\u00b7 Professional writer for more than 35 years, appearing in some of the top publications in Canada and the U.S.\r\n\r\n

\u00b7 Specialties include new-vehicle reviews, old cars and automotive history, automotive news, and \u201cHow It Works\u201d columns that explain vehicle features and technology\r\n\r\n

\u00b7 Member of the Automobile Journalists Association of Canada (AJAC) since 2003; voting member for AJAC Canadian Car of the Year Awards; juror on the Women\u2019s World Car of the Year Awards\r\n\r\n

Education\r\n\r\n

Jil McIntosh graduated from East York Collegiate in Toronto, and then continued her education at the School of Hard Knocks. Her early jobs including driving a taxi in Toronto; and warranty administration in a new-vehicle dealership, where she also held information classes for customers, explaining the inner mechanical workings of vehicles and their features.\r\n\r\n\r\n

Experience\r\n\r\n

Jil McIntosh is a freelance writer who has been writing for Driving.ca since 2016, but she\u2019s been a professional writer starting when most cars still had carburetors. At the age of eleven, she had a story published in the defunct Toronto Telegram newspaper, for which she was paid $25; given the short length of the story and the dollar\u2019s buying power at the time, that might have been the relatively best-paid piece she\u2019s ever written.\r\n\r\n

An old-car enthusiast who owns a 1947 Cadillac and 1949 Studebaker truck, she began her writing career crafting stories for antique-car and hot-rod car club magazines. When the Ontario-based newspaper Old Autos started up in 1987, dedicated to the antique-car hobby, she became a columnist starting with its second issue; the newspaper is still around and she still writes for it. Not long after the Toronto Star launched its Wheels section in 1986 \u2013 the first Canadian newspaper to include an auto section \u2013 she became one of its regular writers. She started out writing feature stories, and then added \u201cnew-vehicle reviewer\u201d to her resume in 1999. She stayed with Wheels, in print and later digital as well, until the publication made a cost-cutting decision to shed its freelance writers. She joined Driving.ca the very next day.\r\n\r\n

In addition to Driving.ca, she writes for industry-focused publications, including Automotive News Canada and Autosphere. Over the years, her automotive work also appeared in such\r\npublications as Cars & Parts, Street Rodder, Canadian Hot Rods, AutoTrader, Sharp, Taxi News, Maclean\u2019s, The Chicago Tribune, Forbes Wheels, Canadian Driver, Sympatico Autos, and Reader\u2019s Digest. Her non-automotive work, covering such topics as travel, food and drink, rural living, fountain pen collecting, and celebrity interviews, has appeared in publications including Harrowsmith, Where New Orleans, Pen World, The Book for Men, Rural Delivery, and Gambit.\r\n\r\n

Major awards won by the author \r\n

2016 AJAC Journalist of the Year; Car Care Canada / CAA Safety Journalism award winner in 2008, 2010, 2012 and 2013, runner-up in 2021; Pirelli Photography Award 2015; Environmental Journalism Award 2019; Technical Writing Award 2020; Vehicle Testing Review award 2020, runner-up in 2022; Feature Story award winner 2020; inducted into the Street Rodding Hall of Fame in 1994.\r\n\r\n

Contact info\r\n

Email: [email protected]\r\n

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jilmcintosh/\r\n

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GMC marks 25 years of Denali with a limited-edition 2025 Yukon

More than a quarter of all GMC buyers in Canada opt for the top Denali or Denali Ultimate trims

Jil McIntosh
Published Dec 19, 2024  •  Last updated Dec 31, 2024  •  2 minute read
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2025 GMC Yukon Denali 25th Anniversary Edition
2025 GMC Yukon Denali 25th Anniversary Edition Photo by General Motors
  • GMC is marking the 25 years of its luxury Denali trim
  • A special 25th Anniversary package will be available on the 2025 GMC Yukon
  • The top trim now accounts for more than 26% of all GMC retail sales in Canada

GMC is marking a quarter-century of its top Denali trim, which first appeared on the 1999 Yukon and is now available on almost all GMC trucks and SUVs. In 2022, the even-higher Denali Ultimate trim was added to the Sierra and Yukon models.

As a commemoration, GMC is offering the 2025 Yukon with a 25th Anniversary Denali Package, including a black mesh grille, black mirror caps and badges, and black 24-inch wheels. The package can be added to the Denali or Denali Ultimate trims, with fewer than 3,000 available globally. These top trims are also sold in markets including Korea, Mexico, and the Middle East; and in 2025, the Yukon Denali will launch in China, Australia, and New Zealand.

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    1999 GMC Yukon XL DenaliPhoto by General Motors
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    1999 GMC Yukon XL DenaliPhoto by General Motors
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    2025 GMC Yukon Denali 25th Anniversary EditionPhoto by General Motors

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In Canada, all of GMC’s vehicles, except the Hummer EV and Savana cargo van, are offered with a Denali trim, including the Sierra 1500, Sierra HD, Sierra EV, and Canyon pickups; and the Terrain, Acadia, Yukon, and Yukon XL. More than 26% of all GMC’s Canadian retail sales in 2024 were Denali trims; and in the U.S., almost one in three retail sales that year were Denali models.

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The name refers to the tallest mountain peak in North America – it’s in Alaska and was previously known as Mount McKinley, named for the 25th president of the U.S. But McKinley never visited the area, and after more than a century of debate about renaming it Denali, an Athabascan name for it, the change became official in 2015. It’s common to find a topography map of the mountain as part of a Denali vehicle’s interior design.

Pricing for the upgraded 2025 Yukon, including the commemorative edition, will be available closer to launch.

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