Long-Term Road Tests

After almost a week and several hundred miles of life with our Chevy Tahoe, I'm sold. This is a great vehicle. And I owe it an apology.

You see I've never really spent any time in the Tahoe. Fact is I've avoided the SUV over the past eight months, dismissing it as too big, too clumsy, too trucky. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Sure I chastised it in my last blog entry for its antiquated removable third row seats, but that misstep aside, the Tahoe is hard to find flaw with. This is an American luxury car masquerading as a full-size SUV. 

This past weekend the Tahoe hauled my family 115 miles (each way) to a mountain cabin in Big Bear Lake northeast of Los Angeles and it could not have performed the task better. In fact, I'd put the Tahoe's seat comfort, highway ride and in-city maneuverability up against any truck in its class. Plus this big thing handles. Half that road trip is winding two lane and the big Chevy never put a tire wrong. On the way up, from 2000 ft. to 7000 ft. altitude, the big V8 delivered the grunt, and the Chevy's brakes handled the long ride down the hill without complaint.

Helluva truck.

Scott Oldham, Inside Line Editor-in-Chief @ 16,700 miles