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Review: 2009 Chevy Tahoe LTZ 6.2L 4x4

For a long time, gas prices in the United States were literally cheaper than dirt. Seriousl – check out the price of a bag of top soil at your local home improvement store. With such low fuel prices, the cost of operating a motor vehicle was really not much of an issue for most Americans. As a result, the only cost that concerned Americans when buying a vehicle was the monthly payment. People bought what ever they could afford on a monthly basis, not at the pump. The result was the rise of the personal use truck, and in particular, the sport utility vehicle. It started slowly in the ... Read More

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    Video: Cop crashes cruiser into restaurant on Christmas Eve
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    A police officer and several restaurant goers were lucky to escape injury Christmas Eve. According to news reports, Taos County, New Mexico Sheriff's Deputy Nicholas Lamendola was responding to a call on the evening of December 24 with his lights and sirens blaring when a vehicle pulled in front of his Chevrolet Tahoe police vehicle. Lamendola was ...

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    Report: GM and Costco partner up to sell trucks
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    Now you can get a deal on a big box at your local big box. Costco is offering its members discounted General Motors trucks and SUVs as part of a new "brand-awareness program" for the automaker, according to Automotive News. Eligible vehicles include the Chevrolet Silverado, Tahoe, Suburban, and Traverse, as well as corresponding GMC varaints, the Sierra, ...

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    AdSpotting: Chevy trucks give the silent treatment
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    Company: General Motors Brand: Chevrolet Medium: TV (The Outdoor Channel) Ad Agency: Goody Silverstein & Partners Product: Chevrolet Silverado, Chevrolet Tahoe Campaign: Silverado Saturdays/The Official Truck What We Like: GM is showing viewers how its trucks should be used with regards to recreational pursuits. Hunting and fishing are ...

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    Over 7,500 GM trucks recalled over two safety issues
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    A handful of General Motors trucks and sport utility vehicles need to head on in to their local dealerships. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has just issued a pair of recall notice for 7,507 vehicles as part of two separate safety actions. The first covers 6,768 Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon 2011 model year pickup trucks. ...

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    Video: Custom car audio system shreds phone books with sound
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    There's ridiculous bass, and then there's this madness. Steve Meade Designs is a custom car audio shop that specializes in the kind of audio systems that require 10 batteries and three alternators to run. This clip features Meade's own 2001 Chevrolet Tahoe, and its compliment of four 18-inch subwoofers, backed by a total of 13 amps and 26 smaller ...

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    Report: GM SUVs to continue with full frame, Granite still on the table
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    The Sport Utility Vehicle is dead. Long live the Sport Utility Vehicle. We all know by now that the SUV, considered the Official Car of the 1990s and early 00s, has mostly fallen out of favor. But that doesn't mean we should expect the large, body-on-frame behemoths – with the exception of impractical niche models like those from Hummer – to ...

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    Ouch: NHTSA reportedly investigating 2007 Tahoe, Yukon over sharp door handles
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    If you own a 2007 Chevy Tahoe or GMC Yukon, you might want to watch your fingers. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has begun an engineering analysis (the step before a potential recall) at the SUVs' door handles after 88 complaints of people cutting their hands on peeling metal plating. There are a possible 443,000 vehicles affected, but ...

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    GeigerCars turns tuning efforts to... Chevy Tahoe Hybrid?
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    We're used to seeing Geiger Cars tackle wild horsepower-riddled projects, but the tuner's latest effort involves none other than the Chevrolet Tahoe Hybrid. No, the company hasn't managed to bleed 1,000 horsepower from the dual-mode hybrid. Instead, the crew at Geiger has managed to talk the big 6.0-liter V8 under the hood into swilling down liquid ...

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    No Surprise: GM's next-generation of large SUVs reportedly due by 2013
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    Listen to enough of the bloviation, and you'll start to believe that full-size, traditional SUVs are the root of all evil. While the hue and cry has gone up far and wide branding these truck-based vehicles as four-wheeled carcinogens, there are enough legitimate reasons to purchase a Chevrolet Suburban or Cadillac Escalade that General Motors is going ...

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    REPORT: GM's next-gen SUVs to be body-on-frame (otherwise they'd be crossovers)
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    The GMT900 platform is by far the highest volume chassis General Motors has here in the States, as it underpins the Chevrolet Silverado, Tahoe, Avalanche and Suburban, the Cadillac Escalade/Escalade ESV, and the GMC Sierra, Yukon and Yukon XL. We never had any doubt that GM would continue to build body-on-frame trucks in the future, but with demand for ...

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