2010 Chevy Silverado Heavy Duty Spied with Front End Changes
Even with plummeting truck sales and fuel prices sky high, General Motors' heavy-duty pickups have to keep up with changing federal regulations and competitors. Here are the first pictures of a 2010 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 Duramax diesel test mule.
The Silverado HD (and its twin, the GMC Sierra HD) first went on sale about 18 months ago, but GM is giving the truck a mild facelift that hints at major revisions happening under the hood.
The grille in these photos is temporary, snagged from a current light-duty Chevrolet Silverado 1500, but the revised front bumper is production ready. GM has simplified and toned down the 4 piece front bumper assembly with huge chrome bumper end caps of the 2009 Silverado HD with a simpler 3 piece assembly with single chrome facebar, lower plastic valance and upper plastic filler pannel that extends the whole length of the facebar.
The inlet opening in the middle of the front bumper facebar, which feeds air to the truck's transmission oil cooler, is about 1/3 larger than the current inlet and hints to possible changes GM has planned for the Silverado's Allison transmission.
The Allison tranny is mated to the 6.6-liter Duramax diesel engine, which will be overhauled to meet tough new EPA rules for NOx emissions that go into effect on January 1, 2010. The bigger inlet could mean the next-gen Duramax will require additional airflow for a new exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) system, which reduces NOx, but GM has officially stated 2010 Duramax NOx emissions will be scrubbed using urea selective catalytic reduction (SCR). Using urea SCR should require a less complex EGR system.
Spy sources suggested that GM and Allison are planning to add extra gears to the current 6-speed Silverado for improved fuel economy and towing efficiency, perhaps, in the form of an 8 speed, like some luxury cars already have. Probably unlikely, however, extra gears would likely require improved airflow to the transmission oil cooler, and thus a bigger inlet in the front bumper. Also, extra gears could also allow give the Silverado an advantage over new heavy-duty pickups from Dodge and Ford, expected to arrive by 2010 and 2011, respectively.
i understood it just fine... he asked how much gas does it consume to the mile lol stupiddddd
It is a figure of speech , instead of MPG with one of these it might aswell be gallons to the mile.
It is a figure of speech you just made up. Vehicles that do measure mileage in Gallons per mile (such as yachts) would refer to it as "so how many gallons per mile does she take?".
it looks like all the other ones... you americans can probably tell the difference but i come from europe nd i cant
Blimey some people havent lived , so narrow minded.
"General Motors' heavy-duty pickups have to keep up with changing federal regulations" 6.6L Diesel, great improvement mates!
How can it haul anything with those shopping trolley wheels?
There must be a lot of farmers in America if every Moe and Joe manufacturer pops out 5 different "heavy duty" trucks, I know there are a lot of peasants...
American automobile industrie is going to die. It's proven by cars like this.
Everything is about to be extincted by active incompetence. Look at the European VW Scirocco or new BMW 7 series like things - same state, where new developments visibly enforced to be done below mediocrity to comfort ruling incompetence.
I talking about the fact that most things in car industry as well are made below of average human culture ability.
I'm talking about the fact that most things in car industry as well are made below of average human culture ability.
its a utilitarian vehicle meant to do utilitarian things. no it doesn't get great fuel mileage, no it doesn't set new benchmarks in aesthetic appearance, but it does do what its intended to do, and that's haul things the farming / ranching / construction industries need to keep soceity functional. the benefits and contributions far outweigh the negative impacts.
and LMS, there are a lot of "peasants" in america. we grow your food. you're welcome.
Aha, they deserve bland things because they are so important? It is vice versa, just people who make essential things for life, deserves best of that world have. From car design too. Their lives are made hard enough by logic of your kind.
i don't know what you're arguing. its a pickup my friend. its a cab with a motor in front of it, and a bed at the rear. my logic is that you shouldn't judge it based on the same criteria you judge a passenger car or sports car on because its an entirely different use. apples to oranges. its like saying a crane is uglier than the GTR.
I haven't seen anything yet a Toyota pickup 3.5 Diesel can't haul.
You try to rationalize the irrational, you don't grow our food, we don't import foodstuffs from the US other than Mike & Ikes.
No one needs this monstrosity, you should stop defending idiocy.
No,no. It is same thing like sport car, or bathroom, or building, or cofee maker, or bulldoser wich exsists hence they bears their (own) beauty an have so some inner, or human, or moral value. It is beauty of human creative ability itself, divinity if you like but things we do (and whole culture so), not exists on power of utilitary exuses. Nobody is trying to say that my welding unit or my showel should be beautiful like a fancy underwear but bridge ower river should be beautiful and truck for potato delivery too.
And there is strait: Do not try to partonize people who feed you by pushing them idiotic uglyness. It is by the way a stalinist logic - they made this for real. Final result when human culture was displaced for excuse of purpose counts for the 90 million real human beeings killed, starved and tortured to death.
Maybe GM should change its strategy from producing passenger cars to farming equipment... Seems to be their top competence!
So what does this do the mile ?? lol