next-gen, T1-based model closely resembled that of the outgoing K2-based third-generation model. Of course, that all changed with the 2022.5 model year (or 2022 interim) mid-cycle refresh, which introduced a thoroughly revamped cockpit.
2022 Chevy Silverado interior
Updates implemented with the refresh included larger, more vibrant screens, as well as a more aesthetically pleasing and altogether more intuitive layout. These changes played a pivotal role in helping the Silverado rebound in sales, with the truck regaining its position as the second-best-selling full-size pickup in the U.S.
To note, GM sold 555,148 units of the Silverado in 2023, capturing 26 percent market share, second only to the Ford F-Series. Check out our previous coverage for more information on how the Silverado silenced critics.
While the 2022 refresh addressed many complaints, there’s still room for growth. For a truck as iconic as the Silverado, customers have high expectations for functionality, comfort, and technology, and with the next-generation Silverado expected for the 2027 model year, now is the time to discuss what changes and improvements should be prioritized.
Some potential updates could include more advanced technology integration, such as with even larger screens and head-up displays. Others may express a desire for more premium materials, or enhanced seating comfort with greater adjustability. Maybe storage and utility are your focus, or maybe you want a quieter cabin for a more relaxing driving experience.
That all said, we want to hear from you – what changes or features do you think would make the Silverado’s interior a standout in the segment? Let us know by posting in the comments below!
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more comfy cloth seats. Reverse the dome light button and the door control light button. Currently the door control button is closest to the driver, when the dome control light button should be closest to the driver as that is the one used most often between the two. (on the overhead control panel) Put a small light on the mirror spot button so driver can tell when it is on/off, like the button for the cargo light has. Add more lighting to the interior. These trucks (2022.5 and up) are very dark inside at nite. How about some footwell lighting and a glove box light and more lighting in the roof so the middle of the truck is lit up. The current lighting system aims the light to the 4 outboard passengers but does nothing to light up the middle of the truck.
Spot on regarding more lighting, Robert. The interior is truly really dark at night.
As it should be???? Last thing I want is being blinded by my interior at night. Eye strain is a big issue especially with screens and all the buttons.
Early 2K cars had all the buttons backlight in Amber to reduce eye strain.
Steve – the lighting in question is not even close to being “blinding”. Additionally, every vehicle that has ambient lighting offers the ability to enable or disable it.
@ steve . Im not talking about when driving. I’m referring about when getting in the car or sitting in it when not moving and you need some light to see what your doing. These trucks are very dark.
Good observations Robert. They should recruit you for a research focus group…assuming they still do those.
Agree with the interiors being dark but of course it doesn’t help when nearly every vehicle in dealer stock has a boring black interior. Easy and cheaper for gm to build and dealers to stock but is that what nearly all customers really want? To me it feels like sitting in a cave. A really dark one.
@ JL I would not last at GM focus groups long, because I have common sense, something none of them currently have and they would feel threatened by me so I would be fired. It is hard to buck to system of stupidity without being singled out.
Changes: Nicer seats on all models and better interior materials in higher end models. More interior color options. More exterior packages and color options – both painted and chrome bumper/grille/trim options. Air ride suspension on the RAM is intriguing. A dust sealed storage option in the back either on the outside or inside of the bed that is easy to get to for tools, tie straps, etc. Main screen that starts up and runs quicker with aerial mapping on the Google gps. Lock/Unlock buttons back on all four handles. A performance model SS, ZR2+, or both would be cool.
Keep: V8 & diesel engines (The little 4 as an option has its place too. We don’t need twin turbo 6’s.). Horizontal screen layout with physical hvac and volume controls. Carplay. Technology package options. The masculine truck look.
Keep physical buttons. DO NOT FOLLOW FORD in having portrait touchscreens IN CHEVROLET itself…(excluding their premium brands).
Also, keep headlight knobs physical please- but I doubt Ms Mary B will listen….
Really dislike the console shifter. Always looked odd to me, and takes up too much space.
Yet I actually like the console shifter. Very ergonomic and easy to quickly shift back and forth between drive and reverse.
You are 100% correct. At least make it an option when center console is selected. Should also be available on the 2500 and 3500 HD Silverado. Those of us that know how to work a floor mounted stick shift appreciate the ergonomic plus as Jacob pointed out. Plus have the shifter down there removes the issue of the column shifter blocking part of the center screen on Silverado 2500 & 3500 HD models. (Why was this issue not identified by internal Chevy/GMC marketing and/or quality control groups!)
@ tim, because the quality control groups have zero common sense. thats why these issues are not identified. DEI hires, it just does not work.
the big issue with the console electronic shifter is if it does not start, your not getting it in neutral. Not going to be able to push it and can ruin the transmission if the tow truck driver does not know what he is doing.
