2023 GMC Terrain SLE - Do You Get SURPRISING Features For The Price?

This is the 2023 GMC Terrain. This model that comes in sterling metallic with jet black interior has a sticker price of $33,565. And for this day and age, that's actually a very impressive price. You might be surprised at what you get for that price. And there's one particular feature on here, really a lot of different things that work together to make this a great family vehicle. For you parents out there that have little ones, especially going in the back seat, that's going to be the first place you come. I'm going to show you a feature that makes that situation a lot easier to deal with compared to a lot of vehicles on the market. If you're interested in buying this exact model or any other GMC or even Buick from Morgan Buick GMC from where I borrowed this terrain, check out the link down in the description of the video and tell whoever you talk to that Tom from Vehicle Visionaries sent you their way. When it comes to lighting, you're going to see LED everywhere you look. LED headlights, LED daytime running lights, and even the LED taillights. Now, for those of you who might say, hey Tom, how do I make my lights flicker and make that motion that I see on the screen? You have to look at your lights through the screen or the lens of a GoPro. That's the only way that's going to happen because this is actually based on the shutter speed of my GoPro. Sorry if you're wanting to have your vehicle do that. It doesn't actually do that in real life, just through the lens of the camera. We're going to have a little bit of chrome in a couple of different places, the surround on the grill with that GMC logo in the middle. We're going to have the chrome also around the faux vents down here. Safety features, lane keeping assist with lane departure warning, forward collision warning, all of that good stuff. It's all here. This model is front wheel drive, but all wheel drive is an option on the SLE trim level. Let's talk a little bit about tire and wheel size. Even though this is front wheel drive, still going to be good to get around. No problem. 225 is the width, so a good bit of tread on the ground and a 65 series sidewall. This area, that's going to help contribute to a better ride quality because it's not too much and it's not low profile. Going in the wrong direction with the sidewall size, can contribute to a harsh ride quality. It's going to be wrapped around 17 inch wheels. As we work our way up to the mirrors, we're going to have the manually folding side view mirrors, but they are power adjustable. Here's the remote. $33,565 is the price of this vehicle. You get remote start for that. You also have a remote tailgate. What was I referring to earlier? It's going to be helpful to you parents out there that are going to be coming to this door first, on either side, the rear doors. It's this button right here. That's called passive entry. You can lock and unlock all four doors from the rear doors or also from the front. You will also find your roof rails on the top of the vehicle. Gives quite a few different options for a multitude of situations. The SLE logo right there will have a little bit of chrome working its way on the top to the front and the lower portion area here with the surround on the windows. Not too much, not too little. I'd say that's the right amount. Like I said, LED tail lights. Here's a good up close look at those LED tail lights. You will have the rear roof spoiler to finish things off and the exposed rear window wiper. I do want to show you one thing that's really important with this power tailgate. You notice that when I hit the button right there, it went up. You can do that a couple of different ways. You can do it from the remote. You can also do it right here in the interior. If you go to open that and it doesn't open, this is the very first thing you need to come check. The button right here. Right now it's set to max. You can set it to three fourths or you can also set it to off. If it's not opening, most likely that is the problem. What motivates this terrain to get down the road? It's the 1.5 liter turbocharged four-cylinder. It makes 175 horsepower. The torque numbers come in at 203. It's mated to a nine-speed automatic transmission. A lot of people might say, I want more than 175 horsepower. Well, for those of you who are looking for solid gas mileage numbers, well, 175 may be the sweet spot. 24 city and an impressive 29 highway, 26 combined and 3.8 gallons of gas is what GMC says you should use for every 100 miles you drive. If you would like to tow with your terrain, you can tow up to 1500 pounds and you have 29.6 up to 63.3 cubic feet of cargo capacity. Obviously, you're lower the rear seats, lay them flat to be able to maximize the cargo capacity. I do like the fact that they basically do lay flat. You don't have a real steep angle that they're going to be sitting up when you lay them down. Some seats don't go all the way down. Thankfully, those do. That's always a good thing. A little bit of storage space underneath the floor right here. You've got quite a bit going there. Also, some options here on the side as far as that goes. You notice what I did right there. I did lower the seats from the top of the seat right there. You can also do that right here with one lever or we can pull this one. Now, you can see what it looks like fully maximized. Quite a bit of space here for this class of SUV. Before we move on from this area of the vehicle, one more important point that I know a lot of you may ask