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GMC Sierra pickup line may go from 1500 to 3500 but this 2015 GMC Sierra 2500 HD is no middleweight and with this Denali trim I've got a near luxury cab with navigation a boatload of charging ports and even driver assistance features that keep me from running over houses if you get a GMC Sierra 2500 HD with a gasoline engine but I've got the Duramax diesel 6.6 liter turbocharged v8 in this truck and with the six-speed automatic transmission that makes 397 horsepower and 765 pound-feet of torque that's a lot of twist at the wheels but it's more about pulling power than it is about screeching the tires off the line and get this this Kanto 13,000 pounds that's for adult Buffalo or 65 Donald Trump's the six and a half foot bed behind the crew cab can also carry about 2,500 pounds but that's only 12 Donald Trump's before you ask about fuel economy know that GMC doesn't have to post standard passenger vehicle numbers for this CR 2500 HD that's because at over 10,000 pounds gross vehicle weight this qualifies is a heavy duty truck and is therefore exempt that said with this diesel engine I was getting about 17 miles per gallon on the highway with rear leaf springs and body-on-frame construction CR 2500 HD balances over the bumps but that ride quality will change quite a bit when you load it down they'll probably change a lot more after fifty or hundred thousand miles as everything breaks in this example has four wheel drive and I can switch between two-wheel four-wheel high and four-wheel low with this dial on the dashboard here and - we'll grab it will get better fuel economy and in four-wheel drive I notice the steering binds a bit at lock losing power and limiting maneuverability because the Sierra 2500 HD with crew cab and six and a half foot bed is almost long and six and a half feet high at the roofline manoeuvrability can't be tough help me out I've got a backup camera and I've got rear and front sonar distance warnings that's all pretty good but I prefer a surround view camera system for driver assists on the road I've got front collision warning and lane departure warning and this uses GM's safety seat which actually buzzes my but it's hard to ignore that instead of a blind spot monitoring system I have these huge mirrors with two parts here a bubble in the bottom and a flat mirror on top that's good for trailering but it is a bit old-school because this is the Denali version I've got GM's IntelliLink system here on an 8 inch touch screen in the dashboard this icon base screen is pretty easy to understand and it's responsive to the touch for navigation the maps show good detail and I've got live traffic one thing I really like about this system is it'll warn me about traffic problems on the road ahead even if I don't have a destination programmed in OnStar comes standard with all its roadside crash and stolen vehicle assistance features and that also means a 4G data pipe and a Wi-Fi hotspot I'd like to see GM do more with that big data pipe like have online destination search for navigation but that Wi-Fi hotspot will come in handy for powering laptops and tablets on job sites to power any electronics I bring into the car I've got three USB ports I've also got two other USB ports in the console I've got three 12-volt power points and a grounded AC outlet there's plenty of power in this truck and also plenty of power under the hood all right let's price out our 2015 GMC Sierra 2500 Denali HD base price is fifty four thousand five hundred forty five dollars and that's with the crew cab and navigation now we add thirty two hundred dollars to get four wheel drive and another eight thousand eight hundred and forty five dollars to get the Duramax plus package that gives us the diesel engine and driver assistance features total sixty six thousand five hundred ninety dollars the GMC Sierra 2500 HD is obviously a work truck it's not something you're gonna want to drive around parking garages on the weekend that said there's some nice features here like the navigation a 4G Wi-Fi hotspot and the collision avoidance system I would like to see a surround view camera system here but that diesel engine is also good for fuel economy and pulling power you