What We’d Like To See From 2024 Chevy Tahoe, Suburban Refresh
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GM is set to refresh its full-size SUV lineup for the 2024 model, including the Chevy Tahoe and Chevy Suburban. Indeed, the 2024 Chevy Tahoe and 2024 Chevy Suburban will introduce a long list of changes and updates, many of which GM Authority has already covered. Now, we’re diving into a few of the key features that we’d like to see from the refreshed 2024 Chevy Tahoe and 2024 Chevy Suburban.
Bigger Screen
In case you missed it, the refreshed 2024 Chevy Tahoe and 2024 Chevy Suburban will both introduce an overhauled cabin space, and with it, we’d like to see a larger infotainment screen. For now, the Tahoe and Suburban offer either an 8-inch infotainment screen or a 10.2-inch infotainment screen, depending on the model selected. While these work fine, we think they look a bit small, especially against the expansive full-size SUVs’ cabin.
More Distinctive High Country
Despite its position at the top of the trim level hierarchy, the High Country needs something a bit more distinctive to help it stand out – preferably something beyond just a well-equipped LTZ trim with bronze accents. In fact, the 2024 Chevy Tahoe and 2024 Chevy Suburban High Country need something to give it the same “wow” factor as the Denali trims offered by GMC. Luckily, it looks as though Chevy may do just that and debut a new fascia treatment that’s unique to the High Country trim, per a previous GM Authority report.
Diesel Power For Z71
At present, the Chevy Tahoe and Chevy Suburban Z71 don’t offer the 3.0L I6 LM2 turbodiesel Duramax engine due to the packaging constraints of the unique Z71 fascia. However, with the recent introduction of the new 3.0L I6 LZ0 turbodiesel Duramax for the Chevy Silverado ZR2, it seems appropriate that the off-roader SUVs will finally offer diesel power as well.
Replace The L84 With The TurboMax Four-Cylinder
With 355 horsepower and 383 pound-feet of torque, the naturally aspirated 5.3L V8 L84 gasoline engine doesn’t have the same raw twist as the new TurboMax turbocharged 2.7L I4 L3B gasoline engine. Now making its way to the 2024 Chevy Silverado powertrain lineup, the TurboMax puts out a maximum of 310 horsepower and 430 pound-feet of torque – and torque is what is needed in the 2024 Chevy Tahoe and 2024 Chevy Suburban. Add in the GM 10-speed automatic transmission, and you’re sitting pretty.
Upgrade To 5G, Replace Rear Lighting With LEDs
These are small things, but impactful all the same. The onboard 4G should obviously be upgraded to a 5G connection, while the incandescent rear turn signals and reverse lights should both be replaced with LEDs. It is 2023, after all – time to get with the program.
On a separate note, we’d personally like to see the lovely brown interior colorway made more accessible. Currently, the only way to get a brown interior is by opting for the Premier trim level, which offers Jet Black / Maple Sugar, or the High Country, which offers a Jet Black / Mocha.
In addition to the overhauled interior already mentioned, we also know that the refreshed 2024 Chevy Tahoe and 2024 Chevy Suburban will also introduce new front and rear fascia styling, optional 24-inch wheels, and a new comms fin antenna as well.
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Add a drivers side A-Pillar Grab handle to the needed list.
Are they really that useful? I find A-pillar grab handles are in an awkward position and do not help with leverage getting in and out, whether a person is left or right handed. There are other positions a grab handle might help, but you would not want them there once you were seated.
How s bout low priced 2row custom model .for us who have no need ,want or will ever use the 3rd row .no 3rd row =more payload and towing add a 3.45 or 3.73 rear axle ratio
“incandescent rear turn signals and reverse lights should both be replaced with LEDs” – Mary will say to wait until next-gen.
A typical GM thing.
True but lately the Refreshed Chevy models like the Blazer brought full LEDs front and back for the refresh.
Driving or fog lights. Huge miss by Chevrolet!!!!!!
HUGE, really? Fog lights are a small miss, not HUGE…
Please ditch the dash push button shifter to a center console shifter.
I liked the old column shifter. Neither my girl nor my dog likes to sit on the center console and a shifter there makes matters worse.
