"The all-new Canyon is the phase's first top rate midsize truck, handing over class-main skills with the brand's signature refinement," stated Duncan Aldred, vice chairman of GMC Sales and Marketing. "It's an correctly sized, maneuverable package deal for clients who need the shipment-hauling and trailering versatility of a truck with out the dimensions of a vast pickup."
It additionally gives phase-first-class toll road performance: EPA-envisioned 27 mpg for 2.5L 2WD fashions and 26 mpg for 3.6L 2WD fashions, whilst nicely equipped.
Canyon is the simplest truck withinside the phase to provide AutoTrac automated 4-wheel drive, which lets in the driving force to pick guide four wheel drive engagement or automated engagement.
Customer-targeted technology consist of to be had OnStar 4G LTE connectivity, phase-first to be had driving force alert capabilities consisting of ahead collision alert, lane departure caution and a wellknown rear-imaginative and prescient digital digicam.
OnStar with 4G LTE and its wellknown integrated Wi-Fi hotspot gives a cell hub for drivers and passengers to live connected. The hotspot is on on every occasion the auto is on and is derived with a 3-month/3-gigabyte facts trial, whichever comes first.
Designed for functionality, consolation and refinement
Inside and out, the 2015 Canyon is natural GMC, with a quiet, subtle indoors prominent through top rate substances and a commanding outside presence that emulates the generation-infused layout aesthetic brought at the 2014 Sierra 1500 and 2015 Sierra HD fashions.
Bold the front-give up styling includes the phase's simplest wellknown projector beam headlamps and GMC's signature LED sunlight hours jogging lamps on all fashions. Three frame configurations are provided: An prolonged cab version with a six-foot -inch mattress, a team cab with a five-foot -inch mattress, and a team cab with a six-foot -inch mattress. With the tailgate down, the longer mattress lets in eight-foot-lengthy objects to be hauled in the car.
From a refinement standpoint, the Canyon capabilities triple-sealed doorways inlaid withinside the frame sides, just like the 2014 Sierra, for progressed aerodynamic overall performance and a quiet indoors. It additionally capabilities the phase's first energetic aero grille shutters, which near at positive toll road speeds to decorate performance thru progressed aerodynamics.
And to assist hold average mass down and enhance the the front-to-rear weight balance, the Canyon capabilities an all-new aluminum hood.
Additional capabilities consist of:
- Segment-first CornerStep rear bumper layout, pioneered at the 2014 Sierra, is wellknown. It is chrome on all fashions, besides All Terrain, that's frame-colour
- Segment-first EZ Lift-and-Lower locking tailgate that makes use of an inner torsion bar to make elevating the tailgate less complicated with one hand, and a damper for greater-managed lowering. It is wellknown on SLE and SLT fashions, and to be had on base fashions
- Thirteen reconfigurable and 4 desk bound tie-down places at some stage in the mattress to be used with to be had, detachable shipment tie-down rings
- Available manufacturing unit-established spray-in mattress liner
- Four-wheel disc brakes with Duralife™ rotors that could double the provider life.
Work and way of life add-ons had been advanced in tandem with the Canyon to healthy the truck's skills with included capability and designs the supplement its specific styling. The lineup consists of the all-new, patent-pending GearOn™ gadget and quite a few add-ons designed to make shipment hauling less complicated and greater handy, in addition to outside styling enhancement and indoors objects.
The GearOn™ gadget is designed to match flawlessly in the mattress, for vast garage and hauling flexibility. It is upgradable, with modular shipment dividers and tiered garage to house four x 8-foot sheets of plywood above the wheelhouses. It additionally makes use of the box's 4 everlasting and thirteen tie-down provisions to permit for quite a few steady and handy shipment stowage options.
The indoors of the 2015 Canyon is designed to be snug and properly equipped, at the same time as handing over the connectivity capabilities which can be important for clients with energetic lifestyles. The cabin additionally boasts awesome interest to element and top rate substances consisting of soft-contact substances and aluminum trim at the device panel of SLE and SLT fashions.
With clients who additionally very own or possibly transitioned out of a car, the Canyon's indoors layout blends factors of its vast sibling, the Sierra, with the ones commonly determined in greater private automobiles consisting of sports activities coupes - consisting of wellknown the front bucket seats and a middle console with a floor-hooked up shifter.
Comfort is more suitable with technology, connectivity and different capabilities that guide proprietors' day by day and leisure lives consisting of a 3.five-inch-diagonal driving force facts display withinside the device cluster (four.2-inch-diagonal multi-colour show on SLE and SLT).
