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April 3, 2008 http://www.thecarconnection.com/fullreview/gmc_sierra-2500hd_2004

  Marc K. Stengel
EditorMarc K. Stengel

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Gosh, they’re big.

The all-American full-size pickup has grown to incredible proportions in the last few years. Even those formidable Japanese upstarts, the Toyota Tundra and Nissan Titan, can’t really hold a candle to the likes of GMC’s Sierra 2500 Heavy-Duty Crew Cab in terms of sheer displacement of space.

The latent sociologist in me wants to find some behavioral trend playing itself out in this evolution of larger and larger trucks. In spite — in defiance, actually — of favorable public reaction to the growing number of “cutemobiles” like the MINI, the Honda Insight, and the Suzuki Aerio, American pickups are bulking up, big time. I’ve got the germ of a suspicion why: America’s big, comfy, fully gadgetized, heavy-hauling pickups are transforming themselves into mobile equivalents of home offices.

Rolling rooms

GMC’s four-door Sierra Crew Cab, with its fancy SLT trim package, is a case in point. Outside is a giant hunk of steel weighing almost three tons and extending over 21 feet long. Inside is a parlor room for five, saturated in leather, telelinked to the universe via OnStar, wired for DVD movies, and cooing with the pleasant Muzak of digital XM Satellite radio.

I’m telling you it’s like an executive office suite in there; and it’s a place where lots of guys who work hard for a living are wanting to spend their most productive hours of the day. While eco-Puritans chide us to pare down to smaller cars, smaller houses, smaller futures, all-American pickup buyers are, arguably, playing their trump cards. They’re combining home and office, work space and playroom, into a single multi-purpose vehicle whose very synthesis may, on balance, be saving more in precious resources like fuel, time and office square footage than it consumes.

GET CURRENT PRICING GET AN INSURANCE QUOTE Gosh, they’re big. The all-American full-size pickup has grown to incredible proportions in the last few years. Even those formidable Japanese upstarts, the Toyota Tundra and Nissan Titan, can’t really hold a candle to the likes of GMC’s Sierra 2500 Heavy-Duty Crew Cab in terms of sheer displacement of space. The latent sociologist in me wants to find some behavioral trend playing itself out in this evolution of larger and larger trucks. In spite — in defiance, actually — of favorable public reaction to the growing number of “cutemobiles” like the MINI, the Honda Insight, and the Suzuki Aerio, American pickups are bulking up, big time. I’ve got the germ of a suspicion why: America’s big, comfy, fully gadgetized, heavy-hauling pickups are transforming themselves into mobile equivalents of home offices. Rolling rooms GMC’s four-door Sierra Crew Cab, with its fancy SLT trim package, is a case in point. Outside is a giant hunk of steel weighing almost three tons and extending over 21 feet long. Inside is a parlor room for five, saturated in leather, telelinked to the universe via OnStar, wired for DVD movies, and cooing with the pleasant Muzak of digital XM Satellite radio. I’m telling you it’s like an executive office suite in there; and it’s a place where lots of guys who work hard for a living are wanting to spend their most productive hours of the day. While eco-Puritans chide us to pare down to smaller cars, smaller houses, smaller futures, all-American pickup buyers are, arguably, playing their trump cards. They’re combining home and office, work space and playroom, into a single multi-purpose vehicle whose very synthesis may, on balance, be saving more in precious resources like fuel, time and office square footage than it consumes. GET CURRENT PRICING GET AN INSURANCE QUOTE Gosh, they’re big. The all-American full-size pickup has grown to incredible proportions in the last few years. Even those formidable Japanese upstarts, the Toyota Tundra and Nissan Titan, can’t really hold a ...