We always have a huge helping of positive sentiment for our flagship truck line here at Jim Butler Chevy of St Louis, and the winter quarter always is abundant with updates about our heavy-hauling favorite! The Motor Trend crew was thrilled to offer the details about the 2025 Chevy Silverado HD, which has now officially introduced the introduction of the off-road ready HD Trail Boss trim. There are also a few other additions to available and standard equipment, and truck lovers everywhere are anticipating its arrival.
For 2024, the off-road ZR2 lineup was officially completed with the Chevy 2500HD ZR2, which Car and Driver praised for its “factory-installed cool factor, smooth ride, and Duramax diesel.” The HD Trail Boss steps up in a major way as an ideal sidekick of sorts if extreme off-road chops aren’t quite your thing. The Trail boss will be available on LT and LTZ trims, which are both sandwiched between the lower WT and Custom trim. On top of the standard goods included with the LTZ and LT, the Trail Boss comes ferociously trail-ready with the Z71 Off-Road Package.
Here you get to “kick rocks” as more than just an exit forte courtesy of Rancho twin-tube shocks, a very cool blacked-out exterior, Trail Boss bed decals, and red recovery hooks. Special 20-inch black wheels wrapped in BFGoodrich all-terrain tires are also included as an excellent means of slaying the miles on all fours. The Trail Boss comes standard with the 6.6-liter gasoline V8, and the 6.6-liter diesel Duramax V8 optional. 401 very capable horsepower and 464 lb-ft of torque carry over for the gas V8 from 2024, with the Duramax cranking out 470 hp and 975 lb-ft.
Front and rear park assist is now standard on the ZR2, and the High Country sees the addition of standard adaptive cruise control. The Custom trim can now be cloaked in stealth superiority with the Black-Out Package option, and the Midnight Edition has fresh 20-inch wheels. The Cnet review crew were thrilled enough with the 2022 Trail boss to declare its candor as “Diesel Brown Meets Google Brains.” We’d have to agree that even though the truck is great at being rough and superbly ready, its infotainment overhaul rendered it quite attractive to drivers that love innovation.
The Trail Boss Premium package adds leather trim, a spray-on bed liner, perimeter lighting, a power lift, and a release tailgate. Mixed materials and a fully boxed steel frame allowed the Trail Boss to fill its boots properly, with the bed’s strength seeing no compromise thanks to high-strength steel. Other seasoned experts have praised the Trail Boss’s air filter as “being the most effective to ever be designed for the off-road segment. The Road and Track team was revved up enough after their previous Trail Boss review to claim that Chevy has “An amazing history of constructing legendary V8s”.
The Trail Boss’s soft off-road suspension setup and monotube shocks are excellent at softening the impact of large bumps, and the two-inch lift preps you for so many adventuresome grades of the wild! Cool-looking, capable, and reliable, the Custom Trail Boss and LT Trail Boss are currently the fastest-selling Silverado trims. The Detroit Bureau auto review crew claimed after their Trail Boss test drive that it would be appropriate for someone who works incredibly hard in the logging and forestry industry, and it resonates well with the “bigness cravings of the times.” The 6-way tailgate rounds out the package even further, offering numerous configurations for bed access.