Chevrolet Suburban

The Chevrolet Suburban is one of the longest-lived automobile nameplates in the United States. Automotive companies using this name to indicate a windowed, station wagon type body on a commercial frame include Dodge, Plymouth, Studebaker, Chevrolet and General Motors. With the end of production of the Dodge Town Wagon in 1966, only General Motors continued to manufacture a vehicle branded as a "Suburban". General Motors received an exclusive trademark on the name "Suburban" in 1988. Suburban is one of largest SUVs in market, it has three lines of seats and, despite that, a normal-sized trunk behind them.

Chevrolet began production of its all steel "carryall-suburban" in 1935. GMC brought out its version in 1937. These vehicles were also know as the "Suburban Carryall" until rebranded simply as the "Suburban" in the 1980s with the arrival of the SUV craze.

General Motors has produced these large SUVs for both its GMC and Chevrolet marques, but today the name is limited to the Chevrolet Suburban. The GMC version is the Yukon XL, while Cadillac gets the Escalade ESV. A shorter version is sold as the Chevrolet Tahoe, GMC Yukon, and Cadillac Escalade. A version with a pickup bed in place of the rear cargo box is sold as the Chevrolet Avalanche and Cadillac Escalade EXT. However, the Cadillac variant has a maximum of 8-passenger seating as opposed to the Suburban which has a max. of 9-passenger seating. However, the Suburban name was also used by GMC until 2000, when the GMC version became the Yukon XL.

The Suburban of the 1990s and 2000s is a full-size SUV with three rows of seating, a full pickup truck frame, and V8 engine power. The trucks are popular with large suburban families due to their "go anywhere, haul anything" nature, but have been criticized for their excessive bulk and poor fuel economy.

As of 2006, Chevrolet sells two models of Suburbans: 1/2 ton and 3/4 ton. On the 1/2 ton model, a customer has a choice of five different trim levels: base, LS, LT, Z71, and LTZ. The first four offer the Vortec 5300 V8 (295 hp at 5200 rpm and 335 lb.-ft. of torque at 4000 rpm). The latter trim choice has a Vortec 6000 V8 (335 hp at 5200 rpm and 375 lb.-ft. of torque at 4000 rpm). On the 3/4 ton model, there are only two trim options, either LS or LT. These both come with a standard Vortec 6000 V8 or an available Vortec 8100 V8 (325 hp at 4200 rpm and 447 lb.-ft. of torque at 3200 rpm). All types of the Suburban can either be 2WD or 4WD, except the LTZ, which is AWD.