GMC Acadia – First Drive: It provides the United States' first glorious glimpse of the sun each day between October and March, it boasts the natural wonder of Cadillac Mountain, and it calls the majestic rocky shores of Maine home. Acadia National Park offers beauty, ruggedness, and countless opportunities for enjoyment. Maybe that's why GMC decided to adorn its first crossover with the Acadia name. GMC pays homage to nature with its own mobile park, one displaying attractive style, capable and versatile utility, and a heritage of durability that brings all that life has to offer available to the active family. Leave it to a truck company to unleash one of the better non-truck crossovers the market has seen recently.

If the 2007 GMC Acadia looks vaguely familiar, it's because it shares its GM Lambda underpinnings with the recently launched Saturn Outlook and upcoming Buick Enclave. Sales of the General's minivans (Chevrolet Uplander, Saturn Relay, and others) never amounted to much thanks to competition like the Honda Odyssey and Toyota Sienna, so they've been replaced by this new breed of large crossover vehicles. Blending the style of an SUV with the functionality of a minivan, the GMC Acadia and its brethren aim to attract new buyers wanting utility without the minivan's stigma or thirsty reputation of large SUVs.

For cost-conscious shoppers interested in the style and utility of the all-new 2007 Acadia, GMC offers the SLE. Priced at $29,960 for front drive and $31,990 for awd (including a $735 destination charge), the Acadia SLE comes well-equipped with front-side and side-curtain airbags, air conditioning that includes second row controls, and the usual array of basic power features. In addition, GMC provides SLE buyers with one year of complementary OnStar service featuring turn-by-turn navigation, a CD/MP3 player, heated mirrors, 18-inch wheels rolling on 255/65 Goodyear Fortera tires, a tilt and telescoping steering wheel, and standard tire pressure monitoring, stability control, and traction control systems (the latter only on awd models).

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