Can the GMC Terrain AT4 Handle a Simple Off-Road Trail?
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- čas přidán 7. 07. 2024
- The GMC Terrain 2022 has been refreshed with a couple new features and an AT4 off-road trim. We took this GMC to our latest off-road trail to see how it would handle.
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Surprising how few GMC Terrains I see around town. The AT4 trim package may be just the magic to make the Terrain visible to buyers. Nice "soft-road" trail review, TK!
Funny, where I live you can't go around a corner without seeing one.
Thank you for doing a real off-road test! I'm thinking about buying this vehicle today!
GMC advertises the ground clearance on the AT4 as 7.9”. Those tires loaded up pretty quickly in the mud. I have a 2020 Terrain SLT with the 2.0 litre turbo and its got 252 horsepower and has very decent acceleration and reasonably good fuel economy (7.7 L/100kms) which I think is good. I don’t take mine anywhere close to off road. Generally speaking, I like my car.
You guys should really try and do a off-road review of the AT4 Acadia as well
A skid plate is one of the most important upgrades for any vehicle going off pavement, so that’s a nice touch. Gotta keep that oil pan away from rocks. Other than that, I don’t see much to get excited about. I don’t think too many buyers in this segment have “excitement” high on their list though.
I think it's a pretty decent vehicle. I'm considering getting one in the coming year. I have no plans on doing any off roading, but for a guy like me who goes out camping a lot, hitting the beach and plans on getting a big dog very soon, I think this GMC would fit my lifestyle. Great video lads.
It’s a great car I would recommend and save lots of gas and drives smoothly
Same. It looks decent. I have a jeep for when I go off road. I need something under 60k with three rows and some extra room for a bigger dog and camping or beach stuff. And everything in this segment looks like a Highlander.
Only dipshits take their daily driver wheeling.
Nice Fbomb at 12:18
I had the opportunity of renting one for a week in British Columbia a couple of weeks ago. We lived with it for a week. Drove all through Vancouver, Mission, Richmond, Burnaby, Squamish, and Whistler. It was a mountain and Trail climbing trip. We got the vehicle by mistake from the rental company as they did not have any smaller Vehicles available. Rental cars are hard to come by out west. We are from Ontario. My wife's family are GM retirees. I've never bought a GM product in my life. I have to say, after spending a week with that little truck it grew on me. Nice style, easy to get in and out of, very comfortable on the highway and handled a little bit of gear without complaints. Fuel economy was decent. I think people buy these trucks as an alternative to buying CRV and RAVs. It's like buying a used Tacoma pickup. After some price gouging you might as well buy a new one. The Market's a funny place. One could buy a new terrain for the price of a two or three-year-old Honda or Toyota. Have fresh warranty from the get-go, a stylish vehicle to drive around in with some good features. Sure it might be a tad less on the refinement, and there could be better cute utes that can handle a little bit more Trail activity, but let's be real here. People buy them for status symbols and not truly use them for their potential. Those folks end up buying something completely different and we all know what those are. Let's not be too hard on the terrain. General Motors is closing the gap. That's a step in the right direction.
Rav4 and terrain are the same price for the base model. Terrain has heavier doors and it is beefier than the rav4. Rav4 has a naturally aspirated engine which will in fact last longer than GMs little turbo engine before it fails. Rav4 is lighter and more mechanically simplistic than the terrain. This is all coming from a GM lover, they crapped the bed with making these have a forced induction, turbo charged engine. The engine choice GM went with on these will be a catastrophe when these cars are 10years old on the used lot with 100k miles and poor service history.
I am pickup mine tomorrow. I can't wait!
Yes the Tommy roller test!!!! Love these types of tests and love the ramp, good job!
Thank you!
Corvettte's have the higher 'Rake/Angle' windshield. So having the plastic pop-out is done because it is cheaper. IMO!
This was great video. Nice review guys👍
Idc what anyone says my 2022 Terrain is faster and comfortable and a lot more then our Nissan was. It’s a damn good. Just lacks back storage/grocery placement. Esp w the rubber mat.
Come on guys, Truck King deserves 100,000 subscribers at least!
We agree!
