GMC Acadia 2017

GMC delivered the all-new 2017 GMC Acadia - a reimagined crossover aimed toward the coronary heart of the midsize segment, designed to provide notable versatility and refinement, with greater superior protection technology.

The new GMC Acadia gives greater-green powertrains, whilst persevering with to provide 3 rows of seating on maximum fashions. The top rate Acadia Denali returns, along side a brand new All Terrain version supplying improved off-avenue functionality."GMC is a robust, developing top rate logo and the Acadia is a cornerstone of our fulfillment story," stated Duncan Aldred, vice chairman of GMC Sales and Marketing. "The all-new Acadia leverages GMC's confirmed SUV revel in to tackle and shake up one in every of the most important car segments, with a robust combination of layout, era and functionality."

The new GMC Acadia is going on sale in spring 2016, nearly a decade after its unique introduction, and coming off of its most powerful income 12 months ever in 2015 with 96,393 deliveries."Typically, a car's income may be illustrated on a bell curve in the course of its lifecycle, however the Acadia's fulfillment has defied conference with surprising sustainability," stated Aldred. "It's a shining instance of GMC's momentum and we are assured it'll develop with the brand new Acadia."The strategic re-scoping of the 2017 Acadia gives clients a midsize crossover placed among the compact Terrain and massive Yukon. Depending at the version, it's miles to be had with five-, six- or seven-passenger seating, whilst supplying extra maneuverability than the first-technology version.

"The new Acadia captures a extra feeling of refinement, in the entirety from the responsive feeling in the back of the wheel to the manner passengers engage with its intuitive capabilities," stated Rick Spina, govt leader engineer for compact and crossover SUVs at General Motors. "It's a car that gives the capability Acadia is understood for, whilst turning in huge benefits and stability to clients' regular lives."The new GMC Acadia is seven hundred kilos lighter than the cutting-edge version, which will pay dividends on the fueloline pump. A new, 2.5L engine is popular, supplying an predicted 28 mpg at the dual carriageway for FWD fashions (EPA estimate now no longer but to be had; estimate is primarily based totally on GM testing). City gasoline economic system provided is GM-predicted at 22 mpg (FWD) and is reinforced with the aid of using GMC's first software of Stop/Start era, which complements performance in stop-and-move using.

A new, to be had 3.6L V-6 engine is greater effective and green than the cutting-edge version, whilst supplying 4,000 kilos predicted trailering functionality (with the to be had towing package). It is GM-predicted at 310 horsepower (231 kW) and 25 mpg dual carriageway (FWD fashions - EPA estimate now no longer to be had).

Both of the GMC Acadia's new engines function direct injection and variable valve timing, and each are mated to six-pace computerized transmissions and an electronically managed force mode selector.Legacy of capability and spaciousness.The 2017 Acadia builds on a legacy of intuitive capability, with new capabilities together with a cut up-folding second-row seat that improves at the unique Smart Slide function of the cutting-edge version. It gives extra flexibility, along with the functionality of the curbside seat sliding and tilting ahead, in spite of a ahead-going through baby seat in area, whilst the driving force-facet phase pointers and slides ahead for simpler get right of entry to to the 0.33 row.The 50/50-cut up 0.33-row seat folds flat for a very flat load ground in the back of the second one row and whilst the second one row is likewise folded, there is seventy nine cubic feet (2,237 liters) of shipment room. Levers on the rear of the car make it simpler to fold the second one- and 0.33-row seats.

Additional answers variety from easy to technologically superior. The rear of the middle console, for instance, capabilities a completely unique pull-out garage drawer. It is offered to rear-seat passengers and permits objects together with digital gadgets and small toys to be saved out of sight, for extra safety and decreased clutter.There's additionally a brand new, popular rear seat alert that may remind the driving force whilst an object can also additionally were left withinside the second- and 0.33-row seats. Additionally, all 3 rows provide USB rate ports for well matched digital gadgets.The new GMC Acadia gives a extra emphasis on refinement, whilst final right away recognizable with an evolution of the car's signature, expert grade layout cues together with a chrome-trimmed grille, squared off and flared wheel arches and wraparound rear facet home windows with darkish D-pillars.

"It's a assured layout stimulated with the aid of using full-size client input," stated Helen Emsley, govt director, Global GMC Design and User Experience. "The unique Acadia turned into very truck-inspired, however the new version has a decidedly SUV have an impact on conveyed in sculptural details, softened corners and a sleeker windshield angle."

New dimensional grilles and wraparound headlamps - HID lamps on Denali and halogen projectors on different fashions - enhance the assured, subtle appearance, whilst popular LED signature lights on all fashions replicate GMC's top rate attributes. Complementing C-form rear lights pics upload a cohesive element to the layout.

