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First Drive Review: 2007 Chevrolet Tahoe |
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Sunday, 19 March 2006 |
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 A GM-TC Exclusive: You’d have to live in a hole to not see that the big news at Chevy is the introduction of the new Tahoe, Suburban, & Avalanche. Even GMC and Cadillac are showing off their newest iterations of GM’s second best selling product, Full-Size SUVs. The only product that GM sells more, Full-Size trucks, are due up next for a remake themselves in 2008. Right now, the focus is on the Chevy Tahoe being the first of the new SUVs to launch. The 07 model has currently sold more than 10,000 copies in just the first two months of sales and that figure would have been more if the plant could keep up with demand. New Tahoes are sitting on the dealer lots less than a week and are selling near $41,000 on average. It sounds like a great start, but is the new Tahoe worth all the hype? We decided we needed a first hand look and here’s what we thought.
 I first had the opportunity to sit in and inspect the new Tahoe, Yukon and Escalade back last October. I didn’t get a chance to drive any of them at that point and the Escalade was still wrapped up in camouflage. Just from the first hand experience, I had a feeling GM put a lot of effort into these new products. I was really looking forward to the day I could take one on the road and see if these new models really could play the part, or if they just looked pretty on the outside.
Skip forward to this February and a bright and shiny 2007 Chevrolet Tahoe sits in our driveway courtesy of GM. Our test model wasn’t loaded to the gills but gave a pretty accurate representation of how the new Tahoe was being ordered from dealerships. In fact, the sticker price sat almost exactly at the average $41,000 selling price that all 07’s have been selling at. Our Gold Mist Tahoe was optioned in LT Trim and also included a Bose sound system, cloth seats, the 5.3L 320hp engine with Active Fuel Management, and four wheel drive. We were partly surprised that even though this Tahoe was LT trim and over 40-big-ones, leather seats were absent.
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