General Motors wants to make the Chevrolet Suburban the National Vehicle of Texas.
The automaker has launched a petition on Change.org, encouraging Texans to sign it and help make the SUV the state’s official vehicle. It says the Suburban “can comfortably haul people and cargo anywhere, at any time,” helping foster the “primeval Texas instinct to drive as far as possible.” In addition to being big, powerful and capable (like the state itself) the Suburban is also exclusively manufactured at GM’s Arlington Plant in Texas.
“Today, there are more than 200,000 Suburbans on the road in Texas and a Suburban is sold approximately every 90 minutes in the state,” the petition says. “Additionally, Texas Chevrolet dealers account for five of the top 10 Chevrolet Suburban dealers in the U.S. In 2018, Texans bought more Suburbans than the smallest 25 states, combined!”
“From camping trips to Big Bend, high school football games in Odessa, college-football tailgates in Austin to the ranches, farms and oil fields in between, no one has shown more love to the Suburban than the great state of Texas.”
As you may know, the Chevrolet Suburban is celebrating its 85th birthday in 2020. The SUV has remained in production continuously since 1935, making it the longest-running nameplate in automotive history. On December 10th, the company will debut the next-generation Chevrolet Suburban and Tahoe, adding yet another new chapter to the longest-running automotive story ever written.
Next-generation Chevrolet Suburban prototype
The next-generation Suburban is expected to feature a new independent rear suspension setup, either as standard equipment or as an available option. We also expect the 2021 Chevrolet Tahoe and Suburban to feature the turbocharged 2.7-liter L3B inline four-cylinder, and/or the naturally aspirated 5.3-liter L84 V8, along with the new GM 10-speed automatic transmission. GM has confirmed that the next-gen version of the iconic SUV will also be built in Arlington.
If you agree the Suburban should be the National Vehicle of Texas, you can sign the petition at this link. Chevy is also encouraging fans of the vehicle to share the petition on social media using the #ChevySuburban tag, and to attach a photo of their own Suburban to the post.
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Comments
How about GM starts a petition to build a good off-road SUV to compete with bronco, since they took out Blazer by making it FWD, maybe consider something along the lines of the HUMMER HX concept.
@Sil How about you stop complaining and allow Gm to figure things out themselves!
Me and most users here have been having problems with this website holding our comments back with total out of control message filtering, this is why GM execs and site admins are so out of touch with the real world, they live in fake fantasy worlds, very sad insecure little people, likely wearing adult diapers while sucking each other’s thumbs for peer validation.
I never want to see any so called trucks like the 2021 Chevrolet Tahoe or Suburban with their tiny, useless and flaccid 4 banger engines and not enough ground clearance to clear a beer bottle to be called the truck of anything, pathetic third world spec trucks representing Texas, no thanks! Not surprised Indonesia gave GM the big boot.
Try using a truck like the 2020 Ram AEV Prospector XL with a V8 and 40 inch tries to represent Texas or else get out of here and never come back. The Indonesian people booted GM out of their country and Texas can do the same!
Better yet, stop squatting on the HUMMER name and make a proper LT5 HUMMER H2 on 40s because of all the H2 HUMMER vehicles I owned with the 35 inch tires were not big enough for me and needed a supercharger desperately, just like the Colorado ZR2 needs a V8 desperately, could go on and on here why these products are not acceptable for consumers to buy let alone represent something.
No wonder Ram is now ahead of GM in sales, I vote fire everybody at GM who is responsible for making rubbish trucks with poor old man column shift leavers straight out of some derelict junk yard and hire somebody who actually likes trucks for once.
We need to direct the entire budget on desert racing trucks and overland trucks and new HUMMER vehicles, but this time we need heavy duty HUMMER products, based on the 3500 to 6500 model range plus some low cab forward HUMMER versions and the downwind market can be the 1500 version and the Colorado can be the poor man’s version.
When GM stops catering to losers who can’t afford their products and starts to care about the people who can afford, then maybe the buying public will respect GM again and buy a new truck or SUV from GM. Obviously the consumer has little faith in GM and will need to see a radical improvement to gain confidence such as bringing back the 12 cylinder engine to prove they are serious to sell cars again.
On a final note, if GM keeps listening to guys on forums like this one, who daily drive 80s and 90s rust buckets and cheer for more 4 banger limp and floppy engines in full size trucks, then GM will not be in business in any country let alone Indonesia, you can quote me on that.
And yes, I am expecting mostly thumbs down cause the truth hurts for Mr. Floppy forum reader and his band of jolly sissies.
Richard, the first part of your comment about comments being moderates here is so far away from reality, that I don’t even know where to start… but I’ll try anyway.
It all boils down to this: GMA gets thousands of actual comments a day. Of those, a significant amount are spam. Sometimes the good comments get caught by filters and are approved thereafter manually. There it is. Nothing more, nothing less.
A very small amount of those who comment are impacted. You can speak for yourself, but please don’t speak for others as if you know. The truth is, that you do not.
As for GMA being out of touch with reality, I challenge you to show me how that’s the case.
Don’t blow it out of proportion. Don’t be a blowhard. Have a great weekend!
As of right now I counted 36 comments for November 8, 2019 and virtually zero new comments on older articles.
Have fun moderating those thousands of comments per day Alex, maybe you can find some Filipinos to help you as the manpower must be astronomically expensive.
I see people here having to post over and over again and others just give up or don’t even realize their post was hidden.
I’m here to see better products turn up in my driveway, nothing more and nothing less. Cheers.
You are full of something, not sure what, I’m not for small turbo engines but I drove a new truck with the four cylinder and totally amazed how it handles the truck along with fuel mileage figures that have surprised most people. And since when have column shifters become such a disgraceful issue, just hoping GM won’t follow the trend with sissy little knobs as well as following the big screen trend, the current 8″ screen is plenty big enough to do your cameras and mapping,
Sorry… this post was meant in resonse to Richard Morris I tried to switch it but didnt work
Chevrolet should push to make the Bolt as the official vehicle for California given their love for green.. now if the Hollywood elite will just dump their sports cars and get a Bolt EV.
The article belongs in The Onion.
The next exciting chapter in the book of the longest running nameplate is just around the corner. Can’t wait to see their all-new purpose built utilities make their debut next month!
Fingers crossed for the new 3.0L straight six diesel, and greater availability of the 6.2L V8 engine. The 2.7L turbo engine is a possible option, but may not be offered in their SUVs, based on reviews I’ve heard about.
Is there going to be a all electric version of new Escalade Tahoe and Surburban ?
There will be a limited production run of the All Electric Escalade at first which I believe is based on a modified T1 Platform, and depending on how well it performs in the market, GM will consider expanding into other Truck and full size SUV models. I believe this is the proposed “Electric Truck” that will be produced at DHAM.
I’ve owned 23 Suburbans from 1964 to 2016. I’ve always considered them THE official vehicle of us Texans.