The truck/SUV industry is hurting, then why the Tahoes?

some people actually need large vehicles. really, they actually NEED them. plus some tahoes are now hybrids.

Currently GM is offering employee plus incentives, some of the higher priced Tahoes are being sold for $18,000 less when u add up all available discounts..Last year GM had this same promotion and it sparked their quarterly numbers..But don't be fooled the Tahoe plant in Janesville Wisconsin will be closed by the end of the 2010 and You wont see as many in the Dealerships next year..

Because people in the U.S.A. are stupid and short sighted. They think too often with their genitals when buying something like a car. This is fine if you are independently wealthy, but not if you are the average joe.

They fall for the employee discount incentives, red tag sales, and recent decline in gas prices. We will never learn.

Also in recent history GM has only done well with sales of gas guzzling vehicles like SUVs and trucks, so if they can't sell those, I don't know what they are going to do in the U.S.A.

People are dumb, and fall for all the so called "sales" that dealerships are having. And 15-18mpg is terrible. I average 18 city/23.8mpg highway in my 2008 Toyota Tundra truck, and I avearage 20city/24 highway in my 1996 Jeep Grand Cherokee LTD.

It also depends on where you live. If you live in a small town, out in the country, or in a town that gets snow and ice storms you're going to see more 4WD SUV's and trucks than say in San Francisco where owning anything 4WD is pretty useless unless you plan on driving over curbs which is a city persons' idea of offroad driving when they drive over a curb at Walmart.

I just love the new look and drive of the new tahoe and I figure since I'm on the road over two hours a day, I might as well get something that I like. It sure beats the 9 mpg that I got on the old suburban we had.

I've been renting an '08 Tahoe 2wd through my company. I can get 20-22mpg on the highway with the Active Fuel Management system. Not bad for its size if you ask me. That is better than your claimed 15-18.

Why are you ranting about SUV sales and poor fuel mileage, then plan on purchasing one?!

the government has destroyed the american motor vehicle industry by using way of the Union foyer. No inner maximum industry can function under the rigidity the UAW had delivered upon them. sure, the bailout harm the motor vehicle industry, they could have taken financial disaster and the unions suffered the cutbacks purely like something human beings. imo-if that would not ensue, united statesa. will under no circumstances have an motor vehicle industry back.

The SUV sales are worse in the 2nd hand market. Look to buy one of the Tahoes the dealer sold this year from the poor schmuck who bought it this year.

The value of used SUVs is way way way down. New ones are still selling at way too high of prices.

Some people are actually stupid. They think, "Oh, gas went down .50/gallon, so I can buy a gas hog to haul my screaming little brats around."

Sucker. Born. Every minute.