In an age when even Rolls-Royce sells an SUV, it’s easy to forget that they didn't always exist. The first one — no, it wasn’t Jeep — was the Chevrolet Suburban.
Of course, Suburban wasn’t always a brand name. The term was originally a generic designation for a station wagon type vehicle that was manufactured and marketed by such automakers as Chevrolet, Dodge, GMC, Nash, Plymouth and Studebaker — some of them concurrently. it wasn’t until 1988 that the Suburban became a General Motors trademark, some ten years after Plymouth dropped its Suburban model.
But those other Suburbans are long gone. What remains is basically Chevrolet’s body-on-frame, three-row SUV that’s basically a longer version of the Chevrolet Tahoe. Available in ascending LS, LT, RST, Z71, Premier and High Country trim, the Suburban was redesigned for 2021, and gets a number of detail changes this year.
