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GMC Sierra 2007

GMC's greater than 100-12 months historical past of constructing expert grade cars marks a brand new technology with the advent of the 2007 Sierra lineup. The vans are all-new and increase enterprise requirements with phase-first-class V-eight energy and gasoline efficiency, along side agile experience and managing and the quietest indoors of any huge truck.

The '07 Sierra fashions - inclusive of the precise Sierra Denali - supply the light-obligation phase's highest-rated towing capability (10,500 pounds/4,763 kg) and provide a most payload capability of 2,one hundred sixty pounds (980 kg).

"The all-new 2007 Sierra has a confident, natural presence that represents GMC's expert grade philosophy," stated John Larson, popular supervisor of Buick-Pontiac-GMC.

Sierra light-obligation fashions are to be had withinside the fourth sector of 2006. Sierra Denali and heavy-obligation fashions are to be had withinside the first sector of 2007. Sierra is to be had in numerous trim applications, inclusive of paintings truck, SLE (SLE1 and SLE2 fashions) and SLT, along side 2WD and four wheel drive configurations. Three cab styles - normal, prolonged and group cab - and 3 shipment container lengths - five foot eight inches, 6 foot 6 inches and eight foot - are provided.

"The '07 Sierra lineup's variety of fashions and configurations is greater one of a kind, with applications tailor-made to all existence and uses," Larson stated. "All vans proportion an intrinsic best of refinement, from the fundamental paintings truck version to the luxury-stimulated Sierra Denali."

Sierra Denali is a awesome version, with differentiated, one-of-a-kind capabilities that increase its overall performance and layout, which include an one-of-a-kind 6.2L all-aluminum V-eight engine with variable valve timing and a brand new six-velocity automated transmission.

The 2007 GMC Sierra is designed with a sturdy and subtle look befitting the brand's expert grade philosophy, inclusive of muscular individual strains and rounded edges. The the front stop look, the front fenders, hood and rear fenders are precise. A "middle-focused" hood, which flows outward to fulfill the the front fenders and stamped-in rear wheel flares decorate the muscular look.

All fashions besides the fleet-orientated paintings truck version include a one of a kind chrome hood molding. Sierra's grille is complemented with the aid of using large, jeweled-look headlamps. Sierra SLT fashions include a chrome the front bumper, with a frame-shadeation pinnacle cap. All door handles function large, grab-fashion designs which can be clean to open with gloves.

A own circle of relatives of 17- and 20-inch wheels and tires is to be had at some stage in the Sierra variety, with Sierra Denali presenting precise wheels (see Sierra Denali information phase).

Sierra is to be had in 9 outdoors shades, inclusive of: Deep Blue Metallic, Medium Brown Metallic, Steel Gray Metallic, Onyx Black, Stealth Gray Metallic, Summit White, Silver Birch Metallic, Fire Red and Sport Red Metallic.

Spacious, subtle indoors

Sierra fashions are greater spacious with extended garage space, in addition to flush surfaces, tight gaps and tolerances, and progressed consolation and comfort. Sierra paintings truck and SLE include a "natural pickup" indoors that capabilities large controls and door handles which can be less difficult to apply with gloves. SLE1 fashions on normal, prolonged and group cabs are prepared with a brand new 40/20/40-break up the front bench seat, which capabilities a fold-down armrest and garage compartment.

A large-capability, "double" glove container is incorporated into the tool panel on paintings truck and SLE fashions. Cloth seats are trendy on paintings truck and SLE fashions; leather-based seating is to be had on SLE fashions. SLE2-prepared cars upload a six-manner energy-adjustable motive force seat. Work truck fashions are provided in a Dark Titanium indoors shadeation; SLE fashions are provided in an all-Ebony indoors shadeation, or Dark Titanium/Light Titanium and Ebony/Light Cashmere combinations.

SLT fashions function a luxury-stimulated indoors with a completely unique tool panel, door panels, large-capability middle console and different awesome trim. Heated, 12-manner energy-adjustable (motive force seat) leather-based seating is trendy, along side a six-disc CD/MP3-succesful audio gadget, Bose speaker gadget and heated windshield washing machine gadget. Crew cab SLT fashions upload rain-sensing automated windshield wipers and a rear-seat audio gadget. SLT indoors shadeation schemes encompass all-Ebony, Dark Titanium/Light Titanium and Dark Cashmere/Light Cashmere combinations.

