The 2022 GMC Yukon and Yukon XL add one new exterior color to their color palette called Redwood Metallic. Here’s our first look at the new hue.
Assigned RPO code G48 and touch-up paint code WA-613G, Redwood Metallic is one of nine exterior colors offered on the full-size SUV, which include:
- Cayenne Red Tintcoat
- Hunter Metallic
- Midnight Blue Metallic
- Onyx Black
- Pearl Beige Metallic
- Satin Steel Metallic
- Summit White
- White Frost Tricoat
- Redwood Metallic (new for 2022)
The Redwood Metallic color is an extra-cost item that adds an additional $495 to the SUV’s price. The new hue can be combined with all five interior colorways:
- Brownstone/Jet Black
- Dark Walnut/Slate
- Dark Walnut/Very Dark Ash Gray
- Jet Black
- Teak/Light Shale
The GMC Yukon received a comprehensive redesign for the 2021 model year and, as such, GM has only applied very minor changes to the popular full-size SUV for 2022. More specifically, the 2022 GMC Yukon introduces standard Lane Keep Assist with Lane Departure Warning while adding a new standard 12-inch digital driver information cluster, otherwise known as the gauge cluster. GM has also made the 6.2L L87 V8 gasoline engine available in the off-road focused AT4 trim level for 2022. For the 2021 model year, the GMC Yukon AT4 trim was only available to order with the 5.3L L84 V8 gasoline engine.
The L87 is the most powerful engine available for the GMC Yukon, producing 420 horsepower and 460 pound-feet of torque. The L84, by comparison, is rated at 355 horsepower and 383 pound-feet of torque. The 3.0L LM2 I6 turbo-diesel Duramax engine will return for the 2022 model year as well and will continue to produce 277 horsepower and 460 pound-feet of torque.
All three available engines in the 2022 GMC Yukon pair with a GM 10-speed automatic transmission and standard rear-wheel-drive. Four-wheel-drive is also available for a price premium, although it comes standard on AT4 models.
The 2022 GMC Yukon is produced at the GM Arlington Assembly plant in Texas.
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Comments
This isn’t a first look. This is an 80% accurate render of the colour. Why not go to a dealership take some actual first look pictures.
Considering inventory is nil at all dealerships you got a matter of hours between the unloading out back and the dude that put down a deposit 6 months ago driving it home to snap a picture. Everybody is buying off website renderings and hope that don’t turn out ugly
This laziness stems from before supply constraints and low inventories.
Oh give it a rest already Andrew. Your comments seldom offer any value yet you critique everything GMA do. GMA gives us the news and the details and often go above and beyond. Drop the ‘tude and go for a drive… or get laid.
Most of the new colors are shown as renderings. I was interested in the Titanium Rush Metallic and the renderings only show it to be slightly different than Onyx but still “black”. A dealer 70 miles away showed one in transit and I asked them to let me know when it came in. I was only interested in the color and thought the truck might stay on the lot for a couple of weeks (2.7 T, plain). To my surprise the dealer did call and let me know the day the truck arrived and I went the next morning.
I won’t order a new vehicle without seeing the color in person – even photos of live vehicles don’t really show the color nearly as well (or true) as in-person viewing. So the “black looking” Titanium Rush Metallic really does look dark, blackish even, when not in direct light. In the direct light it looks purple – and not even a particularly dark purple. Four of us looked at it, two didn’t like it, two were ambivalent, and all agreed it was purple in direct light.
My advice is see the color on a vehicle before ordering.
Another Peeling Paint Color…
Just add it to the Class Action Lawsuit.
If you want paint that doesn’t Peel, buy a real car.
Believe I saw that or an extremely similar color on a Vette. Color is subjective, but it looked amazing.