{"id":35997,"date":"2013-06-27T06:05:04","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T13:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bangshift.com\/?p=35997"},"modified":"2014-07-22T05:30:24","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T12:30:24","slug":"luxury-liner-we-drive-the-2013-gmc-sierra-denali-2500hd-crew-cab-a-velvet-brute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangshift.com\/general-news\/car-features\/chevy-car-features\/luxury-liner-we-drive-the-2013-gmc-sierra-denali-2500hd-crew-cab-a-velvet-brute\/","title":{"rendered":"Luxury Liner: We Drive The 2013 GMC Sierra Denali 2500HD Crew Cab – A Velvet Brute!"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Words by Brian Lohnes Photos by Dave Nutting) – As the resident lover of all things truck related here at BangShift, I was more than happy to get my grubby mitts on this 2013 GMC Sierra Denali 2500HD pickup for a few days. Admittedly, I have always been a little on the snooty side with my truck preferences and specifically toward what I would call a luxury truck like the Sierra Denali. After all, who needs a full leather interior, all the bells and whistles, simulated wood grain, heated and air conditioned seats, sexy wheels, backup camera, and on and on and one? To me, trucks have always been about two doors, a bench seat, a rubber floor mat, the most stout engine, transmission, and axles you could get, and a radio.
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It took about 14-seconds inside the Denali to realize that my opinion needed revising…kind of. This truck, as you see it before you, stickers for $64,095. It is fully and I mean absolutely, 100%, fully loaded. From four wheel drive to the mighty Duramax engine backed with an Allison six speed transmission, to the navigation system, sunroof, and everything in between, this truck had it. Who needs a $65k truck? No one needs <\/em>one but clearly people want them because manufacturers have been as much in a horsepower war as they have been in an amenities and luxury war with their pickup trucks over the last several years.<\/p>\n

The beneficiary of any type of escalation like that is the end customer because the result is a truck like this one. It is a truck that can literally pull down buildings, get decent mileage and still carry you and that special someone…along with three more people to a high class event and not look out of place. The evening Dave Nutting and I shot the photos you see here, we passed through a busy section of Boston where a concert was about to start. The big GMC got as many looks from the ladies as some of the more traditional luxury\/sports cars we saw on the street. As the kids would say, this thing is baller.<\/p>\n

My wife expressed almost immediately upon the truck’s arrival at our abode that it was the best looking thing we have tested yet and a few minutes into her first ride inside the GMC, she proclaimed that it was her favorite vehicle that she’d ridden in as well. Long story short, the chicks dig it and truthfully, we dug it too, although there were some foibles and things to nit pick because that’s how we operate. Is this monster worth $64,000? Is the Duramax and Allison as good as everyone reports? Will it do burnouts? The answers to all of these questions are below as we’ll tell you the rest of the story through photos and captions!<\/p>\n

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