2025 GMC Terrain First Look: Suitably Separated From Chevy?

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Introducing the GMC Terrain

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00:00I'm Frank Marcus with Motor Trend, and I'm here getting a look at the 2025 GMC Terrain.

00:16The GMC Terrain is GMC's entry-level SUV, and it's totally redesigned this year.

00:21It's the third generation for the Terrain.

00:23It's shared with the Chevrolet Equinox, and so this year, again, we're trying to upgrade

00:28the GMC experience from the Chevrolet a little bit.

00:31So gone are the SLT and SLE base trims.

00:35We've now got this new elevation trim, and what they're going for in the design here

00:39is the entry-level GMC SUV looking a lot like the entry-level GMC pickup truck, which is

00:45the Canyon.

00:46So we've got this more upright grille, we've got this sort of X-wing design over here around

00:51the lights, still got the C-channel lights.

00:53A lot of this whole car is inspired by other vehicles in the GMC lineup.

00:59As I said, we are going to launch with the elevation trim only for 2025, and it will

01:04also launch with a standard all-wheel drive.

01:07Front-wheel drive will come available in February of 2025.

01:11Under the hood, everything stays the same.

01:13We still have the 1.5-liter turbocharged four-cylinder engine, good for 175 horsepower and 203 pound-feet

01:20of torque.

01:21It is now connected to an eight-speed automatic, used to be a nine-speed.

01:25The front-wheel drive one will get a CVT.

01:27Above the elevation, we will still have the 84 and Denali trim levels.

01:31They will come a little bit later in 2025 as 2026 models, but we do have them here,

01:37so we'll take a look at them as well.

01:39This elevation trim that you're seeing here has the black package, and it also has the

01:44two-tone roof option.

01:46You can get a silver roof with a black car, otherwise you get a black roof with every

01:51other color available, and that's across all of the vehicles.

01:5417-inch wheels are standard on the elevation trim.

01:57If you get the black package, you get a black 19-inch wheel, and if you get the premium

02:01package, you get a 19-inch silver wheel.

02:04In the rear, we're also going for a tougher SUV look with a more upright rear window.

02:08The C-clamp taillights are extended to look a little wider across the back, and all three

02:13trim grades will get their own grills, faces, and lowers.

02:17Again, this being a black package car, it has blacked-out badging, but the elevation

02:21trim will be badged on all elevation models.

02:26Inside the GMC Terrain is also elevated for 2025.

02:30We've got the almost exact same screen here that you find in the Acadia.

02:34It has the floating volume knob down here.

02:37Very cool.

02:38Also an 11-inch cluster display as well.

02:40The look is very similar to other GMCs, the Yukon, the Acadia, again, with this vertical

02:46and then the things above it and over it.

02:49In the elevation trim, which I'm sitting in here now, there will be a dark and a light

02:53option.

02:54This is a premium package car, but all elevations will get a soft trim up here with this stitching

02:59here, this chrome trim on the doors and the dash and on the center console.

03:05The premium package gets you these bolsters that are soft-trimmed and padded.

03:10The wireless phone charging here and the digital mirror is now optional as well.

03:16Standard on all Terrain models this year is remote start, heated seats, and a heated steering

03:22wheel.

03:23Denali models will get heated rear seats and ventilated front seats.

03:28We've got these dedicated HVAC buttons down here.

03:31We've always been a big fan of buttons.

03:33We're also going to a shifter that is on the column.

03:36It's an electronic shifter, but it's a fairly typical use case.

03:40It's much more normal than the old buttons you had to push and pull.

03:44We were not big fans of those on the outgoing Terrain.

03:50So on the Denali trim, you can really see this sort of X-wing graphic a little better

03:55with the colors they choose for the Denali.

03:57Again, a lot more chrome on a Denali.

04:00You get a standard 19-inch wheel with a 20-inch optional on the Denali.

04:04And inside, you get a much dressier interior.

04:07This one is a contrast light and dark color scheme with contrast stitching on the seats

04:13and everything.

04:14Very attractive, very upscale looking.

04:17Here we have the AT4 trim grade.

04:19Again, we've got standard red tow hooks.

04:22We've got a blacked out grill, again, showing off this X pattern here.

04:28Standard 17-inch wheels with standard all-terrain tires.

04:31And of course, the big differentiator, all-wheel drive, is standard, but only in the AT4 do

04:36you get the off-road crawl modes and all of that sort of thing.

04:42Look for the GMC Terrain Elevation all-wheel drive models to start hitting dealerships

04:46later this year.

04:47Pricing has yet to be announced, but we expect to see GMC Terrain Elevation models with standard

04:53all-wheel drive to begin arriving in dealerships later this year.

04:56I'm Frank Marcus with Motor Trend.

05:01Check us out at MotorTrend.com.

05:02Thanks for watching.

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