I have questions. Hopefully, you have answers.Â
Real quick-like, does anyone know what is the deal with males in their late-teens/early-twenties driving around in their cars with the hoods on their coats pulled up?
Seriously, here locally, I cannot go to the store, let alone work, without seeing at least one vehicle with a driver operating it with the hood on his coat up. And not just “up because the heater doesn’t work” , I mean full on “Grim Reaper/Can’t see the face” up.
If I’m lyin’ I’m dyin’ here: Last Saturday night around 2200, I’m making a run to the local take out place and I see four of them in a Honda Accord. It looked like a fuckin’ Jedi Transport with them in it. Now, if I were stuck driving any Honda product, I’d want to hide my face too, but jeezus key-rist.
If I was a cop I’d pull ’em over for being a hazard. There is no safe way to operate a vehicle with a 60-degree field of view. They’d all either give up their hoodies or be walkin’.
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Secondly, when the hell did the Chevy Suburban become “The Tahoe”? I don’t mean which model year.
I made a comment to an aquaintance that he could probably fit something he was buying in his “Suburban”. He replies, “I don’t have a Suburban, I have a Tahoe.”
Only the fact that the wife has returned home kept me from saying back, “No asshole, you own a fucking gaz-guzzling Suburban. A Tahoe is a lake. Join us here in reality. You have been the brain-fucked by a marketing ploy.”
And this isn’t the first person that I’ve had say this to me. Although Imust admit it is only the second male of the species “Yuppus-Assholus” to try and bullshit me by correcting my “mistake” about what the fuck he drives. Most of them are women, and they down-right persnickety when you call their “Tahoe” a Suburban. To the point where one literally asked me to stop calling it a Suburban, like it was crushing her sould to hear it called such.
They changed the name because it is a GM product and belongs at the bottom of Lake Tahoe. just like the “Yukon” should be left on the frozen tundra and their owners should buy a Tundra.
But if you really want to piss them off, call it a “Burban”. Oh shit, that makes veins pop out of their necks.
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Anyway, leave your answers in the comments. And Preemptive thanks.
The Tahoe and Suburban are separate models. My unit has both. Primary difference is that the Suburban is longer and has a third row of seats.
But yes, the current Tahoe is pretty much as big as your daddy’s Suburban.
Well I wish there was a legal way of hunting the hoodies, but besides that I have no help on that one.
For the Taho and the suburban there is a difference. My girl has a Tahoe. A Suburban is about a foot longer and would not fit into her garage. One easy way to tell is if the wheel well intrudes into the rear door. on a Suburban the rear doors have no cutout for the wheel well. Does she and I both wish it was a Suburban, Yes, but we make due with the shorter Tahoe and it fits into the garage (against what seems California law, yes the vehicles are what the garage is for) . GMC has always named their products differently so that you have the Yukon and the Yukon XL is a GMC Suburban. The Denali line is yuppiefied. So in closing there is a distinct difference between the Tahoe and the Suburban (like being able to get a 6.0L in the Suburban only and having trunk space with the third row seats down that you do not have with the Tahoe. Also there is a diference in the wheelbase, turning radius and towing cap. and curb weight) Fuel econ still sucks so we commute in my Jeep and I would not be offended if you called it a Suburban, but alas it is not.
Heartless Libertarian,
The Tahoe does have a third row as well, but little to no space behind it when the seats are in use. And still not as long asn an older Suburban atleast as far back as the early 80’s.
I think that if your car is named after a place you should have to atleast have driven it there. My girl’s Tahoe has been there (atleast twice a year), but howmany Yukons and Tacomas and Rubicons hav e been to their namesakes?
Simple rule for hoodies: assume the hooded one is a gang member about to do some wrong. Prepare yourself for that wrong. Watch his hands, you can hide an Uzi under a hoodie, and if you move, move to the blind side (either one).
This started as a gangsta-rap affectation, but the rappers were copying the serious gangsters. So now everyone wants to be treated like a ganster?
Fine with me, I’ll actually have my hand gripping my weapon when I’m in close proximity to a hooded scumbag.
All you have to say to the Grand Jury is: Haven’t any of YOU seen all those bank robbers on surveillance cameras, the ones wearing hoodies?”
Don’t put too much knock on the Suburban. The older ones were a fine SHTF vehicle, very roomy, big engine, would pull five tons and carry two.
