First Drives

ST. JOHN’S, Newfoundland – Alright, so, the 2019 GMC Sierra, how is it? As you may remember, we recently drove its mechanical cousin, the 2019 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 . We were pleased with it, calling it an ingenious truck, even though it deserves a better cabin design and a more …

LAC-BEAUPORT, Québec – The compact SUV segment isn’t popular; it’s literally overflowing with models of all shapes, sizes and price. With so many different variations of the breed, consumers, which continually come asking for more, no longer know where to look. For a carmaker as diversified as General Motors, this …

Meet the 2018 Terrain. We’ve been expecting it. Like its brother-from-another-mother, the Chevrolet Equinox, it has undergone a significant transformation, turning the refinement up a notch to challenge the competition. The product unveiling was essentially an exercise in marketing mumbo jumbo, as a great deal of time was spent talking …

You might not know it, but Canada is a big market for the GMC division of General Motors. While buyers in the United States generally prefer Chevrolet’s truck lineup, we are more inclined to choose the GMC brand’s more posh versions. European style, brand image; we can speculate on the …

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 …

Until these two new vehicles from General Motors arrived on the scene, people weren’t exactly clamouring for mid-size pickups. In fact, only the Nissan Frontier and Toyota Tacoma remained on the market, and these two models had been launched more than a decade ago and had undergone very few modifications …

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 …

Big trucks and wide-open spaces go well together, so it was only appropriate that my first time behind the wheel of both the 2015 Chevrolet Silverado HD and 2015 GMC Sierra HD pickups took place on the prairies of Alberta. It seems like every second vehicle I encountered during my …

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 …

In recent years the Oxford English Dictionary has seen its hallowed pages invaded by scores of modern words that, despite their improbable origins and loosest possible claims to legitimacy, have achieved recognition by this cherished tome. To their number we may soon be adding 'glamping,' a term that describes 'glamorous …