LOS ANGELES - GMC introduced the all-new 2007 Yukon XL and Yukon XL Denali large SUVs today. The line is led through the Yukon XL Denali, with specific styling and capabilities - consisting of a 6.2L V-eight engine that promises the maximum horsepower in its class, with variable valve timing and a gasoline-saving six-pace computerized transmission.
Yukon XL and Yukon XL Denali fashions supply greater electricity and higher gasoline financial system than the automobiles they replace, improving GMC's "greater than expected" reputation. The automobiles are primarily based totally on GM's all-new large SUV own circle of relatives, which capabilities different styling, spacious and subtle interiors, superb riding traits and better protection capabilities. They supplement the lately added 2007 Yukon and Yukon Denali fashions to spherical out GMC's large SUV lineup - providing the broadest and maximum succesful lineup of SUVs in GMC's greater than one hundred years of constructing trucks.
"The Yukon XL Denali is the last expression of GMC's expert grade ethic," stated John Larson, GMC widespread manager. "With better protection, overall performance and refinement, the all-new 2007 Yukon XL and Yukon XL Denali spotlight our dedication to presenting clients greater than they expect."
The different Yukon XL Denali is the flagship of GMC's own circle of relatives of expert grade automobiles. It has distinct outdoors layout and indoors capabilities, in addition to an distinct 6.2L all-aluminum small-block V-eight engine with variable valve timing and a brand new six-pace computerized transmission. The 6.2L engine is rated at 380 horsepower (283 kw), the maximum horsepower in its class.
All-new, sleeker layout
Yukon XL and Yukon XL Denali have a sleek, taut shape. Wraparound the front and rear fascias, styled mirrors and included strolling forums offer a seamless, cutting-edge look. Craftsmanship is observed in factors which includes tight tolerances among outdoors additives and a tuned, wheels-to-the-corners proportion. The toned appearance on all fashions is created with quicker windshield attitude of fifty seven degrees, which flows gracefully into the roofline. This improves aerodynamic overall performance, which bolsters gasoline financial system and facilitates lessen wind noise.
Jewel-appearance lighting fixtures factors and doorways that enlarge over the rockers accessory the automobiles' unique and subtle layout factors. The headlamps are large, the usage of shiny halogen bulbs that supply stepped forward lighting fixtures spread. Rear-cease styling is also distinct, with specific remedies above the beltline and across the glass, consisting of taillamps and included registration code pockets.
Yukon XL Denali is outstanding with outdoors appointments that raise the exclusivity of its look. In addition to its iconic honeycomb chrome grille, the '07 Yukon XL Denali additionally capabilities better outdoors shiny paintings, specific headlamps, taillamps and rear fascia treatment, in addition to specific 18-inch general polished wheels. Twenty-inch manufacturing unit-set up chrome wheels are to be had. Denali-distinct headlamps and taillamps similarly the jeweled appearance of Yukon XL fashions with precise lighting fixtures factors and clean lenses - with etched GMC emblems at the headlamp bezels - that offer a crystalline look and different lighting fixtures patterns.
Refined, spacious interiors
Yukon XL Interior area is roomier and has a spacious, subtle environment, way to a top rate -tone shadeation scheme and a decrease-located tool panel. New thinner, sculpted seat designs and precise trim confirm Yukon XL's craftsmanship, that's reinforced through elective services which includes heated seats for first- and 2nd-row passengers. Also, the the front seats provide greater fore/aft and recline tour, and the 2nd-row seats have an improved seatback recline attitude for introduced comfort.
Craftsmanship is also discovered in surprising areas, which includes different sill plates with out a seen hardware to greet occupants whilst the doorways are opened, in addition to no uncovered fasteners or hardware at the pillars, seats or seat tracks. The seats have "near-outs" that surround the seat bottoms and seat tracks, growing a greater completed look. Fasteners and hardware are included, too, whilst the seats are folded.
