@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.
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
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.
@@jwhmerica504 these are all crap! You want to make a statement a day! The elite best is the. FORD EXCURSION!! A MONSTER T. REX. DOES IT ALL LIKE A TIGER!=💪👊🐯🐯🐯⚓⚓⚓👑👑👑👑👑
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.
@@dieselcoondog "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.
@@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.
@@rickdaystar477 brother got rid of his 96 extended cab with 230k on it...i told him to keep it... rust was starting to take over though... too bad because mechanically it was great.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
@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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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..
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
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 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.
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 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 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 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 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 $84,000.
So these are “real” old reviews right? I used to think these were made recently and just made to look old. But I guess they really are old reviews, true?
Do they still make those excursions, I test drove a new one in 04 with a diesel was ready to buy and it broke down on the test ride, then I drove a used one with 25k to see how they would be after the newness wore off and it was at best a farm truck, bought a 2500 suburban and never looked back, 15 years 250k miles and basic maintenance and you'd be hard pressed to find a better running/smoother ride
It was a 6.0l diesel that refused to run on a test ride but that's besides the point, the 6.0l in the chebby on the highway gets 21 22 without a trailer and hasn't needed anything but batteries and oil for 250k not even a thermastat, still does 3-5 thousand without needing a top off of oil, mobil 1 since 2k
The 1987-1994 GM truck plaform were the best trucks ever! They should have kept producing them for years afterward, like Volkswagen Beetles! Every truck nowadays is too expensive, too glitzy, and too technologically complicated!
The mid 90s chevy z71s with the 5.7L were kick butt trucks. Those things could roll for a few hundred thousand miles... got upper teens to the gallon...cheap /easy to fix... too bad now we have the #$#$ing cybertruck and all the other 80K high country crap... no thanks.
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Such a simple but handsome design, not trying to be anything it isn't.
@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.
This is my second favorite Chevy pickup, only the 67-72 is better in my eyes.
@blackandgold51 LOLwut. No. 1992 was the GMT-400 frame for Suburban. 1991 was the last of the C/K chassis (73-91).
01 suburban is a goddamm good Truck
I’ve always liked the 9th generation.
Back when Chevys made super solid SUVs. I still see these cars on the freeway.
I never see them I don’t know what you’re talking about.
Texas too as well the ck
Any 90s trucks
Jay Moar probably because where you live
Jay Moar I see em all the time in Texas, I own a 95 k1500 Chevy
A brand new $27,000 fully loaded suburban… words you will never hear again..
Right!! I recently purchased a 2018 Chevy Suburban Premiere and it was $60,000! Are they crazy!? But we still bought it because we have a big family.
Anthony Paone do you guys not realize minimum wage has gone up that same amount....
@@anthonypaone7540 someone doesn't know what inflation is lol
$27,000 in 1992 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $48,324.19 in 2018
Jason Taylor Yup plus technology that they come with isn’t free
Ahhh the 90s, the last decade for when trucks felt, looked, and were priced like trucks before they became to overpriced and civilized.
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.
shut up boomer
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
And the drivers ,the opposite of civilized.
Ahhh yes I miss the overwhelming v8 that produces 200 hp with 12mpg, such simple and efficient machines back then
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.
You must not live in a "rust state"?
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.
I still see this generation of Suburban on the road all over the place here in Michigan. Probably not many '92's though.
In Texas, every other house has a 90s Suburban. They're basically tanks. And this is coming from someone who prefers the Sequoia and the Expedition.
I know somebody that has three a 94, 96 And I don't remember what year the other one is but it's the same generation
Here California SF Bay Area, I just purchased a 94 form a kind man, K2500 powered by 454, love it!
Tom Smith
They are a beast with the 454
@@chrisj197438 Yeap, the old man told me he once drove over 80mph with a boat trailer!
That looks has aged so well, such a timeless design
i liked the era when they still used the truck front end and rear truck bumper but i do think the 2007 models are decent
I miss the old split tailgates and split side-opening "barn doors".
Go find one. Restore it! It’s gunna be the next thing.
