CHEVROLET TAHOE test drive since 2008 SUV

Travel from St. Petersburg to Tahot City

The American car is not just a means of transportation, but a lifestyle and thinking. To understand the real Yankee, Denis Harutyunyan introduced himself to the Buyer of Chevrolet Taho. Photo: Konstantin Yakubov.
The evening promised to be boring and dull: the long-awaited vacation would be about to begin, but I still will not decide where and how to spend it. As if in response to thoughts there was a call from the car dealership invited to pick up my new Chevrolet-Taho car. Decided! I am going on a trip from St. Petersburg, Florida, almost through the whole country to the border of California and Nevada to the second in depth of the American lake, which gave my car name.
I saw him from afar a huge, impressive handsome man, it is precisely such cars that proudly wear a Made in USA label. The closer you come to the car, the more clearly you understand how much it is higher than the petty fuss.
It is worth taking the door handle you forget about the narrowed appraising look, with which the Vein Giant shouted you a huge door opened almost at a right angle, and a wide and comfortable footboard helpfully left from under the threshold. Welcome to America! The wide leather chair took into arms, the right leg cozily pressed against the wide tunnel, but the left fell into the void the platform for it did not warn. It’s hard to twist a large but very thin steering wheel with your hands from habit, and the work of a giant poker of an automatic box requires good physical preparation. Perhaps all this in Europe will be considered by minuses. I, an American, pleased that some of our values \u200b\u200bare immortal.
Florida heat forced to very quickly check the climatic installation in the work. Beyond praise! Well, the Pigzon hatch in the roof immediately closed the opaque curtain and threw this part out of memory.
For the sake of curiosity, I tried the role of a passenger. It is comfortable and spacious here, as in the Chicago Public Library. Convenient buttons on the back of the armrest can be adjusted to the microclimate, turn on the heating and even change the volume of the rear columns of the audio system. Climbing the third row is more difficult, and sitting much less conveniently the pillow is too low, and the space is enough only for the legs of young scouts. I decide to remove excess seats from the trunk to free up more places for luggage. The instruction claims that it is easy to do: you just need to pull the lever and pull out the folded chair by the special handle. However, the design is designed, it seems, for amateurs of body-boiling
I will remember the first meters on Tahot for life! The uterine grumbling of the motor can put up and relax even the most restless salesman, but it is worth clicking on the pedal stronger and the real roar of a strong, confident predator beats in the ears. The considerable size of the car does not create problems either on the wide highway or on city streets. Only at first are the dimensions a little confused a little. Getting in the parking lot or in the garage, the rear parking radars easily help.
As it moves west (the direction shows the compass built into the rear view mirror) through Mississippi and Louisiana, Texas and New Mechico, landscapes outside the window are changing. The destination is getting closer, and I still penetrate the subtleties of the car behavior. With a calm ride, if you almost do not press the gas, even the monotonous rumbling of the motor for the sake of fuel saving, automation turns off half the cylinders. But it is worth even moving the pedal to the hair, the engine seems to wake up, responding with a dissatisfied rash. It will not still be possible to significantly reduce the consumption: even if you go more or less calmly, the car eats 2324 liters per hundred. And without unnecessary electronics, a car, maybe it would cost a couple of hundred dollars cheaper. In the end, it does without a modern sophisticated machine gun. The old four -speed unit does not differ in quickness, but simple and reliable, like the US Constitution. In addition, he has a trailer towing mode activated by pressing the button at the selector end.
In order to stretch the pleasure a little, he decided to drive through Arizona every true American must at least once in his life in the famous Mohava desert and admire the beauty of a large canyon. What a pleasure to notice the fountains of sand with wheels, enjoying the coolness in the cabin when the cruel scorching sun is outside! Get out to look at these landscapes, go there to Tahot. The flow of cross -country ability in sand dunes is more than more than. The channel of the shameful River Colorado is also not an obstacle. You just need to look so that completely large boulders do not come across the wheels.
I turn to the northwest, past Las Vegas to the ultimate goal. And finally, the 191 square kilometer of a majestic lake, which appeared 2.5 million years ago. My car is much younger, but it is thanks to him that my dream came true to get to Lake Tahot on Chevrolet Taho! _X0008_
Chevrolet Tahoe
The model, created on the basis of the Chevrolet-Silverado pickupa, debuted in 1992. The first light saw a version with a three -door body, and since 1995 a five -door appeared. The latest generation tahi started in 2007. Compared to his predecessors, he added in size, received a new motor and a modified pendant, but retained the style of the original American altitude.
Engine: gasoline 5.3 l (325 hp)
Gearbox: automatic 4-speed
Summary: ltzm, ltz2f, ltz2v, ltz3v
The price of basic configurations: 1 746 700 1 858 900 rub. ($ 74 13878 900)
Test car: LTZ3V equipment, options, 1,858,900 rub. ($ 78 900)
+ Spacious salon, decent thrust.
- Wall suspension, sluggish machine.
Chevrolet Tahoe is a lot of space inside, a lot of motor under the hood, a lot of truly American.
From the author
An attempt to introduce himself to the American, in my opinion, is the only way to understand the chevrolet. A sane European will complain about the high fuel consumption and the strange ergonomics of the salon, on enormous size, on the wolf and soft suspension, of course, in Russia there will be fascinated by overseas giant. The heart of the heart is the most uncompromising. But still this car is for another, overseas life. It is unlikely that I would buy it, but I would have gone to Lake Tahot through all America with great pleasure.
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Source: The magazine "Driving"