Rear seat room is progressed, along side extended consolation. Standard on group cab fashions and to be had on prolonged cab fashions is a brand new, stadium-fashion rear seat with a 60/40-break up layout. It may be without problems folded as much as offer an uninterrupted load floor. Or, both phase of the break up seat may be stowed independently, permitting room for each shipment and a rear-seat passenger. Entry to the rear seat/garage vicinity of prolonged cab fashions is eased with new rear get entry to doorways that open a hundred and seventy degrees.

A type of beneficial comfort objects are to be had on SLE and SLT fashions, inclusive of a touch-display navigation radio, energy-operated sunroof, energy-sliding rear window and XM Satellite Radio. A rear seat leisure gadget is to be had on group cab SLE2 and SLT fashions, and all fashions are to be had with a number of radio structures.

Responsive riding experience

The 2007 GMC Sierra supplies better balance and riding self belief from a brand new, boxed body, coil-over-surprise the front suspensions and rack-and-pinion guidance. Five suspension structures vicinity to be had, every tailor-made to fit precise riding requirements. They encompass:

+ Z83 - Delivers a solid, easy experience with monotube the front shocks and twin-tube rear shocks.+ Z85 - Designed for better managing and trailer towing, with monotube the front and rear shocks.+ Z71 - Delivers better off-avenue functionality; capabilities precise monotube the front and rear shocks.+ Z60 - Designed for max avenue overall performance and provided with 20-inch wheels.+ NHT - Maximum capability trailering.

GM's state-of-the-art StabiliTrak digital balance manipulate gadget facilitates mitigate the incidence of rollover events; it's far trendy on group cab fashions and to be had on prolonged cab fashions - and is a phase one-of-a-kind. Partnered with an progressed, excessive capability brake gadget and four-channel, four-sensor digital brake controls, the gadget gives greater precise, managed ABS stops, in addition to better traction/yaw balance.

Sierra fashions are powered with the aid of using an green lineup of engines, led with the aid of using the phase's highest-rated V-eight engines. Advanced technology, which include Active Fuel Management (AFM) and variable valve timing (VVT), facilitates Sierra supply the phase's first-class gasoline economy. A FlexFuel engine is to be had - and partnered with gasoline-saving AFM - giving clients the selection of powering their truck with E85 ethanol, fuel or a aggregate of each fuels. Light-obligation engine services encompass:

+ 4.3L V-6 (LU3), rated at 195 hp (a hundred forty five kW) and 260 lb.-ft. of torque (353 Nm). It is trendy on paintings truck normal cab and 2WD prolonged cab fashions.+ 4.8L V-eight (LY2), with iron block; rated at 295 hp (220 kW) and 305 lb.-ft. of torque (414 Nm). It is trendy on paintings truck four wheel drive prolonged cab, SLE1 normal cab and prolonged cab fashions, and paintings truck and SLE1 group cab fashions.+ five.3L FlexFuel V-eight (LMG), E85-succesful with iron block and Active Fuel Management, rated at 315 hp (235 kW) and 338 lb.-ft. of torque (458 Nm). This engine is to be had on all fashions.+ five.3L FlexFuel V-eight (LC9), E85-succesful with aluminum block and Active Fuel Management, rated at 315 hp (235 kW) and 338 lb.-ft. of torque (458 Nm). This engine is to be had on all fashions.+ five.3L V-eight (LH6), with aluminum block and Active Fuel Management, rated at 315 hp (235 kW) and 338 lb.-ft. of torque (458 Nm). It is to be had on group cab four wheel drive fashions.+ five.3L V-eight (LY5), with iron block and Active Fuel Management, rated at 315 hp (235 kW) and 338 lb.-ft. of torque (458 Nm). This engine is trendy on SLE2 and SLT fashions; it's far to be had on all different fashions.+ 6.0L V-eight (L76), with aluminum block, variable valve timing and Active Fuel Management, rated at 367 hp (274 kW) and 375 lb.-ft. of torque (508 Nm). It is to be had on SLE and SLT prolonged and group cab fashions as a part of the improved trailering bundle.+ 6.2L V-eight (L92), with aluminum block and variable valve timing, rated at four hundred hp (298 kW) and 417 lb.-ft. of torque (565 Nm). This engine is one-of-a-kind to Sierra Denali.

The engines are subsidized with the aid of using established Hydra-Matic electronically managed automated transmissions, inclusive of the established 4L60 four-velocity automated, excessive capability 4L70 four-velocity automated and a brand new 6L80 six-velocity with the Sierra Denali's 6.2L engine. The six-velocity automated has a wide, 6.04:1 usual ratio - inclusive of overdrive gears - that facilitates supply an fantastic stability of overall performance and gasoline economy. Also, the 6L80 has a "faucet up/faucet down" functionality that lets in the driving force to manually pick upshifts and downshifts with a button at the column shifter.

