The GMC Yukon attracts buyers with its large stature, spacious interior, powerful available engines and high payload and towing capacity. This formula has made every iteration of the Yukon a hit with consumers, but what would happen if General Motors reimagined the vehicle as a low slung full-size luxury sedan?
Australian automotive insurance company Budget Direct recently tried its hand at redesigning several SUVs and crossovers as small sedans. The 2021 GMC Yukon was among the vehicles it attempted to convert into a four-door and surprisingly, the Yukon wears its new sedan digs rather well.
This rendering retains the GMC Yukon’s front grille and headlight design, although both have been fiddled with to properly fit the sedan’s horizontally oriented front fascia. Moving down the side of the vehicle, the Yukon’s straight, simple body lines also remain, as does the general shape of the greenhouse. Where this fictitious Yukon sedan really sets itself apart is from the c-pillar backward, where the roof curves down to form an almost fastback-like contour. Budget Direct says the sedan has the aura of a Chrysler 300, which we can sort of see, but we actually think this GMC sedan is unique in its design.
Sharp-eyed readers may also notice that this rendering is based on the 2021 GMC Yukon Denali trim, which comes with a chrome mesh grille, additional chrome trim and ornate wheel designs, among more.
“Our GMC Yukon sedan exudes a strong sense of solidity,” the company said in a blog post. “It has a long and sculpted hood, a long wheelbase, and a shorter front overhang – all the qualities of a Rolls-Royce. It looks as robust as an SUV and yet as stately as a proper limousine.”
We’d have to agree that this sedan has stately qualities. It almost reminds us of official state cars like the Toyota Century Royal used by Japan’s imperial family or the Chinese government’s Hongqi L5 sedan. We can’t imagine the United States will be putting such a vehicle into service any time soon, though. After all, President Trump seems very pleased with his Cadillac limousine, which is colloquially known as ‘The Beast’.
Our sister site, Ford Authority also covered a similar rendering of a Ford Explorer sedan this week. Call us biased, but we think the GMC Yukon looks much better as a sedan than the Explorer does, but we’ll leave it up to readers to decide for themselves.
There’s really no chance of GMC ever producing a sedan like this (it is a truck, crossover and SUV brand, after all) but we can appreciate this fun little styling exercise for what it is. Let us know if this rendering is a hit or a miss in the comments below.
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Comments
Well, that’s terrible.
Take that grill away and give it one to fit the car and I like that.
🥴🤢🤮
Who put a GMC grill on a old DTS?
The Cadillac CT6 should have been the tall, head-of-state-proportioned car you referred to. Instead, they made it too low to the ground for people who also own C/SUVs to find comfortable or safe. And it lost the chauffeur-driven look that appeals to rich Chinese. But they wanted to out-BMW BMW when they should have out-classed the S Class.
I would like to see a large American sedan with a formal-ish roofline and a big trunk, but not this one.
Should have kept the Impala. This is not a suv look. Raise the Impala call it the
Impala vee. Great car just give it the bells and whistles and a reasonable price.
CT6 was and still is a stately and handsome car with presence. The way it was handled by GM and Cadillac unfortunately has soured its perception in the marketplace.
Except for the front end, this could have been a vintage 1970’s product from American Motors. (Remember them??)
This would have possibilities if it was a Buick Enclave or Envision which could then sold in China; but because it’s a GMC, it’s essentially DOA.
GMC: Gay Mans Chevy
Gets More C*ck
Jealous much?
I love it!
“….. a strong sense of solidity”.
Ya think?
Cinder Block comes to mind. Which is what I thought when I saw the original Chrysler 300 for the first time.
Looks like a bad copy of the “Toyota Century GRMN” Sedan.
If it was a big RWD Buick Sedan I’m certain its old time buyers would definitely take notice!
Ya. Both of them
No
(GMC truck as a sedan.) ….make it a wagon.
They could screw on a Toyota Grill and it would still be a nice car. But that is from a car guy.
Nope…..That’s not working!!!!
I’d buy one in a heartbeat ! It looks like my old Town Car. I really miss them.
It looks like, if you bred a dachshund and a pitbull!
Just strange looking!
Why…..
Build it .. in America….Love a large car.