This is the next-generation GMC Sierra 1500, caught for the first time in Denali trim, and also a double-cab variant (Sierra/Silverado).

Like the similar Chevrolet Silverado, the Sierra will get a major redo for 2019 with an aluminum-intensive body to save weight, as the Ford F-150 has already adopted. But it will sport styling much like that of the current model, including an innovative running board that seems to also incorporate a step up into the bed.

A turbocharged V6 option is also said to be on offer with the new generation of GM trucks, as is a diesel V6. The 10-speed automatic already seen in the Camaro ZL1 should replace the current eight-speed unit in many, if not all, versions of the Sierra. A brake-by-wire system will also debut here, and an air suspension such as the one on the Ram 1500 trucks may also be offered on the Sierra for the first time.

The Sierra should be revealed next year, with an on-sale date late in 2018.

Photo credit: Brian Williams, SpiedBilde

This is the next-generation GMC Sierra 1500, caught for the first time in Denali trim, and also a double-cab variant (Sierra/Silverado).

Like the similar Chevrolet Silverado, the Sierra will get a major redo for 2019 with an aluminum-intensive body to save weight, as the Ford F-150 has already adopted. But it will sport styling much like that of the current model, including an innovative running board that seems to also incorporate a step up into the bed.

A turbocharged V6 option is also said to be on offer with the new generation of GM trucks, as is a diesel V6. The 10-speed automatic already seen in the Camaro ZL1 should replace the current eight-speed unit in many, if not all, versions of the Sierra. A brake-by-wire system will also debut here, and an air suspension such as the one on the Ram 1500 trucks may also be offered on the Sierra for the first time.

The Sierra should be revealed next year, with an on-sale date late in 2018.

Photo credit: Brian Williams, SpiedBilde

This is the next-generation GMC Sierra 1500, caught for the first time in Denali trim, and also a double-cab variant (Sierra/Silverado).

Like the similar Chevrolet Silverado, the Sierra will get a major redo for 2019 with an aluminum-intensive body to save weight, as the Ford F-150 has already adopted. But it will sport styling much like that of the current model, including an innovative running board that seems to also incorporate a step up into the bed.

A turbocharged V6 option is also said to be on offer with the new generation of GM trucks, as is a diesel V6. The 10-speed automatic already seen in the Camaro ZL1 should replace the current eight-speed unit in many, if not all, versions of the Sierra. A brake-by-wire system will also debut here, and an air suspension such as the one on the Ram 1500 trucks may also be offered on the Sierra for the first time.

The Sierra should be revealed next year, with an on-sale date late in 2018.

Photo credit: Brian Williams, SpiedBilde

This is the next-generation GMC Sierra 1500, caught for the first time in Denali trim, and also a double-cab variant (Sierra/Silverado).

Like the similar Chevrolet Silverado, the Sierra will get a major redo for 2019 with an aluminum-intensive body to save weight, as the Ford F-150 has already adopted. But it will sport styling much like that of the current model, including an innovative running board that seems to also incorporate a step up into the bed.

A turbocharged V6 option is also said to be on offer with the new generation of GM trucks, as is a diesel V6. The 10-speed automatic already seen in the Camaro ZL1 should replace the current eight-speed unit in many, if not all, versions of the Sierra. A brake-by-wire system will also debut here, and an air suspension such as the one on the Ram 1500 trucks may also be offered on the Sierra for the first time.

The Sierra should be revealed next year, with an on-sale date late in 2018.

Photo credit: Brian Williams, SpiedBilde

This is the next-generation GMC Sierra 1500, caught for the first time in Denali trim, and also a double-cab variant (Sierra/Silverado).

Like the similar Chevrolet Silverado, the Sierra will get a major redo for 2019 with an aluminum-intensive body to save weight, as the Ford F-150 has already adopted. But it will sport styling much like that of the current model, including an innovative running board that seems to also incorporate a step up into the bed.

