Don’t you still get federal tax money??? At the very least don’t you charge for advertising in the Baltimore / DC / northern Virginia metroplex? Or charge ad rates for a national television show? Aren’t you able to collect add revenue from google like all the other RU-vidrs?? Why do you need more money???
@blackandgold51 I don't know enough to refute that, but this generation got an independent 4WD front end. The old generation still had the buckboard leaf sprung solid axle.
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Our company has been using Chevy Suburbans for work trucks since the early '80s'. Every single one of them was totally dependable and tough as nails. The newer ones from '89 and through the '90's were even better, and held up longer. After that, we got four of the '02 models, the newer design with the 5.3 V8's. We are still driving all of them to this day, they just won't die. Unbelievable durability, they depreciated a long time ago, but we decided to keep them and they just keep on going.
These GMT400 burbs were some of the best SUV's ever built. My parents had 2 of them when I was a kid. Oh how I miss that awesome Delco graphic equalizer.
Yeah, in today's money the suburban in the video would be priced at around $38.5-$39k. A base model 4WD Suburban today starts at around $55k (MSRP, not actual transaction prices). It can be argued that even today's base model gets you more equipment/stuff than even a higher trim level got you in 1992 though.
yea I miss the simplicity in the features back then, no mandatory traction control abs etc. and I miss the engine options back then you had nice big engines not these tiny micro over boosted 4cylinder engines and fuel economy was really not that much worse than today even
@@joyride2013 i mean they do break but compared to what from there era. aod isnt any stronger and lord knows a 46re from mopar broke all time back in the day. daily use a 4l60e will last 200k miles as long as properly maintained. idk of another half ton transmisson that last any better made before 2010. even 4r70w is just as weak in stock form. now once the 6l80e came out or the 6r80 became a thing yeah then we saw better transmissions.
@@jalapenochomper "Pssst, the schoolkids don't know that & they're the ones who'll spend a lifetime paying carbon tax." If governments print & control the money supply, why do they need tax? (The Grace Commission Report, might give you a clue).
I mean that was before they switched to like 134a so the whole in the ozone was real now it is basically healed its self but arnt we all supposed to be dead now
jalapenochomper except it wasn’t at all. We have a massive hole in the ozone over New Zealand due to cfcs. Thankfully since they were stamped out it’s starting to close. Why are people so afraid of affecting positive change? Global warming might be a joke to you now but the data is there and it’s real.
I was always in love with this generation of Suburbans and Tahoes. My sister had a '99 Suburban and although that thing sucked gas down like nobody's business, it got me through back to back blizzards with relative ease. My Corsica would've cried trying to traverse through that snow.
Built to last, my brother's 93 Suburban ran 450,000 miles on the original engine, replaced the engine and it had 700,000 miles when he decided to sell it and it was still running great!
I've had a 91 and a 93 suburban, the 93 always seemed a bit of a compact version compared to the 91, I still daily drive the 91 and I wouldn't trade it for anything at the moment, easy to keep maintained, no BS to go wrong and let you down like newer rides. Here in the UK we don't see many suburbans in daily use.
I daily a 92' 4wd 8 lug burb. 350/4l80e. Its an absolute beast on 33s and has the sweet tailgate too. My wife has a 93 2wd 1/2 ton 350 700r4 thats lowered 6", and has the barn doors. We're a burb family.
It wouldn't cost too much, heck for a really good 87 and a really good 92-99 would only be 3 grand a piece, a steal if you ask me, assuming it's a low miles and no rust truck
After driving straight front axle 4x4 Suburbans for years I thought I’d died and gone to heaven when the 92 model came out. No governor . Even fully loaded it would fly.
La grand blazer era la version 2 puertas de la Tahoe La suburban nunca llego a venezuela como tal esa estaba basada de la crew cab 1500 que tampoco llego
Mitch Murray they were know to be tanks! My dad had one but it was the 2-door Tahoe (for some reason instead of calling it Tahoe GM of Venezuela decided to call it the grand blazer)
Fully loaded in 1992 it was 27k, which is about 48k today. Base model at 18k is 33k in today's money. I get that they're more feature rich today, but the 2019 base model starts at 52k...
