tahoe 2010

[07SuburbanLTZ]

The below is from gminsidenews.com. Talks about the suburban moving to lamba platform...so I am sure Tahoe will also or be killed.

http://www.gminsidenews.com/forums/...-escalade-esv-moving-lambda-70742/index2.html

GMI has just learned this evening from a reputable source that the GM Global Product Board greenlighted the next Suburban and Cadillac Escalade ESV to move to the Lambda platform.

There were no votes against the move by board members.

By these estimations, the GMT-900 Suburban will last until the 2014 model year.

The reasons behind the move are thought to be aimed squarely at CAFE standards, reducing the number of existing platforms utilized within the corporation, and a shift in general consumer tastes toward lighter unibody vehicles.

GMI presumes that this shift also means that GM has either overcome any limitation in allowing for the FWD-based Lambda architecture to tow higher weight or that the corporation will look solely to their pickup truck lineup (which is slated to remain on a traditional body-on-frame architecture) for customers who need to tow higher-weighted trailers.

My take? It's never going to happen...

A unibody is never going to tow 8000 lbs and 10,000 lbs on the 3/4 ton.

Let's move on to the avalanche, no unibody is going to hold up to a ton in the back of the bed.

The work above requires a truck with a full frame.

If GM were to make a switch the only one that would buy the GM900 would be soccer moms and they would lose all the big boys that wanted to tow there big toys to Fords super-duty.