While a midsize truck like the Ford Ranger might brag about a pitiful 2.3-liter turbocharged four cylinder, the full-size Chevy Silverado will now sport a hulking 2.7 liter, now rated by the EPA at 20 city/23 highway/21 combined mpg.
It takes until the end of this wonderful, wonderful 30-second video to realize the greatness you just witnessed. When it came time for this Chevy Silverado to turn its 500,000th mile, its owners wanted to make things special. They just had one shot, one opportunity to get this right, and that they did.
GM added two significant items to the Chevy Silverado HD and GMC Sierra HD for 2017: a more powerful 6.6-liter diesel engine and a giant flared nostril of a hood scoop that feeds it. So how does that thing work without drowning the truck every time it rains? Check out what’s underneath.
Looks like General Motors accidentally posted some specs on its new heavy duty pickup Duramax diesel engine over the weekend, and it’s got five horsepower on Ford’s Power Stroke. If these numbers are accurate Ford will hold the line on peak torque, but Chevy will still be making a big step up on stock output.
Heavy-duty 2017 Chevrolet Silverado diesel trucks are getting a new air intake system, fed largely by this big badass hole in the hood. Too bad nobody will tell us if it actually adds any power.
At the dawn of the new millennium Chevrolet had an epiphany: “People love pickups but don’t really use them.” So it lopped off the back of an SUV and created the Avalanche; a vehicle with trucky pretenses but Suburban practicality. Slow sales killed it in 2013 and now the concept is back. Backwards.
It seems that last year, General Motors revised its tow ratings downward for the 2014 GMC Sierra and Chevrolet Silverado. And now that move has led them to be the target of at least one consumer lawsuit.
The internet loves to dump on automakers shilling dress-up kits for cars as special editions, but I’m telling you Chevy is laughing all the way to the bank with this. Why not offer more stickers and steel bars at the dealership? Plus this camo is way sexy.
The Silverado is a solid working-man’s truck. What do you need to know before you buy a Chevrolet Silverado? Don’t worry, we’ll tell you everything right here in the Ultimate Buyer’s Guide.
The 2016 Chevrolet Silverado will be facelifted as you can see right here, and GM promises “expanded use of the eight-speed automatic” currently helping their biggest-engined trucks get better gas mileage.
A 2015 Chevy Silverado LTZ Kirkland Signature Edition for "Costco members only" sounds like a (pretty awesome) prank. But Chevrolet has confirmed they are indeed working with your favorite purveyor of enormous everything to co-brand a limited run truck. Because America! ...?
Kaleb Whitby ended up on the wrong side of the Saturday morning pileup on Interstate 84, yet he managed to get out of his Chevy Silverado needing only 2 Band-Aids. His pickup seems to be goner.
There's an elegance to the simplicity of a street truck. There's really nothing to 'em besides seats, wheels, in the case of this 1983 Chevy C/K... a big honking 650 horsepower turbocharged engine.
There's a whole lot of dick-measuring happening right now on how half-ton trucks stack up on power, fuel economy, payload, and maximum towing capacity. Here's your guide to decoding what every US automaker's truck in this class is really putting down.
The 2015 Cadillac Escalade doesn't have an EXT pickup truck variant, but the hoonigans over at Monster Energy have gone ahead and slapped the Daddy Caddy's face on a full-size Chevy pickup to make their own. It's kind of awesome.
A man in Moore, Oklahoma had his Chevy pickup thrown and rolled completely across the street by a tornado, but amazingly the truck's engine still ran. That's something the owner can be proud of.
Dropping any artifice of civility in the back-and-forth sniping between Chevy and Ford, this year's Silverado ad comes out and says what they've only been wiling to say behind closed doors: buy our competitors vehicle and you will die. You will be dead. Six-feet under. And your family. You will all die a horrible…
GM is recalling 96,000 2005-2007 Cadillac CTS models over airbag issues and 1,300 2011 Escalade, Avalanche, Silverado and Sierras over axle lock issues. [ABCNews]
You may need a dually to tow a secret X37-B spy plane, but you certainly don't need a diesel engine. Or anything from the past ten years. God, I love heavy duty pickup trucks — tugging spy planes. [PickupTrucks.com]