We have a 2015 equinox AWD and I can't say enough about it. For the wife it's perfect. I hated this thing for so long but grew to love it. Took it from Minnesota to Florida and the lie meter said I got 34 mpg through Illinois🤷♂️
Illinois tends to do that to all MPG gauges😂 my 2015 gmc terrain denali has gotten 32 mpg (hand calculated at the pump) on a long trip but I don't drive over 70 we currently have 154,000 miles on our terrain and its in the shop for a new exhaust system from being in the midwest all its life
There's a few All Black ones here in Lambton county... Enjoy the day Truck King!!😃 Awesome ramp!!! Great for doin undercarriage work!!
Great review and you actually took it off road. Thank you. 👍🏾
Glad to see you guys add a roller test and undercarriage view.
And we will continue to add tests we think viewers want.
I’ve had mine for almost a month. It’s been decent so far, even in the harsh Alberta winter.
I'm in the market for a small suv or truck and saw one of these on the road 2 weeks ago. I thought is was pretty good looking. I started doing a bit of research and I guess this year they downsized the motor. Everyone was complaining about it, and one guy said "Why would anyone buy one of these on purpose" Haha. Others also said it was a dated interior. I do like the looks and size of it. Thanks for the review.
You dad is spot on. I've watched a lot of reviews knocking the Terrian and I think they are missing the point. Thanks for a great review
GM really loves their stickers lol. Slapping an AT4 sticker on everything these days , completely waters the branding down
I like the new rollers and the ramp to look underneath. A couple cans of Black Rustoleum would make that ramp look new.
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Cool video dude!!!
I just bought a new terrain. It’s not an AT4, just regular fwd. I love it, drive really nice.
7:25 It's a good explanation, but I think the solution would be easy enough: You distort the image you're projecting to compensate. In this case, I believe you'd elongate the lettering so that it projects at normal length.
Thanks bro, I could only get ur video taking the Terrain thru off road
got one last week >>>very NICE>>> picked the sand color
Any issues with it?
What a win video
Had a 2020 Terrain Denali, great car and a solid light off roader. Mine had the bigger 2.0 motor that gave tons of power for the small SUV. Sad they don't offer that motor anymore.
Plug it in and eat zee bugz!
Like this suv. ❤
The transfer case has 3 modes 2wd, awd, and off road. What does the transfer case do in off road mode? When you go from awd to off road what does it do to make it work better off road? How does the off road mode work?
Hey Truck Kings, would you mind adding chapters to your videos? They’re extremely helpful for those of us with limited “me time” between the usual work and family obligations. These days I can only spare a little time at the end of the night for CZcams and I’d rather spend it skipping straight to the off-road testing segments and then I can go read about the specs and features online later.
What's with the lack of height adjustable seatbelt anchors? I thought they became ubiquitous in 1995. I'm only 5'9" and like to sit pretty low as well so I don't appreciate the belt halfway up my neck, thank you. Details, details...
I would have to do without the panoramic magnifying glass in the roof. Can you tow this on a car dolly when it's in two wheel drive mode or do you have to have a trailer?
IMO hud on this plastic piece is cheaper and your front windshield without hud coating/layers is cheaper too.
Thanks for the vid! I don't really get the 2WD thing. Aren't most AWD's made these days essentially 2WD until the main drive axle slips?
They are but it’s still more efficient to never have the rear axle engage unless you want it to
The pop up hud is because its cheaper. It has nothing to do with the windshield. It takes a higher quality projector to put it on the glass.
This has more room in back the the Foresters what’s the mpg?
I'm thinking about getting a terrain with the diesel and modding it out
Any reliability issues?
Those prices are ridiculous for what you get now as opposed to what you got a short few years ago.
What Alice SUV, The American brands definitely rule in trucks and SUV in design.
GM seriously dropped the ball on the blazer/Jimmy. They knew what Ford was bringing out in the new bronco. And instead of trying to compete, they made yet another grocery getter that the world did not need. No automaker disrespects their own brands like GM does. I grew up going hunting in an old blazer, and that thing could go anywhere. The old jimmies were just as capable. Even the slightly more recent blazer ZR2 was a decently capable off-roader. They could make up for it though, if they just wised up and offered up a new blazer ZR2 and/or Jimmy at4x package(s) with full capability and specks as the Colorado ZR2. Hell do the same for the 'burban/Yukon while they're at it.
Yeah a new blazer built on the ZR2 Colorado platform would be sweet!
@@Glokens Would be sweet is exactly why GM won’t do it unfortunately! 😕🤷🏽♂️
Agreed
Yeah I get what you are saying but the market for crossovers is high demand understand that they is more money in the so called grocery getters. Let’s be honest a family four would be looking for a Chevy traverse, blazer or equinox over a ford bronco. Gas mileage, way more space and obviously more road friendly than a bronco in that sense. If you are looking for looks than a ford bronco is the way but if you are looking for comfort then you go the other route.