As with the outdoors, Yukon XL Denali is outstanding with distinct, top rate capabilities, consisting of state-of-the-art Nuance leather-based seating surfaces, specific middle console, better indoors shiny paintings and precise, especially completed embossed sill plates that greet passengers once they open any of the Yukon XL Denali's doorways. The specific middle console has timber trim that conceals the lid and cupholder pockets, growing a greater completed and subtle look.
The Yukon XL own circle of relatives additionally gives a brand new, industry-distinct electricity fold-and-tumble 2nd-row seat characteristic that eases get right of entry to to the third-row seat. The electricity fold-and-tumble 2nd-row seats characteristic launch buttons reachable through the motive force or at the indoors C-pillar to offer an easy, instantaneously launch of the seat to create an get right of entry to direction to the third-row seat or shipment area.
Tri-Zone weather manage is general on all fashions. Automatic weather manage is general on Yukon XL Denali and Yukon XL SLT; it's far to be had on Yukon XL SLE. A far off begin device, general on SLT/Denali fashions and to be had on SLE, permits the weather device to warmness or cool the automobile's indoors. An better array of audio, infotainment and protection alternatives is also to be had and consists of an to be had touch-display navigation device, in addition to a DVD device with large flip-down display located in the front of the 2nd-row seats.
There is greater area in the SUVs, as well. More fore/aft the front seat tour offers the segment's main legroom for the front-seat passengers. Second-row seat legroom and knee room, and third-row seat headroom are improved over the preceding fashions. The 2nd- and third-row seats additionally have greater shoulder room - a feat carried out even as additionally providing to be had roof-installed head curtain facet air luggage. The third-row seats fold flat and are without difficulty tumbled ahead or eliminated for max shipment area. Also, the middle console garage compartment, at 20.1 liters of capacity, is the segment's largest. The glove container gives 25 percentage greater garage area than preceding fashions and capabilities damped commencing operation that bolsters quietness and refinement.
Responsive suspension, stable chassis
The '07 Yukon XL and Yukon XL Denali are constructed on GM's new large SUV platform, which includes capabilities which includes a brand new, absolutely boxed body, coil-over-surprise the front suspension and rack-and-pinion guidance. The body helps wider the front and rear tracks - about three inches (76.2 mm) wider in the front and 1 inch (25.four mm) wider withinside the rear - that beautify balance and riding self belief thru a greater stable avenue experience and a decrease middle of gravity.
The the front suspension includes an all-new coil-over-surprise layout that promises linear, stable and unwavering journey and managing traits on all avenue surfaces. Also new is a rack-and-pinion guidance device that offers unique and responsive manage and better on-middle experience. A especially-subtle five-hyperlink rear suspension offers advanced isolation and journey, with large, less attackable brackets that still make contributions to the automobiles' unique riding manners.
Larger, four-wheel disc brakes and an all-new ABS device make certain braking overall performance on the pinnacle of the segment. Larger vented the front and rear brake rotors, 50-percentage stiffer dual-piston calipers, longer-lifestyles brake pads and a brand new, sturdy tie-rod-kind practice device make contributions to better pedal experience, decreased brake noise, predictable, linear brake reaction and shorter braking distances. A new, Bosch eight.zero next-era four-channel ABS device is also general. The ABS device works with the usual StabiliTrak digital balance manage device. In the brand new SUVs, StabiliTrak includes the first-time GM utility of rollover mitigation, software program set of rules era that makes use of sensors to proactively expect automobile "tip-up" and applies suitable brake forces to save you such events.
Enhanced riding manage and journey smoothness is obtainable with the to be had Autoride actual-time damping device (general on Yukon XL Denali), which makes use of electronically managed surprise absorbers to make almost on the spotly damping adjustments. The device "reads" the street and anticipates the excellent damping rates.
Seventeen-inch wheels are general on Yukon XL, with 18-inch wheels general on Yukon XL Denali. Twenty-inch wheels are to be had on Yukon XL and Yukon XL Denali. The wheels are designed with top rate-look faces, consisting of to be had chrome or polished end. Yukon XL Denali wheels are distinct. New tires are tailor-made to the automobiles to offer outstanding stability of managing, quietness and protection.
