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2025 GMC Yukon: King of the hill

The 2025 GMC Yukon lineup includes the first-ever AT4 Ultimate trim. [Credit: All images courtesy of GMC]

 

 

GMC has revealed the 2025 Yukon, the brand's flagship nameplate, with major technology upgrades, a bold exterior, and thoughtfully refreshed interior design. The 2025 Yukon introduces the first-ever AT4 Ultimate trim, timed to celebrate the fifth anniversary of GMC's AT4 sub-brand.

Underpinned by an available 6.2L V8 engine, the 2025 Yukon offers 420 hp and 460 lb-ft of torque, paired with a 10-speed automatic transmission. Also available across the lineup, including on AT4 and AT4 Ultimate for the first time, a 3.0-L Duramax Turbo-Diesel engine option that offers customers 305 hp and 495 lb-ft of torque. Trims include Elevation, AT4, first-ever AT4 Ultimate, Denali, and Denali Ultimate.

The 2025 Yukon sets a new bar for GMC's distinctive and premium design language. The full-size SUV's interior blends a precisely crafted mix of luxury and technology for a world-class driver and passenger experience, while the elevated exterior design exudes a muscular-yet-refined character.

The centerpiece of the cabin is a 16.8-in.-diagonal Premium GMC Infotainment Center with a vertical interface, which allows users to customize the integration of maps, audio inputs, vehicle diagnostics, and more into the generous screen display. The addition of an available 8-in.-diagonal rear climate control touchscreen also helps ensure a comfortable cabin environment for passengers.

The 2025 GMC Yukon exterior also commands attention with the application of unique grille patterns, liftgate badging, animated headlamps and taillamps, and an available panoramic sunroof that delivers an open-air cabin experience.

The 2025 Yukon provides customers with even more design options and upgraded technology on both the Denali Ultimate and first-ever AT4 Ultimate trims, including:

AT4 Ultimate:

• A front skid plate and 20-in. wheels with all-terrain tires;
• Four-corner Air Ride Adaptive Suspension that can raise the vehicle up to 2 in. to improve ground clearance when off-road;
• Luxurious Obsidian Rush interior with three rows of full-grain leather seating and Ash Burl wood accents; and
• New unique leather seat style, featuring open-pore wood decor, and leather rim steering wheel accents.

Denali Ultimate:

• Exclusive 24-in. eight-spoke machined wheels with laser etching -- a first-ever for Yukon;
• 16-way powered heated and ventilated massaging front seats and second-row Executive Seating featuring luxury captain's chairs -- a first for the GMC lineup;
• New interior wood decor featuring open-pore laser-etched topographical patterns, chrome accents, and leather rim steering wheel accents; and
• A Bose Performance Series sound system with up to 22 speakers, including stainless steel head restraint speakers in the front row and optional second-row executive seating, delivering a premium, personalized cabin acoustic experience.

The 2025 GMC Yukon Denali Ultimate. [Credit: All images courtesy of GMC]

 

 

The 2025 Yukon delivers an enhanced suite of advanced technology, safety, and driver assistance features, including available Night Vision, enabling customers to drive more confidently in low-light environments. Thermal object detection helps identify pedestrians and animals by alerting drivers via the head-up display and driver information center.

Yukon also features an expansive list of new standard advanced safety features and available driver assistance tech, including:

• Front Pedestrian and Bicyclist Braking;
• Rear Cross Traffic Braking;
• Side Bicyclist Alert; and
• Intersection Automatic Emergency Braking.

Intuitive technologies that make life easier include an available presence-based, hands-free liftgate that automatically opens the liftgate in the presence of the key fob. The 2025 Yukon also features available Super Cruise hands-free advanced driver-assistance system.

Yukon owners with Super Cruise will also be able to experience the industry's first and only hands-free trailering technology. It has a towing capability of up to 8,400 lb. Trailering tech includes:

• Blind Zone Steering Assist that can alert drivers and provide a brief, firm turn of the steering wheel when a potential crash is detected with a moving vehicle in a side blind zone that is extended to trailer lengths.
• Transparent Trailer View that uses a tailgate-mounted camera and a customer-installed auxiliary camera available on the rear of a compatible trailer to help virtually see through a compatible trailer to view objects or vehicles behind it.
• Trailer Reverse Trajectory adds rearward guidelines to track the path of the trailer when backing up.
• Jackknife Alert tracks the position of the compatible trailer in relation to the vehicle to notify the driver if facing a potential jackknife situation.
• Trailer Tire Health enhances the Trailer Tire Pressure Monitoring System by adding leak detection, tire life monitor, and over-speed warning.

The 2025 GMC Yukon will be produced at Arlington Assembly in Texas and is expected to be available by the end of 2024. Official pricing will be released closer to production date. Pricing should start around $69,000.

Learn more at gmc.com/future-vehicles/new-yukon.

Source: GMC

Published October 2024

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