Automotive Faqs

SUV’s are the vehicles to get when you have a large family and are looking to have a cool car along with a great ride. Unfrotuantely many people shy away from these vehicles – despite their cool looks – because they are gas guzzlers.

GM did a great job producing a full-size, gasoline-imbibing, V-8 SUV that gets better city fuel economy than a Ford Fusion or Honda Accord V-6, and matches that of the four-cylinder Camry. The Tahoe hybrid is GM’s first full hybrid product, and offers significant gains over the standard Tahoe, whose fuel economy approximates a 1950s bread truck.

Most notable is the patented two-mode hybrid transmission that is, dare we say, a significant improvement in both efficiency and performance over the CVT used in cars like the Prius. It can function as either a CVT or a four-speed automatic, taking advantage of the best attributes of each.

A standard hybrid arrangement consisting of a 300-volt battery pack and twin electric motors assists a retuned version of GM’s 6.0-liter V-8, which, on the two-wheel-drive model, will return 21 mpg in the city and 22 on the highway, not at all heinous considering the nearly 6000-pound curb weight. More important to many Tahoe buyers than fuel economy, however, is the 6000-pound towing capacity, which gives the fraction of large SUV owners who can justify ownership by the occasional need to tow something heavy, like a party barge with twin kegerators, a green option.

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