BMW X5 and MB GL series

[moby33]

Originally Posted by gwalker

Personally when it comes to SUVs I'd buy another Tahoe like my 08.

Classic...100% agree. Owned a 2000, 2004 & now have a 2009 Tahoe. While I liked all the Tahoe's, the '09 is by far my favorite and I would buy again in a heartbeat (no pun intended...remember the 'ol Heartbeat of America Chevy campaign of the 80's/90's) over the X5.

I almost pulled the trigger on an '08 Tahoe, but had to wait for the '09 so I could get Chevy's new 6-spd tranny. If you like your '08, you'll really like the 6-spd.

[gwalker]

Originally Posted by moby33

Classic...100% agree. Owned a 2000, 2004 & now have a 2009 Tahoe. While I liked all the Tahoe's, the '09 is by far my favorite and I would buy again in a heartbeat (no pun intended...remember the 'ol Heartbeat of America Chevy campaign of the 80's/90's) over the X5.

I almost pulled the trigger on an '08 Tahoe, but had to wait for the '09 so I could get Chevy's new 6-spd tranny. If you like your '08, you'll really like the 6-spd.

First congrats to the OP. I just purchased a 97 2 door Tahoe for the hell of it last year. I LOVE it. 8" suspension lift running 38.5 super Swamper ThoRnbirds for doing work around the farm. I'm want to get a 454 crate motor soon. It's a money pit. Lol

[moby33]

Originally Posted by gwalker

First congrats to the OP. I just purchased a 97 2 door Tahoe for the hell of it last year. I LOVE it. 8" suspension lift running 38.5 super Swamper ThoRnbirds for doing work around the farm. I'm want to get a 454 crate motor soon. It's a money pit. Lol

LOL...I read this post and realized I misspoke...I guess I've owned 4 Tahoe's (I really must stop). After reading about your '97, I instantly remembered a '96 2-dr Sport I purchased on the east coast for the sole purpose of driving cross country to pull my '63 Vette (I didn't trust anyone shipping my Split-Window, so I figured why not buy a cheap SUV and enjoy the road trip).

It was dark green, had the push-button 4X4, and two sunroofs (little portholes over the driver & passenger seats...I don't think they were factory as I've never seen them before or after, but the pop up glass looked perfect and they never leaked...very strange, but really cool) and the rest of the truck was rock solid.

I bought it for next to nothing from a guy outside of Philly and it was filthy (but looking it over I could tell most of the eye sore was all from lack of basic upkeep). I changed all the fluids & detailed it one Sat afternoon and the truck looked almost new (this was in Dec '05 so it was essentially a 10 yr old Tahoe) & ran perfectly (I think it had about 160K miles on it).

I hauled butt pulling my Vette from Annapolis, MD to SoCal in a little under 4 days and the Tahoe Sport was a blast the whole way. I drove it in SoCal for another few months and then sold it out here (for a very slight profit ). I remember now as I was selling thinking, "Man...I really like this truck...maybe I shouldn't sell." If it would have had the rear barn-doors I just might have held onto it. At any rate, as always, my stable was too full and I had to downsize.

Enjoy that 2-door...they really are cool IMO (kind of wish they would offer a modern day version of them...but I realize there probably isn't a huge buying market for 2-door full-size SUVs).