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well the name says it all doesn't it suburban and that's what this vehicles attuned to not something you want to pilot through small city streets but if you've got a big family with big amounts of stuff and maybe your big people on top of that this is America's SUV now spotting the new suburban is really easy the look is quite dramatically different the face is much more crisp and bold you've got this really strong feature line right here around the Beltline that's causing the vehicle to look a little lower and longer and the same thing goes for the way they've recontoured that third quarter rear side glass all of it says a long stretch the 15 also has a new way of integrating doors into body instead of clam shelling over they now fit inside everything's big in the cabin it fits the vehicles overall dimensions of course it also makes it very tactless satisfying lots of storage everywhere of course cup holders and bins for phones and look at this this bin is so large it actually qualifies as a seat for a child don't do that now your eyes first drawn to this chevy mylink head unit which in chevy general motors fashion has this little peekaboo Smuggler's box back behind it you've also got a USB port there one of like seven in the vehicle now this MyLink rig with navigation is actually optional you won't get the nav package unless you do take the right box which we'll talk about later I find the process things a little slow of course it is doing 3d building rendering which I don't find terribly useful but the way it lays out streets and labels is some of the best in the business navigation what kind of destination street address it's a little slow on the uptake but it does let you give addresses in one straight blurb not piece by piece that's good do I have any text messages Chevy was an early adopter of Siri eyes free which lets you connect a paired iPhone from message composition without looking at the screen otherwise app support on this vehicle is basically Pandora predictive music stitcher podcast streaming and tune in live radio station streaming beyond that your media sources are pretty much everything you want you've got CD iPod USB Jack SD card slot which plays video by the way though a little bulky in this case bluetooth streaming obviously and in this car we have a rear seat entertainment system as well we'll look at that in a second meta tag layout is really good and I like the fact that all the touchscreen buttons like everything in this car are big and easy to access I just keep getting bedeviled by the slow processing of everything now through OnStar this is gonna be one of the first vehicles out that has an integrated 4G connection our vehicle doesn't have it yet we're shooting in mid-2014 later in the year that should be coming online though if you're gonna order one of these by the way this is one of the first cars out there that has a front center airbag this is between the two front passengers so there's an impact you don't get injured by hitting each other or if it's just you in the front seat it reduces your injury from flopping over the console now drive controls in this vehicle are very traditional you've got a classic American stock mounted lever up here if you want to do your own shifting it's on this rocker switch here on that lever over here you've got your four wheel drive control most folks will leave it in Auto but you've got your two four high and four low all located over here they make it very simple no levers to pull no clunky stuff it's all nicely sanitized there are no drive modes of sorts in this car unless you want to count towing and trailer mode you've got buttons for that and controls or for breaking over here but otherwise there's no sport or nonsense of that type it's not that kind of vehicle now gia has been doing something that gives you an alert in the bottom of the seat with a vibration if there's one on the left and one on the right right down here in the bolsters if you've got a sonar indication on the left you'll feel it there on the right you'll feel it there front and back you'll get both of them vibrating at once I gotta say it gets your attention very well more than beeps and lights and all sound alike on the other hand though it's not very specific information you have to say what what does that mean every time blind spot detection cross traffic alert back their lane departure warning those are all passive front collision warning can also be set to active braking however and of course the optional adaptive cruise control will actively maintain both speed and distance now here in the engine Bay's interesting story you know a lot of Ford's are going to turbo v6 is not this guy 5.3 liter v8 modernized with direct injection but decidedly old-school in two other ways its overhead valve not overhead cam and just two valves per cylinder where almost every other engine in the world is four and the power it makes is three hundred and fifty-five horse we hundred eighty three foot-pounds of torque probably good numbers of course but this is a big vehicle active cylinder management is here it Cleaves this v8 into a v4 when you're cruising or coasting and you'll pick up one mile per gallon if you choose the rear-wheel drive configuration driving this new Suburban tells me everything I need to know about General Motors market research and here's why this vehicle screams big heavy isolated and safe clearly attributes they've heard over and over from suburban owners that they want to stay in this vehicle it's got a fair amount of power as we notice but it's not responsive to the throttle steering is isolated as well I'm not that impressed with this magnetic ride control suspension is doing I know it's very technologically advanced but I'm just feeling too much of the little details in the road printing through the bottom of my seat but this is your classic original SUV big high riding in command and lots of space and early now our 2015 suburban LTZ top of the line starts off about 62 7 with destination 3,000 more if you wanted four-wheel drive like ours key package to go CNET style is dorkly called sun entertainment and destinations for little over 3,300 you get the MyLink with navigation the dual 9-inch blu-ray rear seat entertainment rig and the power sunroof adaptive cruise is 1700 more and under five hundred bucks to get you a hotspot though right now it's still a 3G hot spot wait till later in 2014 to get the 4G powered one through the OnStar services package a little over 71 grand the way we see it