2020 Chevrolet Silverado HD Completes the Truck Trifecta

Getting quite a jump on next year’s reveal, General Motors released a teaser of the upcoming 2020 Chevrolet Silverado HD on Tuesday. The heavy duty pickup slots between the revamped 1500 model unveiled in Detroit in January and the new medium-duty 4500/5500/6500HD trucks shown at March’s Work Truck Show in Indianapolis.

Those latter heavy haulers now share the Silverado name, bringing all of Chevrolet’s full-size-and-up trucks into the Silverado fold.

With the 2020 Silverado HD, the family will be complete. Prototypes hit the road soon, GM claims, but it’ll be a while before we get a full view of these new HD trucks.

The big reveal comes next year, the automaker states, though it’s likely we’ll see Chevy follow the same sort of timetable taken by the 2019 Silverado 1500. Sneak peak in December, then a splashy unveiling in Detroit in January. Sales to follow by summer.

From the teaser photo provided, it’s obvious a radical streamlining campaign has not taken hold at GM’s design offices. The hoodline of this Z71 off-road model appears as flat and imposing as the prow of a Dreadnought-class battleship. The air-sucking hood scoop remains to feed the Duramax diesel V8 underneath.

Chevrolet hasn’t ditched its chrome suppliers, either. A horizontal crossbar spits the grille higher up than before and, in doing so, rekindles memories of the previous-generation Colorado. Unlike the HD’s smaller 1500 sibling, the driving lamps aren’t positioned in the stratosphere. Drivers sometimes need to see nocturnal animals in their own county.

GM doesn’t have much to say about the next-gen HD, only mentioning the “increased durability and validation standards, and the bolder, larger proportions” of the new truck. We have to wonder if the launch will bring a new salvo in the ongoing heavy duty torque war. Currently, the 6.6-liter Duramax V8’s 910 lb-ft trails Ford’s 935 lb-ft.

If you’re wondering where the GMC Sierra HD teaser is, well, it doesn’t exist yet.

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