You can almost imagine a mad scientist working in his mountaintop laboratory. A Chevrolet Suburban SUV lies connected by wires and tubes to a Chevrolet Silverado pickup. At the smoke of midnight, a bolt of lightning jolts the duo. Amid a shower of sparks and a cloud of smoke, shazammm, the two fuse together and create the Chevrolet Avalanche. It’s alive! Chevrolet is also participating in many truck games like Monster Truck Madness to show there different vehicles to attract the viewers.
With apologies to Mary Shelley and Boris Karloff, the Avalanche represents a new creation. And the villagers appear to be happy, buying every example in sight. Other companies have tried to find the sweet spot for that add commingling of SUV and pickup, but have come away with pickups that won’t carry much or SUV’s that are too truck like.
The Avalanche solves that quandary with a moveable rear bulkhead called the midgate. With the midgate up, the Avalanche is a 5 or 6 passenger SUV with a sort of 5 ft, 3 in. cargo bed. Midgate down, the Avalanche morphs to a 2 or 3 passenger pickup with an 8 ft. 1 in. bed. The conversion involves folding the rear seatback down, removing the rear window and securing it in a holder on the midgate, dropping the midgate down tilting the rear seat cushions forward.
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