Posted on 06/22/2026 6:56:48 AM PDT by WhiteHatBobby0701
The truck will offer 5.7-liter and 6.6-liter V8s and is expected to go on sale at the end of the year
Chevrolet is giving its Silverado pickup a major update with new V8 engines, a redesigned exterior and more technology inside the cabin.
The automaker on Tuesday introduced the next-generation 2027 Chevrolet Silverado 1500, calling it the "most powerful Silverado ever" and marking one of the pickup’s biggest updates in years.
The truck is expected to go on sale at the end of the year, with pricing to be announced later, according to the company.
"Silverado has earned truck customers’ trust over decades of hard work in the real world," Scott Bell, vice president of Global Chevrolet, said in a statement. "With the next-generation 2027 Silverado 1500, we’re taking that legacy forward by building the most capable, refined and advanced Silverado lineup we’ve ever offered."
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I think about that car a lot and how it’s full list price was about $1800 around 1970.
If they were allowed to sell such a $15,000 car today, it would sell like hot cakes.
Cheap little work trucks, cheap little urban cars, cheap and simple with mostly auto parts store replacement parts.
Your list is the reason my “new” car is a 2011 Lexus IS350C.
That means it is a 3.50 liter naturally aspirated V6.
It has most of the nice technology. Like back up camera.
Beeping when you get too close to the curb.
Intermittent wipers that sense when there is water actually hitting the windshield.
Yet, no lane assist. No shutting off the engine at stops. No shutting off cylinders in overdrive to increase mileage.
Basically, no CAFE standards BS.
I also still have my 2012 Tacoma. Which I kept because I do not want a four cylinder turbo pick up truck. My current Tacoma has a 4.0 liter naturally aspirated V6.
from the article:
The 2027 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 High Country features a panoramic sunroof and a tech-focused interior. (Chevrolet)
Calm down. A 350 or 5400 CID is not that impressive. In the history of cars it has always been commonplace.
I’ve got a 2014 Ford Expedition 5.4L naturally-aspirated V8. Bought it in 2016 with 20k on the clock. It just turned over to 120k. It’s been very reliable. That was the last year Ford put a V8 in the Expedition and it’s got that very nice, well-balanced feel you get from V8 power. Same as you...backup camera, small dash screen, good sound system, automatic wipers, power sunroof and power seats, no engine-shutoff, beeps when I’m close fore & aft (not L&R though) motorized rear lift gate, simple trip computer (mileage, Trip A & Trip B, change oil alert). Simple dashboard with analog gauges. It was the pinnacle, IMO.
Modern cars with the gigantic screens on the dash really turn me off.
The United Auto Workers stooge Barack Obama, stole my GM bonds and put the proceeds into the UAW retirement fund.
GM and the UAW are anti American thieves
How does this compare to the fuddy duddy station wagons of the prior America?
https://motor-junkie.com/10-fastest-muscle-cars-station-wagons/76339/
“The 1970 Vista Cruiser could be ordered with a 455 V8 monster of an engine”
“The Nomad was a popular model designed for small business owners and families, but with the addition of a 283 HP engine, it was fast and could outperform some sports cars of the day.”
“For 1966 and 1967, Ford offered 428 V8 engines as an option on its station wagon model lineup. The 428 V8 in question was not the famed Cobra Jet, but the engine from the Thunderbird with 345 underrated horsepower. With over 460 lb-ft of torque, the Country Squire could really go despite its size and weight.”
“ Expect your location and everything you say and do in the truck, including heart rate and eye movements, will be recorded and transmitted in realtime to GM to be sold for profit.”
Not mine. I will not participate.
” turbo assist on the engine”
Eh, I live at 9600 ft above sea level. Anything without a turbo or supercharger (or preferably both) sucks going up the hill. No air.
What started me on buying the Lexus was when I could not buy a new Tacoma with a 4 liter V6.
I did not want the 4 cylinder turbo engine.
I briefly looked at trying to buy a 2015 Tacoma. It is the last year they made my exact same truck. Prior to switching to a drive by wire transmission. Which they had issues within 2016 & 2017. Eventually they fixed the transmission, but stopped making the V6 in 2020.
I actually found a couple 2015 Long bed double cab(what I have) with 50K miles. They wanted $25K for them. I decided to keep driving mine with 129K miles. I know its history.
The Lexus is a hard top convertible. They only made them for five years. To compete with the BMW hard top convertibles.
“The Chevrolet Silverado will have as its signature the 350 and 400 V8 engines. Yes, we’re taking CUBIC INCH DISPLACEMENT.”
Well, it’s too bad that GM has forgotten how to build engines. You would need to have your head examined if purchasing rhe first year of a NEW engine.
Impressive. It MAGA, but we’ll have to wait and see if they mean it, or if the gaslighting continues.
That’s because GM’s truck sales are split between the Chevy and GMC badges. They sell more trucks than Ford:
Full-size GM truck sales grew four percent to nearly 885K units in the United States during the 2024 calendar year, outselling the Ford F-Series and all other rivals.
My compliments .. a valid exception to the rule that should remind us all of the importance of situational awareness.
“I did not want the 4 cylinder turbo engine.”
Ford was introducing the “Ecoboost” 6 cylinder turbocharged engine when they were phasing out the big V8. I test drove the V6 and decided I did not want that. That’s what drove me to buy the used V8.
We had previously had a turbocharged Volvo 740 and the turbo froze up. Turbos are simple machines and I was shocked to see the bearings fail on it. So I really prefer naturally aspirated engines.
2012 F-150 I found it for her when she was convinced she could not afford one. 1 owner, 87k miles, immaculate, only needed tires. Had Ford dealer do PPI and they said it was incredibly clean. Had it about 10 years now.....she has huge 35” tires on it.....
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Some random thoughts on why I won’t be buying one ...”
Random and misguided ...
“c) radio and climate controls embedded in the ipad ... pass”
Radio and Climate control with buttons and knobs
“d) turbo assist on the engine ... pass”
Naturally aspirated
“e) fluid changes must be done at dealer ... pass”
Nor required to be done at dealer
“f) no oil/transmission dip-sticks in the engine bay ... pass”
Dipstick in engine bay
I have no desire to ever again own a vehicle with over a dozen computers in it, all of which require expensive and time consuming dealership diagnostics to fix when they fail. Replacing an engine used to be the most expensive thing a vehicle needed. Now, it’s fixing a stupid computer glitch.
“... the Ford F150 is the best selling truck since the Reagan administration.”
Try “best selling pickup EVER.”
The venerable F-150 had over 12 million units on the road in prominent Ford advertising in the mid-1970’s, and was already THE established best-selling pickup in the market, and the broader F Series had deeper market penetration than that.
My grandfather — a Ford mechanic who’d been working since customers were bringing Model T’s in for service — owned one.
My other grandfather — who began with J. P. Craig construction company as a laborer about 1928, and worked his way up to Superintendent of a DoD contract nuke-resistant munitions storage warehouse on a base in Yuma, AZ before retirement — owned Ford pickups.
We borrowed his along with his slide-in camper for a couple of family trips, before getting a ‘72 F-250 of our own in 1976, and I’d explored about every nut, bolt, screw and washer on that thing by the time it was wrecked in 1990.
Simplicity and a solid drive line was the heart of that success. Ford could put any engine in its lineup on the front end of a C6 automatic backed by a Dana 60 third member and give owners thousands of miles of worry-free duty.
UNLESS there’s a return to those ideals there’ll NEVER be another runaway market success like the Ford F Series.
Not EVER.
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