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Old 12-16-17 | 04:16 PM
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This is the 2019 Chevy Silverado, which got a surprise debut at an event celebrating the brand's 100-year anniversary of trucks, in brand-new Trail Boss trim. While we'll have to wait for the Detroit Auto Show next month for all the details, we can at least get a sense of what to expect from these three images.
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Old 12-16-17 | 06:08 PM
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That's some impressive scenery to use as a backdrop to the ad.....obviously somewhere in the Southwest.
Old 12-16-17 | 11:33 PM
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Impressive scenery, not so much Chevy Silverado. The pinched headlight/turn signal arrangement looks cheap and unfinished. Headlights are too small for a brutish truck. Sheetmetal sagging downward behind the front fenders is weak and soft. Things should rise up in a wake behind the wheels, not fall down. Last, the tailpipe tips look pre-crushed from a steep driveway. This thing will need a premature facelift.
Old 12-17-17 | 12:39 AM
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Interesting that Chevy finally switched to rounded wheel wells/fenders. The front clip is a total mess though, way too many seems, way too busy. Plus if its an off-road model, give it a damn off road bumper from the factory, IMO something squared off would complement the lines of the truck. As it looks now, there shouldn't be any sort of bumper below that mid level painted section, it shouldn't step down, it shouldn't have those stupid low hanging fog lights and that stupid plastic part under it.

The current front end kind of looks like Cruella de ville, you know that 65-70 year old woman who has had bad plastic surgery.
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What's up with people or journalist calling it an "off-road kit.?" It isn't any sort of kit. The factory puts it together and assembles it, just like every other piece. That's like calling the dashboard, bed, seat, or transmission a kit.
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Originally Posted by Aron9000
Interesting that Chevy finally switched to rounded wheel wells/fenders.
Good eye! I didn't see that.
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Taillights looks they were borrowed from the Tundra.
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Originally Posted by Corey140
Taillights looks they were borrowed from the Tundra.
Yeah, this looks like a Tundra fighter.
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Why are the headlights and tail lights so tiny? It looks so strange... Not a fan.
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Unlike the ZR2, they didn't even consider the approach angle. The departure angle looks like it is a improvement. Gotta wonder if it will have the electronic locking differentials.
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Originally Posted by Coleroad
Unlike the ZR2, they didn't even consider the approach angle. The departure angle looks like it is a improvement. Gotta wonder if it will have the electronic locking differentials.
Not sure what you're getting at. Both the approach and departure angles look pretty high to me, and even the break-over angle, in the middle, doesn't look bad for a vehicle of that wheelbase.
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Originally Posted by mmarshall
Not sure what you're getting at. Both the approach and departure angles look pretty high to me, and even the break-over angle, in the middle, doesn't look bad for a vehicle of that wheelbase.
yes like I said the departure angle looks better, but the front bumper is to low tor a goo approach angle. Compare the zr2 approach angle, it's much better. Wondering why they didn't do the same for this Silverado. It limits what you can traverse over.
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Originally Posted by Coleroad
yes like I said the departure angle looks better, but the front bumper is to low tor a goo approach angle. Compare the zr2 approach angle, it's much better. Wondering why they didn't do the same for this Silverado. It limits what you can traverse over.
This looks like a lighter off-road package than a ZR2/Raptor, etc. This looks more like the Ford FX4 type trim. I imagine they'll have a more ZR2 level one eventually.
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Originally Posted by 97-SC300
Why are the headlights and tail lights so tiny? It looks so strange... Not a fan.
because they look like they are LED
Old 12-18-17 | 03:25 PM
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Yeah, I saw a YouTube video about it, I much prefer the look of the outgoing truck.



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