Tech and Safety Features of the 2025 GMC Terrain That Will Make Winter Driving Easier

Winters in Illinois are nothing to take lightly, especially when picking out your vehicle. A well-designed vehicle makes the difference between controlled, smooth winter rides and scary, unpredictable ones. Snow and rain can hit the northern region of the state pretty hard, and it’s important that your vehicle is equipped to handle it. So, if you’re interested in a compact SUV for your next buy, we recommend checking out the 2025 GMC Terrain.

As a Buick GMC dealer near Naperville, we know how the roads can get in the area during winter, and we’re impressed with how the features in the 2025 Terrain will help you be a safer driver when the roads get wet and slippery. Below, we’ll cover standard and available technology and safety features that will make winter driving more bearable by helping you better monitor the roads and even by automating some winter driving tasks. Let’s take a look!

A Huge Touchscreen With a Google Interface

Every 2025 Terrain has a 15-inch infotainment screen standard that comes with a Google-based interface. So, why do we love this for winter driving? For starters, having Google allows you to handle tons of important tasks, hands-free. These include sending text messages, so if you need to message a client or friend to let them know you’ll be running late due to a road closure (common on Route 6 when bad weather hits), you don’t need to take your hands off the wheel to do so. Just use your voice, and Google will handle it for you. Keeping your hands firmly on the wheel on wet or snow-covered roads is crucial because you never know when you’ll hit a slippery batch and need to do some intense, precise steering.

You can also ask Google Assistant questions like “What time will it start raining today?” So you can plan your day and drive around the weather. Plus, you can ask Google Assistant to adjust the cabin temperature, so if you forgot to crank the heat before hitting the road, Google can do it for you. Overdid it? Google can turn it back down. The 15-inch screen can show up to three applications at once, so you can have your turn-by-turn directions, your music streaming app, and the weather app up. This relieves you from having to swipe the screen to see the information you need, which means you can leave those hands firmly on the wheel where they belong.

A Rear Camera Mirror

This great feature is available for the first time on the 2025 Terrain. It turns your rearview mirror into an additional display screen for your rearview camera. So if you prefer to peek up to see what your rearview camera is catching, rather than down at the touchscreen, you can. When bad weather impedes visibility, it’s always helpful to have all the extra eyes you can get on the road. Being able to just glance up at that mirror—which is almost at your eye line—makes it easy to rapidly check on what’s happening behind your vehicle. Of course, when you want to use it to fix your hair or check your teeth (c’mon, we all do it), you can switch it back to regular mirror mode.

An HD Surround Vision Camera

The improved monitoring doesn’t stop at the rear camera mirror. The 2025 Terrain has an available HD Surround Vision camera. This camera system boasts up to eight camera views, helping you thoroughly monitor your surroundings. Need extra assistance looking out for kids playing in the road as you back out of your driveway? Have trouble seeing what’s at the side of your vehicle when changing lanes in severe weather? This camera system can display important camera views on your touchscreen to help you make more informed, safer maneuvers on the road.

A Rear Camera Wash

Did your SUV kick up a lot of dirt and snow during your commute to work? Not a problem. The available Rear Camera Wash feature can quickly clean up your rear camera to provide you with a crisp, clear view of what’s happening behind your vehicle again. How often have you driven off only to realize the footage from your rear camera is completely obscured by dirt and debris? Once you’re on the road, it’s hard to find an opportunity to pull over, walk back there, and wipe it off (plus, it’s a nuisance). So let this handy feature do it for you.

Heated Wiper Park

This is one of those features that will make you feel like you got away with purchasing a luxury vehicle at an affordable price. Heated Wiper Park is an available feature that actually warms your wipers when your vehicle is parked. This prevents them from freezing in place, which is a real risk during the snow season—especially if you have to park outside for any reason. It has the added benefit of melting away ice around the wipers for better visibility (and relieving you of the task of picking that ice away each morning). You don’t even need to turn on the ignition to do it.

Rainsense Wipers

Snow isn’t the only weather you need to worry about in Naperville. Rain days can make it harder to be a safe driver. Luckily, the 2025 GMC Terrain has available Rainsense Wipers. These smart wipers can detect the level of rainfall and automatically adjust the speed to provide proper rain removal. That means you don’t have to manually adjust the speed as the rain lightens up and gets heavier, giving you one less task to distract you from your driving.

To activate Rainsense, move the wiper lever to AUTO. The driver information center will show you that Rainsense has been activated. You can adjust the Rainsense moisture sensitivity by adjusting the sensitivity up or down. Now you’re ready to drive in the rain without worrying about constantly adjusting the wipers.

Find Your 2025 GMC Terrain With Us Today

Ready to get behind the wheel of this winter-ready small SUV? With AWD, great fuel economy, and tons of awesome infotainment features, it’s perfect for getting you around the roads of the upper region of the Prairie State when winter arrives (and all year round). A friendly member of our sales team would love to welcome you to our well-stocked dealership and show you which Terrain trims we have in store. The Terrain is available in a diverse selection of models, and we’d love to put you in the one with the features that matter most to you.

We know what it’s like to handle your daily commute in the winter, and we want to ensure you can do so safely and confidently. The 2025 GMC Terrain is packed with features that are right for wet roads. We didn’t cover all of them today, so visit us, and we’ll take you for a test drive and show you all of the features you still have to discover in the Terrain. Once you’ve found your model, our helpful finance team can put together a lease or loan that complements your budget and lets you drive home in the Terrain today. Come in today and let us help you get behind the wheel of the 2025 GMC Terrain.