As the old saying goes, sometimes you’re stuck between a rock and a hard place. The newly revealed GMC Granite Concept is the rock.

It has this bulldog aura to it with wheels at the corners and a very short nose. Just like a bulldog, the Granite concept car is very attractive in an ugly sort of way. It seems as though the entire design is comprised of air vents and sharp lines. Be that as it may, I’m not complaining.

The Granite looks strong and very imposing, something that GMC cars always should have been. Every angle that this car is shown from looks stronger than the next. From the front, you can’t see the very sharp character line that drops to create an air vent right before the front wheels

The Granite concept follows the same design principles that have been around with all of GMC’s other concept cars including the sharp lines, big air intakes, sharp lines, and excessive uses of gray paint.

The interior of the Granite is typical concept car fare, but this doesn’t stop it from being beautiful. I can’t count how many concept car I’ve seen with orange seats. However the shiny buttons, futuristic gauges, and unconventional design of the dash are all beautiful in their own right and work very well with the overall look of the car.

What is troubling about this concept and all of its great, if not excessive design features is that we may never see them on production models from GMC. Based on past concepts, especially the gorgeous Denali XT concept from 2008, design features that are applauded for ingenuity and aesthetic tend to not show up on any GMC models.

The Granite concept does take many of its design cues from the Denali XT concept that preceded it as well as the Graphyte concept that came before that.

TheCD’s take: We hope to find this concept in production form and on GMC show floors very soon.