{"id":5198,"date":"2021-01-10T00:50:35","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T00:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/?p=5198"},"modified":"2021-01-10T18:29:48","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T18:29:48","slug":"autobloggreen-first-drive-chevy-tahoe-two-mode-hybrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/?p=5198","title":{"rendered":"AutoblogGreen First Drive: Chevy Tahoe Two-Mode Hybrid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> On any given Sunday morning, if I were offered the keys to either a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/saturn\/sky\/\">Saturn Sky<\/a> or a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/chevrolet\/tahoe\/\">Chevy Tahoe<\/a> with a big boat hitched to the back, 110 times out of a hundred I would put down that gnarly top on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/saturn\/sky\/\">Sky<\/a> and make my way to the beach via the twistiest road I could possibly find. Once there, I would much rather go for a swim and lay on the beach than mess around with trying to launch a boat and later haul it out of the water.<\/p>\n<p>Having made my own personal biases clear on this subject, there are clearly a great many people who would make the opposite choice. Many people choose to drive big SUVs for a wide variety of reasons, and with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/cheap-gas-prices\/\">gas prices<\/a> again at $3 a gallon and rising around most of the most of this country, those people would surely like to get a bit better gas mileage. After a long wait, they will soon have the option of a full-sized <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/gm\/\">General Motors<\/a> SUV with a new two-mode parallel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/hybrid\/\">hybrid<\/a> setup, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/green\/\">AutoblogGreen<\/a> has just had the opportunity to take a first drive in one. If this first application of the new hybrid system jointly developed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/gm\/\">GM<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/bmw\/\">BMW<\/a> and DaimlerChrysler is of interest, check out ABG&#x27;s detailed report by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autobloggreen.com\/2007\/05\/01\/abg-first-impressions-two-mode-hybrid-chevy-tahoe-and-gmc-yukon\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2007\/05\/01\/autobloggreen-first-drive-chevy-tahoe-two-mode-hybrid\/<\/p>\n<p>2007-05-01T15:28:00+00:00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On any given Sunday morning, if I were offered the keys to either a Saturn Sky or a Chevy Tahoe with a big boat hitched to the back, 110 times out of a hundred I would put down that gnarly top on the Sky and make my way to the beach via the twistiest\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autoblog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10205,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5198\/revisions\/10205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}