And take away half the console storage? Please god no. Nothing wrong with the buttons, takes all of a few uses to get used to it. You don’t shift manually anymore, and if you need to there are buttons to select your gear. If anything, put it either on the column with a shifter or a stalk shifter on the column like you see in luxury cars, those are the only to acceptable replacements, the floor console is just idiotic these days. Everyone just switches gears 3 times a drive (P to R, R to D and D to P), no need to have some console shifter wasting space.
The 3rd row seat can use a better window view.
All the seats can use a better view. Can’t they find stronger material for the A-pillars to make them thinner? I guess for safety reasons they have to keep making windows smaller and pillars wider. I suspect eventually they will do away with windows and replace with TV screens. It is like riding in a dungeon.
Will they ever bright back the 2500 Suburban? It was the perfect vehicle. 8 or 9 passenger capacity, 10-12K towing capacity. Each generation they bring out, they lower the towing capacity, you can get a 10K towing capacity in the Silverado 1500, why not in the Suburban. I really need the higher towing capacity in a 8 passenger vehicle. Looking at buying a Van and converting to 4X4.
I pull a 10k pound boat with my 22 Tahoe and it does just fine. All I’ll say is that nobody will buy a 4 cyl Tahoe. Sounds awful and won’t go as far. Turbos get tired after about 80k and a good portion of consumers want to get their money’s worth and proly drive these things to 200k. The 2.7 wouldn’t even come close to the legendary 5.3
So you pull something over its weight, hopefully you don’t get in an accident as insurance won’t cover that and have a field day. Buy the right tool for the job…
This isn’t the 80’s. Turbos don’t fail at 80k anymore, please update your thinking and knowledge to this century. Turbo motors are lasting 100’s of thousands of miles.
Plenty of people will buy a four cylinder considering what most people use them for. The 2.7 is a far better option in most cases and drives better in most situations. Around town and towing it is a much better experience. The only place it really lacks is that 1% of the time you need a foot to the floor highway passing maneuver and it is a little down on HP. Otherwise, it is right there with the 5.3 in 0-60 testing and does better mpg in most scenarios. It is a great motor and heck of a reliability rating, that was a hard motor to kill in durability torture testing. It should be an option, just not sure they can build enough with both Cadillac and the mid size twins using the motor too.
Also note, the 2.7 has had less issues since its introduction than the 5.3. Reliability has zero questions with that motor. Numerous are over 100k with just regular maintenance.
No replacement for displacement. Also I want my Tahoe to sound like a Tahoe and not a freakin Malibu.
Agreed! I love my 2005 Suburban 2500. With the 6.0 it’s rated to tow 10,000 pounds and the payload is where the real difference is! The 1500 payload is a minivan like 1600 pounds, the 2500 adds a extra 1000 pounds. I’d like an increased payload option if a 2500 is not available. The new LZO is most impressive, it comes very close to LB7 power and torque numbers with half the displacement. Please make a column shift available, I hate shifting with buttons!! Keep a front bench option! I know manuals are dead but 6 speed manual with manual transfer case would be amazing! It would take care of the oil pump belt issue because by 200k miles you would have to pull the trans to do a clutch anyway.
Looking forward to viewing the refreshed Tahoe and Suburban.
My 4 requests:
– do whatever it takes to get rid of the quivers over bumps (same applies to Escalade and Yukon)
– the rear light bulbs gotta go
– the badges gotta go…those ZR and High Country badges belong on a Big Wheel…they’re infantile. GM, save a few $ and put it into the tail lights!
– ok, this may be a stretch that not everyone loves…how ’bout a $150k-ish version bathed in leather and with power rear seats like a luxury brand…way nicer than an Escalade (which ain’t saying much), but not in a blingy way. Kind of playing to the old-money crowd that doesn’t want to be noticed and is repelled by petentious stuff. You sell a couple thousand of them and make an extra $20k a pop. Not many brands/models can pull that off like a Subruban or Tahoe …maybe Toyota (with the old Land Cruiser).
The TurboMax for a standard engine??? HELL NO!!!!
How about a fresh new small block V8
5.7L 350 with 400 hp and 475TQ that runs on regular unleaded. With flex fuel capacity.
And a new 6.2L or bigger small block with 500 HP/540 TQ for the premium crowd.
I wanna see a Tahoe ss like there’s the Escalade v. maybe a Tahoe zr2?
Ok, I’ll grant your wish, but no badges, stripes or other paraphernalia.
