Comments by "Charles Eye" (@TheCharleseye) on "Bart's Car Stories" channel.

  1. The first Chevy Suburban came out in 1935. It is the first SUV and the longest continuously running nameplate in history.
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  2.  @dumkopf  If the definition of SUV was "has 4x4" then most SUVs wouldn't be. It's too bad no governing body agrees with you. Also, given that the Suburban was the first SUV, its characteristics at the time would be the first characteristics that define what an SUV is. It did not have 4x4, therefore that cannot have been a defining characteristic. Oops.
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  3. Chevrolet Suburban: 1935-Present
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  4. Suburban. 1934 as a 1935.
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  5. Except for the part where he implies the Scout was the first SUV. Other than that, it was a good video.
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  6. Chevy Suburban. 1935 model year.
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  7.  @ditzydoo4378  What is your point, exactly?
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  8. The first SUV was the Chevy Suburban.
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  9.  @grayman7208  That was not at all my argument but thanks for either building a strawman or not knowing how to read. You really saved me time with not having to take you seriously.
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  10.  @grayman7208  Again, work on your reading comprehension. This wasn't a "gotcha" moment for you. Try harder or troll harder but don't ride the rail.
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  11. There are fewer and fewer two-door vehicles of most types. People buy the four-door versions at a much higher rate, so it makes financial sense to focus on those. Even two-door pickups are going away, more and more. Americans largely prefer more space and easier access to that space, over a shorter length and more nimble steering.
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  12.  @geraldscott4302  I'll give you that.
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  13. Suburban.
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  14. ​ @ericl2969 Way to move those goalposts. He said first SUV. The Suburban was the first SUV. And yes, it had 2WD back when everything had 2WD. The fact that someone else came along and added 4WD to their own SUV after that doesn't change anything. You sound like the people who claim Apple made the first smartphone and tablet (neither are true).
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  15. Chevrolet Suburban. 1935 model year in 1934. There is only one "first" SUV. The fact that others came along and added features to an existing idea doesn't change that.
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  16. Plug-in hybrids are the right way to go but politics is involved, so it has become gas vs electric. If people could buy affordable vehicles that would drive them to work and back on batteries they charge at home, but still be able to stop at a gas station when they need to do longer runs, that would be huge. People would use electricity almost exclusively. Most folks go to work, the store, and home on most days. That's it. A vehicle with a 40-50 mile range on its batteries is all that's needed for the majority of use. Then, the gas engine would get used for longer haul stuff, which happens much less frequently. It's going to get worse before it gets better. They're going to screw up thr mwrket by forcing out gas vehicles too soon. The infrastructure for EVs isn't there and it isn't going to get there. We're going to be sitting in the dark, waiting for the rolling blackouts to stop, while our power companies tell us to plug our cars into our houses and use up the only fuel our cars have, to run our furnaces.
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  17. The Chevy Suburban predates them both. Came out in 1935.
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  18.  @-oiiio-3993  What an incredibly cool and irrelevant story. The Suburban was the first SUV. The fact that other companies added features to their SUVs before Chevy did doesn't matter. The iPhone was not the first smartphone, either...just in case you were wrong about that, too.
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  19. Yes, Dodge built a Suburban-style SUV. Meanwhile, Chevy built the Suburban in 1933 for commercial use and then released it for the general populous in 1934 as a 1935 model. No SUV pre-dates the Suburban.
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  20. ​@ericl2969 1957 was the first year 4WD was available as a factory option on the Suburban. Regardless, that's just goalpost shifting. The Suburban was the first SUV. It came out in 1933 commercially, and 1934 publicly. It didn't have 4WD because virtually nothing did at the time. You do know that having the first capacitive touchscreen (as opposed to resistive) didn't make the iPhone the first smartphone, right? Adding features to an existing type of product doesn't make you first. The Willys Jeep and the Scout are awesome vrhicles. They're just neither of them the first SUV.
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