{"id":36099,"date":"2026-04-30T09:20:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T13:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/?p=36099"},"modified":"2026-04-30T09:20:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T13:20:54","slug":"payne-swank-gmc-acadia-denali-is-a-couple-cylinders-short-of-luxury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/payne-swank-gmc-acadia-denali-is-a-couple-cylinders-short-of-luxury","title":{"rendered":"Payne: Swank GMC Acadia Denali is a couple cylinders short of luxury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/gcdn\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2026\/04\/29\/PDTN\/89847980007-gmc-acadia-denali-ultimate-fr-34.jpg?width=660&amp;height=372&amp;fit=crop&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"The 2026 GMC Acadia comes standard in front-wheel-drive, then can be optioned with AWD in models like the Denali Ultimate and AT4.\" width=\"523\" height=\"295\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"gnt_pg_img_cap\"><em>The 2026 GMC Acadia comes standard in front-wheel-drive, then can be optioned with AWD in models like the Denali Ultimate and AT4.<\/em><\/div>\n<p><em>Henry Payne, The Detroit News<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><em>Romulus<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 With the I-94 interchange underwater, I exited Detroit Metro Airport and waded through the flood waters in my 2026 GMC Acadia Denalia. With a GMC truck-like 7.3 inches of ground clearance and all-wheel drive, the big three-ton, three-row ute shrugged off the hazard while smaller cars turned around.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">After churning through the Strait of Romulus unscathed, I scaled the on-ramp to I-94 East. Before activating hands-free Super Cruise for my ride into Detroit, I floored the throttle to merge into traffic. GROOOOOAN! droned the four-cylinder engine with a compact car-like note that sounded like the small sedans I had left behind.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The handsome, high-tech, roomy, rugged Acadia is a welcome injection of luxurious GMC cred into the three-row SUV segment, but for one flaw.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">It lacks a V-6 or V-8 engine that GMC cred demands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">GMC has become a sales juggernaut in a portfolio hampered by upscale Cadillac and Buick premium brands that carry a lot of baggage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/business\/autos\/2026\/04\/30\/review-swank-gmc-acadia-denali-is-a-couple-cylinders-short-of-luxury\/89836972007\/\">Read full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2026 GMC Acadia comes standard in front-wheel-drive, then can be optioned with AWD in models like the Denali Ultimate and AT4. Henry Payne, The Detroit News Romulus\u00a0\u2014 With the I-94 interchange underwater, I exited Detroit Metro Airport and waded through the flood waters in my 2026 GMC Acadia Denalia. With a GMC truck-like 7.3 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,87],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36099"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36100,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36099\/revisions\/36100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}