@@jwhmerica504 these are all crap! You want to make a statement a day! The elite best is the. FORD EXCURSION!! A MONSTER T. REX. DOES IT ALL LIKE A TIGER!=💪👊🐯🐯🐯⚓⚓⚓👑👑👑👑👑
There a kit where you can go this to the 2019s
@@captainamericaamerica8090 Right pure junk .........
@@captainamericaamerica8090 we're not discussing three ton Turdwagons here...
1992: "Its our favorite workhorse, the Chevrolet Suburban!"
2019: "it's our favorite *$75,000* mall crawler, the Suburban!"
RIP. Back when these where trucks that could also carry people. Now they are glorified overpriced minivans.
I love my GMT400!!
The legend has joined the chat
Yes we know ❤️
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You’re the reason I bought mine bro
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.
5:05 "Blame the Greenhouse Effect" It is noteworthy to be reminded that they were talking about it before oversized SUVs became wildly popular.
And noteworthy that the predictions of doom were as overstated in 1992 as they are today.
@@dieselcoondog "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.
ALSO NOTE 📝
This was made when GLOBAL COOLING was the scare of the day.
Best GM truck design ever. These trucks still look good today. I sure do miss these types.
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.
Shizzy Snorlax
I hated this body style. As soon as they came out it made my Bronco look dated. I was always a little jealous of those sleek lines
There's so MANY of these Tahoe's ans Suburbans with the 350 v8 and the 4l60E transmissions still on the roads today.
howtobebasic 2 along with the B-body, this chassis was the flagship of GM. It was the finest American car of the era. Durability almost unlimited.
Yep 270,000 miles on my 1996 350 cu in. Suburban
The 4l60e is garbage.
@@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.
@@rickdaystar477 brother got rid of his 96 extended cab with 230k on it...i told him to keep it... rust was starting to take over though... too bad because mechanically it was great.
The newer Suburban seen in the video has the same exact paint scheme as their older one.
And the same mirrors, which look really weird on the older one.
Gotta love the woody wagons
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!
Suburban - The longest running nameplate in automotive history. 2020 marks 85 years of continuous production. Suburban was introduced in 1935!
I had a 1992 K2500 suburban. 454 and four wheel drive. It was an absolute beast. It gave me almost 300K miles of faithful service.
That thing must've guzzled gas like a B-52!
@@Tuppoo94
😂 it seemed like it!!!!
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.
this generation 92-99 is the best chevy suburban, although i owned a 91 model v1500 with barn doors
I've always loved these kind of Chevy trucks with the slent headlights and smooth grill :)
I own a 1999 Escalade and a 1999 GMC dually, same platform. Absolutely bulletproof trucks.
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.
What a beauty. I have a 1999 Tahoe still running great. A true hard working, reliable truck!
"It's our favorite workhorse, the Chevrolet Suburban."
I've watched this at least ten times never gets old I grew up in one of these
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.
I prefer the 88-98 GM but there earlier gen Chevy's were pretty good too.
This generation Suburban and it's pickup relative has stylistically aged better than any other brand and generation of truck.
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.
We need the retro review "Ford Excursion"
I NEED A retro Ford Expedition!! PLEASE!!! And, where can I find videos of the production of the first generation Expedition???
benjaminpizza vargas right I love the first gen. Expedition my mom has one and we love it!!
Marcos Juarez yyeess. I have the 2000 and it is my baby.
benjaminpizza vargas my moms is a 2000 as well!
I remember when they first tested the excursion and tried to fit it in a normal garage.
was called grand blazer in venezuela, my dad had one
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
@@MrCarguy2 I have a suburban + made in Wisconsin
Genesis Maldonado How did people like them in Venezuela?
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)
Whoever decided to shoot this video in 60 frames per second is a legend.
Loosely based on a pickup truck platform? It's a wagon version of that very vehicle and identical from the b pillar forward
@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.
@@95mushroom fun fact, the Suburban received the facelift in Mexico, but not in any other market.
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.
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.
Oh man I miss the 90s
Me too. Back when cars looked good, pricing was sane, and music was a whole lot better. Seems like 2000 was the beginning of doom.
I agree.
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.
ok boomer
Browningate ha no 80’s and 90’s were incredible my little millennial friend
The golden age of chevy trucks. I still see plenty from this generation on the road.
