CHEVROLET TAHOE test drive since 2008 SUV
The soul is open
This is not GTI, not 16V, not Compressor, and not Turbo, it's a fucking V8! A crisis? Oil does not give a damn, we live for the last time, and I always want to listen to the uterine grumbling of a multi -liter American engine. Yes, this is a dinosaur, but how do you want to believe that he will not die out, keep the American anti -crisis campaign of Barack Nabama, because immigrants from the Black Continent know a lot about the right cars!
Chevrolet Tahoe is certainly cult. From generation to generation, the SUV is definitely recognizable, and it cannot be confused with anything else. Twenty years ago, the ancestors of the recruit looked no less brutal, and God with the fact that with each new generation of Tahoe there are less and less rogue and more and more all -wheel drive universal of an off -road layout. And these are not empty words, during the test we tried to ride along the lanes, and the pleasure is below the average. Three tons of living weight, multiplied by almost easy geometry, not the best cards in this game. It is more correct to give up right away so as not to disgrace and do not lose plastic plumage.
A cute option that extends when opening the doors of the threshold, facilitating the planting and leafing of the SUV. Fortunately, their care for passengers can be turned off with a special button, which is very useful on off -road. But how many Russian winter and snowy-reagent baths will survive all this automation is difficult to say, but most likely, the sills will not die their death either to acidify or hook for an inconspicuous stump when leaving the picnic meadow. In general, it is better without extreme, especially the American track behaves on the road very decent.
The car literally creeps on asphalt, and magnificent sound insulation protects passengers from the outside world. Tahoe does not suffer from excessive vertical buildup, except that a strong cut with a nose is noticeable during braking, but everything is within the framework of decency.
Are we chasing? The dynamics of acceleration does not excite the blood, the declared 325 horses are or ask for additional liters of gasoline and spit on the ecology, or part of the herd remained only on paper but what a deep and all -pervasive sound of the goosebump engine on the skin!
The steering, although with a hint of feedback, does not indulge in the transparency of the information, and all the steep turns passes to the touch, as on a computer simulator. But the suspension perfectly works out both broken asphalt and rocky grader roads. On even suburban highways, the SUV is completely locomotive stability, hundreds of kilometers are quietly wrapped on the odometer counter, and distant runs on Tahoe from monotonous routine go into the category of relaxation and
rest, only do not forget the gasoline. The salon, although spacious, is still rustic. The plastic creaks a little on irregularities, recalling that the SUV is based on an old-free frame structure, which does not allow an acceptable body rigidity of the body. The front panel, at first glance, is made qualitatively, the plastic in the texture resembles soft shabby skin, but in fact it turns out to be rough, like a grinding skin. Of course, it is good when there is something to clean the oxidized contacts, but when you find this deception, the wooden inserts already look unnatural and false.
It’s convenient to get a job behind the wheel, the seats are shapeless, the body occurs and gets tired during long trips. The steering wheel has only a vertical degree of freedom, and the lack of adjustment by departure compensates for the mobile pedal node, but not every person of any physique will be able to choose the necessary combination that ensures the correct landing. With the growth of the driver 190 cm, the rear passenger can forget about the expanse of knees mercilessly rest on the back of the front chair. It seems like a large car, and the place is deficit. On the third row of seats, contrary to skeptical expectations, you can also sit down, and even very comfortable, except for the legs very lifted up. The grasshopper pose does not contribute to prolonged travels, but it would also be unfair to call the nursery gallerine. Yes, and the cup holders here are abundant all the conditions for adults. By the way, in one of the niches for the glass container, crowning the sidewall of the trunk, you can find an inconspicuous icon that says that a jack is hiding under it. A non -miter person without instruction will not guess for anything.
Tahoe developers came up with a funny attraction. Two chairs of the third row can be pulled out and left in the garage, thereby increasing the useful area of \u200b\u200bthe trunk, but perhaps the athlete accustomed to iron exercises can perform this manipulation, the seats are absolutely unbearable! Against this background, electric drives of the second row of seats look very touching. By the way, in the salon of the SUV, I counted as many as five outlets for 12 V. It is noteworthy that in the movement, contrary to the general -automotive customs, the speedometer does not overstate real speed, but, on the contrary, underestimates. If you check with the GPS navigator, when the devices fix the speed of 120 km/h, the real is two kilometers higher.
The quality of the interior has noticeably rose against the background of previous generations of the model and no longer requires turning a blind eye to shortcomings from love for art
The full -sized spare wheel rests under the rear overhang to change it will not get stained
In the XXI century, it seems that everything has already learned to fold the third row of armchairs with a floor, but not!
Compared to the previous Tahoe, a significant step forward is obvious. For all the contrast of the strengths and weaknesses, Tahoe gives the mood, this machine with character, honest and iron. In addition, relatively simple and affordable full -size SUVs in the market every year less and less, and against the background of modern ultra -breed machines, Yankees look very worthy. Especially after leaving the bestseller of the Toyota Land Cruiser 100 segment.
Chevrolet Tahoe
Engine
Type gasoline, V8 working volume, cm3 5328 max. Power, l.? p. at about./min. 325/5200 Max. moment, NM at about./min. 470/4200
Dynamics
Maximum speed, km/h 192 acceleration 0100 km/h, with 9.0
common data
Fuel consumption (funny cycle), l/100 km 1822 volume of the fuel tank, l 98 wheelbase, mm 2946 length, mm 5131 width, mm 2007 height, mm 1953 Equipment weight./Full, kg 2582/3311 Road clearance, Monetors mm 231
Text Alexey Mochalov
Source: Cars
