Skyscraper: Iram Ochoa's 2015 GMC Sierra 2500 Denali HD

Vehicle Features Micky Slinger. Photos by Roman Salinas

New Mexico's Mobile Luxury Tower.

A skyline is sometimes all you need to identify a city. For example, New York’s Empire State Building or Toronto’s CN Tower are famous and timeless identifiers of their respective locations.

Weirdly, there’s a strange happening in New Mexico these days, as there’s a new addition to the skyline, but it keeps moving around the Hobbs area. After some investigating, we managed to track down its owner and brought him in for questioning. It turns out the traveling tower is, in fact, Iram Ochoa’s lifted GMC Sierra Denali HD. To be fair, anyone could have made the mistake.

If you’re into lifted trucks repping some serious wheel hardware, you’ll know of this Sierra. You’ve probably seen it plastered all over the various truck pages you follow on Instagram. Ochoa’s online alter ego on Instagram has amassed over 65,000 followers. Come for the awesome truck, stay for the hilarious commentary and pictures.

“It’s a clean build,” explains Ochoa. “For this reason, it attracts people that own lifted trucks, and also those that don’t. When that’s the case, you end up with many admirers because it can fit into any demographic.”

As most of you know, when a GMC gets a “Denali” badge, that truck essentially becomes a Cadillac – leather-trimmed everything, the latest tech and multimedia and some power to back it all up. The 1500 model is nicely equipped and very popular (over a million sold since 2000), but Ochoa, a seasoned builder of F250s, had to go for the 2500 model with the 6.6L Duramax V8 turbo-diesel under the hood. Paired with a fully locking rear diff for on-the-go off-roading if needed, and an exhaust brake system that uses the engine compression to create negative torque in order to slow the Sierra, it’s the complete package of luxury and performance.

Stay tuned for the full story, or pick up the issue on newsstands in December - PASMAG Tuning Essentials: Trucks, 3rd Edition, also available online at www.pasmag.com/backissues.

Contributor: Roman Salinas

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