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The upcoming and refreshed Chevy Silverado HD is now set to launch for the 2024 model year, and the hard-working staff on duty at GM Authority had the details on what we can all look forward to for performance and features here at the Mid-Missouri Powerhouse. Things were previously just a bit unclear on whether the refreshed Chevy Silverado HD would come out during 2023 or 2024, following a full model refresh and still boasting its same swagger, durability, and stance.
We have long appreciated how the GM Authority team has taken it upon themselves to provide Grade A spy shots, and they were out in full force catching a few of the refreshed pickups out for testing this past week. They offer up an early look at the revised exterior, hidden just a bit by the typical presence of camouflage cover. We have been asked repeatedly to offer up details about the powertrain update, and now know that the 2024 Chevy Silverado HD is supposed to introduce a fully-fledged update for the Duramax diesel engine that will boost output to nearly 500 horsepower and 1,100 lb-ft of torque.
There will also be the introduction of the new Silverado HD ZR2, a brand-new trim level that will now be available for single-rear-wheel vehicles. You’ll be able to explore (and conquer!) the great outdoors with the addition of brand-new specialty dampers, aggressive 35-inch Goodyear Wrangler Territory MT tires, and locking differentials for the front and rear, providing the ideal extra dose of off-road capability. Production for the 2023 Silverado HD is still on track to begin in July.
It will roll triumphantly off the line courtesy of the very talented and hard-working men and women on duty at the GM Flint plant in Flint, Michigan, and more recently, from the GM Oshawa plant in Canada. The facility located in Ontario has only been building the heavy-duty variant of the full-size truck on a two-shift rotation before production of the light-duty Silverado 1500 began just this week. There has been over $1.3 billion sunk into the Oshawa site to prepare it to produce both the Chevy Silverado HD and Chevy Silverado 1500, with the bow-tie brand celebrating one of the fastest plant turnarounds in automaker history.
Some of the necessary bits of the 2022 Chevy Silverado 1500 are also produced at the GM Fort Wayne plant in Indiana, which is a model you can come see us right here at the Powerhouse to check out excitedly: it provides massive towing capability, class-leading technology, and a wide range of very powerful engines. We have many experts on trucks asking us just what we think are some of the best new additives on current truck models, and the multi-camera system is one that is truly innovative and consistently useful. Here’s where we also can’t say enough about diesel: the torque-rich power and tow capacity derived from this bow-tie engine variant provides 6 very hard-working cylinders of hard-shiftin’ and languished love!
