But at 18-and-a-half feet long, it's not compact, only less massive. Antilock brakes and side-impact airbags are standard. Chevrolet Tahoe is the perfect-size sport-utility for many people. The Tahoes cargo volume is 105 cubic feet with the middle and rear seats removed, but cargo space drops to 16 cubic feet with the optional rear seat in place. You do not acquire ownership rights to any content, document or other materials viewed through the site.
Some product and company names mentioned on this site may be trademarks of their respective owners. All models continue to feature Tahoes dependable truck chassis with a premium ride. The flying buttresses at the rear of the cabin add even more strength to the body structure. During our drive on a variety of surfaces, it felt rock solid. Or you can open the entire rear of the cabin by removing the glass and folding the Midgate. Vehicle Overview Based on the Silverado pickup truck, Chevrolets full-size Tahoe is the less-gargantuan kid brother of the king-size Suburban. Pulling a trailer is no problem, yet the Tahoe is far more maneuverable than a Suburban, and that's important in crowded parking lots, underground garages, or when parallel parking.
The Midgate is hinged on its bottom edge so it can be opened like a trap door between the cabin and the bed. Homelink enables programming of three separate electronic home functions, such as garage doors, gates and exterior house lights. On the road, the Tahoe is smooth and stable, a rock. Interior As many as nine occupants can fit into the Tahoe, when its equipped with the optional three-place rea. The Tahoe stands more than 76 inches tall and measures 78. Chevy also made enough room inside the wide cargo-bed walls for a small, lockable compartment on each side that can be used as ice chests. The seats can be flipped forward and stowed for more cargo room, or they can be individually and easily removed to provide a flat load surface.
It's a clever device that gadget freaks will love. The Tahoe is roomy and comfortable inside and maneuvers better than its external dimensions suggest. Its cabin is comfortable and familiar, friendly and functional. It extends the cargo bed into the back half of the cabin, turning a short, five-foot-three-inch-long box into an eight-foot-two-inch-long truck bed. People we encountered thought the Avalanche looked bitchin' or grotesque, although the latter was the more prevalent opinion. With 325 pound-feet of peak torque, even this three-ton truck accelerates briskly, reaching 60 mph in 8.
And that was just trick one. Front buckets are optional, which drops the total capacity to eight. Open the Midgate, and the Avalanche is a two- or three-passenger depending on whether it is equipped with front buckets or a front bench seat pickup with a full-length bed. At least left-lane dawdlers got the hell over at the sight of the Avalanche's demented face coming from behind. Quick access to automobile-catalog website - type in a browser: a-c.
Be gentle at the controls, and you can usher this vehicle confidently around corners. Exterior For most shoppers, the four-door Tahoe has one big advantage over the Suburban: smaller dimensions, which means easier maneuverability. Artists were, said Wolfe, engaged less in representing reality in a beautiful or accurate way than they were in competing in a game of intellectual one-upmanship. Riding a 116-inch wheelbase, its overall length is 198. Combined with the standard locking tailgate, the cover also provides a secure, enclosed cargo hold. The new truck also adopts the Suburban's rear coil-spring suspension for a more comfortable ride than the Silverado's leaf-spring suspension could provide. But for all its cleverness and good execution, the Midgate doesn't add any cargo- or human-hauling capability beyond that of a four-door pickup with a bed extender.
Without that Midgate feature, the existence in Chevy's truck lineup of both this vehicle and a four-door Silverado doesn't make much sense. But it was the Midgate that indirectly contributed to the new Chevy's excellent driving characteristics because it required that the company use the Suburban instead of the Silverado as a starting point. The Avalanche benefits from the Suburban's strong structure, with fully boxed frame rails, which provides a more solid base than would the Silverado frame. The real advantage of the Midgate solution might have been to prevent the Avalanche from becoming grotesquely long. Skid plates protect vital underbody components, and OnStar provides added security.
The Midgate is the engineered manifestation of the desire to allow free flow between the inside and outside of the vehicle. With the rear glass removed, the cabin stays quiet and free of wind buffeting up to about 60 mph. When it's latched shut, the vehicle is a five- or six-passenger sport-ute that has a small pickup bed in back. Links Visit for more information on the Chevrolet Tahoe. Chevrolet says the Avalanche is stiffer than the Suburban.
Interior As many as nine occupants can fit into the Tahoe, when its equipped with the optional three-place rear seat. Under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, the content, organization, graphics, design, compilation, magnetic, translation, digital conversion and other matters related to the automobile-catalog. An optional roof rack holds up to 200 pounds. Still, the Avalanche is pleasant on-road. But the Avalanche is about something. A Z71 off-road package is available with body-color components grille, bumper, door handles, roof rack with integral roller for easy loading and mirror caps are new for 2002. It's certainly not a calculated insult, as Wolfe would describe modern art, against middle-brow tastes.