Is 2021 Chevy Silverado Trail Boss The Best Entry Level Off-Road Truck?

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2021 Chevy Silverado Trail Boss – So the chevy silverado is of course one of america’s most popular vehicles, and today we’re standing next to one of the coolest versions of the silverado, the lt trail boss. It has a lot of styling and off-road upgrades and without further ado, we’re just going to go ahead and check it out. so part of what makes the trail boss such an appealing package to have on this Silverado is the appearance.

2021 Chevy Silverado Trail Boss

2021 Chevy Silverado Trail Boss

What You Have to Get From 2021 Chevy Silverado Trail Boss

You’ll notice right up here in the front we have a very menacing look and that’s because with the trailblast you have a lot of black upgrades. Plus we’re pairing that with a black exterior. So we have that really cool stealth. Look, so, regardless of what type of color you choose, all of the grille is going to be blacked out. This particular model also is the midnight edition package, so that is going to include the black badging now coming over here to your headlights.

You do have full led headlights on every version of the lt 2021 Chevy Silverado Trail Boss. However, with that midnight edition, it throws in the high intensity led headlights, which are a little bit better and also include things like your led turn signal and then finally down here at the bottom, we have led fog lights, as well as our nice red tow hooks.

They’re, a little bit upgraded for off-road duty. The trail boss also sets two inches taller than the normal 2021 Chevy Silverado Trail Boss again just adding for adding to the off-road capabilities. Moving up here to your mirrors. They are power, adjusting heated and we have blind spot monitoring with the safety package plus. I do want to point out that this mirror is always finished in gloss black, as well as the door handles no matter which exterior color you choose now before we get around to the rear design of this 2021 Chevy Silverado Trail Boss.

2021 Chevy Silverado Trail Boss Rumor

2021 Chevy Silverado Trail Boss Rumor

I do want to talk about the different cab and bed configurations you can get. You’re not going to have too many options with the lt trail boss, since it’s only going to be crew cab. However, you do have the option of a short bed or the regular length bed now coming around to the rear itself. You have some trail boss, branding here on the side and then, as far as the styling, you have your chevrolet branding. That’s kind of stamped into the tailgate. All of your badging is once again blacked out with that midnight package and then your tail lights.

They’re, going to be partially led. Your turn signal, as well as the brake light, is led. However, the reverse light is still incandescent dropping down. We do have a dual trapezoidal exhaust outlets and, as you can tell, they are also blacked out with that midnight package. Now, obviously, a very important part about any truck is going to be your bed here, and this is actually where you’re, going to see a 2021 change, because chevrolet is now offering a multi-flex tailgate, which is basically the gmc sierra’S multi-pro tailgate, that’s, going to be offered on also verados.

However, it’s not going to be available until early 2021, so you’re, not going to find that on these early release. 21S. Now, as far as the tailgate itself, you just locate this little button to open it up. You can also use the remote release on the fob and then once inside you’re, going to find a very nice bed. You have some led lighting across both of the sides. We also have some tie downs off to the right side.

You’re, going to notice a huge changes for 2021 Chevy Silverado Trail Boss. The updates that are inside the cabin are really just focused on details. Now, as far as your interior combinations, you’ve got a few different choices, so what comes standard is going to be a bench seat, but obviously we have the buckets which are optional. We also have the leather seating, which is again optional and cloth is standard. Then no matter which model you choose. You’ve, got the choice between black or gray options and then turning over here to your door trim across the armrest portion.

2021 Chevy Silverado Trail Boss Interior

2021 Chevy Silverado Trail Boss Interior

We are going to have a kind of rubberized material and then a soft touch plastic with stitching up here on the top part. This trim here is kind of like a interesting mixture between a faux wood and a faux carbon fiber and then, as far as our windows, they’re, going to be one touch auto up and down for the driver window. Only taking a look here at the seats, these are the standard, 10-way power adjusting seats with two-way lumbar support. Then, like i already mentioned, we have the optional real leather. Seating um definitely feels pretty nice and you do have the color contrast stitching on board as well.

Now getting inside is not too bad, since we’ve got the assist steps, but without these it would be quite a leap to get 2021 Chevy Silverado Trail Boss inside now for the 2021 Chevy Silverado Trail Boss trim. Chevy went with a more rugged and utilitarian approach, rather than luxurious, so across our upper dash. This is going to be a hard touch plastic. However, we do have a kind of soft touch, leatherette material that runs all through the center areas, with a stitching detail as we move down lower. Most of these materials are going to be hard touch.

We do have some more of that woodish carbon fiber looking trim, but everything does fit together extremely well and to start the trail boss just put your foot on the brake and press the standard button. So once you start up the trailblast, you’re. Going to find the typical 2021 Chevy Silverado Trail Boss gauges uh, this is the mostly analog setup, so you’ve got the analog gauges across the top and then the 4.2 inch multi-function display, as opposed to the larger 7-inch display in the middle.

Your four wheel drive controls as well as your headlight and bed lighting over here off. On the other side, of course, you ‘ve got the typical column mounted 2021 Chevy Silverado Trail Boss shifter, so just pull down for drive. You can do some manual controls right here with these little toggles, then we go into reverse. You will be greeted by a standard, backup camera. However, there are some different versions you can get.

2021 Chevy Silverado Trail Boss Change

2021 Chevy Silverado Trail Boss Change

So since we’ve got the convenience 2 package. We have the high definition version and also since we have the safety package, we’ve got the optional parking sensors. Otherwise it would look a little bit more basic than this. Now, since we have the column mounted shifter with the silverado, that does free up a lot of space. So when we open up this center console here i mean it’s, just insanely big honestly. It just makes the coupon test really kind of stupid to do in a truck this big because you just drop it in there and just swallows them up completely.