You know, I really wanted the console shifter, but after having it for a year, I’m not liking as much as I thought. I’d prefer to have the option to shift manually from the console shifter. I don’t prefer paddle shifters. If your pulling a trailer, you want to focus and not be looking around for other switches, knobs and buttons. The shifter with a +/- would be better. I don’t need a shifter from an EV. Just one man’s opinion
More interior color choices. Red or a deep tan or sand. Maybe a slightly longer seat bottom cushion and possibly a bit softer.
The current Gideon interior is a sand color… It’s available in cloth and leather…
Can’t personally get behind red but a few options in general would be great. Two tone seats or at the very least some variance in stitching or piping. Side Note: I thought GMC accents were always red and Chevy gold or blue? Chevy’s loving red lately. I might be in the minority on the dislike there.
Softer seats, glove box lights, lights in both sun-visors mirrors across the lineup, rear view mirror camera across lineup, heated and cooled rear seats, bigger rear seat heat/a/c vents.
More production in the USA
best answer ^^
Add a good mix of colors for the interior, I. E. NO MORE black interiors. That is the worst color for a truck’s interior. The driver’s left side AC vent needs to move to the left as much as possible. The driver’s right side AC vent needs to move more towards the center of the truck. As they are now, they blow on your hands more than your body/face. Get rid of the redundancy of information. I. E. I don’t need a digital read out, a gage and optional heads-up display to show my speed. Same for the climate control, don’t need it to have a manual display and the same info on the video screen No self locking doors, self setting parking brake on an incline, one touch window switches are annoying, no engine shut-off when truck comes to a stop. No OnStar. Nothing is worse than accidently hitting the OnStar button and having the ladies voice yelling at you that you don’t have OnStar activated. Since the dash design process starts around the video screen, everything else that is important and actually more important than the video screen suffers. In short, let me make the decisions on what I want my truck to do and not a GM engineer. The interaction experience is more enjoyable in my 2003 truck than my new truck because of all the crap I have to tolerate in the new truck. Stop over thinking the design and function of the truck. Oh, and don’t even get me started on how high the bed sides are and how high the bed floor is from the ground. Overall, and really thinking about, modern day trucks are poorly designed because designers and engineers have forgotten what the true function of a truck is.
Nigthshift interior is blue – Optional on High Country – there are three color choices on High Country
Giddeon is tan – free choice on LT and LTZ – available in leather or cloth. the Cloth LT bucket seat interior is quite nice – and quite rate.
Yet people just take what the dealer has instead of ordering an optional interior. Order one, or support the dealers that do better stock order variations.
* the LT cloth bucket seat interior in Gideon is quite nice and quite rare. (typos)
because those that design trucks never owned one, so they are clueless.
Storage space. 2KXX trucks had upper and lower door storage. Both 2KXX and T1XX trucks have smaller upper glovebox storage than GMT900, where both the uppamd lower gloveboxes actually could fit things. Now your lucky to fit your registration in just the upper glove box. Make under seat storage not an option on WT front bench and make rear seat back storage standard across the whole line. Torn on if there should be undsest rear cargo system. I’ve had both and don’t know how I feel about it. It takes up space, but sure is handy.
Higher wearing fabric for cloth seats. Slightly softer seat bottoms. Use the 1991 pickups as a reference. My 2015 silverado has a little change bin and Tim Hortons gift card holder on the left side of the dash. Bring that back! Lastly, get rid of the push button parking brake- it causes too many problems. Go back to the pedal operated system. No chrome emblem on steering wheel- too much reflection from the sun.
If the Silverado EV didn’t look like the Avalanche I would buy one today!
In floor and under seat storage like RAM
How about a reliable transmission? With a engine that doesn’t burn oil? Gm in specs of 1qt every 1000miles is not very good?
Have you tried DexOS approved oil? No oil burn problems here (maybe 8fl OZ per oil change on 2KXX truck)
you talking bout diesel?
Dexos 1 for gas Dexos D for diesel.
I like everything said so far but especially little more comfortable seats and put the unlock buttons back on the back doors handles of crew cabs, how cheap can you be GM.