New small-block V-eight own circle of relatives
A new Gen IV small-block V-eight own circle of relatives powers the brand new Yukon XL and Yukon XL Denali. Standard at begin of manufacturing in Yukon XL fashions is a Vortec 5.3L V-eight with 320 horsepower (238 kw) and 335 lb.-ft. of torque (463 Nm), which gives Active Fuel Management displacement on call for gasoline-saving era. Active Fuel Management displacement on call for era seamlessly switches among eight- and four-cylinder electricity to keep gasoline. Two variations of the Vortec 5.3L Gen IV V-eight - consisting of an aluminum-block model this is general on four wheel drive fashions - are like minded with E85 ethanol-primarily based totally gasoline, an opportunity to fuel. The engines can run on any aggregate of fuel and/or E85 gasoline.
Coming later withinside the 12 months for is a powerful, new all-aluminum 6.0L V-eight with variable valve timing, in addition to Active Fuel Management displacement on call for era. The engine is rated at 355 horsepower (264 kw). VVT facilitates optimize camshaft timing to enhance low-rpm torque and high-rpm horsepower. The device is enabled through a completely unique dual-same cam phaser - the industry's first utility of VVT on a industrially produced V-eight cam-in-block engine. The specific dual-same phaser adjusts the camshaft timing on the identical charge for each the consumption and exhaust valves. A Hydra-Matic 4L70 electronically managed four-pace computerized transmission is paired with the engine.
Heavy-obligation fashions provide a 6.0L V-eight with VVT. It capabilities an iron cylinder block and is rated at 350 horsepower (261 kw) and 360 lb.-ft. of torque (497 Nm). It is matched with a sturdy Hydra-Matic 4L80 four-pace computerized transmission.
The 6.2L engine of the Yukon XL Denali is all-new, too, with superior technology and light-weight substances, consisting of VVT and an aluminum cylinder block, which facilitates the Yukon XL Denali turning in great overall performance. The 6.2L engine is rated at 380 horsepower (283 kw), the maximum horsepower in its class, and 415 lb.-ft. of torque (564 Nm).
A new 6L80 six-pace is matched with the 6.2L engine. The six-pace computerized has a wide, 6.04:1 universal ratio - consisting of overdrive gears - that facilitates supply an outstanding stability of overall performance and gasoline financial system. Also, the 6L80 has a "faucet up/faucet down" functionality that permits the motive force to manually choose upshifts and downshifts with a button at the column shifter.
Safety and protection
The '07 Yukon XL and Yukon XL Denali provide protection withinside the shape of a 360-diploma perimeter protection device of occupant safety and crash avoidance technology. New capabilities consist of roof-installed head curtain facet air luggage with rollover safety for all seating rows and the front-seat protection belt pretensioners which might be connected to the automobile's sensing device to offer segment-distinct deployment in rear-cease crashes. These capabilities are included right into a more potent automobile shape this is additionally designed for stepped forward compatibility with different automobiles.
The roof-installed head curtain air luggage consist of layout capabilities that offer improved rollover safety and occupant containment. Sensors placed on the the front of the automobile, withinside the facet doorways, and in the occupant compartment offer improved and greater instantaneously crash detection. The automobile's sensing device offers segment-distinct functionality to set up the front seat protection belt pretensioners all through sure rear-cease collisions, improving the belt device's cappotential to maintain the occupants firmly in place.
The roof-installed head curtain facet air bag device includes one of the segment's first rollover indication sensors, that's placed at the automobile's middle tunnel withinside the occupant compartment. The sensor video display units the automobile's accelerations and roll charge. If those indicators imply an forthcoming rollover, the roof-installed head curtain facet air luggage set up to offer a further degree of occupant safety and containment. These rollover-succesful head curtain facet air luggage live inflated longer than air luggage advanced simplest for facet affects due to the fact rollover incidents can remaining longer. The deployment period and different layout capabilities of the rollover succesful air luggage integrate to offer improved occupant safety and the cappotential to assist hold occupants in the automobile.