Go ahead and take a sample of yeah, so really good. Sounding sound system um, even though seven speakers sounds a little bit lower than some of the competition, definitely fills up the cabin nicely still all right. So now let’s jump up here to our eight inch display, and this does look. You know the same as what you see in other silverado models. However, there are some updates for 2021 Chevy Silverado Trail Boss, so you’ll notice. I’m in android, auto right now.

So take this second to point out. My phone is not connected to the system that’s because new for 2021 we have wireless android, auto and wireless apple carplay. Now, as far as the rest of the system, it is your typical chevy infotainment, 3 setup.

I will point out that you have some additional trailering options this year and we don’t have integrated navigation on this model. You will have to choose a higher trim level. If you want that now. Moving on up here, we’ve got a manual dimming mirror you can get the rear vision. Camera mirror. If you want as an option. However, even with this, we still have the home lake universal remotes. Additionally, since we have convenience 2 package, you have the power sliding rear window and then, as a standalone option, we have the power sliding moon roof.

Now this is just a regular size unit. You cannot get a panoramic unit with the silverado, all righty, so getting into the rear seat of this lt 2021 Chevy Silverado Trail Boss, like i mentioned at the side, you’re gonna, have the standard crew cab, so you’re gonna have a lot of space.

If you go for this trim level, it’s, going to be rated at 43.4 inches of her leg, room and 40 inches of her headroom, which is obviously a massive amount of space. Although it is a little bit less than the ram 1500 and nearly identical to the ford f-150 now as far as the space itself is concerned, behind routine position um, i would say i have 12 10 to 12 inches of rear leg room and my feet can Easily set up underneath the seat now, as far as your features that chevy’s, gonna throw in we have cup holders up in the top.

2021 Chevy Silverado Trail Boss Feature

2021 Chevy Silverado Trail Boss Feature

But i do want to point out that no heated rear seats are offered on this lt 2021 Chevy Silverado Trail Boss, now checking out the seat, versatility itself. Of course you can just lift the seat up and that will reveal a little bit of under floor storage.

So you can throw stuff that you want hidden in this compartment and that just leaves this open for whatever you need to put in the rear and then, as far as in the seat back itself, we do also have gm’s, innovative, like seat Back storage area, so, if you don’t want, if you want something to be completely hidden, you can hide it back here, because no one is ever going to be looking in the back of the seat as far as your passenger seat is going To be manually adjusting and then, as far as the glove boxes are concerned, you have the two-part opening system, so you have one up top as well as one in the rear and as far as the coupons of course, that’s, going to be Pretty good news for them.

I don’t really. You may be able to squash these coupons and fill them in the top part, but you can definitely fit them in the bottom and it is pretty decently sized. Although, although i do think this bottom, one could probably be a little bit bigger for a full-size truck and then up top, we have a sun visor with a absolutely ridiculously gigantic mirror.

Specification

However, you don’t have any lighting and you can also detach it and extend, oh yeah, so the 6.2 liter v8 um. It is optional on this 2021 Chevy Silverado Trail Boss, but definitely has a lot of power on board and really good sounds as well. So we got 420 horsepower 460 pound feet of torque, like in all the other general motors products, but that is a pretty big improvement over the 355 that you get out of the 5.3 liter v8, which is the standard option yeah.

2021 Chevy Silverado Trail Boss Specification

2021 Chevy Silverado Trail Boss Specification

The sound is really one of the most intoxicating things about this engine. You’ve, probably seen some of our reviews with other gm 6.2 liters, and it just sounds absolutely phenomenal. It’s very intoxicating to just push on the throttle and hear that, as far as the other aspect of the powertrain, we have the 10-speed automatic transmission uh.

That is going to be paired with both engines and um. You know that is a little bit better with the 2021 Chevy Silverado Trail Boss, because some of the other models have an eight-speed automatic instead of a 10-speed automatic, but this transmission is really good, as we said in past reviews really nice and smooth. I also like that it doesn’t seem to get confused even though it ‘ S got 10 gears when you put your foot down and stuff like that, you can shift down more than one gear at a time, so you always have that power right on tap.

Even though it’s got, you know a lot of cylinders to re-fire all righty. So while we’re stuck in traffic and before we go get the sound sample on the highway uh, let’s. Talk about the air ball and slam dunk. Now we talked about this, the slam dunk for the silverado, especially in this 2021 Chevy Silverado Trail Boss, configuration is going to be the exterior styling. We think it looks really really cool on the outside. You can go for the fully blacked out.

We like the outside the inside is a little bit cheap. This model here is going to sticker. We’re going to get into this in a second, but basically about 60 000 bucks, and for that price you can definitely get a nicer cabin in the competition and as far as the fuel economy there’s only going to be Two ratings, so it’s, going to be 16. 22. 19. If you go for the 5.3 liter engine, then if you go for the 6.2 liter engine, it’s, going to be coming in at 17, combined, so going around 55 miles per hour, uh our lowest reading.

2021 Chevy Silverado Trail Boss Price

2021 Chevy Silverado Trail Boss Price

How much the 2021 Chevy Silverado Trail Boss Price?

Now, as far as the  pricing is concerned, for the 2021 Chevy Silverado Trail Boss, you can get the 5.3 liter for $52.000. and $54.690 for the 6.2 liter do keep in mind that includes the destination charge. Now this one in particular does have quite a few options as pretty much fully loaded. LT trail, boss, plus the destination of 1595, brings this one to 60 970 bucks, which i do think is it’s. It’s, a pretty good price point for what you’re. Getting you are getting a cheaper cabin in here than some of the competition, but you’re, really getting a fantastic looking truck

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