Nobody mentioned steering wheel placement. I’m 6’3″ and when I move the seat back to where my legs don’t hit the dash, the steering wheel is too far forward and the angle is wrong. I feel like I’m driving my lawn tractor. Heater, 4WD, Light controls need to be back lit and the placement is down right dangerous to get to when driving. Lighting is hidden behind the steering wheel. Shocked that the ergonomics on the 25 Silverado is so bad. my 2015 Yukon Denali was far superior, even my 03 Suburban is better. The dash is an insult to intelligent drivers. The pointer for tach and speedo are barely legible and I want numbers on my gauges. This is worse than my 66 Grand Prix. Reminds me of the video game dash of the early Safari’s. Whomever approved this needs to be forced to drive this for the rest of their career. Of course they may not be smart enough to realize how bad it is. I’m kicking myself for not investigating this more before I signed. I just couldn’t find an LTZ on the lot to sit in and test drive. I’m also concerned that the slow shifting transmission will cause excessive wear and heat when towing. Fortunately I don’t seem to have the oil burning issue. I did get the extended warranty to replace the engine when the lifters fail. My 03 Suburban with 375,000 miles still has the most comfortable seats and the cloth fabric has no signs of wear. That’s the only reason my wife let’s me keep it.
Good point on the dash display. More customization of options to put in the middle would be great with different options for gauges. No reason why some colors can’t be changed or different gauge styles like the C8 Vette.
I agree with the need for brighter interior lighting. I carry a led headlamp to read inside the truck at night. Footwell lighting would be nice. I also agree with a tan/ buckskin color option for the interior trim. How about an option to permanently override the engine stop/start without going to aftermarket. Aggravating . I like everything else on my updated ’22 interior. It took awhile to get used to the console shifter but now I like it.
how about get rid of the dod system so we can rely on the truck.
Need more interior lighting. Also need the exterior a brighter red color on the Hi-Country, not just the lower models.
The NUMBER ONE change needs to be correct the AC vents so they can be adjusted to NOT blow on the driver. Previous model didn’t have this issue.
Bring back the crotch cooler vent under the steering column.
More interior lighting wouldn’t be necessary if there wasn’t too many buttons for too many useless features.
You can always get a Work Truck or a Custom to forego the “useless features”…
the lighting issue is for a idle, sitting still truck. There are times at nite when sitting in it , that you just need more light to see what your doing. If you drop something on the floor, your not finding it until daybreak
Why do I have to buy the truck with all the chrome outside just to get an electric passenger seat??
The current seats are awful! I don’t know why GM has insisted in making all the seats so hard and flat in the last few years but its not good. Silverado need spacious comfy seats!
Totally agree. The seats and padding is terrible even in the HighCounty
Asking the wrong people. Personally, the flatter seats feel better, more like a jet fighter, more secure and ergonomic, but I’m also average size and like the extra support and don’t like squishy seats. While they serve me perfectly well, I understand that they don’t others.
Give more choices of interior color and not just black. Loved the brown/tan interiors of the mid teens. Black headliners make it really hard to see the garage door opener buttons in a dark garage.
Give us a 12 volt power outlet on all models. Give us the Bose speaker system on the LT with the TurboMax engine.
Get rid of foot rest,have to take off left shoe toget my foot past brake pedal to stretch left leg on long trips,
Get rid of touch screen. Go back to knobs.
No more wood grain or piano black
I would like to see Premium all Black Leather seats and interier. No black and tan mix . It is so ugly. That and the horrible seats is why I still drive a 2003 Truck. More dome lighting where you can see in the front and back. Lighting around the cup holders for when driving at night to see my drink or coffee. More storage like ram trucks. Storage under the floor mats and bigger storage under seats for my base speakers would be awesome.
More choices for seat colors. Too much black leather. Every new Silverado I’ve shopped has black leather. I’m over it. Floor & rear seat storage. More interior lighting.
The climate control “buttons” for the fan settings are entirely too small and very hard to see even in daylight. When adjusting the fan up or down it is very easy to shut the fan off entirely. Evidently the person that designed those buttons has very, very small fingers.
1. Need lighting directly over the front center arm rest
2. 3 out of 4 of the new GM trucks I bought since 2015 had dash rattles that were fixed by wedging something between the dash and windshield
3. Need a rock, solid 8 speed transmission
I’m a GM guy and only want a good product to be the best!
100% agree on the seat comments. More comfortable seats need to be GM’s #1 priority on the new models. I have seen numerous comments over the past 10 years that uncomfortable seats were the determining factor in not buying a GM truck.
Get the gear shifter off the center console. Better interior materials and better seats. Less things on the screen- bring back the switches or buttons. The screen is very distracting when driving . Bring back CD players- the pushed us from- 4 track to 8 track- then into cassettes- then CD’s- enough is enough.
More comfortable seats,like back in 2007. Bilstein shocks as standard equipment, not Rancho. More storage inside and in box.
The Bose in my 2024 is lousy with poor sound quality. It goes back to dealer for the recall, but have my doubts I will see sound improvements
I would have to agree with this. I don’t own a 24 but have test drove a few and was not impressed with the sound system… particularly the bass. My 15 has a much stronger system from what I could tell. Didn’t realize they had a recall, hopefully it helps.