Safety and security

Sierra supplies a fringe of protection safety via a more potent body and frame shape in addition to enterprise- and phase-main technology. It is also designed to offer extended compatibility with different cars. New capabilities encompass phase-first StabiliTrak digital balance manipulate with rollover mitigation technology, roof-set up head curtain aspect air luggage, which might be incorporated into reinforced chassis and frame systems to offer fantastic passenger safety, and phase-first protection belt pretensioners that spark off in the course of a rear-stop crash. The head curtain aspect air luggage are to be had on Sierra SLE and SLT fashions.

Driver manipulate dynamics are better with the aid of using wider the front and rear tracks, in addition to greater responsive suspensions - inclusive of a brand new coil-over-surprise the front suspension layout and rack-and-pinion guidance. Additional protection capabilities are provided on Sierra, inclusive of manufacturing unit-hooked up far off automobile beginning (phase one-of-a-kind), Autotrac energetic switch case to assist preserve the automobile sure-footed in slippery riding situations, Ultrasonic Rear Parking Assist and a revised, less difficult-to-use tire stress tracking gadget.

All retail fashions come trendy with the OnStar Generation 7 gadget, inclusive of a one-12 months subscription to the Safe & Sound plan. The OnStar carrier consists of the General Motors Advanced Automatic Crash Notification (AACN) gadget, making crash records to be had to emergency offerings to probably dispatch an appropriate life-saving employees and system to crash scenes faster. If the automobile is in a crash that turns on an air bag, the OnStar gadget routinely notifies an OnStar advisor, who will test at the occupants or summon emergency assist if necessary. OnStar can also help government in finding a automobile if it's far said stolen and gives far off door-unlocking carrier (while the automobile is prepared with energy door locks).

Sierra Denali information

The precise Sierra Denali is a truck like no different, with better capabilities and craftsmanship that distinguish it from different fashions - in addition to services from different manufacturers. It is a complete bundle of overall performance, facilities and fashion that supplies a powerful, understated beauty precise to GMC. The '07 version stays right away identifiable, with its iconic, Denali-precise signature chrome grille. Additional chrome trim and frame-shadeation bumpers similarly distinguish it. Sierra Denali is to be had in 3 outdoors shades: Onyx Black, Olympic White and Fine Silver Birch Metallic.

The Sierra Denali is powered with the aid of using an one-of-a-kind, four hundred-horsepower (298 kW) 6.2L V-eight engine, with a six-velocity automated transmission and both 2WD or all-wheel drive. It additionally capabilities a 9.five-inch rear axle (2WD) or eight.6-inch rear axle (AWD) with 3.forty two gears and a locking rear differential. Chassis capabilities inclusive of the Z85 suspension, four-wheel disc brakes and StabilTrak are trendy, along side skid plates and tow hooks. Eighteen-inch polished aluminum wheels are trendy and precise 20-inch manufacturing unit hooked up chrome-end aluminum wheels are to be had. The wheel designs aren't shared with different Sierra fashions.

Sierra Denali additionally gives a completely unique aggregate of indoors fashion and luxury, inclusive of trendy nuance leather-based-blanketed the front and rear seats, with heated, 12-manner energy-adjustable the front seats, in addition to leather-based trim at some stage in. A Denali-one-of-a-kind leather-based-wrapped guidance wheel, which capabilities timber grain accents and a number of auxiliary controls, is trendy. Denali fashions additionally function a completely unique middle console, better indoors brilliant paintings and detailed, enormously completed embossed sill plates that greet passengers once they open any of the Sierra Denali's doorways. The precise middle console has timber grain trim that conceals the lid and cupholder pockets, growing a greater completed and subtle look. In addition to a complete supplement of trendy facilities, Sierra Denali gives one-of-a-kind capabilities which include an to be had heated guidance wheel. Interior shades encompass all-Ebony and an one-of-a-kind Cocoa/Light Cashmere aggregate.

Standard capabilities encompass roof-set up aspect curtain air luggage, energy-adjustable pedals, electrochromic (auto-dimming) interior mirror, dual-sector automated weather manipulate, rain-sensing automated windshield wipers, far off beginning gadget, EZ Lift Tailgate and Ultrasonic Rear Parking Assist. From an leisure standpoint, Sierra Denali comes trendy with an AM/FM MP3-succesful radio with a six-disc in-sprint CD changer, Bose top rate speaker sound gadget, rear-seat audio and XM Satellite Radio.