I just want to see an inventory increase & prices come down.
Power Pedals and a 10% HP and Torque bump from the 5.3 please. While your tinkering with the engine, lets remove the active fuel management.
How about V8’s that don’t have collapsing lifter and bent pushrod issues!!!
I Would Like The phone I had in my older model.Right now I have carry my own phone.
Delete Cylinder Deactivation
Upgrade power of the 5.3 and 6.2
2500 version with 6.6 Gas and 6.6 Diesel
LZ0 in the Z71 trim, and continue to offer adaptive air ride suspension in Z71 but also offer in both the Premier as well as the RST with the diesel option and magnetic ride in with LZO in the RST. Then yes, all lights should be LED. The rest of the planned changes are good – I hope they keep all the other options and features currently available in the 2023. Paddle shifters on the back of steering wheel and move trailer break controller to the right side.
Obviously you’ve never driven a Suburban or Tahoe. You want to trade 45 horsepower for 47 pounds of torque? The four cylinder is a turd in any truck above a 2wd bare bones WT. That thing would be spooled up all the time and get worse mileage than the 5.3 or 6.2. Just get rid of cylinder deactivation and pump up the power of the small blocks. It’s time stop/start goes away as well.
Tell us you have not done any homework on the performance of the turbo 4 without actually telling us.
First, obviously you have never driven a torque rich engine in a large vehicle. Look at the 3.0, it isn’t fast, but the torque helps it perform on the highway and grades and is a pleasure to drive around town and tow. Only spot it really lacks is a pure power passing situation where the HP is a little low, but 99% of the time people aren’t doing that.
Second, the 2.7 is far from a turd. It is about tied or a tenth or two behind the 5.3 in instrumented tests. Then driving normally and towing it is much better than the 5.3 in those and more other cases.
While it should be an option and not solely replace the 5.3, it would be a great motor for many.
Stop Start and DoD work well and do what they are advertised to do. Between the two of them fuel savings over 10% can be had. As far as reliability, there are some issues but that group is quite small, low single digit percentage have failures and many times it is improper maintenance or lately a bad batch of parts from a third party supplier.
I wouldn’t object to offering the 2.7 on the base LS and LT models but it should not replace the 5.3. Instead why not upgrade the 5.3’s torque and get it’s MPG ratings back up to prior 16/22 ratings. Having greater torque would enable greater efficiency by making the engine work a little less hard to move these heavy rigs. Maybe offer a std 3.08 rear ratio with 3.23 and 3.42 available for towing or more off the line pep but they need to find a way to increase power and mileage to at least compete with the Expedition and Sequoia
Not a fan of the Push Buttons for Drive Selection. Column is a much better location
nor do I care for the “floating” Infotainment Screen. The trucks have a much nicer layout
Most of the substantial changes have already been covered so let’s nitpick!
1. Tie the infotainment profile to adjust based on the key fob – many other automakers already allow this.
2. Enable navigation to function offline with downloaded maps so the in-vehicle system isn’t a worthless turd for those without a data plan. GM’s move to start dropping Android Auto/Carplay for EVs and force users onto a data plan is a good way to move me onto a $100 Garmin GPS or move me away from GM once I need a new vehicle.
3. Make the apps on the rear-entertainment (e.g. Youtube) actually work and reintroduce playing content off USB or miracast (like in the 2021 models). Current rear-entertainment is effectively an external monitor for some other device to play on. Allow media to play on the front infotainment screen when in Park.
4. Increase audio output in the tweeters in the cargo space pillars.
5. Enable powered-UNfolding second row seats, the same capability as exists already for the third row. Current second row seats can only be folded electronically, requiring manual unfolding but they’re too heavy for younger kids.
6. Fog lights – their absence in a Suburban/Tahoe blows my mind as they’re some of the most common GM SUVs you’ll see driving around. Considerably cheaper Toyota Highlanders (and even Honda Odysseys) have them and those are not the work-horse vehicles that a suburban is famed to be.
7. More robust coat hangers – the little token fold-outs right now allow hangers to easily fall off when not driving in a straight line.
I would like 8500-9000 tow capacity in the 2024 Tahoe and a larger transmission cooler for hills. Love my 2022 Tahoe diesel but would get a 2024 if I could get extra tow capacity with air suspension.