'Vette-powered Escalade or XT5 - Which Is the Future?

Something else new I noticed is that 3.23 is the non NHT ratio for the 8spd and 3.42 is the ratio for NHT.

 

• New, available up-level trailering mirrors with back-up lighting

 

Hmmm what does that mean?

 

 

 

Also, can someone please tell me why the 8 speed is only available in the limited availability 6.2? Why the hell is it not offered in the 5.3? I have been trying to figure this out for quite some time now.

 

I'm not seeing "Rust Resistant Undercarriage " on that list....

 

• New, available up-level trailering mirrors with back-up lighting

Hmmm what does that mean?

 

 

Also, can someone please tell me why the 8 speed is only available in the limited availability 6.2? Why the hell is it not offered in the 5.3? I have been trying to figure this out for quite some time now.

Typical GM thinking

What about keyless entry and push button start? I might have to buy a Ford now!

Call it whatever you want but the 900-series was the exact same way. 6-speed was only on the Denali, then all 6.2s and then standard on all V8s and I think by the end all engines had it. They always stagger rollout of major new stuff.

 

• New, available up-level trailering mirrors with back-up lighting

Hmmm what does that mean?

 

 

Also, can someone please tell me why the 8 speed is only available in the limited availability 6.2? Why the hell is it not offered in the 5.3? I have been trying to figure this out for quite some time now.

 

Probably haven't got enough capacity tooled yet to go across the board.

Probably haven't got enough capacity tooled yet to go across the board.

 

Probably true. Maybe they will offer it 1/2 way through the year.

 

Im not 100% sure buy i think i remember that when they rolled out the 6 speed is was available in the Yukon Denali and Escalade in 09 and then 1/2 way through 09 in the 1/2 tons and Tahoe/Suburbans

I knew I should have waited...Oh well, I am happy with what I have.

 

Still no HID's? In all the LTZ Tahoe's and SLT Yukon's, what is with that?

Still don't understand why the MyLink system can't be upgraded to the newest firmware. Crazy!! It's just software. I doubt there's a lot of hardware changes other than the 4g cellular from A&T.

I wonder if they still comme standard with vibrations, clunks, black puffs of smoke on start up, loose seats and seat covers, rusty frames and leaking onstar antennas? ....

 

Probably true. Maybe they will offer it 1/2 way through the year.

 

Im not 100% sure buy i think i remember that when they rolled out the 6 speed is was available in the Yukon Denali and Escalade in 09 and then 1/2 way through 09 in the 1/2 tons and Tahoe/Suburbans

 

Thinking it will be the 2016 model year by the time they dwindle the 8 speed down to the 5.3 &/or 4.3. 2009 was the split model year if I remember right between some trucks with the 5.3 to have the 4 or 6 speed?

 

GM is building the trans in house at their Toledo, OH plant. $260 million in plant upgrades just to build the thing & the project was started in 2011.

http://www.toledoblade.com/Automotive/2014/07/08/Toledo-plant-ready-to-roar-into-production.html <~Link 2 month old info.

 

But agree with you in that wish these would have been ready to roll out when the truck was introduced.

I wonder if they still comme standard with vibrations, clunks, black puffs of smoke on start up, loose seats and seat covers, rusty frames and leaking onstar antennas? ....

I must have "opted out" of all those standard features!

Call it whatever you want but the 900-series was the exact same way. 6-speed was only on the Denali, then all 6.2s and then standard on all V8s and I think by the end all engines had it. They always stagger rollout of major new stuff.

 

not the 4.8, it was stuck with the 4L60E until the very bitter end when it along with the 4L60E was dropped for the EcoTec3 Engines.

 

not the 4.8, it was stuck with the 4L60E until the very bitter end when it along with the 4L60E was dropped for the EcoTec3 Engines.

 

Never understood why the 4L60E was retained on the 4.8 at all. GM could have cut their operating costs by not having to maintain two different engine control systems and all the ancillary parts that went along with them had they just dropped the v8 version of 4L60E from truck line.