GMC apparent the Denali XT abstraction at the 2008 Chicago Auto Show. It offers a 50-percent access in accumulated ammunition abridgement over commensurable baby auto trucks back alive on gasoline, and it incorporates a new, able-bodied anatomy in a performance-styled, amalgam sport-utility barter (SUT).
The Denali XT has a unibody architectonics and rear-wheel drive, enabling its characteristic architectonics and able performance. It builds on the disinterestedness of the Denali band and its acceptability for avant-garde engineering and refinement, including the aboriginal aggregate of GM`s two-mode amalgam arrangement with an E85 ethanol-capable engine. Denali XT`s new, added able 4.9L adaptation of GM`s small-block V-8 appearance fuel-saving technologies such as direct-injection technology and Alive Ammunition Management.
The agent is akin with GM`s different two-mode amalgam propulsion system, giving the able SUT aberrant ammunition abridgement and uncompromising adequacy – including all-electric drive at low speeds. It is a powertrain aggregate that makes the Denali XT altogether ill-fitted to a array of alive affairs activities, such as carriage skis and snowboards to the abundance or towing a action jet baiter to the lake.
"Like all GMCs, the Denali XT is anatomic and capable, but it blends those ancestry with a added efficient, adventurous alive experience," said Jim Bunnell, GMC accepted manager. "It is a agent that exemplifies GMC`s engineering excellence, as able-bodied as GM`s charge to amalgam and avant-garde technologies."
With its unibody structure, the Denali XT is lighter than accepted body-on-frame trucks, with abundant ride-and-handling characteristics. This architectonics enhances ammunition abridgement while giving the agent a adventurous alive experience. True to its GMC Professional Grade heritage, the Denali XT is abounding with technologies and appearance that aerate its flexibility, including a burden space-enhancing Midgate® and height-adjustable suspension.
The Denali XT`s accommodation are affected about a aerial cowl and 123.4-inch (3,134 mm) wheelbase. This enhances the vehicle`s barter functionality, but bales it in an efficient, unibody architecture.
Design and architecture were spearheaded by Holden Design, aural the Australian arm of GM`s all-around architectonics and engineering network.
"Denali XT is about alive hard, arena adamantine and adequate an alive lifestyle," said Bunnell. "It is the aforementioned aesthetics that has helped accomplish the GMC Acadia crossover a huge hit with consumers."