@alfredorivera3454 with the traverse and equinox they have 2 badges for smaller SUVs. Plus the trailblazer for midsize crowd. They really should have given the blazer back to its off-road roots. Same with the Jimmy. They could also make a ZR2 version of one of the compact SUVs too. They had a Tracker ZR2 back in the day. The chatter in ZR2 groups about the possibility of blazer ZR2 return says there would definitely be a market for it. Us Chevy guys that off-road only have the colorado n Silverado as options. I love my colorado ZR2 but would trade it in in a heartbeat for blazer.
Please do the ford explorer timberline next
Try the Denali too
i had just noticed that GM dropped the 2.0 turbo engine option from the Equinox/Terrain lineup and only offers the 1.5 with a 6 speed in the Equinox and a 1.5 with a 9 speed in the Terrain regardless of trim level, there used to be a diesel option as well, but never sold well
Yes. This is because the Electric equinox is coming fall 2023.
Did you try the off-road mode?
It's my understanding that HUD doesn't work on plain old glass. The windshield has to have a certain layer or coating on it for a HUD to work. As such it's likely cheaper (and more available) for GM to use the pop up HUD.
In the 2019 denali that I own it pops up on the windshield. That HUD looks terrible.
@@jamesjazwinski4412 drove one yesterday it's not noticeable while driving
@@funfromupnorth6808 lol ok I went to far. It wouldn't be that bad.
Gerezum, regardless of what the engine gets for MPG, the chassis its going in seems like a V6 was the design base. I can't imagine its less than 4000lbs. 170hp is borderline anemic even in a lighter vehicle. Ugh...
My 2016 Terrain had 180 HP with it's 2.4L 4 cyl engine. Weighed about 3850 lbs and was very slow. Going from that to a Jeep JL Unlimited Sport S with 285 HP and 270 ft lbs of torque was shocking - even at 400 LB heavier, that extra HP/Torque makes so much of a difference.
This engine is a turbo so it has over 200 lbs of torque and is a couple hundred pounds lighter, so it's probably got *just* enough HP to feel adequate on the freeway.
The 1.5 is better then the 2.4 that would consume oil
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It seems to me chassis is well built that almost looks like a body on frame vehicle.
Even with the larger motor from the past, the GMC equinox has always been an inferior CUV to the rav4, CRV, CX5.
The main reasons people would buy them was out of ignorance or the huge year end discounts/0% financing that used to happen.
You’d need to be a die hard brand loyalist to pay full price for one of these over say, waiting for a RAV4.
I'd say it's on par with crv and rav4. Superior to CX5 too. The GM 1.5 in the Equinox/Terrain does not have the fuel in oil dilution issue the crv
Has.
We have an 18 Equinox with 60k now, it's has exactly zero issues. Also a crv and cx5 in the family.
@@terrencejones9817 same we have a 2015 equinox AWD with o issues. Best all around vehicles imo.
Got a 2017..zero issues great vehicle ..also made in Canada, unlike the new ones made in Mexico
I got a rav4 as rental and I hated it. Too much electronic interference and it felt like I had less torque than my lawn mower.
Equinox/Terrain looks way better too.
Wilderness is pretty capable.
Did the keep the fold down front passenger seat?
yes
why no mention of rear differential/axle clutches?
hard to find info on this GM electronic positraction diff
Well gotta say ur dad did a great job navigating this ride, ive always kinda liked them & think gmc builds a decent vehicle, I could sit down and break out some good bourbon an talk with your dad for a bit, as he seems very knowledgeable and well rounded kinda guy to shoot the s#◇t with, lol 🤙
Nothing wrong with small motors buts that a lot of car for a 1.5. It's gonna be working really hard all the time.
There are lots of things wrong with small motors! You just mentioned the main one!
Hey guys, do you think the terrain AT4 would be viable for mild off roading if it had a 1 to 1.5 inch lift and whether or not that would be feasible with this type of vehicle?
Every bit of lift would make it better for sure.
That interior looks like it was designed on a tight budget and the 4wd system is very slow to work out where to send the power.
