One word captures heavy-duty trucks: beasts. We aren't talking about everyday pickups. We're talking the ones you turn to when you need the real load capacity, towing ability, and massive horsepower. Chevrolet delivers this in the 2020 Silverado HD. But we wondered, what if you fully-loaded one with all the options?
What Comes With a Fully-Loaded 2020 Chevrolet Silverado
The 2020 Chevrolet Silverado
Before we go all the way with
the 2020 Silverado HD, we need a baseline. Conveniently, Chevy gives us a base level trim as our starting point.
Heavy Duty Minimums: Work Truck Trim
In Work Truck spec, with just a regular cab and a long bed, the Chevy Silverado 2500 HD is a respectable $35,695. Notably, this is $300 less than the comparable 2019 model. The 6.6 liter, gasoline-powered V8 achieves 401 horsepower and 464 lb-ft of torque coupled to a six-speed automatic.
From Work Trim to Fully-Loaded
The 2500 HD Work Trim (WT) is only two-wheel-drive and has (split) bench seats, but it includes a color touch-screen infotainment system with Bluetooth and Apple CarPlay/Android Auto compatibility. Quite fancy for a bare-bones beast. If we push the trim to the top level (High Country), we get four-wheel-drive, crew cab, long bed, and a host of luxuries for $62,895.
Going Full Beast With the Silverado 3500 HD
To push all the way to the limits of Chevrolet's Silverado 3500 HD configuration tool, we selected the High Country trim and chose the 6.6 liter Duramax Turbodiesel V-8 paired with the 10-speed automatic transmission. (We avoided dual-wheels, as that's such a rarity.) Now at $73,645, we have:
- Long bed
- Crew cab
- 445 horsepower and 910 lb-ft of torque
- Tow/haul mode to improve load control and engine cooling
- Automatic grade braking to improve downhill control
- Four-wheel drive
- Leather interior
Adding All the Options
First, our truck should be beautiful with Iridescent Pearl Tricoat Paint ($995). Though it seems counter to our max-this-beast-out efforts, we actually save money by including most of our favorite individual options into a single “High Country Deluxe” package (total $3,065). This gets us:
- Forward collision alert
- Lane departure warning
- Automatic emergency braking
- Automatic high beams
- Follow distance indicator
- Safety alert seat
- Rearview camera
- Surround-view system with two trailer view camera positions
- Bed-view camera
- Driver's head-up display
- Towing gooseneck / fifth-wheel hitch
- Bed-mounted 7-pin trailer harness
But Wait, There Are More Individual Options
We're not done yet. Let's include the Interior Convenience Package ($495), Z71 Off-Road Package ($325), Snow Plow Prep Package ($150), power sunroof ($995), splash guards ($180), and trailer tire pressure/temperature sensors ($50).
There are also dealer options, but let's forgo those for brevity's sake.
The Beasted-Out Chevy Silverado Is a Whole Lot of Truck
There's a reason that truck manufacturers have options. Rare would be the individual who would actually need them all, but if you did, you would have the most beastly of heavy-duty pickup trucks, and your final total (at least according to our calculations), would be a little north of $81,000. But what a beast! To test drive the the 2020 Chevrolet Silverado, head over to the truck experts at
Ed Martin Chevrolet in Anderson, IN.
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chevrolet.com