Lifters with a 10 year/200,000 mile warranty.
good one Richard
One minor fix. On my ’15, the headlight button would turn on the fog lights if pushed. On my ’19, the fog lights are a separate button that must be looked for to turn on. Much easier to push the big button than to look at the tic tac toe board for the right switch. And keep physical buttons too!
All I ask is to continue the Single Cab Short Bed for the next gen.
1. Standard vinyl flooring. Seriously. This is a truck; what’s the point of carpet, when the first thing you do is buy mats to protect it?
2. Make all controls usable while wearing gloves. No touchscreen-only controls, or daily-use stuff buried inside a menu.
3. Don’t force a “Three months free!” trial of anything at purchase. If I want it I’ll ask for it.
4. Lower step-in height esp. for the 2500/3500! Not all of us are 7 feet tall. At minimum DO NOT make it any higher.
A mechanical vehicle. Get rid of all the computer garbage. Just give me a truck.
Yes! Just an ECM/PCM, we don’t need 70 modules to control everything. I long for the days (’89-’93) when you could get a stripped down S-10, 4cyl, manual transmission, vinyl bench seat, manual locks and windows. Simplicity at it’s finest!
No more jet soot black, grime gray and basic beige interiors. Colors from carpet to headliner and don’t call them “dipped”.
They have all windows open with remote. They should include that you should be able to close them with the remote as well.
WHEEEW.
Offer a basic work truck without all the bells and whistles with a manual transmission! At least in the 2500 and 3500 models.
I’d really appreciate a huge improvement in ride quality. Not bad if you spring for the electronic shocks, but shouldn’t need them to ride decent.
It’s crazy – GM used to be the KINGS of great seats, now they have more in common with decades old Japanese seats.
I was one of the first, if not the first, to own the 2019 Silverado in this area! I love the truck and am not sure of what changes I would like, but intend to buy a 2027 if I like the looks! Maybe I am to easily pleased! I just hope the powers that be improve everything! Ha!
Maybe, just maybe you should work on fixing your drivetrain issues. It’s 2024 and your transmissions are gernading at rapid speed. You should fire all the engineers currently working for you all and find some new ones that actually care about the average person buying these turds you all manufacture.
Switch placement is terrible in my 2023 AT4 as if engineers didn’t have a say. Every time I reach into the storage under the switch panel I accidentally hit the tailgate switch. They need to be higher on the dash above the HVAC like the other models. Also exterior lighting switches such as bed lighting and mirror lighting should be located on that panel and not hidden next to the headlights. Outlet in the console is useless as most electronics have “bricks” that don’t fit due to the outlet being placed so close to the edge of the console interior.
I agree, the shifter is “inconvenient” to use. It does not always want to slide into gear?
And, PLEASE bring back the CD player or at least make it an option. Several of us “old guys” own about a thousand CD’s that we thoroughly enjoy listening to on longer trips. I subscribe to SiriusXM and really like it but there are times I would REALLY love to listen to my own music from my CD collection!
I love my 2022 Silverado High Country! Yes, I will seriously consider purchasing a ’27 if the design looks good.
Put the 12v power socket back!
How about some variety? Why can’t I get a single cab, long bed, 4WD High Country? Why can’t I order a Bose speakers without having to take a whole slew of other options in some package? Why can’t I order cloth seats in an LTZ and still get the other bells and whistles? And why can I only choose from 4 colors in I wanted a 2025 High Country? It’s ridiculous that they want me to spend $80K but then limit my color choices to black, grey, white and silver.
The ability to disable the tailgate release button on your key fob. Or program it so the truck has to be unlocked for that function to work.
That is a fantastic idea.
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Siide by side cup holders. My wife and I hate front to back cup holders and they due weigh in our vehicle purchase. One reason we have a 2024 Acadia instead of a Palisade.
Large dump area in like 2017 in front of cups. This is great to put take out food so it does not make a mess of passenger seat. Also, Great on road trips to store empty bottles until next gas station or handouts we entering state or national parks.
Heads up display. Will probably not buy another vehicle that does not have it. Game changer especially if using GPS.
Side bed storage like Ram Box. Much better that what was on Avalache and high desert package that was offered in 2017. The bed cover is ok, but would like option for something better after market.
Higher tow rating on diesel option. All that torgue and hp but only 8k towing. The 5.3 will struggle to get up to speed with that much but is rated for more.
Base models need:
A thoroughly modernized interior and tasteful looking durable materials.
Much bigger screen
Retain analog gauges
Retain front bench seating
Retain column shifter
Steering wheel audio controls
Heated seats/steering wheel option
While we’re at it:
Custom Trail Boss MUST return
Chevrolet should emphasize that they are the only game in town dedicated to the V8
All LED lighting