A turbocharged V6 option is also said to be on offer with the new generation of GM trucks, as is a diesel V6. The 10-speed automatic already seen in the Camaro ZL1 should replace the current eight-speed unit in many, if not all, versions of the Sierra. A brake-by-wire system will also debut here, and an air suspension such as the one on the Ram 1500 trucks may also be offered on the Sierra for the first time.

The Sierra should be revealed next year, with an on-sale date late in 2018.

Photo credit: Brian Williams, SpiedBilde

This is the next-generation GMC Sierra 1500, caught for the first time in Denali trim, and also a double-cab variant (Sierra/Silverado).

Like the similar Chevrolet Silverado, the Sierra will get a major redo for 2019 with an aluminum-intensive body to save weight, as the Ford F-150 has already adopted. But it will sport styling much like that of the current model, including an innovative running board that seems to also incorporate a step up into the bed.

A turbocharged V6 option is also said to be on offer with the new generation of GM trucks, as is a diesel V6. The 10-speed automatic already seen in the Camaro ZL1 should replace the current eight-speed unit in many, if not all, versions of the Sierra. A brake-by-wire system will also debut here, and an air suspension such as the one on the Ram 1500 trucks may also be offered on the Sierra for the first time.

The Sierra should be revealed next year, with an on-sale date late in 2018.

Photo credit: Brian Williams, SpiedBilde

This is the next-generation GMC Sierra 1500, caught for the first time in Denali trim, and also a double-cab variant (Sierra/Silverado).

Like the similar Chevrolet Silverado, the Sierra will get a major redo for 2019 with an aluminum-intensive body to save weight, as the Ford F-150 has already adopted. But it will sport styling much like that of the current model, including an innovative running board that seems to also incorporate a step up into the bed.

A turbocharged V6 option is also said to be on offer with the new generation of GM trucks, as is a diesel V6. The 10-speed automatic already seen in the Camaro ZL1 should replace the current eight-speed unit in many, if not all, versions of the Sierra. A brake-by-wire system will also debut here, and an air suspension such as the one on the Ram 1500 trucks may also be offered on the Sierra for the first time.

The Sierra should be revealed next year, with an on-sale date late in 2018.

Photo credit: Brian Williams, SpiedBilde

This is the next-generation GMC Sierra 1500, caught for the first time in Denali trim, and also a double-cab variant (Sierra/Silverado).

Like the similar Chevrolet Silverado, the Sierra will get a major redo for 2019 with an aluminum-intensive body to save weight, as the Ford F-150 has already adopted. But it will sport styling much like that of the current model, including an innovative running board that seems to also incorporate a step up into the bed.

A turbocharged V6 option is also said to be on offer with the new generation of GM trucks, as is a diesel V6. The 10-speed automatic already seen in the Camaro ZL1 should replace the current eight-speed unit in many, if not all, versions of the Sierra. A brake-by-wire system will also debut here, and an air suspension such as the one on the Ram 1500 trucks may also be offered on the Sierra for the first time.

The Sierra should be revealed next year, with an on-sale date late in 2018.

Photo credit: Brian Williams, SpiedBilde

An entire generation of aftermarket pioneers may remember cruising the boulevard and blaring Bob Dylan’s “The Times They Are a-Changin’” from their recently invented stereo-cassette radios in the ’60s. Now, five decades later, another generation of aftermarket product developers is giving those words a whole other meaning for today’s vehicle-electronics consumers.

Category observers have identified a number of exciting trends taking shape over the past few years. Connectivity remains one of the most prominent among them—connectivity between a vehicle and a driver’s mobile devices, and increasing connectivity to the cloud and the internet of things (IOT).

An entire generation of aftermarket pioneers may remember cruising the boulevard and blaring Bob Dylan’s “The Times They Are a-Changin’” from their recently invented stereo-cassette radios in the ’60s. Now, five decades later, another generation of aftermarket product developers is giving those words a whole other meaning for today’s vehicle-electronics consumers.

Category observers have identified a number of exciting trends taking shape over the past few years. Connectivity remains one of the most prominent among them—connectivity between a vehicle and a driver’s mobile devices, and increasing connectivity to the cloud and the internet of things (IOT).