Silverado or Suburban (2018)?

[VictorLin0725]

8 hours ago, S P said:

If you're not routinely hauling more than 4-5 passengers, I'm not sure why you'd want a Suburban? I'd just get a Silverado and lockable storage or a cap for the bed, or a Tahoe? I think a similarly equipped Suburban is about $10k more expensive than a Silverado. Off-road capability with the Suburban is very limited also. You'll have to pull off the front lip spoiler unless you get a Z71 Suburban, but even then you're still limited due to the terrible breakover angle because of the long wheelbase. You really can't do any serious off-roading with a Suburban without getting a lift. So I would get a Silverado (or a Tahoe if it has enough cargo space) if I were in your shoes.

Ya the Silverado has grown on me. I've considered the Suburban (looks nicer in my opinion compared to the Tahoe which looks very disproportioned size wise) because I have a lot of water sensative things such as rifles/golf clubs/trauma kits/laptops/drums/electric guitars/amps/clothing/etc. Since I have never owned a pickup before its a little frightening to put such expensive equipment "outside" in the bed. If I have my Les Paul and Strat in the bed on the freeway during a big rainstorm I would be shitting myself. Coming from a crossover I've been used to my things "inside the car" haha. I'll need to heavily test a bed cap before I trust it 100%

[Mandalorian]

21 hours ago, VictorLin0725 said:

Coming from a crossover I've been used to my things "inside the car" haha. I'll need to heavily test a bed cap before I trust it 100%

This is why went with a Suburban. For my needs (dogs), the added cost was worth it. My pooch crew needs AC/Heat. 

[K2xxSteve]

On 1/23/2019 at 12:48 AM, VictorLin0725 said:

Ya the Silverado has grown on me. I've considered the Suburban (looks nicer in my opinion compared to the Tahoe which looks very disproportioned size wise) because I have a lot of water sensative things such as rifles/golf clubs/trauma kits/laptops/drums/electric guitars/amps/clothing/etc. Since I have never owned a pickup before its a little frightening to put such expensive equipment "outside" in the bed. If I have my Les Paul and Strat in the bed on the freeway during a big rainstorm I would be shitting myself. Coming from a crossover I've been used to my things "inside the car" haha. I'll need to heavily test a bed cap before I trust it 100%

Oh, I just saw the stuff about drums and amps and stuff! Ha! Might as well just get a Suburban then, because I don't think all of that would fit in a Tahoe easily, or if it did you wouldn't have much space for passengers or anything else. The Burb can swallow a ton of stuff and still have room leftover for passengers/dogs. Yeah I hear ya. The Burb is fully weather sealed and SECURE, that's for sure. Mine has the optional anti-theft package with glass breakage sensors and self-powered horn and some other stuff, which I wanted because I'll be parking outside all the time.

 

 

[VictorLin0725]

1 hour ago, S P said:

Oh, I just saw the stuff about drums and amps and stuff! Ha! Might as well just get a Suburban then, because I don't think all of that would fit in a Tahoe easily, or if it did you wouldn't have much space for passengers or anything else. The Burb can swallow a ton of stuff and still have room leftover for passengers/dogs. Yeah I hear ya. The Burb is fully weather sealed and SECURE, that's for sure. Mine has the optional anti-theft package with glass breakage sensors and self-powered horn and some other stuff, which I wanted because I'll be parking outside all the time.

 

 

 

Yep, thanks for the input. By the way, is the Suburban your vehicle or your wife's? I think a drawback of the SUVs is that it looks like a mom car (I haven't seen a single guy on the road with one) haha. How would you rate your Burb's cool factor from 1-10? 

[K2xxSteve]

13 minutes ago, VictorLin0725 said:

Yep, thanks for the input. By the way, is the Suburban your vehicle or your wife's? I think a drawback of the SUVs is that it looks like a mom car (I haven't seen a single guy on the road with one) haha. How would you rate your Burb's cool factor from 1-10? 

It's not "cool" at all here in the D.C. burbs, unless you get an all black one with to make it look like you're from a three-letter government agency or secret service or something, but there's plenty of Ubers that look the same which takes away any coolness. The Denali XL has a little more curb appeal, but I don't need a 6000lb SUV to be as fast as my BMW 335i, and I definitely wasn't going to put premium grade fuel into it either. You get down into Bethesda and Potomac and every other car becomes an Escalade, which I don't really consider to be cool either. 

 

Overall coolness factor on a scale of 1-10:

Suburban: 0

Denali XL: 1

Escalade: 2

all black Burb with darker tints and hidden light bars/strobes: maybe a 5

 

Lol. But it's not a minivan though, which would be negative on the coolness factor.

 

I see tons of men and women driving them around here. Maybe it's different up in Canada, but I don't really pay too much attention. It's more about maintaining my "man card" down here. I refuse to drive a minivan, and honestly would rather slit my wrists than drive one.   Every man is entitled to own a truck at least once in his life, so here's mine. 

 

The Burb is mine. We traded my wife's X5 for it, and she went to driving my 335i convertible, which is more up there on the "cool factor", but there's lots of foreign money and Chinese parachute kids here pimping out BMW M4's, Audi RS5's, and other high-end cars like 911 GT3's, so kinda a matter of perspective and local demographics. Teslas used to be cool, but now everybody and their mom has one around here, so I don't think they're cool anymore. 

[VictorLin0725]

5 hours ago, S P said:

It's not "cool" at all here in the D.C. burbs, unless you get an all black one with to make it look like you're from a three-letter government agency or secret service or something, but there's plenty of Ubers that look the same which takes away any coolness. The Denali XL has a little more curb appeal, but I don't need a 6000lb SUV to be as fast as my BMW 335i, and I definitely wasn't going to put premium grade fuel into it either. You get down into Bethesda and Potomac and every other car becomes an Escalade, which I don't really consider to be cool either. 

 

Overall coolness factor on a scale of 1-10:

Suburban: 0

Denali XL: 1

Escalade: 2

all black Burb with darker tints and hidden light bars/strobes: maybe a 5

 

Lol. But it's not a minivan though, which would be negative on the coolness factor.

 

I see tons of men and women driving them around here. Maybe it's different up in Canada, but I don't really pay too much attention. It's more about maintaining my "man card" down here. I refuse to drive a minivan, and honestly would rather slit my wrists than drive one.   Every man is entitled to own a truck at least once in his life, so here's mine. 

 

The Burb is mine. We traded my wife's X5 for it, and she went to driving my 335i convertible, which is more up there on the "cool factor", but there's lots of foreign money and Chinese parachute kids here pimping out BMW M4's, Audi RS5's, and other high-end cars like 911 GT3's, so kinda a matter of perspective and local demographics. Teslas used to be cool, but now everybody and their mom has one around here, so I don't think they're cool anymore. 

 

Gotcha. I don't think anything beats the look of a pickup truck but I guess I'm going to have to do with a Suburban or a Yukon XL. Pimping out a car is not something I would really do, even less so on an SUV. I guess I'll have to accept the fact that I would be as cool as the rich kids out there. Strobe lights definetly ups the cool factor but dealing with the cops may become a regular occurance haha. 

[Mandalorian]

Don’t forget at one point Tony Soprano drove a Suburban!

[Havasubum]

I switched to a Yukon because bottles of water and soft drinks would often exploded from the heat when transporting them in the bed of our pick up when traveling to Lake Havasu AZ in the summer.