@Orion a bunch of shit i dont want too. i want pw pl cruise ac and tilt. i dont want a huge ass screen in my dash bucket seats anywhere heated or cooled this leather or any of those stupid driving nannies i have to turn off.
I still own a 1992 Chevrolet K1500 4X4 Suburban LT. The LT trim package wasn't $27K but more like $35k. The K2500 was the only Suburban to be offered with the 454 engine. The latest version of the Suburban Premier all decked out retails for over $70k. If you want a 3/4 ton Suburban, it needs to be ordered from a fleet dealer.
It's a very nice truck and super reliable! My dad had the '92 Silverado pickup version and that sucker lasted forever it seemed. All I remember it needed was exhaust work and tires on occasion. The 1988-1998 Silverado's are the best functioning trucks money can buy! Although the 1973-1987 was the better looking truck in my opinion.
We had a 1990 Suburban for a short while then traded it in on a 1999 Suburban. That was almost twelve years ago. The 1999 Sub now has over 200,000 miles on it.
@blackandgold51 only till 99. GMT800 saw the intro of the 3-section frame design. For the SUV's, they got the 5-link rear axle setup, that they still use today. 2003 the Silverados switched to the 'cat-eye' front end styling, further separating the trucks and SUVs.
Damilola Akanni Motor Trend Television on what was TNN (The Nashville Network) and is now the Paramount Network did a comparison test on the then introduced Ford Expedition and the 1997 Chevy Tahoe with that split tailgate and in its review said “with the Tahoe, you’ll have to rely on the outside mirrors.”
heard one of the reasons is cause of a lack of windshield wipers but thats GM being lazy since the mini clubman has dual wipers but i think cause of the fact the license plate is now on the trunk instead of the bumper unless they give it the avalanche look
Love the old C/K pickup's and Suburbans. Miss the big seats and simple dashboards. Good thing they are rather easy to find in good shape. Loved the 90's stuff. Best decade for trucks and SUV's.
I still see this generation Chevy Suburban in the road once in a while here in Toronto, Canada ( my home town) and usually they are still in good shape.
No you don't. People pretend to, (mainly folks who didn't live through it in any meaningful way) but the 1990s sucked. It set us back half a decade in automotive design too. We wouldn't recover until the mid-2000s rolled around, at which point we overdosed and then started getting the 1990s 2.0 starting in the past couple of years.
Here in Australia for some reason we didn’t get the updated dashboard. We got the dashboard from the Tahoe. It must have been easier to convert to Right hand drive.
It wouldn't if you actually sat in one. The fact that this has the spare inside alone means much less cargo space than the current or previous gen Burbs.
Anthony Alvares same. I have a 97 and I’m about to upgrade the brakes. I almost rear ended someone who jumped in front of me at a stop light this morning.
I have a 1994 GMC Suburban SLE C1500 that interestingly has the same wheel covers shown on the square body in the beginning. Absolutely love it, plus everybody stares when I make the tires squeal turning a corner.
I got a 1999 Suburban 2500 a few months ago. She wasn't well taken care of in her former years, but that 7.4L still runs strong! That generation was built like tanks!
Had a 94 GMC suburban wish I still had it , the closet thing to a car I would own. Owned two other suburbans yrs ago my first a 77 then a 85. My father when he was alive had owned ten of them over the years he was living.
I still have my 1992 suburban and me and my husband love it so roomy and love front bench seat especially sense we have 7 kids. wish they still made them this good.
@@Browningate in trucks it's not the horsepower # that matters but the torque #.....and with 300lbs of torque that's more then good enough....And yes new modern 4 cylinder engines make almost as much horsepower as this old 5.7 V8 but they lack the much more important torque...for example you have a Civic Si(mid 2000's model) with 200hp but with only 150lbs of torque....it looks really good for it to make the same horsepower as an engine that has double the cylinders...but when you compare the torque it makes VS the old 5.7 V8....the V8 has double the torque of what that new modern 4 cylinder can make....that's were the phrase "no replacement for displacement" comes in.....In my truck i rather have torque then horsepower..
