In some Chattanooga suburbs, the Chevy Tahoe SUV is practically the official neighborhood vehicle.
Truck tough but still quiet and comfortable, the Tahoe is a near-perfect family hauler. Still, the price can be pretty dear and it tends to chug gas in stop-and-go driving.

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The Tahoe, a cousin of the GMC Yukon, is essentially a Chevy truck which has been framed-in with sheet metal and equipped with a compact, third-row seat. My skinny, 11-year-old son found the “way-back” quite comfortable, but it would be arduous for me to drag my middle-age body into the third row. In fact, I’m not sure it would even be possible.
That said, I found the front bucket seats to be supremely comfortable on a jaunt to a kids’ soccer game up the road in Cleveland, Tenn. There is something about these vehicles that makes them magnetically attracted to soccer pitches.
Our tester, a 2018 Tahoe FWD Premier model, has been upgraded with Chevy’s lush and powerful 6.2-liter V-8 engine that makes 420 horsepower. A second V-8, with a more modest 5.3-liters of displacement, is standard fare on most Tahoes.

