Archive for the ‘GMC’ Category

Progressively aligned, the new GMC Granite Concept shows with its urban-industrial design at the Detroit Auto Show (11.01.2010 – 24.01.2010). In addition to the flamboyant, muscular-looking style of the car boasts a practical function and should appeal especially active urbanites who seek an extravagant vehicle for use in the city, while providing space for recreation. For the excavation while a 1.4-liter turbo engine combines with a six-speed dual-clutch gearbox.

Should the GMC website Granite in series, it would be the smallest so far GMC – for the driver, he feels, however, significantly larger, because the granite is 0.6 meters shorter than the new Terrain compact crossover. The open interior has been designed, however, that he is very flexible with lots of space and the needs of active human person. Its generous loading area and the unique folding seats allow for example the transportation of a mountain bike in the car when fully closed the trunk.

Industrial-inspired exterior design
A team of young designers designed the Granite based on the preferences and needs of young, socially active and townspeople, as they are themselves. The vehicle should therefore rather serve to drive with friends in clubs and on weekends, the outdoor equipment store to be able to.

With a length of 4.097 meters, a width of 1.786 meters and a height of 1,536 meters, the GMC is shorter than VW Golf. Thanks to the wheelbase of 2.631 meters, the GMC Granite proves to be very maneuverable in tight urban jungle. The proportions are similar to those of the Scion xB as major competitors.

The relatively short body of the granite is compensated by the broad and high body. These proportions lift the Granite clearly from the conventional minivan, SUV or crossover design. The Granite has four doors that can open like doors. The missing pillars between the front and rear doors facilitate entry and the loading and unloading of bulky objects.

Introduced in 1994, this truck has been refined and upgraded for the past six years. Its latest changes include more powerful engines, increased trailer ratings, improved suspensions and a greater selection of options, including a third door. Also new is a top-of-the-line SLE version, previously available as an option package. Read the rest of this entry »

With every passing auto show it seems that the manufacturers compete increasingly with each other on the bases of global dominance and loud music than on the strength of their product. General Motors, for instance, had a sprawling display at the Detroit auto show as imposing as their global reach, not to mention mind-numbingly loud. Some journalists have been caught jamming earplugs into their heads at the beginning of press conferences. Read the rest of this entry »

GMC Canyon in new mid-size format brings truck-tough traits

By Bob Plunkett

BULVERDE, Tex. — On a dusty trace running through Texas Hill Country, a new truck in the line of GMC manages to smother any chuckhole indentions and deliver a smooth and stable ride that, despite the absence of hard pavement, borders on the cushy.

It’s a sophisticated quality — far removed from the image of a rough and rugged truck — yet this new model comes with a choice of powerful new in-line engines and scores high marks for hauling and towing to rank as a serious machine for truck-tough work. Read the rest of this entry »

2002 GMC Envoy XL
Bob Plunkett: CarTrackers Review Team

GMC Envoy XL wagon stretches to make room for third-row seat

LA JOLLA, Calif. — On Ardath Road at the on-ramp to the Soledad Freeway, Route 52, in San Diego’s suburb of La Jolla, the pedal goes down and the power comes up quickly in a new stretched edition of the four-door Envoy sport-utility wagon from GMC Truck. Read the rest of this entry »

GMC Sierra Denali truck maneuvers with four wheels steering

TORREY PINES, Calif. — This is it: The ultimate pickup, stoked with power from a massive engine, stuffed with luxurious comforts in a four-door and five-seat cabin, then outfitted with sophisticated electronic controls that make the big rig as easy to maneuver around a crowded parking lot as a small sports car.

Call it Denali, top trim for the Sierra 1500 full-size truck by GMC of General Motors.a humongous 6.0-liter V8 engine sits beneath that scored hood and it carries the strength of 325 horses, plus as much as 370 lb-ft of torque at 4000 rpm. Read the rest of this entry »

GMC Envoy SUV wagon boosts size, power and premium equipment

LOS BARRILES, Mexico — The paved route across Mexico’s Baja California peninsula extends from the dusty village of Todos Santos on the Pacific Ocean to the palm-fringed fishing port of Los Barriles in the Sea of Cortez.

It heads north out of Totos Santos on Mexico 19 through a flat desert studded with tall saguaro cactus to the crossroads of San Pedro, then cuts to the east on a narrow and twisted blacktop ribbon of Mexico 1 for a dicey run over the Sierra de la Laguna mountains. Read the rest of this entry »

GMC Yukon Denali wagon maximizes power in luxurious quarters.

LOS ALAMOS, Calif. — With blue waters of the Santa Barbara Channel spreading off the California Coast to the left and brown ramparts of the Santa Inez Range stacked high on the right, the Pacific Coast Highway runs westward out of Santa Barbara before hooking a right at Gaviota and climbing over the mountains.

Big trucks and commuter cars usually clot this artery and fog off the ocean often obscures the view, but on a recent cruise up the PCH the traffic seemed sparse and a blue sky clearly revealed the islands of San Miguel, Santa Rosa and Santa Cruz. Read the rest of this entry »

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — On a hilly course through the Ozark Mountains of southern Missouri, a big trailer — packed with dead weight equivalent to a load of two big horses — trailed behind a four-door rendition of the hefty workhorse pickup truck that bore a bold red-letter nameplate from the GMC Truck Division of General Motors.

This particular truck, a prototype for the new Sierra HD (Heavy Duty) line in one-ton 3500HD series with four-wheel-drive, had an extended cab with front bucket seats and a small rear bench, as well as a long-box bed in back stretching for eight feet. Read the rest of this entry »

The minivan craze started in the early 1980s when Chrysler was the first automaker to launch the vehicle that would soon become the mode of transportation for families.

This marked the beginning of the steady decline of the full-size van market. Along with station wagons (now almost extinct), the full-size vans were the way to haul families and cargo before the birth of the minivan.

So, why did the minivan replace the regular van as a family vehicle? The key word here is mini, with full-size vans simply being too big for people to drive around town on a regular basis. Their size makes it difficult just to simply park in a crowded lot, let alone trying to fit the large van in a normal-sized garage. Read the rest of this entry »