Let’s say you’ve got your eye on a great new, big brand Chevrolet Tahoe RST with its perennially excellent 6.2-liter V8. You have fully developed fantasies of walking down the main street of your town, waving to people as they bask in the reflected light of your exhaust. and the paint is shiny, but there’s one thing wrong. You 13 hp and 7 lb-ft shy in the face of respect, and the tide of those is turning into mockery. Ruined illusion.
Or maybe not, because at the North American International Auto Show today, Chevrolet announced a special performance version of the Tahoe RST will, coincidentally, have exactly 13 more horsepower and 7 lb-ft more torque than the regular hum-drum RST. That makes a total of 433 hp and 467 lb-ft for those of you playing at home. It gets that power from a freer intake and exhaust system, so the sound is better, also.
Now that your fantasy world is back on track from being nearly shattered by the harsh, cold light of reality, you’ll be able to win in lights with a borderline. world strongly stated by the manufacturer 0-60 time 5.78 seconds (when manufacturer includes hundredths of seconds, you know things are serious). You should then be able to continue with a solid top speed of 124 mph – 12 mph better than a non-Perf RST.
But it’s not just the upgraded energy storage on the Performance Edition. No, it also borrows some bits from the Pursuit package (read: police car) Tahoespecifically in suspension, with new springs, damper and The shaker keeps everything under control. Ride height drops 0.4 inches to the front and 0.8 inches to the rear, like Tahoe police, which will help handling and make it easier for the driver and shorter passenger (or speed) to get in.
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The brakes come with some big red Brembo brake calipers up front and a 25% brake rotor larger than normal RST. This gives uber-Tahoe a claim 60-0 stopping distance is 133 feet, less than length of two blue whales (Southern Hemisphere population, Natch)and that’s not terrible.
If you want to live up to your dream of being the ugliest Tahoe owner in town, it will cost you $8,525 more than the cost of a normal Tahoe RST to get the privilege. Production will begin later this year.
