2007 Chevrolet Tahoe Review

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2007 Chevrolet Tahoe – Ride and Handling

Handling
Oh, c’mon. You don’t expect a 5,537-lb. body-on-frame sport utility to actually handle, do you? It’s not a backroad brawler, but its freeway and around town ride is excellent, and its relatively small turning circle helps with maneuverability. There’s very little body-on-frame jitter. We took the Tahoe on our favorite fire roads, a death-defying cakewalk for this four-wheel drive truck. Aside from the low-hanging chin spoiler and runningboards, it’s obvious the Tahoe is otherwise equipped for much more ambitious terrain. It easily absorbed the washboards and ruts on our trail, and was so untaxed that it wasn’t until the end of the drive that we realized we had somehow accidentally switched the drivetrain to two-wheel drive.

Fun to Drive
Driving the Tahoe at speed on anything twisty isn’t fun, and losing drag races to grannies in Buick Roadmasters isn’t much fun, either. However, if you’re cruising on your way to your favorite camping spot and have to bomb around off the beaten path to get there, or if you’re towing your boat out to the river for a weekend of splashtastic bliss, the Tahoe is fun by extension. And we’ll admit, the big ugly American in us kinda digs the guilty pleasure of driving something this big and thirsty. Then again, we get to expense our fuel bill.