Crash avoidance is reinforced thru better layout and motive force manage dynamics, which includes wider the front and rear tracks, in addition to greater responsive suspensions - consisting of a brand new coil-over-surprise the front suspension layout and new rack-and-pinion guidance. The automobiles are constructed on a more potent and stiffer, absolutely-boxed body that contributes to better crash strength management. The the front body phase has been designed to optimize weigh down development ensuing in stepped forward strength absorption efficiency. The stepped forward weigh down overall performance, enabled through hydroformed body rails and green chassis aspect packaging, additionally comprehends layout provisions for stepped forward automobile-to-automobile compatibility withinside the occasion of a frontal effect with a smaller automobile.
Additional protection capabilities consist of:+ Standard StabiliTrak balance manage device with rollover mitigation era+ Standard dual-level motive force's the front air bag+ Standard dual-level outboard-the front passenger air bag with Passenger Sensing System+ Available roof-installed head curtain facet air luggage for all 3 seating rows (general on Yukon XL Denali)+ Standard the front seat protection belt pretensioners with rear-effect deployment functionality+ Standard tire strain tracking device+ Available rain-sensing wiper device (general on Yukon XL Denali)+ Available Ultrasonic Rear Parking Assist which can hit upon sure desk bound gadgets withinside the rearward direction of the automobile and ship an audible caution sound and show through 3 LEDs at the proper D-pillar (general on Yukon XL Denali)+ Available rear-view digital digicam device designed to offer the motive force witha view of humans or gadgets withinside the rearward direction of the automobile+ Standard pull-up/push-down electricity window switches+ Available voice-assisted navigation device.
All Yukon XL and Yukon XL Denali fashions include the OnStar device (with a one-12 months Safe and Sound carrier plan). The device consists of the General Motors Advanced Automatic Crash Notification (AACN) device, making crash facts to be had to emergency offerings to probably dispatch the ideal lifestyles-saving employees and device to crash scenes quicker. If the automobile is in a crash that turns on an air bag, the OnStar device mechanically notifies an OnStar Advisor, who will take a look at at the occupants or summon emergency assist if necessary. OnStar can also help government in finding a automobile if it's far pronounced stolen (cappotential to discover stolen automobiles varies with conditions).
Denali details
The '07 Yukon XL Denali stays immediately identifiable, with its iconic honeycomb chrome grille. Exterior improvements on the brand new version additionally consist of chrome-accented facet molding, roof rack trim and different shiny paintings remedies. Additionally, the headlamps and taillamps are specific and characteristic a top rate, crystalline look and different lighting fixtures patterns.
Yukon XL Denali promises a completely unique aggregate of indoors fashion and luxury, consisting of general Nuance leather-based-included seating with heated first- and 2nd-row captain's seats, in addition to leather-based trim throughout - consisting of a Denali-distinct leather-based-wrapped guidance wheel, which additionally capabilities actual timber accents and a number of auxiliary controls. Yukon XL Denali is also the simplest version withinside the Yukon XL own circle of relatives to provide an to be had heated guidance wheel.
Other general capabilities consist of electricity liftgate, electricity launch 2nd-row fold-and-tumble bucket seat, roof-installed facet curtain air luggage, electricity-adjustable pedals, heated windshield washing machine device, electrochromic (auto-dimming) internal mirror, RainSense computerized windshield wipers, far off begin device and Ultrasonic Rear Parking Assist. From an amusement standpoint, Yukon XL Denali comes general with an AM/FM MP3-succesful radio with a six-disc in-sprint CD changer, Bose top rate nine-speaker sound device and XM Satellite Radio. Eighteen-inch polished aluminum wheels are general and specific 20-inch manufacturing unit set up chrome-end aluminum wheels are to be had - the wheel designs aren't shared with different Yukon XL fashions.
Like different Yukon XL fashions, the Yukon XL Denali gives numerous useful and handy alternatives, consisting of a navigation radio device, rear-view digital digicam device, electricity sunroof, electricity-retractable help steps (to be had mid-12 months) and a rear-seat, DVD-primarily based totally amusement device.
Yukon XL Denali represents the top of GMC's variety of expert grade automobiles.
