The biggest car news and reviews, no BS. The free daily newsletter sends the stories that really matter directly to you, every weekday. You can’t afford to sit still in the truck market for long. If you aren’t rolling out something new and superlative—whether that be a redesign, new engines, or fresh tech—then you’re lagging. General Motors knows this, which is why it’s introducing all three of those with the 2027 Chevrolet Silverado.
Almost everything about the new half-ton is upgraded. That is, if you want a more modern pickup. You might have guessed that the new Silverado leaps into the contemporary just by looking at it, as the rig sports standard stacked LED headlights with a thin upper element and a C-shaped lower. The taillights are also LEDs, while the styling along the truck’s sides helps differentiate it from older models. More clearly pronounced wheel openings play a hand in this, as well as a reworked bed skin.
It’s absolutely more modern on the inside, too. Every 2027 Silverado comes with a 16.3-inch center screen and 12.2-inch digital gauge cluster, even the Work Truck spec. High Country and ZR2 models also get an 11.5-inch passenger screen, which is all the rage on new pickups for… some reason.
View Price on AmazonI don’t care about that so much as I do the Multi-Flex center console, though, as it unfolds into a handy workspace. Now, it’s true that Ford did this first, but Chevy didn’t have to design a fancy folding shift lever because all of its Silverados have column shifters (as God intended).
Headlining the reinvigorated full-size range are the next-gen small-block V8s, which measure 5.7 liters and 6.6 liters in displacement. GM actually hasn’t said much about these power plants yet, as we don’t even have horsepower and torque specs. Either way, you can expect improvements over the outgoing 5.3-liter’s 355 horsepower and 383 lb-ft of torque, and the 6.2-liter’s 420 horsepower and 460 lb-ft.
Lower-spec Silverados still feature the 2.7-liter TurboMax four-cylinder as the standard engine, though it’s now paired with the 10-speed transmission instead of the old eight-speed. And truck lovers will be glad to hear that the 3.0-liter Duramax diesel inline-six is back with expanded availability. You can now get a Silverado WT (or Work Truck) with the compression-ignition lump.
It’s impossible to say if this engine lineup is any better than Ford’s or Ram’s without testing it first, but I will say, it has a ton of promise. GM is the only manufacturer introducing truly new V8s in its full-size trucks right now, given that Ford has used the same 5.0-liter for a while now, and Ram just brought back the old 5.7-liter Hemi. I’m slightly annoyed that we don’t have power specs yet for the new GM small-blocks, but hey, they’ll come eventually.
Chevy is sticking with its pair of dedicated four-wheelin’ variants for the Silverado: Trail Boss and ZR2. The former is a bit milder, though still capable of crawling over rocks and digging through mud with a two-inch lift and 34-inch tires; the latter is more hardcore with Multimatic DSSV dampers, 35-inch rubber, and standard lockers on the front and rear diffs. The Silverado ZR2 Bison Edition is also back for 2027, as Chevy partners with Multimatic again to offer a trail-armored truck with stronger bumpers, rocker rails, and skid plates for the front, transfer case, rear diff, and fuel tank.
The Bowtie brand threw a little something extra into the ZR2’s cab, with true carbon fiber inserts on the doors and console. It’s apparently the first time Chevy has implemented that material on its trucks, and y’know, I believe it.
Source: thedrive.com
