What is the best sled to take over the hill and through the woods to grandma\u2019s house this holiday season?<\/p>\n
My family and I spent the Thanksgiving holiday putting three top-drawer utes to the test around Metro Detroit to determine what mattered most to five people stuffed into three-row transportation. Our sleds were a similarly equipped lot from three very different brands: a $73,040\u00a0Cadillac XT6, a $78,235 Dodge Durango SRT, and $112,245\u00a0BMW X750i.<\/p>\n
All three have outsized personalities and wave their brand flags\u00a0\u2014\u00a0from the sculpted Cadillac\u00a0to the Hellcat-wannabe Durango to the ridiculously posh Bimmer. But all also satisfied my family\u2019s basic needs: Three rows with second-row captain\u2019s chairs, so everyone had their space. State-of-the-art technology for my 20-something sons and daughter-in-law. All-wheel drive, two-zone climate control and heated seats for my wife who fears a Michigan blizzard might attack at any moment. And finally,\u00a0V-6\/V-8 powerplants to scratch the itchy right feet of the Payne motorheads.<\/p>\n
In this Age of Ute, we put these well-dressed hunks to the test across freezing tundra and cratered Michigan roads to determine what matters most in an SUV \u2014\u00a0personality or utility.<\/p>\n