about. Does it have a spare tire? Yes, it does. No tire repair kits to concern yourself with in this situation. These seats do have a nice recline to them as far as the seat backs go. We're going to have the upper and the lower door bins here on the rear doors. Now, there is no sunroof here, but I think for most people at this price point, no big deal. Likely not too concerned about that. We'll have the seat back pocket here on the passenger side. Nothing on the driver's side, but again, I don't think that's that big of a deal. What will be a big deal to rear seat passengers, yes, they will find themselves with not only dual air conditioning vents to help keep things nice and comfortable back here depending on the temperature outside, but almost more importantly for some people, USB connectivity is found on the rear of the console as well. Before we move into the front seat area, I did want to make a really important point here of something that I think is great for rear seat passengers. Notice that the floor is completely flat. That means that if somebody gets stuck in that middle seat area right here, they don't have to worry about the transmission tunnel protruding up and making it uncomfortable for their seating position because there isn't one. Yes, I did forget to show this earlier, so I'll show it now. You do have the cup holders built in to the fold down armrest. Taking a look in through the passenger side front door, we're going to have the upper and the lower door bins here as well. Now you will have a manually adjustable passenger seat. The driver's seat is a power seat. Both are heated. Yes, the interior is cloth. Some people will like that. Some people won't. Well, it just depends on what you're willing to pay. You have a little bit of a nook right here. Good place for a cell phone to sit. And then the glove box where we don't typically find any gloves, but yet it's called a glove box. And down here, we're going to find connectivity. In the way of USB, we'll also have the 12 volt right there and the cup holders as well as a few other features for controlling the vehicle. Your hill descent control, you can turn traction control off and you also have the ability to change your driving modes. And something that I like here, just my personal opinion, I really like the height of the center console because that lid doubles as an armrest and it just seems to be in the right place. Look inside and you have space in there. The tray right there is removable and a little bit of light, a small light on the rear of the interior of the center console. If you want to leave that tray in there, you most certainly can or take it out all together. And we'll also have the vanity mirror. Why is it called a vanity mirror? Are people vain who look in these mirrors? Kind of makes you wonder, doesn't it? But there's the lighting for the vanity mirror. But this is a multitasker. Not only does it contain the vanity mirror, it also contains or is the sun visor that tells you how far back it goes. I think even though that kind of looks like it's not far enough back, maybe for the average person that will work. And if you want to exercise as the driver 200 or excuse me, 175 horsepower, well there's the oh crap handle. Anybody going to be saying oh crap with 175 horsepower? For this price point, you're not going to find seat memory. So depending on how many people are driving the vehicle, well they'll just have to remember where they put the seat and put it back there. But you can see what all is here. Not anything major, anything out of the ordinary, but you see what all is there. Here is the control for your headlights right here. If you need to open the hood, there is the release for that and the power parking brake. This is a tilt and telescopically adjustable steering wheel and this terrain does have push button start. Very few vehicles in this day and age have a key to start the vehicle as opposed to push button start. And here's what the dashboard is going to look like as far as what you have here. And I'm just going to go through some of the features and functionality here as far as what kind of information you can gain from working your way through. We have all of our tire pressure right there as we can see. And remember that that tire pressure is not supposed to be at 100. Actually, I believe it's 35 in this particular case, but 100% on the air filter life is not a bad thing. Unlike trying to fill your tires up to 100 pounds of air pressure, but you can see what all is here. Pretty simple to figure out. You've got the opportunity for the digital speedometer there. If you wish to use that, obviously cruise control. There is that thing called the turn signal lever that some people have in their vehicles and some people don't, but when they do, they can flip it up to the right or down to the left or for the left, I should say to let people around them know what their intentions are. I know not all of you have that feature in your vehicle. So we'll give you a break for those who don't. And as you can see with the infotainment screen here, Apple CarPlay and Android auto. So that's, you can pair your phone here or actually you have to plug it in via USB, but basically turn the screen into your phone and we don't have a lot going on here, but that's good because for those who want something that's really simplistic, well, this is not a bad thing. So you can see what all is here. We have our apps and you can turn Apple CarPlay on or off as well as Android auto if you want to make changes with audio and phone. And then here