I kind of like the look of it, and the AWD system seemed fairly competent. That said, though, I just can't see why one would buy one of these over RAV4 for pretty much the same money. Maybe 5 years down the line in the used market with one of these is dirt cheap, but definitely not new. And I typically like GMC vehicles too, but just not their smaller offerings.
I bought a 2021 elevation over the Rav 4 based on the looks, and interior space and I absolutely love mine
@@jaketrentadue3533 Good luck with it! I definitely like the look of it over the RAV, but even though I always liked GM, family members have been burned with GM SUVs so I have a hard time trusting them. (Except for the Tahoe/Yukon/Suburban). Not thay I'm a big fan of Toyota, but I bought my 13 4Runner with 80K miles on it, and it's now at 138k and I've only had one repair in that time, $189 to have the AC topped off. Meanwhile, my aunt finally got rid of her first gen Arcadia around 100k miles because it was in the shop at least once a month by that point. My mom's SRX also has less miles than my 4Runner, and that thing has been a pile too.
15 min video,m 13 min of yakking.
Your favorite bug remover?
What a piece! 1500 lb tow rating? My old 06 Kia was 3500 lbs! It's called a Terrain! Terrain! as if it was capable of terrain! Then an AT4! Isn't AT short for all terrain? Good video but you guys are too kind! Oh an and 800 lb payload? What if you were double dating the 1000lb sisters? Lol
Chevy makes an HD truck.
You guys should try the acadia AT4
23 terrains have AWD and RWD, no FWD
Put a manual transmission and I’m sold
My Harley practically makes the same HP/TQ lmao 🤣
I have the terrain and Acadia.....I would never trail drive in either.
It reminds me of a Pontiac Aztec… I’m good…
Same frame
Bro ford needs to up their game
Reliability is a serious issue with these.
Bring back the Jimmy
So who takes their terrain off-roading ?
Speaking of bugs hitting the windshield....
What is the last thing a bug sees when it hits the windshield? It's ass! :)
Wow, the payload limit is absolutely pathetic.
800lb payload is concerning
That's less than the weight of two average sized Americans...come on, GM, get your head in the game!
You guys really burned your money today. Thank you for the video.
"This hole is way too deep"
I liked the look of the first generation Terrain more than this one. I think this vehicle just looks boring and has no features that stand out, not to mention a tiny engine. They call it the Terrain but it's probably best on asphalt. Too many manufacturers adding "off road" badges and trims but not really any off road upgrades.
My 2016 VW Golf has a payload of 1006 lbs. This SUV's payload is disappointing to say the least.
lmao oh boy. GM continues to prove that American car companies deserved to get their lunch eaten by the Japanese in the '80s. Now we're doing it again!
1.5L? Turbo or not, no thanks.
Nice for a fan , but not for me !
Not even tow hooks. This is going to dupe the average consumer that trusts that at4 means something. For the price of this GMC tub you can get a jeep 4 door 4x4 Wrangler Willy's.
Too little ground clearence!
This car needs off road tires to handle these trails, street tires ain't going to cut it...!!!
Nope. GM doesn’t even seem like they are trying anymore. Buy a Toyota, you will be much happier and own it many years longer.
Not buffalo horns on that animal
Just needs a lift and better tires
It needs real engine at first. At least V6
@@marcelo403polo2 a bigger engine is always great but if you could just increase the horse power without breaking it then a smaller engine would be fine. But in this case it's just too low to the ground with tires that don't grip for off road
@@k.tucker2011 Yeah, but who buys little SUV for off-roading? There is way more better options. This 1.5L scares the $..t out of me.
1.5 L and turbo not justified its underpowered in highways for sure weight of suv 3419 lb sLt model 18inch ground clearance it’s too low I drive this suv 23 days as retail before buy but change my mind it’s not my cup of tea
You took that little thing "offroad" but never the Ridgeline? WTF?
A more pertinent video would be “Can the ‘tech’ in the GMC Terrain AT4 prevent you from hitting something in the Costco parking lot”. You can do much better guys.
I say the truth about this damn life, is that everyone is uncompleted and everyone is a being needed of stupid things for being happy, bullshits, I personally believe that all this is a failing struggle .
No it's not a real 4x4 it's only used for traction as a luxury car.
1.5L 4-cyl with 200 lb/ft torque in an "off-road" SUV? LMAO fucking GM does it again
More capable than a cvt Subaru. Still wouldn’t buy it cause quality isn’t there.
First
Garbage product. I feel bad for folks that buy these without researching them.
Nope