I don’t care much for them since they got rid of the tailgate, though.
Yes, I grew up thoroughly enjoying our family’s 1973 Suburban (the Cheyenne Super model). One of the best parts was indeed the tailgate with its remotely-operated power glass window. That third-row seat really makes a difference in capacity, too.
That’s funny, I had someone pull the knowitall thing with me “actually, it’s a tahoe” recently. I don’t really have an answer on when that occurred, but it’s annoying.
The hood thing seems to have made a comeback here in the East as well. It was popular around 93-95 in the Philly area.
Per Christopher’s comments, I’ll be referring to my (former) Tacoma as a high-lux until such time as I can make it out to that area.
“Actually, it isn’t a big-ass SUV, its the MORE EXPENSIVE big-ass SUV….”
Why they prefer Tahoe vs. Suburban; liberals have given the concept and word “suburbia” a bad name. For them, “suburbia” conjers up images of robotic Stepford wives, rows upon rows of houses that all look the same, and children, lots and lots of children. By extension, any word with “suburbia” as the root word also has its name blackened. Thus, people don’t like “Suburban” because of the negative connotation.
At least that’s my guess, partially inspired by my odd sense of humor.
So now I am beginning to feel that you are all picking on my girl and alot of her family. Tahoe is just smaller than the Suburban, (not everything is a conspricy). It is cheaper than a Sub, and easier to drive in the city and park, for women. I have no prooblem with her father’s duelie, but then again I have driven Semis. Also it fits into garages. Subs do not. End of story. They had to diferentiate between the Sub and the shorter body, so they named it Tahoe. Baby Sub just would not have worked. None of them bought them for status, but that they work. Okay, I am all relaxed now.
Damn, all of this time I thought Tahoe was just the name of an interior/trim package !!!
Merle
The Blazer is what used to be the S-10 Blazer.
The Tahoe is what used to be the full-sized Blazer.
The Suburban is what used to be the Suburban.
The full-size Blazer used to be a 2-door *only*. The Suburban was/is 4-door only.The 4-door Tahoe and the 4-door Suburban can look similiar.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Tahoe
Thanks for the site. Bought/enjoyed Hold_Your_Colour.
Solution to the hoodies:
1) Air horn in the blindspot
2) Cast iron fender guards (to the blindspot)
3) Self induced carb backfire
4) folk music + large speakers + evil grin
We just had a kid wearing a hoodie pulled over on the interstate here in CO. The cop pulled him over because of the hoodie and found that the driver was a) driving on a suspended license b) high as a kite and c) transporting several pounds of pot. Stupid kids.
Hondas are POS? Hardly. They easily last over 200K without major problems. And are extremely safe cars: http://www.motortrend.com/new_cars/safety/01/honda/ . And are built in the US.
As for the hoodies, I dunno. Maybe the unibomber look in is this year…
WTF? I was driving home today and saw two hoodies in a convertible. And it was 80 degrees today with no clouds!!!???
I gotta agree this is one strange trend.
Not to burst your bubble, Bill, but I used to SCCA Showroom class an 85 Supra with 240K on it. I finally got a couple of the valve guides to wear out at 279K. I’d go through a quart of oil every 3K, but I kept running it.
The H-series motors are fine, but they overplumb the fuck out of them to get them to be ULEV or whatever. That is what will kill you: Chasing down a leak out of either the intake or exhaust plumbing (one of those 42 or so different 1/4in hoses) after about 5-6 years and blowing your emmissions test.
That, and their sunroofs are famous for leaking (structural integrity sucks and the bodies flex). Wouldn’t matter so much, but we get rain 300 days a year over here.
Thanks, but I’ll stick with my Toys.
Well I don’t have a sun or moon roof so I don’t have leaks. My Accord is over 10 years old and has 180K on it and hasn’t had a major problem — no leaks, no major overhaul, and it has yet to fail an emmissions test. It still runs as good as the day I bought it (minus the AC which quit a few years ago and I refuse to pay $1000 to repair it). But I do take care and it.
I had a buddy in college with a Honda that had over 200K on it and it ran like a charm. Of course, I don’t tweak or modify my cars like some people do which could screw them up. Plus 30 mpg makes me happy especially with gas at $3/gal.