The 12-way power adjustable front seats feature heating and ventilation, and the Denali comes with a heated steering wheel, perforated premium leather with contrast stitching, real brushed aluminum cabin trim, a soft-touch dashboard, and a Bose premium sound system. Prices range from $28,910 to as much as $66,500, and that’s before adding any dealer-installed accessories.ĭenali models are equipped with fancy styling details ,including a special grille design, body color bumpers, front and rear parking assist sensors, 20-inch aluminum wheels, and a spray-on bed liner. The new Denali Ultimate is actually an option package for the standard Denali. The basic version is simply known as Sierra, and from there you can upgrade to SLE, SLT, and Denali trim. Not all cabs and beds are offered with one another, so set your priority to carrying people or carrying payload, and then proceed.Īfter that, you can decide on a trim level. When you buy a 2016 GMC Sierra 1500, you decide whether you want a regular, double, or crew cab style and a short, standard, or long cargo bed. Notably, 51 percent of the parts are sourced from Mexico, where this truck is built in Silao in order to take maximum advantage of how great America already is. The price came to $61,140, pushed over the $60,000 mark by a destination charge of $1,195. In fact, Denali has become so successful that in November of 2015, GMC announced a new Denali Ultimate version of the Sierra 1500, one boasting even more standard equipment and an even higher price tag.įor this review, we sampled the standard Sierra 1500 Denali, a chromed-up, crew cab, short box model with 4-wheel drive, a 6.2-liter V8 engine, Iridium Metallic paint, a Jet Black leather interior, and several options. At GMC, “Denali” is used to connote luxury, the name taken from the highest and recently renamed mountain peak in North America.Īccording to GMC’s data, the premium truck segment has grown ten times larger today than it was in 2013, and 25 percent of all GMC models sold carry the Denali designation. With the Cadillac discontinued (the woefully misguided Lincoln rightly lasted no more than a season), fanciful trim levels now denote premium trucks. Heck, back in the early 2000s, before the Great Recession, both Cadillac and Lincoln got into the pickup truck game, offering equity-rich homeowners the Escalade EXT and the Blackwood. When Americans are feeling good about their economic fortunes, truck makers load up on leather and chrome. Prosperous times produce luxurious pickup trucks. 2016 GMC Sierra Denali 1500 Front Quarter Mountain