Chevrolet News:Chevrolet Adds Custom Sport Package to Silverado

[Drew Dowdell]

---

If you think the current Chevrolet Silverado has too much brightwork, the 2015 Silverado Custom Sport package might be for you. As a special edition package available on the LT and LTZ models, the Silverado Custom Sport package swaps out the chrome front and rear bumper, and grille surround for body colored versions. Chrome is added to the door handles and side mirrors. You can have any color of Custom Sport you like as long as it is white, black, or white diamond (LTZ only). The package also includes projector beam headlights, tow hooks, and heated mirrors.

Chevy says this special edition pays homage to the 1967 Chevrolet Custom Sport that was available with bright trim and bucket seats.

The Custom Sport package will cost between $1,950 - $2,950 with the higher number likely applying when selecting the white diamond tricoat paint.

2015 Silverado Custom Sport

2015 Silverado LTZ Z-71

Chevrolet Press Release on Page 2

Source: GM Media

---

2015 Silverado Offers Custom Sport Package

Inspired by Chevy Custom Sport Trucks that helped launch personal-use pickups

DETROIT – With the new 2015 Silverado Custom Sport special edition, Chevrolet pays homage to one of its most iconic pickups, adding a sophisticated monochromatic look to double- and crew-cab Silverados.

The Custom Sport package features body-colored front and rear bumpers and a body-colored grille surround with a chrome-accented black grille. Other accents include 20-inch chrome wheels, chrome door handles and mirror caps, and chrome body-side moldings. The package also includes projector beam headlamps, tow hooks and heated power-adjusted mirrors.

“The Custom Sport special edition was inspired by Chevy Custom Sport Trucks of the late 1960s,” said Sandor Piszar, Chevrolet Trucks marketing director. “Those CST models added a touch of elegance to a great all-around truck, just like the Custom Sport package for the new Silverado.”

The redesigned 1967 Chevrolet pickup entered the market at a time when trucks were starting to move off the jobsites and into the driveways of cities and suburbs. The 1967 Custom Sport Truck, with its bright trim, plush carpet and bucket seats, helped launch a wave of personal use pickups that continues today.

For the 2015 Silverado, the Custom Sport package will be available as LT and LTZ models, including Z71s. LT models will be available in black or white, while LTZs will come in black or White Diamond Tricoat.

Package prices will vary from $1,950 to $2,950, depending on the model. Dealers can place orders starting this month.

View full article

[hyperv6]

I like this package but I still would like to see a sport package 2 wheel drive with a handling package. Kind of a full size ZQ8.

[G. David Felt]

I like this much better than the over done chrome packages. This was done right IMHO.

[Z-06]

One thing I was fan of post-MCE GMT900 Silverado 2500s was the Z71 package with body colored bumpers.

 

GMC has the body colored bumpers in the All-Terrain package on the new Sierra. It does have more color choices than the ones offered for the this Silverado, though. The truck genuinely looks good.

[hyperv6]

I generally by GMC for the lack of the chrome.

I just wish they had an option where you could opt for Chrome or painted bumpers and grills on what ever truck. I am not a big chrome guy.

 

Also with a lot of the chrome plastic anymore it just get dinged up anyways. That is my only real complaint on our Terrain is the chrome over the grill. I plan to replace it next year as it is looking crappy while the rest of the nose is pretty clean.

[Drew Dowdell]

I generally by GMC for the lack of the chrome.

I just wish they had an option where you could opt for Chrome or painted bumpers and grills on what ever truck. I am not a big chrome guy.

 

Also with a lot of the chrome plastic anymore it just get dinged up anyways. That is my only real complaint on our Terrain is the chrome over the grill. I plan to replace it next year as it is looking crappy while the rest of the nose is pretty clean.

 

A Terrain with body color grill would look really hot  especially on a black one.

[G. David Felt]

A metallic All Black Fully Loaded GMC Terrain with the Twin Turbo V6 could be a New Typhoon.

[hyperv6]

It would be better than the Denali. I am not a big fan of the Denali grill even if many others are. It is just my own thing.

As for TTV6 you would have to cut some weight and lower it if you can. It is too top heavy for any real performance and needs to drop down below 4000  pounds to make the best of it. Maybe the next gen.

 

I love my Terrain but I am realistic. As it is now it is not a good performance platform and it is not an off road vehicle as some want to think it is. It is basically a SUV like Minivan that my wife likes and I am not ashamed to be seen in it.

 

Now in the next gen if they could lower it properly to where it still handles and once they remove some weight it might make for an appealing package. The other considerations is How Much. The Denali now is over $41K loaded. How high can you go and people will still buy?

Edited January 10, 2015 by hyperv6

[GMTruckGuy74]

The Z71 emblem on the door of the first Silverado shown above is new. Usually the SILVERADO badge is in that place.

[ocnblu]

The truck in the original post is not an LTZ Z71, it's an LT Z71.  The '15 LTZ Z71 has a silver grille.

[Drew Dowdell]

nit

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

picker

[balthazar]

No, he's an en

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

thusiast

 

- - - - -

Got to give Ford one thing, they offer a lot of truck-related packages that allows for a lot of individualization.
The more Chevy & GMC offer, the better for the consumer.

[GMTruckGuy74]

The 2nd truck is not a LTZ, it's the 2014 LT w/ Z71 option. As Bill pointed out, 2015 Z71's have a silver painted grille ('14s have black colored grille).

The truck in the original post is not an LTZ Z71, it's an LT Z71.  The '15 LTZ Z71 has a silver grille.

  

nit

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

picker

  

No, he's an en

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

thusiast

 

- - - - -

Got to give Ford one thing, they offer a lot of truck-related packages that allows for a lot of individualization.

The more Chevy & GMC offer, the better for the consumer.

[ocnblu]

The 2nd truck is not a LTZ, it's the 2014 LT w/ Z71 option. As Bill pointed out, 2015 Z71's have a silver painted grille ('14s have black colored grille).

 

The truck in the original post is not an LTZ Z71, it's an LT Z71.  The '15 LTZ Z71 has a silver grille.

  

nit

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

picker

  

No, he's an en

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

thusiast

 

- - - - -

Got to give Ford one thing, they offer a lot of truck-related packages that allows for a lot of individualization.

The more Chevy & GMC offer, the better for the consumer.

 

Not a 2014 LT Z71, but a 2015 LT Z71, it has the body color door handles and mirror caps.  The 2015 LT Z71 has body color handles and caps, but retains the special black Z71 grille.  The 2015 LTZ Z71 has the silver grille, and I am not sure, but I think it has different wheels too.

 

Hey Drewbert   

Edited January 11, 2015 by ocnblu

[hyperv6]

For what it is worth we have a 2015 LT Z71 and it looks just like the second one posted with the chrome grill with the black inserts. It also has the same wheels. We lack the lower chrome on the front bumper. 

 

The bigger difference is the leather on the inside and some detail items.   

 

Unless  you know what to look for you can pass a LT off at a LTZ pretty easy on the outside.

[GMTruckGuy74]

My mistake, I thought all trim levels with the Z71 package received the silver grill insert for 2015. D'oH!! 

[ponchoman49]

Projector beam headlights. LOL that should be std equipment in every stinking Silverado for the prices being charged for these things not a one off package only!

[martha3065]

Love the look of the crew cab in Summit White in the press release. Too bad I can't actually get one that looks like the pic in the press release. Summit White is only offered in Double Cab and White Diamond is the alternative in Crew

[dez97]

I really do like this, this makes me feel like I get a say in what gets placed on my vehicle, and how it looks. Makes me feel like I am building my own dream car.