Tests and Features

In the world of luxury yachts, the perennial race between billionaires is to see who can build the bigger boat. It's not unheard of for oligarchs and oil barons to tear up the decks on their almost-completed flagships in order to add a dozen additional metres in overall length and …

There are vehicles out there that make statements, and then there are those that recite entire passages on the pavement. The 2015 GMC Yukon XL Denali is one such vehicle. It's huge, luxurious, and doesn't care much about trivial things like fitting in parking spaces or burning an extra litre …

Seemingly, you’d have to be more than a little crazy to hurtle a two-ton SUV up and down a 60 kilometre Yukon mountain mining road so steep that there’s simply nowhere to even attach a guard rail. And yet I found myself doing exactly that this past week behind the …

Most automakers would kill to have a full-size SUV that sells in huge numbers. General Motors is blessed with four: the Chevrolet Tahoe, Chevrolet Suburban, and the GMC Yukon and Yukon XL. It's no stretch to say that these trucks are amongst the most important showroom fillers in the GM …

Full-size SUVs are a big money-maker for car companies, and no one has dominated the scene quite like GM with its Chevrolet Tahoe/GMC Yukon pair. The 2015 editions of each have been completely updated (along with the GMC Suburban), and The Car Guide will be driving them this week in …

It starts with a jolt; the result of a simple twist of the wrist. Six litre’s worth of exploding petroleum product echoes down the exhaust with a hearty burbling bass line as the massive momentum of the V8’s rotating assembly carries itself through the motor mounts, carrying up into the …

Fresh out of a Chevrolet Malibu Hybrid that left me greatly disappointed due to the inefficiency of its system, I stepped right into the new Yukon Hybrid 2-mode. I knew that this utility vehicle’s integrated technology was much more impressive, but the proof is in the pudding. Let’s end the …