It's sad that GM no longer does split tailgates
I prefer the current hatches if just for better visibility out of the back and also it's nice for loading in the rain since it gives you cover.
It really pisses me off they got rid of what was the most iconic feature of all Suburbans. All for fucking corporate reasons.
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.”
@@patrickmichaellangan576 idk about that, my tahoe has great visibility out the rear with my hatch and gate
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
Very proud owner of a 92 Sub. Rebuilt the 350 a few months ago with some added goodies.
What I would do to have both of those beauty's in my driveway
Mee too, I like both!
Get on Craigslist and spend like $2000?
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
Me too also, both of them looked awesome 👍
Heather Sanborn is want a
89 iroc z
93 gs300
2013 Taurus SHO
67 GTO
would be in my garage 😂😂
Why does this Suburban feel larger inside than the current one on sale?
Lack of safety features on the older models
@@PedroParkerD with the exception of those brakes (170 feet to stop) they were safe enough.
blackandgold51 side airbags and stronger panels are as legitimate as it gets
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.
@@sugonmaballs my 91 has the spare in the back, and all other years before.
1000x better than the computer on wheel that they sell today!
Amen to that brother.
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...
27k? My 1994 GMC SLE was like 22k new.
@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.
@Orion who says im a broke ass or a bitch. childish ass. i said i would prefer not having it forced down my neck.
@Orion i dont think no one asked you a goddamn thing either.
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.
Gotta love the OBS trucks. Tough, reliable trucks. And so many options to customize too.
OBS was the square body, the C/K suburban was "New Body Style."
hawkdsl I still refer it to the OBS. I always refer the new body style to the 99-06 trucks
@@MarkMeadows90 I know this is the trend now, but it's incorrect.
hawkdsl understood :-)
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.
Nice throwback video. I like this design of truck.
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!
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.
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.
I need more 90s car reviews!!!!
The tiny brakes on these things scare me all the time... That's why I have one! Who needs brakes!?
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.
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.
12 mpg and 12 seconds to 60, yesss
@blackandgold51 Why wouldn't you believe 12mpg?
I can get 17 on the highway if I go no more than 60. That's about all you'll ever get.
@blackandgold51 Keep in mind that mileage was experienced over 100 Miles of city, back-road and highway driving.
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 daily a 94, out of the 2 years i've been driving it, i had absolutely no CLUE that back seat slid forward, i rushed outside to confirm it...
On the outside it looks exactly the same as my 98 Suburban. It still looks awesome today, got to love the 90's styling :)
It stayed the same outside wise from 92 to 99. Interior updated in 95.
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.
@@Terror1Void They did a minor grille update in '94 as well.....
Love my 89 suburban.
My 1997 K1500 Suburban has been an absolute tank. About to roll 307,000 miles on it.
Suburban are still going strong today and I still love the square bodies of them plenty of room horsepower and good style looks
12mpg lol. Good lord. These were beasts back then. I wasn’t even aware that the previous model had a Diesel engine available. Hmm the more you know 🌈
Motorweek has a Retro Review of their own 80s Diesel Suburban, they did get low 20s in mileage (and in zero to sixty :) )
Yeah I had a 80’s crew cab dually with the 6.5. Turd slow but 25 mpg freeway. Thought the fuel gauge was broken lol
@@MrPland1992 you mean you had a 6.2 diesel...the 6.5 turbo diesel didn't come out til 92 in the c/k trucks then in 94 for the Yukon/suburban
And with only 210 horsepower to show for it! You'll almost get that from a used & half-asleep 4-cylinder these days.
@@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..
My dude always happy about the full set of gauges 😂
I definitely like to see oil pressure and battery as well.
These were everywhere back then, I still see this generation of Suburban/tahoe/Yukon here in Bahrain, along with other places like Saudia and Kuwait.
You still see tons of these here in Houston, from all generations.
Kuwaiti here. We had a 94 2500 chevy burb, much like every other house in the neighborhood. Learned to drive in it!
They all over the Carolinas
How the SUVs and trucks was like a rock back then
I drive a 1992 Chevy Suburban Cheyenne love it this is cool to see mine has 230,000 miles
Gotta love those TBI engines. Performance was garbage but they just have such a unique sound and feel that's almost nostalgic now.
