The 2024 Chevy Tahoe and 2024 Chevy Suburban are poised to arrive as the fourth model year for their respective current-generation nameplate, both of which received a full generational overhaul for the 2021 model year. Looking ahead, both vehicles will receive a model refresh for the 2024 model year, which, as GM Authority has learned, will include a new roof fin antenna.
As it stands, the current-generation Chevy Tahoe and Chevy Suburban both use a roof-mounted communications fin antenna that’s responsible for the onboard satellite radio (Sirius XM) and 4G LTE signal duties. The antenna design incorporates a fin-like shape, and it is mounted on the roof above the driver.
However, with the arrival of the refreshed 2024 Chevy Tahoe and refreshed 2024 Chevy Suburban, the roof fin antenna will take on a new shape, and will in fact not be a fin at all but rather more of a “puck” shape without the point. Recent spy photos confirm as much, showing prototype models equipped with what appear to be a reshaped antenna mounted on the roof above the driver’s seat.
It’s likely the shape of the antenna will be changed for aesthetic and functional reasons. That said, we’ll have to wait for the full reveal of the refreshed 2024 Chevy Tahoe and refreshed 2024 Chevy Suburban to understand exactly what those reasons are.
As a reminder, the current Chevy Tahoe and Chevy Suburban are available with three engine options, including the naturally aspirated 5.3L V8 L84 gasoline engine, rated at 355 horsepower and 383 pound-feet of torque, the naturally aspirated 6.2L V8 L87 gasoline engine, rated at 420 horsepower and 460 pound-feet of torque, and the 3.0L I6 LM2 turbodiesel Duramax, rated at 277 horsepower and 460 pound-feet of torque. All three engine options connect to the GM 10-speed automatic transmission. Under the skin, both SUVs ride on the GM T1 platform, while production takes place at the GM Arlington plant in Texas.
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I’m intrigued in seeing what this refresh will offer for the current Suburban and Tahoe.
Me too. The headlights look the same under the camo. Maybe a less busy front end and a cabin overhaul?
It looks like the one that I have on my 2014 Porsche. The next thing you know they will make a mid-engine Corvette………..
Laughable…
Yeah, thank God it was in camouflage… wouldn’t want Porsche or Ferrari to copy the “design” before its released…
Not to worry – it will be discontinued as a feature offering within weeks due to supply chain issues.
Lol, a camouflaged fin. So I guess when it has a sunroof the thing sits oddly to the side like that.
Maybe they are moving to 5G?
The refreshed Tahoes will also have new spark plugs. Lol.
I keep asking since it is one of these annoying features of non standard part for GM. Why the Malibu and the Traverse and the Cadillac XT6, XT5, XT4, Buick Enclave, Envision and the Chevy Cruze all had a fin antenna that would hold the AM / FM / XM / OnStar & WiFi (yes all in one) and yet the Full Size trucks, all of them, are still struggling to install / use the same? Find it amazing that you pay $60K for a Sierra Denali and there is still a fixed steel rod (ball point) antenna, just like the one you find on an Oldsmobile Cutlass from the 90’s, and then also find the shark fin that is only for the XM / OnStar features.
Most of the manufacturers have moved 100% at least in their mid to hign end vehicles to a shark fin antenna either body colored or piano black.
GM still has the other antenna like the one found in the TrailBlazer or the Encore, found in the late Chevy Sonic and the Chevy Spark, which also enables all functions in one.
So this is a shockingly news. Either for finally catching up after more than a decade or because someone at the top level asked the question because his / her neighbor asked the question.
Still I wonder why the antenna (new shark fin) is not located at the rear center of the roof though, just like the Ram?
The Colorado / Canyon has it located on the rear center. Although the one shared with the Chevy Spark / TrailBlazer and not the shark fin.
Communization is still a hard word to find around the GM engineering world.
The whip antenna performs far and above better for rural AM radio reception than the shark fin, AM being a media that the majority of pickup truck buyers still enjoy. By the way, GM isn’t the only pickup manufacturer that knows this. It’s extremely easy to install a cheap aftermarket universal stubby antenna and start sweating about your next rant. No whip antenna on any Tahoe in years because they know their demographics and AM radio ain’t quite it for that model.