The Chevrolet Avalanche was made with real furor with its appearance. The designers of company Chevrolet created a true revolution in the class of full drive cars for leisure and sport (S.U.V. - Sport Utility Vehicle). The Chevrolet Avalanche can be considered as a pickup, and off-road- car because an ordinary basket for pickup is covered with elegant plastic lid. And this pickup can rival with other very expensive sedans.

Introduction

Chevrolet invented pickup and then added qualities of a comfortable SUV. The Chevrolat Avalanche is generally bought by farmers, hunters and adherents of extreme types of sport only. However it is not considered a shame to ride this car in a suit with a tie and jeans. The Chevrolet Avalanche will become the founder of new direction in pickup developing industry. Judging to the last models of leading machine companies and their conceptual developments, it has become such a founder.

Design

The Chevrolet Suburban is close to the size of Chevrolet Avalanche. The length of the vehicle is the same. The wheeled base is 3300 mm. The length of the car is 5570 mm and width is 2020 mm.

The ideal calm is in the salon of Avalanche, that the author of design will not be able to distinguish his interior from the same Tahoe. Familiar six scales of device panel, buttons of distributing box selector on the left, poker of automat, sticking out in the mode of parking half past one, all this is very familiar. It is necessary to say about arm-chairs. The second row is folded in a proportion 60:40, thus, to cast the back aside, it is necessary to heave up a pillow at first.

Engine

The petrol engine of V8 serves as a power aggregate of pickup by volume 5.3 litre, by power 290 Hp with maximal twisting moment 441 Nm. Except for this motor Avalanche is plugged in with V8 by volume 4.8 litre and grandiose V8 by volume 8.1 litre and 340 Hp with a reckless twisting moment 617 Nm. However, our variant of the engine is known to be optimal and universal.

Brakes

Disc brakes for the front and the back tires are provided.

Other Features

Only an automatic 4-step transmission and drive of Auto track Active 4WD is set in this pickup. Auto track Active 4WD is controlled by buttons in the front panel, where the main is Auto 4WD, involving the system of Torque on Demand. Other modes of drive correspond classic 2H, 4H and 4L. For activation of lower speed, you should stop and put on neutral speed. Side computer stretches the motion of accelerator pedal in the mode of the lowered transmission in the distributing box, as a result driving is considerably smoother than without this option.

The model introduced in 2007 is based on the absolutely new platform of GMT900, which will collect all of off-road models of the company in the future. Original appearance of car, design of its salon, and also systems of safety were changed. The new Avalanche utilizes 5.3 l and 6 liters with a capacity of one liter engines of V8 with the system of disconnecting half of all the cylinders, including modifications.

Performance

Presentation of Chevrolet Avalanche happened in 2000 in the Detroit Auto Show. The public accepted the new vehicle enthusiastically, and a year later this pickup occupied the most overhead lines of branch hit-parades. The Chevrolet Avalanche looked quite different from the of trucks produced before it. And it surpassed in everything at the quality level of transformation cars that were at the market at that moment. His conception used for planning of Cadillac EXT was so successful, that made to displace the production of main competitor of Chevrolet – Lincoln Blackwood, which was simply a beautiful comfortable pickup, but not a beautiful comfortable pickup with a sparkle like the Avalanche or EXT. Style of Chevrolet Avalanche repeated with some changes in the new line of pickups of GM of junior series: Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon. True, the original decisions of the transformed basket remained as the prerogative of initiator of style.