in years past that really hasn't been
that much difference between the GMC
Sierra and the Chevrolet Silverado
in fact it's some model years the Sierra
was really little more than just a
rebadged version of the Silverado with
maybe a different grille and two
different colored interior pieces well
for 2019 GMC has made perhaps the most
different version of the Sierra than
they've ever made it looks completely
different but we thought it'd be a good
idea to go through and see exactly what
the differences were from the Silverado
so we've come here to the ends of the
earth practically the easternmost point
in North America st. John's Newfoundland
to drive the new 2019 Sierra and here
are the things that you can only get on
the Sierra that you can't get on the
Silverado the most obvious
differentiator is the styling of this
thing the GMC is not nearly as wild as
the Chevrolet Silverado it's got a much
more traditional grille and headlight
setup whereas the Silverado looks like
the Camaro when it's wild child style or
does the Camaro look like the Silverado
not quite sure this one looks completely
different and it looks a lot more like
the rest of the GMC lineup but you can
see on the sides that it looks nothing
like the Silverado
you've got no fender up front instead
you've got this scalloped body panel so
it doesn't have that big fat fenders
look that the chevrolet does it's much
more sculpted it's much more sleek it
looks a little bit cleaner I think than
the Silverado I think frankly it's the
better looking of the two trucks now
we've all seen power running boards and
these aren't necessarily exclusive to
GMC but this is something new for 2019
you open the door they come out you
close the door they go back in but if
you want to get into the bed kick the
back and they extend all the way back to
the rear tire hop on up grab something
out of your bed when you're done get out
hit the back again in they go
one item that is exclusive to the GMC
Sierra is this this is the multi Pro
till game and we've covered it fairly
extensively so far this allows you to
have six different positions for the
tailgate to perform a variety of
functions this is obviously a step but
if you pull this up now you have an
extended bed with a divider in the back
here to stop things you put it down
you've got a work surface for a laptop
something like that either way no matter
how you adjust it you also have the
widest bed that GMC has ever created
it's seven inches wider than the
outgoing model another exclusive to the
Sierra is the carbon pro bed that is a
bed made out of carbon fiber now as we
said it's 7 inches wider than the
outgoing model but the carbon fiber
material is one that GMC says is the
strongest most indestructible material
that you could make a bed out of more
than aluminum more than steel we asked
them basically well what do you do when
it gets damaged and they said well you
really can't damage it all that easily
well challenge accepted mechanically the
Sierra and the Silverado do share a lot
of components they have the same power
trains they have the same transmissions
they have things like the same
four-wheel drive system but one thing
that the Sierra has that you can't get
on the Silverado is the adaptive Drive
control it has an electronically
adaptive suspension now it's not the
magnetic ride control that we've seen on
things like the Cadillac Escalade and
even on the Yukon Denali this is a
little bit different it's electronic
instead of magneto rheological so it
doesn't use the same kind of system but
it is adjustable from inside the cabin
using the drive control twist knob and
it'll change between modes between sport
and touring and tow and haul and it
really does change the way that the
vehicle behaves and feels there are two
features on this specific model the
Sierra Denali that we really do like and
that aren't necessarily exclusive to
this model but you can only get on the
Silverado high country first is this
heads-up display which is a first in a
pickup truck that we've seen it's 7
inches by 3 inches and it's multicolored
and you can get things in here like an
inclinometer speedometer a bunch of
different information about what the
vehicle is doing especially in off-road
mode which is really kind of neat to see
exactly
the vehicle is positioning itself
offroad the other item is this this is
the second generation of the rear camera
mirror now in this mode it looks like a
normal mirror but as soon as you flip it
up it becomes a full width camera that
bypasses everything that might be in the
back seat
it's actually located in the top of the
cab overlooking the bed and the rear and
it gives you a much wider field of view
now if you do have something in the bed
that's fairly tall it is still going to
obscure your view rearward but this will
allow you to see a little bit more to
the sides than just what your mirror can
do alone now a number of the features
we've just talked about we've seen here
on this model this is the Denali the
premium version of the GMC Sierra and it
comes with a premium price sixty seven
thousand five hundred ninety five
dollars for this model and that doesn't
even include things like the carbon
fiber bed which will jack that price up
even higher but that's alright you can
actually get some of these same features
on the 84 off-road version as well which
GMC is billing as new world's first
premium off-road pickup truck now the
Ford Raptor you might also argue as a
premium off-road pickup truck but that's
really a very different animal than the
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