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2020 Chevrolet Silverado, GMC Sierra 3500 Pickups: Spied
With the reveal of both the 2019 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 and 2019 GMC Sierra 1500 (which we'll get to drive this week), the heavy-duty models are getting close. In fact, our spy shooters are seeing camouflaged, full-trim models running rural neighborhoods to do some final towing and hauling testing. Here's what they've just sent us:
"We just got our first look at the headlight LED signatures for the HD Chevy Silverado and GMC Sierra thanks to production headlights finally being installed on these prototypes.
"Until now, GM's next-generation heavy-duty pickup truck prototypes had been running with fake placeholder lighting systems that, while functional, offered no glimpse at the trucks' final styling. The Silverado/Sierra HD truck program has now progressed to the point that production-spec headlights have been installed on some test trucks, and we caught a fleet of the finalized prototypes running in a convoy on public roads. In this group were a number of Chevy HD prototypes and a single GMC HD prototype.
"The LED signature of both the Chevy and GMC trucks are now visible through the frontal camouflage, and we can see how the HD trucks' LED treatments differ from the Silverado and Sierra 1500s.
"The all-new Silverado 1500 gets a fairly radical LED treatment, with boomerang-shaped LED signatures serving as the headlight's standout lighting feature. The Silverado HDs also get an eye-catching LED signature, but one that's significantly toned-down compared to the 2019 half tons. The hood, grille and headlights were teased in an official PR teaser shot, but the prototypes reveal more of the final treatment and how the Silverado HD will announce itself when approaching at night. We also got confirmation of the bold "Chevrolet" lettering that runs the full width of the grille. The "R" is clearly visible through a hole in the grille mesh.
"One prototype in the convoy was a Sierra 3500 test truck and it, too, had the production headlight design. However, the GMC HD's LED signature seems to remain more conservative than its Chevy counterpart. The LED signature remains a simple arc outlining the outer edge of the Sierra HD's headlight-very similar to what we see on current Sierra 1500s."
