CHEVROLET TAHOE test drive since 2008 SUV
Old Chevrolet Tahoe received a 6-speed automatic transmission
CHEVROLET TAHOE update affected the suspension, gearbox and front panel. But this is the previous Tahoe, capable of smoke from the exhaust pipe to tighten the small city and suck the entire local reserve of 92nd gasoline ...
Men hate trips to the store, if this is not a shop of spare parts, hunting supplies or sports goods. Two to three hours spent in Auchan, Ikea or the Children's World are equated with a male body by one year in the army or three years in alternative service. A man wants to sit at home on a cozy couch or perform exploits in the fresh air, demonstrate decisiveness and physical strength to the beautiful floor, and there are many strangers who have their own views on life, and therefore some garbage can begin at any moment. In addition, it was better to spend such a mediocre time on my favorite book, cinema, sleep, food and sex. Hence the discomfort, turning into a fine trembling that develops into a panic and ends with carefully hidden rabies.
Design.
Perhaps, from this angle, the view is the most successful. Boast of lying down!
The passages of suspensions are very solid. To hang out the rear wheel, you have to try hard
Around this state, once I walked along the garden megamarket and irritably kicked my legs suspended hammocks, when the seller suddenly grew up in front of me and said: do not even look at these! Come on, I'll show you. And he led me to the Hamak hybrid with swings on the iron frame. You do not want to get up from him, he smiled and disappeared. I plunged into this huge rookery and relaxed a minute later. The seller turned out to be right: if that was worth the attention, it was this design. Since then, when I come to OBI, I immediately go to the familiar place, I fit into my favorite hammock and tell the companion: come after me when you go across the store. Swaying, I lose the feeling of time. What a magical relaxor! But I can’t buy it not to fit into the apartment.
Geometry.
There is nothing to do with such overhangs on off -road
Wandering the human carcass
Now you understand why I was so delighted with a meeting with the new Chevrolet Tahoe? This is a square in a square. Giant Gamak on wheels with a motor! It does not need to be dragged into your room. Anticipating the pleasure of the trip, I sat down and ... the pleasure did not last long. Until the first intersection, where I was cut by some small Mitsubishi, then the feminine Toyota was injured and humiliated Renault Sandero. Each time, saving the skin of these upstarts, I slowed down on the floor and was served with the case back and forth. No matter how cool the new Tahoe double -mode suspension is designed to combat the rolls, it does not save from the city chatter. So far, only the Germans have learned to minimize an attraction called the wandering of the human carcass inside a heavy SUV.
The overall impression of the interior decoration is positive. There is little left to catch up with Europe
Akhokherkhkhny automatic transmissions. The fixation mechanism is extremely uncomfortable you often fly past the right transmission
Front console. Because of the desire to climb into premium killed ergonomics
Devices have a small digitization. Bad for the eyes
What then can American engineers boast? I would praise the Americans for the new quality of finishing materials. Sitting in this car, you can’t say contemptuously: America that you wanted, besides, they finally realized that the four -speed gearbox is no longer fashionable. And in the new Chevrolet Tahoe there is a six -speed machine. As a result, one hundred kilometers of the journey, the SUV eats per liter of fuel less than about 18 liters. Acceleration remained at the same level nine seconds to hundreds, which is pretty good even without taking into account the total mass of the car.
Finishing materials are more or less combined with each other
You can go to work, there are no mushrooms
Having traveled a little, I realized that comparing a novelty with prerestyled Tahoe is not too exciting. There are no more changes in it except the above. Well, perhaps the headlights are made according to the European standard. The timid American bunch of light finally went into oblivion. They added multimedia entertainment for the rear passengers, the ventilation of the seats, the optional rear view chamber and the lateral airbags. All.
Second row.
Spacious, like on a football field
The third row.
Passenger's knees almost at chest level
Therefore, I went to the owner of the Tahoe of an even later generation in order to truly feel progress. My friend is probably the most indicative owner of an American SUV. He has three children, a huge Townhouse, he himself is the size of a small elephant and the coincidence was just thinking of buying himself a new Chevrolet. The first thing he noticed when it sat inside: in the car there was less space both above his head and side. This is due to sound insulation and safety. The doors are now thicker, the ceiling hangs when we drove into the field, he noted that the suspension became noticeably tougher, because of which comfort on the bumps disappeared, and in the end, when we moved in the rut, he was very surprised at the inadmissible low front bumper. I doubt now, he annoyed. You can go to work, but not for mushrooms. I will add from myself that I was very disappointed with a new front panel. In the old Tahoe, she is quite ergonomic. Management of all functions is concentrated in the very top, which is extremely convenient for the eyes and hands. All the buttons were dumped in the novelty to make it like premium. More precisely, they took from the European premium all the worst that could only be.
Luggage compartment. As always, an insoluble question: a place or a seat?
Not embarrassed. According to the old American tradition, the dwelling of the engine is spacious
When we said goodbye to my friend, he looked sadly at the car and dropped it: spoiled the car. But there are still no options. We'll have to take it. Wait, but what about mushrooms, forest and all that? I could not resist. It seems that it is necessary to reanimate his father’s loaf, he answered without a shadow of embarrassment. If a Chevrolet fan believes that two million two hundred thousand more to find anything else, then General Motors should pray for their customers.
Caution, technical details
Changes in the updated classic SUV affected primarily transmission. Which, in the spirit of the traditions of GM, is simply very updated old, known since the 70s of the last century, the former once three-stage Th350.
The military unit used on army light trucks received electronic control and fourth gear in the 90s. And then, finally, in the second decade of the 21st century, there were six programs. When competitors are already thinking about eight. But, on the other hand, the trump card of the time -tested unit is its reliability and the ability to transfer the huge torque of the Vortec 470 Nm engine.
New 20-inch discs will improve the steering reactions, and the Autoride double-mode adaptive suspension, which works in real time, provides very high smoothness and significantly reduces the body rolls.
Author: Dmitry Leontyev, photo of Alexander Ortnova-Baranov
Source: Magazine 4x4 [February /2012]
