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For Release: Sunday, Jan. 8, 2017, 7 p.m. EDT

2018 GMC Terrain Safety Feature Facts

Overview

The 2018 GMC Terrain offers a suite of active safety technologies and adaptive crash-avoidance features that help provide more peace of mind on the road, for adults as well as new teen drivers. They are built into a new, stronger and more rigid body structure that also helps contribute to occupant safety.

Body structure

All of the new Terrain’s crash-avoiding and passenger-protecting technologies are built into a stronger body structure that incorporates high-strength steel in key areas to help prevent intrusion into the passenger compartment. Additionally, the front suspension cradle is hard-mounted to the body structure at six points, enabling better front end crash energy management across a wide spectrum of impact severities. It features a two-stage release strategy that allows the middle and rear mounts to disengage separately depending on the crash situation. This design is key to help preserve the integrity of the occupants’ safety cage during collisions.

Active safety features

Available advanced active safety features to enhance driver awareness on the road include radar- and camera-based adaptive technologies that can provide alerts or warnings to potential threats, allowing the driver to react and make changes to possibly avoid them, including:

• New Safety Alert Seat*

• New Surround Vision

• New Forward Collision Alert with Following Distance Indicator

• New Low-Speed Forward Automatic Braking

• New Lane Keep Assist with Lane Departure Warning

• New IntelliBeam high-beam headlamp control

• Lane Change Alert with Side Blind Zone Alert*

• Rear Cross Traffic Alert*

• Rear Park Assist*

• Rear-vision camera system is standard on models not equipped with available Surround Vision.

* (standard on Denali)

Passive safety features

• Six standard air bags, including frontal driver and passenger air bags, roof rail-mounted head curtain side air bags that help protect the front and outboard rear seating positions; and front-seat-mounted side-impact air bags

• Front passenger seat occupant sensing system

• Rollover sensing and protection system

• Collapsible pedal assembly to help protect against lower-extremity injuries

• Three-point safety belts in all five seating positions

• Safety belt retractor pretensioners and lap pretensioners in the driver- and front-passenger positions

• Front safety belt load limiters

• LATCH child seat latching system in the rear seat

• Tire pressure monitoring system

• Daytime running lamps

Teen Driver

• Standard on all models

• Allows parents to set certain vehicle controls and review an in-vehicle report card with teens, helping to encourage better driving habits[1]

GMC has manufactured trucks since 1902, with innovation and engineering excellence built into all GMC vehicles. The brand is evolving to offer more fuel-efficient trucks and crossovers, including the Terrain small SUV and Acadia crossover. GMC’s highest-volume vehicle, the Sierra pickup, is the most powerful light-duty pickup on the market, and the first full-size pickup to receive the highest-possible five-star Overall Vehicle Score for safety since the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration changed its New Car Assessment Program for the 2011 model year. Details on all GMC models are available at , on Twitter at @thisisgmc or at .

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CONTACT:

Megan Soule

GMC Communications

313-495-1297

megan.soule@

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[1] Safety features are no substitute for the driver’s responsibility to operate the vehicle in a safe manner. The driver should remain attentive to traffic, surroundings and road conditions at all times. Read the vehicle’s owner’s manual for important feature limitations and information.

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