Will this truck be called the 2019 Chevy Kodiak HD 4500? (Spied)

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2019 Chevy 4500 prototype (photo credit: Chris Baker)

What to do if you need to tow over 24,000 lbs and you want a GM heavy duty truck. How about the upcoming 2019 Chevy Kodiak 4500/5500 medium duty truck? General Motors and Navistar International announced a partnership to produce the next generation of the medium duty trucks. Will these Chevy trucks carry the Kodiak name? This has not been confirmed yet.

Chris Baker grabbed a couple of shots of this prototype that appears to be amidst stability control system and other testing. The outrigger mounting holes on the bumper plate and the roll cage in the back suggest that truck may have been doing a slalom course recently.

There is a report that suggests that the new 4500/5500 series trucks from GM will be officially unveiled in March of 2018 and go on sale after that. This may designate these heavy duty haulers as 2019 model year trucks.

A version of GM’s 6.6L Duramax V8 turbo-diesel is expected to be under the hood.

We look forward on more information/specifications on these trucks. It would be cool to have the Chevy Kodiak and GMC Topkick names back.

Here are some other heavy duty Silverado trucks from Chevrolet.