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
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 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 had one of these. Man I sure do miss it.
Beautiful truck
Real 90s kids know about this vehicle. Every 90s kid had parents who had one, or had friends whose parents had one. 😎
These Suburbans remind me of the ambush scene in Clear and Present Danger
blackandgold51 Oh you mean Dante’s Peak 👍
@blackandgold51 any truck that can 4x out of flowing lava has gotta be tough.
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!
Happy 80th birthday, Suburban. The longest-running model name in the automotive world?
Didn’t Plymouth also have a Suburban in the 50’s?
@@roninkraut6873 yes
The suburban is my favorite SUV
Was that "Life Goes On" by Poison coming out the radio? I know me some CC guitar tone when I hear it.
I miss this show soooo much! It came on after Saturday morning cartoons...
2:52 John: BUT WILL SOMEBODY AT CHEVY PLEASE EXPLAIN WHY THE CASSETTE PLAYER IS LOCATED WAY OVER IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DASH? LOL
LOL! Ergonomics was not the thing in a truck. I'm surprised that it has shift on the fly all wheel drive... for a 92
They still don't know why they did that! LOL!!!!
It’s location is really not that big of a deal . I’ve lived with that exact setup in my 91 for the last 25 years .
@@mattmc8391 IKR!? It wasn't like you had to unbuckle the seat belt to reach it. Petty nonsense complaint if there ever was one..
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 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 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
My 96 GMC K2500 4x4 SLE Sub only has 74.000 miles, still no dent or scratches. It's in my avatar.
Nice, my daily driver is a 4x4 '92 Suburban
Jon Mitchell mine s is a 07 Ford 500 187k miles LoOL
They made the air bags in steering wheel so compact back then 🤣
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 $84,000.
So these are “real” old reviews right? I used to think these were made recently and just made to look old. But I guess they really are old reviews, true?
Yes motor week has been on the air for many years.
Just because there was no internet doesn't mean that there weren't any car reviewers on TV.
Armyofscrap (Rainbow dash) yeah I get that, it’s just that I used to think these were really well done retro imitation videos. Idk why.
Is there any vehicle today with more room? Even with third row seating theres plenty of room for like 10 luggage bags.
Ford excursion
Do they still make those excursions, I test drove a new one in 04 with a diesel was ready to buy and it broke down on the test ride, then I drove a used one with 25k to see how they would be after the newness wore off and it was at best a farm truck, bought a 2500 suburban and never looked back, 15 years 250k miles and basic maintenance and you'd be hard pressed to find a better running/smoother ride
Whaaaaattt
It was a 6.0l diesel that refused to run on a test ride but that's besides the point, the 6.0l in the chebby on the highway gets 21 22 without a trailer and hasn't needed anything but batteries and oil for 250k not even a thermastat, still does 3-5 thousand without needing a top off of oil, mobil 1 since 2k
@@023338 But then you'd have to drive a Ford. No thanks.
The 1987-1994 GM truck plaform were the best trucks ever! They should have kept producing them for years afterward, like Volkswagen Beetles! Every truck nowadays is too expensive, too glitzy, and too technologically complicated!
The mid 90s chevy z71s with the 5.7L were kick butt trucks. Those things could roll for a few hundred thousand miles... got upper teens to the gallon...cheap /easy to fix... too bad now we have the #$#$ing cybertruck and all the other 80K high country crap... no thanks.
Dam they had all of that n a 92 burb crazy
Looks way better than the current one. I wish I had bought a 4 wheel drive 3/4 ton one of these back then.
great truck for vanlife easy to repair cheap.... i need another one
Brings back memories of my Dad's 93 Silverado Ext. Cab truck. It had the 350 in it and it seemed to me as though it would fly!
we had the one in the mid 80's with the Chicago Bears colored paint scheme. Lol
That musta been ugly af
When you have most of north Jersey kicking up to you there is no need to worry about how much gas it uses!
I like the vehicle listen to that 350. Vehicle last a long time compared to today's junk.
Loved my '92 1500 Suburban. So many great memories in that truck, aside from the rear diff blowing up.