The Wheels on Our Long-Term 2015 GMC Yukon XL Denali Are Heavy—*Really* Heavy - Car and Driver (blog)
“It would cost approximately $165,000 to send one of the Yukon’s wheels (tire included) into orbit aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9. ” – Charley Ladd, road warrior Our long-term GMC Yukon XL is so big—well, it has “XL” right there in its name, doesn’t it.... We realized this while running our typical entrance exam on the GMC—as we do for every one of our long-term vehicles—when we removed the wheels to measure brake-pad thickness. (It’s a measurement we’ll take again to analyze wear when the GMC leaves our fleet. As any amateur suspension designer knows, unsprung weight—essentially, anything in the suspension, brakes, and wheels—can have a huge effect on overall vehicle dynamics and wheel control over bumps. The Yukon, therefore, should ride like a broken Radio Flyer wagon, but thanks to the Denali model’s standard Magnetic Ride Control adaptive magnetorheological dampers and the XL body style’s longer wheelbase, the truck rides quite well. Source: blog.caranddriver.com
