Is the Yukon Hybrid worth the money?

Question

My husband and I are looking to upgrade our Nissan Xterra. We do work as a carpool for our job (to save money we volunteered) so we constantly have a very tight and packed vehicle. We were looking into getting something bigger and came across the Yukon. It gets great gas mileage both city and highway and it's much more roomier than the vehicle we have now. However I am wondering why it is that the Acadia gets better highway mileage than the Yukon? Anyways what are your opinons?

Answer 1

It will not be worth the price they are asking,plus trade in value will be low,believe me this thing will be a high cost to mantain monster.

Answer 2

i think that car would be a good choice

but i suggest not wasting your money on the hybrid.

it costs more and in the long run won't help you much.

the acadia inside will be more on a smaller scale like your xterra.

so you will want the yukon or yukon xl.

plus they are having great deals on them right now :]

Answer 3

There is about $10,000 difference between the price of the Yukon XL and the Yukon Hybrid.  $10,000 will buy a lot of gasoline.  You got to ask yourself, what is your break even point.  At what point will you save enough money in fuel to pay for this option.  If you do the math, in most cases, this is well over 150,000 miles.

Also, the Yukon XL seats 9, the Yukon Hybrid seats 8.  I thought you were looking for something larger?

Do yourself a little favor.  Calculate the cost of fuel in pennies per mile for a standard Yukon and a hybrid Yukon.  Using this information, you should be able to calculate how may miles you will have to drive until you come out ahead.

Keep in mind that at about 100,000 miles, you may need to replace the battery pack.  This will cost you well over $1000 so you will be behind again.

You may be better off with the Chevrolet Suburban.  They are built on the same platform with identical drive-line components.  Most of the other components are also the same so there is very little difference between them.

Answer 4

The reason the Acadia gets better mileage is that its a car based SUV.  Its lighter and has a smaller engine.  The downside is its limited ability to tow and haul large amounts of weight.

Personally if I wanted the ability to tow I would get a truck based SUV like a Yukon.  The hybrid version does get better mileage than standard truck based SUV's.  Since you do need the room you need a large vehicle.  Nobody else even makes a full size hybrid or a truck based one except Dodge (which uses the same system they co-developed with BMW).

ZCT - What in that class does get good mileage?  Compared to a car no the mileage isn't good.  Compared to a full size SUV yes the mileage is pretty good.  The GMT-900 vehicles are reliable and have pretty nice interiors.  The old GMT-800 ones were reliable too although not as pretty inside.

Answer 5

I think that it would be a huge mistake.

Just because it has 'hybrid' in the name, doesn't make it green.  This gas guzzling monstrosity gets at best 21mpg, probably less in the real world.  That's just not that good.

But even if you can get what you consider reasonable gas mileage, these vehicles depreciate like crazy.  Brand new you can pay upwards of $46,000.  You can expect to lose half of that money inside of three years.  So you save a little on gas, maybe, and then give it all away in appalling depreciation.

The interior is a sea of cheap plastic and poor build quality.  Once the warranty is over you can expect constant and expensive repairs.

Sorry, but I can't see on any level how buying something like this is a sensible investment.  I also can't see how a GMC Yukon would be an upgrade to what you have.

Answer 6

Its a cool truck with lots of technology packed into it.  Is it worth 50 grand, not to me but if you have the money I guess.  The real world mileage is very close to the EPA estimates as mandated for the 2008 model year.  It is the only vehicle of its kind (besides the Tahoe, and Escalade hybrids) so that is cool if you like that sort of thing.  As for repairs they have a 5 year 100,000 mile powertrain warranty (just like all the other GM vehicles sold in the last 3 years) the Hybrid parts are also warrantied up to 100,000 miles, maybe beyond I am not truly sure on that.  If you dont need to tow anything the Acadia or Saturn Outlook is probably the better choice. They still seat 8 and have very spacious interiors.  They also get better mileage than the full size hybrids, even more so for 2009 with the addition of the SIDI 3.6L engine.  

Answer 7

I would think YUKON and HYBRID seem oxymoronish honestly.  If you are going to spend that much on an SUV then you may as well go with a new Nissan Hybrid, Honda or Toyota because you know how dependable they are.  

My friends all seem to be buying the new minivans.  The aren't really a minivan at all.  The Dodge or the Chevy Uplander, the Nissan Quest.  They make a minivan look sporty and more like a cross over vehicle.  Cost Less AND get way better gas mileage!