Why buy a Silverado when you could buy a GMC Sierra, or vise versa?

[allyeah123]

for example, chevy sells the silverado and gmc sells the sierra. Apparently instead of styling, they are the same things. It kind of grinds my gears. what would make you buy one over the other.

 

[Jeremy F]

I would go for the GMC. It's more refined than the Silverado and the has better styling. You should do a car comparison of both trucks to see if there is a difference is payload capacities, etc. GMC is a luxury version of Chevy. A similar comparison would be Honda and Acura. Good luck!

 

[kevin]

Doing this expands their market share, if you sell a GMC to someone who won't but a chevy, then you have sold one more truck than if you only made chevy. GMC started out as General Motors Commercial, and all their trucks were commercial. Eventually that evolved into basically same truck as Chevy.

This has happened with Pontiac, Buick, Olds, Cadillac, Saturn, and Hummer. Also a Mercury and Lincoln (and for a little while Jaguar) are Fords, Chrysler and Plymouth are Dodges, Acura is a Honda, Lexus is a Toyota, Infinity and Datson are/were a Nissan. This has been done by every major auto-maker since the 50s,

Often times the body work is only slightly changed and different colors/options are available, but the basic chassis is the same, reducing costs, and aiding in parts availability. There used to be even bigger differences between models (examples would be the Olds 442, The Chevelle SS, And The Pontiac GTO, all the pinnacles of their models, all shared the same suspension, transmissions, differentials, and chassis.)

 

[Paul]

Back in the 50's and 60's, a GMC actually WAS a more heavy duty truck

TODAY, they are no different from Chevy's mechanically, only the badges are different, and roll off the same assy lines I believe, (the ones still running, anyway)