CHEVROLET TAHOE test drive since 2008 SUV

Thaho-Years ...

If you imagine a scale of car values, then Chevrolet Tahoe could well have been on its upper line: this machine is a maximum of a possible car, which should be taken 100%. Against the backdrop of this megamonste, any other passenger car, regardless of ideology and type of body, will be no more than a share from that whole that is a full -size American SUV. Dimensions, mass, amount of chromium, appetite are the most, most, the most! With regard to Tahoe, the use of these words denoting an excellent degree, the measure is necessary, since the rest, the usual automobile world is limited by the Tahoe maximum bar.
 
Do you say more cars exist and more? I do not agree. Everything that is more, as a rule, goes beyond the concept of a passenger car. This is above the maximum, overflow of the plan. Either almost buses, or almost trucks are known that some SUVs in terms of mass indicators do not even fit into the light category B.

 
Not even a year has passed since the story of Chevrolet Tahoe was published in the wheels. However, not only a year, but also a modeling, and in our hands was completely deservedly, was a renewed car dated 2003 in our hands. External changes, as usual in Americans, are visible mainly under a microscope and are mostly interesting to the true fans of auto-American, which can always distinguish two of the same type of car in appearance in the thickness of a chrome strip on lateral molding. But there are innovations that distinguish an already noticeable SUV from a series of incomparable.
 
But for this you should go to the salon. There is a new central panel with a changed dashboard, multimedia steering wheel and a modernized central console. It is difficult to say what goals the interior designers pursued, but the ergonomics of the driver's place did not actually change. Although it should be recognized that the new steering wheel with the audio control buttons on it looks much more advantageous than the previous steering wheel with a hub and thin knitting needles.
 
And here is what for which it really was worth upgrading the car two round buttons on the driver's door. The boot depicted above them hints, and pressing on them claims to be the thought that it is correctly (!) The pedal node in the car is regulated. It seems and is suspected that such an option appeared thanks to the modest American housewives who, in their desire to drive a large family car, come into conflict with the overall dimensions of their husbands. Let the most regular cook be able to control the state named Tahoe, settling the issue with deeply hidden pedals! By the way, such an option previously appeared on the largest of the chevrolet, which has long been known as Suburban, which is the same Tahoe, but half a meter longer. From there, huge arrows built into the surface of the rear view came and the rear -view mirrors, clearly visible from behind to go.
Here it is: just a few strokes and it is again new. A little more convenient and slightly more original and all the same huge, one hundred percent. Chevrolet, which the language will never turn to call a diminutive Chevy.

  
The car is provided by General Motors CIS.

The article was published in the Wheel Journal No. 5 [68] for May 2003


Text: Kirill Brevdo
Photo: Roman Ostanin
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 

A source: Wheel magazine [No. 68/2003]