Premium cues distinguish the Acadia Denali. Like all Denali fashions, it capabilities a dimensional chrome grille, along side incorporated chrome facet trim, chrome-accented door handles, a chrome lower-rear fascia and unique six-spoke wheels.

Inside, all GMC Acadia trim ranges function particular indoors shadeation and trim mixtures and comprise genuine aluminum trim.Latest protection and connectivity technology.As a cutting-edge crossover designed for households at the move, the 2017 Acadia gives the modern energetic protection capabilities to defend them, in addition to the modern technology to maintain them connected.

The energetic protection capabilities are designed to assist make drivers greater aware about their environment and ability crash situations. They are to be had relying at the version and include:

• New Front Pedestrian Braking
• New Low Speed Forward Automatic Braking (popular on SLT-2 and Denali)
• New Forward Automatic Braking (to be had on Denali)
• New Following Distance Indicator
• New IntelliBeam computerized headlamp high-beam control
• New Surround Vision digital digicam gadget
• New Safety Alert Seat
• Forward Collision Alert
• Lane Keep Assist with Lane Departure Warning
• Lane Change Alert with Side Blind Zone Alert
• Front and Rear Parking Assist.

An to be had Tow Vision Trailering gadget enables make hitching simpler with the aid of using using a rear-imaginative and prescient digital digicam, with dynamic guidelines, to assist line up the Acadia's hitch with the trailer, in addition to supplying perspectives of the trailer whilst using.

And in terms of connectivity, the Acadia is plugged in with to be had telecellsmartphone integration era thru GMC's to be had IntelliLink gadget. It gives help for Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, making it smooth to hook up with a number of the capabilities telecellsmartphone customers depend upon maximum. (Vehicle consumer interfaces are merchandise of Apple and Google and require a well matched telecellsmartphone and adherence to statistics plan rates, phrases and privateness statements.)

Additionally, an to be had OnStar 4G LTE Wi-Fi hotspot offers 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 statistics trial.Built on a brand new, lighter frame shape, the 2017 Acadia's using dynamics are greater responsive, whilst its shorter duration and narrower width permit extra maneuverability, for simpler delivering parking decks and simpler parking in domestic garages.

The frame shape carries press-hardened, high-power steels, which allowed thinner additives in a few regions supplying similar or higher crash overall performance than traditional materials. They additionally assist lessen the bottom diminish weight with the aid of using seven hundred kilos (318 kg), as compared to the cutting-edge version.

New splayed the front body rails additionally make a contribution to crashworthiness. They flare outward to offer powerful folding and crushing overall performance in the course of small overlap frontal crash situations.The new GMC Acadia keeps a the front-force format with to be had all-wheel force. All fashions function a brand new force mode selector, which permits the driving force to adjust chassis and powertrain attributes to in shape a whole lot of using conditions. Front-force fashions provide Normal (2x4), Snow, Sport and Trailer/Tow modes, whilst AWD fashions provide 2x4 (AWD disconnect), 4x4, Sport, Off Road and Trailer/Tow modes.

The AWD disconnect mode efficiently disconnects the rear axle from the force gadget to keep gasoline. On-call for AWD functionality may be reapplied at the move with the aid of using switching the force mode selector to 4x4 mode.

Additional chassis and using dynamics capabilities include:

• MacPherson strut the front suspension
• Five-hyperlink rear suspension
• Rack-established electric powered energy guidance gadget
• Four-wheel disc brakes with Duralife rotors
• Electronic park brake
• Available electronically managed non-stop damping gadget.

All Terrain

The new All Terrain version fits exceptional layout factors with improved off-avenue-using ability.At the coronary heart of the GMC Acadia All Terrain's functionality is a complicated AWD gadget with Active Twin Clutch, which optimizes traction for each situation it encounters.

And whilst it's miles engineered for most reliable overall performance in wet, snowy and icy conditions, it additionally offers improved balance in dry conditions.It additionally has a particular All Terrain mode in area of the Off Road mode at the force mode selector, which matches with the version's special AWD gadget to provide improved hill-climb functionality.

All Terrain fashions are outstanding from the relaxation of the GMC Acadia lineup with a frame-shadeation grille surround, black chrome trim and particular wheels. Inside is special five-passenger seating, dynamic All Terrain indoors accents and protected garage containers withinside the rear shipment ground in area of a 0.33-row seat.The 2017 GMC Acadia can be produced at General Motors' Spring Hill (Tenn.) meeting facility, with globally sourced parts.