Interior colorations selections consist of Jet Black, Jet Black/Dark Ash, Cocoa/Dune and Jet Black/Cobalt Red (All Terrain). Additional content material for Canyon's base, SLE and SLT fashions consists of:
- Canyon base
- four.2-inch-diagonal colour radio and USB port; six-speaker audio gadget
- Driver facts middle
- Air conditioning
- Power home windows with driving force's explicit up and down
- Rear-imaginative and prescient digital digicam gadget
- Driver's 4-manner energy-assisted seat adjuster with guide recline
- Cloth seating surfaces (vinyl to be had)
- Tilting steerage wheel
- Available OnStar with 4G LTE and integrated Wi-Fi hotspot
- Available Convenience Package provides far flung keyless entry, cruise manipulate, rear defogger, theft-deterrent gadget and EZ-Lift tailgate.
- Canyon SLE - consists of all of the same old capabilities of the bottom version, plus:
- Eight-inch-diagonal Color Touch radio with GMC IntelliLink; six-speaker audio gadget
- SiriusXM satellite tv for pc radio (consists of 3-month trial)
- Available navigation gadget
- Available Bose® top rate seven-speaker audio gadget
- Two USB ports for charging positioned at the rear of the middle console similarly any other USB port in the console
- Overhead console
- Cruise manipulate
- Rear defogger
- Multi-colour driving force facts middle show
- Soft-contact device panel with aluminum trim
- Dual studying lighting
- Body-colour door handles
- Auto-dimming interior rearview mirror
- Remote keyless entry
- Driver and the front passenger 4-manner energy seat adjusters with energy lumbar manipulate (All Terrain simplest)
- Heated the front seats (All Terrain simplest)
- Tilting and telescoping steerage column
- Leather-wrapped steerage wheel with audio controls
- Available Convenience Package provides automated weather manipulate and far flung car starter gadget
- Available sliding rear window (calls for SLE Convenience Package)
- Available Driver Alert Package consists of ahead collision alert and lane departure caution (now no longer to be had on All Terrain).
- Canyon SLT - consists of all of the same old capabilities of the SLE version, plus:
- Automatic weather manipulate
- Remote car starter gadget
- Driver and the front passenger 4-manner energy seat adjusters with energy lumbar manipulate
- Leather-appointed seating
- Heated the front seats
- Available navigation gadget
- Available Bose® top rate seven-speaker audio gadget
- Available sliding rear window
- Available Driver Alert Package consists of ahead collision alert and lane departure caution.
IntelliLink and OnStar 4G LTE
GMC IntelliLink is wellknown on SLE and SLT fashions, and to be had the bottom version. It combines with to be had OnStar to carry infotainment generation to Canyon at a time increasingly purchasers are shopping for smartphones. IntelliLink extends the OnStar revel in from protection and protection to facts and amusement through seamlessly integrating the functionality of a phone into the car in order that handheld telephones can be accurately stowed at the same time as riding.
Enhanced connectivity and comfort with IntelliLink consists of textual content message guide and Siri Eyes Free. With textual content message guide, the driving force may be alerted to new messages and might have them examine aloud, view and reply to them with preset messages through voice (capability relies upon at the phone). Siri Eyes Free permits iPhone 4S and iPhone five customers to get entry to Siri thru the steerage wheel controls and take a look at calendar entries, have textual content messages examine and reply to them, area calls or name up track.
Android telecellsmartphone customers also can use the steerage wheel controls to get entry to their telecellsmartphone's voice reputation capabilities.
Additional IntelliLink capabilities consist of:
- Hands-loose voice manipulate gadget, which lets in easy voice instructions to provoke telecellsmartphone calls and pick radio stations or media from transportable MP3 gamers and clever telephones
- Pandora Internet radio lets in customers to create personalised radio stations primarily based totally on preferred artists or genres (facts fees practice)
- USB connectivity provides the cappotential to play track documents immediately from flash reminiscence devices, and offers the patron the cappotential to replace IntelliLink with destiny enhancements.
Complementing IntelliLink to decorate Canyon's connectivity is new OnStar with 4G LTE and wellknown integrated Wi-Fi hotspot. It gives a cell hub for drivers and passengers to live connected. The hotspot is on on every occasion the car is on and is derived with a 3-month/3-gigabyte facts trial, whichever comes first.
4G LTE is the maximum cutting-edge and quickest cell facts network - 10 instances quicker than 3G and one hundred instances quicker than the 2G network. And with OnStar, clients have a effective antenna constructed proper in to the car's electric gadget.
Five years of OnStar Basic Plan consists of RemoteLink Key Fob Services, permitting proprietors to remotely begin and lock/release a car (if nicely equipped), and spark off the horn and lighting from everywhere with a facts connection. It additionally consists of OnStar Vehicle Diagnostics, which runs month-to-month tests of car systems - consisting of the engine, transmission and anti-lock brakes - and sends a diagnostic replace to the proprietor thru email; and Dealer Maintenance Notification, which sends a diagnostic record immediately to a favored supplier to simplify provider scheduling. Basic plan does now no longer consist of any emergency offerings.