in vehicle, what do we have? Rear seat reminder in case, you know, it's not necessarily an issue that you have to remember that you had kids back there. It's sad that that might be a problem, but you know what? That rear seat reminder can actually help you in a multitude of ways. If maybe you have a briefcase in the back that you need to remember for a meeting or some important documents or just whatever, there's a lot of different things where that can happen. And you can see what you have here in the way of the collision detection systems. You can see what's their forward collision system and front pedestrian detection. We talked a little bit about what you have earlier, but you can see all of what is here, even teen driver and valet mode. All of those things are super easy to use. And you do have dual zone climate control here, as you can see. So that's a good thing as well. We're going to turn that down so we don't mess up the audio quality of the video. But remember, we're working with less than $34,000 on the price here. So you're getting quite a bit. Also, one thing that I know may bring mixed reactions. It does have the push button shifter here. Once you drive this vehicle for a while, I don't think that's going to be a big issue. I think you will get used to it pretty quickly. Tell me for those of you who do have something like this in your GMCs or whatever your vehicle is, what do you think about it? Do you like it? Do you not? Did it take long to get used to? Just curious to know. There is your rear camera, your backup camera, that's going to be on all vehicles. Now that's not an option. It's actually something that is required by law to be there. So I also talked about the fact that, well, we have our heated seats right here. So you can turn all of that on, three different settings for the seat back and the seat cushion. And ultimately that's what you're going to have as far as the interior goes. So what exactly is it like to drive this GMC Terrain? Why don't we get out on the road and we will find out. Okay. We're going to get out on the road for our test drive. And the very first thing I have to say, while a lot of people, as I said earlier in the video, may say that 175 horsepower is not quite enough. Well, I was really surprised at how well this Terrain gets up to speed with that 1.5 liter turbocharged four cylinder under the hood. In fact, if you get it at just the right place and just kind of ease into the gas, don't just floor it necessarily. It seems to run better that way because of the turbocharger, I assume, but one way or another, it has a surprising amount of get up and go when you need it to get up. Well, it's going to go. And so it's not neck snapping performance, but it's still enough to definitely accomplish what needs to be accomplished for somebody who would buy this particular model of vehicle. The turning radius is very good. It's very responsive as far as turning the steering wheel and really being a nice vehicle for big city driving. I would say if you're in an area where parking is tight and there's a lot of traffic and you need something that's easy to maneuver around, it's not too big, not too small, and also has good handling capabilities to easily get in and out of small spaces. This is a great vehicle for that. It's actually quite fun to drive, not because it has tons of horsepower. It's just an enjoyable vehicle to get down the road in. And you have a lot of great features as far as your safety features go. We've talked enough about that not to bring that up and tell you what all of those are again, but I really have to say I'm impressed here. If I was in the market for something along these lines, this would definitely be a good vehicle. Would it be nice to have the latest infotainment screen and all that stuff from GMC? Well, sure it would, but some people are going to come into a vehicle like this, maybe having never had this kind of technology before and say to themselves, wow, this is perfect. It's not too much. It doesn't seem overly complicated. Not a big deal. If you're that person, this is a good vehicle for you because there's a nice amount of technology here, but not so much that it's overwhelming. That's probably the best way I could put that. So overall, a really enjoyable vehicle to drive in a multitude of ways. It has a reasonable amount of cargo space. I'm comfortable as the driver. I don't feel cramped. It's very easy to get things set correctly between the power driver's seat and the manually adjustable steering wheel, tilt and telescopic adjustability built into it. A really solid vehicle here for what I believe is a phenomenal price. So tell me what you think down in the comments. Do you get a surprising amount of features for the money with this 2023 GMC Terrain SLE? It might be surprising to some people to have seen what is here for the price. I know it may not have the most updated technology and interior look, but we'll see what comes in the future. But for 2023, this is what you get. And it most certainly is a very reasonable price considering some of the pricing on vehicles in this day and age. So I have to say a special thanks to my friends at Morgan Buick GMC for loaning me this model for the day and a special thanks to each and every one of you for being kind enough to give me the opportunity to give you a vision for your next vehicle. If you enjoyed this video and would like to know about or learn about other vehicles you may wish to consider purchasing, check out the video that's on the screen right now and I will see you there.