I think this generation Suburban may be the peak Suburban in my mind. So many advancements from the previous generation, yet still very simple compared to the modern Suburban. My folks traded in their 89 for a new 93 Suburban. Seeing this video just takes me back. My wife and I recently purchased a new GMC Acadia. I just not sure I will every get comfortable with all the fancy electronic stuff on it. I feel like stuff will just start to fail at some point. Those old Suburbans just felt like solid. Things like the rear AC controls, 4wd system, analog gauges, manual seats, manual switches, felt so simple and solid like they would work forever. I think my perfect Suburban would be this generation, but I would consider throwing in a bit newer 5.3L V8 in it for a bit more efficiency and power. I would also upgrade the brakes. Ours ended up in a wreck when we were in a chain reaction wreck. The brakes and ABS system at the time were not fast enough to slow us down to avoid hitting the car in front of us. There were also no airbags. I was saved from hitting the windshield by the seat belt in the front passenger seat. My mom bent the steering wheel with the impact. We all came out relatively unscathed going about 45 to 0 in the accident. We got the truck fixed and my folks drove it another couple of years before trading it in for a new 96 Suburban, which ended up being the last Suburban anybody in my family had.
Thank you for another GM review. I appreciate seeing this one. Looking forward to what future GM videos you share. It is interesting how loaded the Suburban is now in 2019 and the features it has now in 2019. It is also amazing just how much things have changed since 1992 in the car market too.
Bought a plain Jane,white,3/4 ton in 92 drove it to Baja from Canada,we called it our own greyhound bus, had done the trip three times prior in yj',s and a Suzuki 400
The 80s through 90s were the best years for the automotive industry in terms of design. Are there any archived retro reviews for the square body Crown Vics/Grand Marquis from the 80s?
I had a 99 GMC Suburban 3 row seats. Best all around vehicle I have owned (I a Dodge man). It was rugged enough for some dirt roads but great on the highway 18 mpg. The new ones are WAY too expensive and not suited for off road use.
I love those Suburban and SUVs during those era, affordable and practical for the average family compared to the current SUV which just became way too expensive, overpriced and affordable to a segment of people who are rich (don’t have big families) which have no practical use for this type of vehicles other than being a status symbol of excessiveness.
I miss back to 1992 I was 16 years old and I remember saw an all-new Chevy suburban with 350ci. my parents buy it. and it still running alive. 20 years then My father likes racing, puller, and tow Chevy Suburban transmission blew up 3 times like every 6 years but. 5.7 350ci still alive! it is still strong running. Sad to see gone now.
@blackandgold51 yeah, you are right, he needs grade up a transmission, I wish to keep to 1992 Chevy suburban , but He. sold it about 21 years ago. damn Chevy like hard rock LOL!
These things were tools to be used as a tool. Extremely capable, and extremely well designed. But like anything else, if you use them for the wrong purposes, such as wrong transmission for the job, well they would blow. That goes for any brand. Suburban has endless respect and pedigree though by even Ford and Chrysler guys. They are amazing for what they are. Heck, this things gets the same fuel economy as a 2019 Toyota Sequoia! Hahaha
I saw one of these here in Britain last year and was truly amazed by the sheer size of it. I just dwarves almost any passenger vehicle on the road here. It was for sale at £8k, about $11k. Yep, most US stuff is very expensive here..
I love it. $27,000 fully loaded for a Suburban. That would be about $49,000 in today's money, at a time when a fully loaded 2020 Chevy Suburban will set you back $84,000.
The "Greenhouse effect".....lol! I forgot about that one! Love the suburbans! Dad bought our family's first one a 1990 Scottsdale that ended up with well over 300k miles before it was totaled. Mom got the second one a 1993 GMC with a Pioneer 6 disc CD player. Us kids loved playing with the rear AC controls. Thought that was pretty high class lol. I ended up with it in high school some years later aka the 'Shaggin Wagon'. Drove it to Canada with 18 ft lowboy multiple times from Tx. Alot of memories in that vehicle!
The 1987-1994 GM truck plaform were the best trucks ever! They should have kept producing them for years afterward, like Volkswagen Beetles! Every truck nowadays is too expensive, too glitzy, and too technologically complicated!
I have had two of the gmt400s. Still have my second one. These trucks were already old when I started driving, so it's so weird to see when these were new.