A completely boxed perimeter body which gives the electricity to guide its skills, and a journey designed to be easy and quiet. Like the vast Sierra's body, the Canyon's contains 3 sections - or bays - with particular electricity and guide characteristics, consisting of a the front bay manufactured from hydroformed facet rails and an included 4-factor the front axle mounting gadget designed to lessen vibration.
A coil-over-surprise the front suspension and the phase's first electric powered energy steerage gadget assist provide the Canyon a completely responsive riding quality, with a completely direct experience to driving force inputs.
The the front suspension makes use of aluminum steerage knuckles which can be low in mass and excessive in electricity, contributing to the responsive riding revel in and improving performance. The electric powered energy steerage gadget additionally complements performance as it does now no longer draw energy from the engine. Additionally, the Canyon has a decent turning radius of forty one feet (12.6 meters), making it less complicated to move whilst parking or backing into tight spots, consisting of garages or campsites.
The rear axle is to be had with the GM's venerable "G80" locking differential, which offers drivers a traction benefit whilst wished and normal consolation whilst it is now no longer. It reacts in milliseconds in low-traction conditions to enhance protection and self belief on wet, snowy or muddy surfaces. Without driving force enter of any kind, the rear axle engages whilst a wheel velocity distinction of one hundred rpm or greater is detected among the left and proper wheels, imparting immediately traction for assured riding. During ordinary riding situations, the differential capabilities as a traditional light-bias constrained-slip axle.
The G80 axle is to be had on SLE and SLT, and wellknown with the All-Terrain package deal.
Duralife™ brake rotors
Four-wheel disc brakes, with 4-piston the front calipers, are wellknown and characteristic phase-first Duralife™ brake rotors - additionally pioneered at the 2014 Sierra. They can provide as much as double the provider life, that may assist decrease possession costs.They decorate braking overall performance, too, way to a GM-one of a kind method that protects towards rust that, over time, can result in steerage wheel shudder. It entails super-heating the rotors to greater than 1,000 stages F (560 C) for a whole day in a unique oven, wherein the nitrogen-wealthy environment promotes nitrogen atoms to bond to the rotors' surfaces, hardening and strengthening them.
Canyon additionally capabilities car grade braking, which makes use of the engine and transmission controls to gradual the car on a protracted downgrade, assisting hold car velocity and lowering the want for the driving force to apply the brakes.
The all-new, 2015 GMC Canyon provides the maximum horsepower withinside the phase and the first-class V-6 performance, permitting proprietors to haul and tow greater at the same time as the usage of much less gas than competition' midsize trucks.A 2.5L I-four is wellknown and SAE-licensed at 2 hundred horsepower (149 kW) and 191 lb-toes of torque (259 Nm), with about ninety percentage of the height torque to be had from 2,000 rpm to 6,2 hundred rpm. It additionally gives EPA-envisioned 27 mpg at the toll road (2WD), whilst nicely equipped.
Canyon additionally gives a 3.6L V-6 licensed at 305 horsepower (227 kW) and 269 lb-toes of torque (365 Nm) - and an EPA-envisioned 26 mpg at the toll road (2WD), whilst nicely equipped.
Both of Canyon's engines are primarily based totally on award-prevailing engine households and tuned to supply the low-rpm torque clients rely upon for hauling and towing. Each includes capabilities that decorate smoothness and quietness, contributing to the brand new truck's awesome refinement; and every is sponsored through a six-velocity automated transmission. A six-velocity guide is to be had with the 2.5L engine in base prolonged cab/2WD fashions.
Advanced technology consisting of direct injection and constantly variable valve timing enhance energy and performance, at the same time as an aluminum block, forged-metallic crankshaft, dual-overhead camshafts and jet-spray piston cooling are extra tendencies shared through the engines.
Safety capabilities
With 360 stages of to be had energetic and passive protection technology, Canyon is designed to assist hold occupants secure at the road, with wellknown capabilities consisting of:
- Six air luggage, consisting of head curtain facet air luggage that also can lessen the threat of occupant ejection
- Large rearview mirrors and rear-imaginative and prescient digital digicam gadget for more visibility
- StabiliTrak digital balance manipulate gadget with rollover mitigation generation, trailer sway manipulate, hill begin help and hill descent manipulate (All Terrain).
A Driver Alert Package is to be had on SLE and SLT fashions (besides All Terrain), and consists of phase-first ahead collision alert and lane departure caution.
Manufacturing and manufacturing unit guide
Canyon is constructed at GM's Wentzville, Mo. meeting plant, with globally sourced parts, which underwent a $513-million funding to guide manufacturing of GM's new midsize trucks.
