1995 Chevy Tahoe - Look, Ma It's Not Even a Hardtop

I'm not a truck guy but being a coupe lover it's not surprising to me that I loved the two door Chevy Tahoe. And look, Ma, it's not even a hardtop.

These two door Tahoe's are spiritual successors to the Chevrolet K5 Blazer which were also based on Chevrolet's short wheel base light truck chassis. "Back in the day", if you wanted a four door, full size SUV, you had to move up to the ginormous and unwieldy Chevrolet Suburban which was based on Chevrolet's long wheel base light truck chassis. Then, in 1995, Chevrolet redesigned their full size SUV line introducing a four door full size SUV based on Chevrolet's short wheel base light truck chassis. The rest, as they say, is history.

 

 

The two door and four door Tahoe's were sold side by side and, wouldn't you know it, the more practical in every way four door out sold the two door models by a wide margin. Easy to see why when they updated the Tahoe in 2000 they passed on a two door model. Another coupe bit the dust making these handsome 1995-1999 Tahoe two doors quite rare. Cool as all get out but nonetheless, rare. After 1995, the Chevrolet Suburban, incidentally, became little more than a Tahoe with an extended cargo area out back.

In the mid to late 1990's, the confluence of a red hot economy and cheap gas ignited sales of not only SUV's but full size SUV's like our two door Tahoe here. More "car like" than the K5 Blazer ever was, in retrospect, it's easy to see why they were as popular as they were and how their myriad off shoots continue to be so today. Combining practicality with an ease of operation, an elevated driving position and chiseled good looks, it was only a matter of time until SUV's and cross overs not only sub planted minivan's in America's driveways, but family sedans as well.