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North America isn’t big on diesel, maybe it should be.

Where I come from, diesel engines are the holy grail of the automotive industry. So much so that quite a few car models are only available with diesels engines. The reason for this is simple, India is a mileage-centric car market and as a fuel, diesel is more efficient than petrol hence people love diesel. This has led to an epidemic of diesel-powered cars in India. You can buy practically any car with a diesel motor. A lot of luxury cars are only available as diesels.

Diesels are efficient, yes, but they are also noisy, vibey, some are outright unruly, and manufacturers seem to stick them in everything they make all for mileage bragging rights. As efficient as they are, they just don’t make sense in a lot of cars. If you’ve ever wondered how a diesel 3 Series drives, you’re better off not knowing.

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The Tahoe and Suburban used to be marvels of modern automotive packaging.

I don’t mean that in a good way. I spent over 1000 miles in the back row of a Suburban on a road trip in my early 20s, and I couldn’t wrap my head around how something so big could be so tight inside.

Chevrolet acknowledges as much when I pick up the new 2021 Tahoe in RST guise for a 24-hour test. The company stresses that it listened to existing owner feedback when designing its new truck-based SUVs, and a common request was better use of those big dimensions. So the company has given the rear suspension a rethink, opting for an independent setup. The move, alongside modest increases in length and wheelbase, has freed up relative acres of space inside the Bow Tie behemoths. It’s also addressed another bugbear: ride quality. The new 2021 Chevy Tahoe doesn’t reinvent the body-on-frame SUV, but these and other smart detail changes have turned it into a vastly better all-rounder, no longer requiring customers to make sacrifices over the unibody competition.

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The full-size SUV is a very American vehicle. Unsurprisingly, the market is dominated by domestic players, GM being the biggest among them.

The Detroit giant offers the Cadillac Escalade for luxury-minded customers, the GMC Yukon as a premium option, and the Tahoe as the workhorse. For 2021, the Chevrolet Tahoe was completely redone from the ground up and now rides on independent rear suspension and even offers a diesel powertrain. The Tahoe will probably gallop around in the full-size SUV market mostly unchallenged until the Grand Cherokee L and the Grand Wagoneer arrive.

But in the meantime, there exists an option from Japan that commands its own following. The Nissan Armada might not boast of a large following in the Americas despite being built for the North American market, but in the middle east, literally, every third car is a Nissan Armada (or Patrol as it is called there). It is also a capable off-roader, comes with a V8 engine, and offers tons of space. So it ticks all the right full-size SUV boxes. Plus, it gets a comprehensive update for the 2021 model year which includes a new face.

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Full-size SUVs fill a specific niche in today’s automotive marketplace. They’re designed to appeal to drivers who need the towing of a pickup truck but want a vehicle with three rows of seating and a fully enclosed cargo area.

Two of the best-known models in the full-size SUV class are the Chevrolet Tahoe and GMC Yukon, a pair of General Motors models that, like all of their competitors, share their basic underpinnings with pickup trucks – in this case, the Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra.

The Tahoe and Yukon compete directly with a few other pickup truck-based SUVs: one is the Ford Expedition, which shares its platform with the F-150 pickup; another is the Toyota Sequoia, which Toyota builds on the same underpinnings as the Tundra; and finally, the Nissan Armada, a relative of the Titan pickup.

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The Chevrolet Tahoe is the latest in a long line of full-sized, body-on-frame sport utility vehicles that have served as the most popular big people movers for decades.

The Tahoe rides on the shorter wheelbase version of the GMT1XX while the Suburban is the longer wheelbase model and together, they form the modern iteration of the legendary GM SUV lineup. While the Tahoe and Suburban models were formally introduced in the early 1990s, large GM SUVs have been the leader in the segment since the 1950s.

The top competitor for the large GM SUVs from Ford is the Expedition, which was introduced for the 1997 model year. The Expedition may not have the half-century of SUV history behind it, but the big Ford is based on the same basic underpinnings as the F-Series pickup. In other words, the Expedition is essentially an SUV version of the bestselling truck for the past 40 years, so it has proven to be quite popular since hitting the market.

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If you are shopping for a full-sized sport utility vehicle, the odds are that the Chevrolet Tahoe and Chevrolet Suburban are both on your shortlist.

The Suburban is one of the oldest vehicle nameplates in the industry, having been a part of the Chevrolet lineup since 1935. Chevy introduced the Tahoe in the early 1990s as a replacement to the Blazer and as a slightly smaller version of the Suburban.

Both the Tahoe and Suburban have withstood the test of time, continuing uninterrupted for decades while just about every other body-on-frame SUV was laid to rest. These two large Chevrolet SUVs have spent many years being the most popular full-size SUVs because there was simply no competition and while there are some models from other automakers that challenge these two, the Tahoe and Suburban are arguably the best full-sizers ever.

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