The $64000 GMC Sierra Denali Shows How Pickups Have Gone Crazy Luxe - TIME
Detroit couldn’t build profitable cars to save its soul, but pickups always delivered sales and profits. GMC also rolled out new versions of its heavy duty 2500 and 3500 Sierra HD models that highlight another trend: the pickup gone crazy luxe. For the successful farmer who now pilots a climate-controlled, $325,000 John Deere 9370R tractor with mission-control computer display terminals, the fully-equipped Sierra Denali 2500HD that we tested might be no less than the minimum required. This diesel-driven, high-waisted brute feels more like a working Escalade, and at $64,000 for the crew-cab, diesel version, it’s priced in the neighborhood. And in the Sierra Denali you’ll get one. Once you adjust to sitting a mile high and towering over mere cars — and in Manhattan (New York, that is, not Kansas) it’s kind of a cool perspective — you realize that the Sierra doesn’t feel like a truck. On the highway, it’s one of the quietest vehicles on the highway that I’ve tested this year. That’s even more surprising considering that this particular Sierra Denali is powered by a 6. 6 L V8 Duramax diesel tied to a 6-speed Allison Transmission. Source: time.com
