Received a 2017 Yukon XL from Hertz over the weekend, reserved a full size sedan and they had this to give me. It was a silver SLT model with 27,000 miles. This was a massive vehicle, the size was intimidating at first. The outside design was nice, definitely looks best from the front. The interior is what really surprised me. Full black leather and it was loaded. The drivers seat was extremely comfortable and I really liked the dash. There were physical gauges for most functions and the touch screen was really nice. Also appreciated was blind spot monitoring and lane keep assist. The one unique thing was a column shifter when most are going to knobs or buttons, was nice to see a good old fashioned column shifter still in use! The stereo sounded great and the Apple CarPlay integration was fantastic, worked perfectly.
Driving impressions were great, it felt a lot smaller than it really was and was very easy to drive. Wind/road noise was at a minimum, the ride was absolutely incredible very smooth and compliant. If I had to have any gripe about the way it drove it would be the 8 speed transmission, on light throttle acceleration it seemed to almost hesitate before going. Give it a little gas and it would go with no hesitation. On the highway at 75mph there weren't too many times the cylinder deactivation would kick in, and to be honest if it weren't for the dash indicator I would have never known it was there it was so smooth. Cargo room and a power folding third row was great as we had a lot of stuff to bring home. I was never without plenty of power on hand, there were a couple times when I needed to get 3 lanes over to get to a left hand exit around St Louis and this vehicle has no problem at all speeding up to get over....very impressive and when you can actually hear the engine in the otherwise quiet cabin it has a great sound to it!
After 443 mostly highway miles, this vehicle returned an extremely respectable 22.5mpg average....not far off from my Honda Odyssey! This was a difficult vehicle to return, I really enjoyed driving it, the ride was great and the versatility....the only thing keeping me from buying one would be the price. I would presume this vehicle new would be in the $60,000 range and close to 50K on the used market.
Driving impressions were great, it felt a lot smaller than it really was and was very easy to drive. Wind/road noise was at a minimum, the ride was absolutely incredible very smooth and compliant. If I had to have any gripe about the way it drove it would be the 8 speed transmission, on light throttle acceleration it seemed to almost hesitate before going. Give it a little gas and it would go with no hesitation. On the highway at 75mph there weren't too many times the cylinder deactivation would kick in, and to be honest if it weren't for the dash indicator I would have never known it was there it was so smooth. Cargo room and a power folding third row was great as we had a lot of stuff to bring home. I was never without plenty of power on hand, there were a couple times when I needed to get 3 lanes over to get to a left hand exit around St Louis and this vehicle has no problem at all speeding up to get over....very impressive and when you can actually hear the engine in the otherwise quiet cabin it has a great sound to it!
After 443 mostly highway miles, this vehicle returned an extremely respectable 22.5mpg average....not far off from my Honda Odyssey! This was a difficult vehicle to return, I really enjoyed driving it, the ride was great and the versatility....the only thing keeping me from buying one would be the price. I would presume this vehicle new would be in the $60,000 range and close to 50K on the used market.