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Regular Car Reviews · Regular Car Reviews · 31 Aug 2026

Get in at www.fanathem.com/regularcars Deadline to enter is 9/7/2026 On this week’s Regular Car Reviews, we drive the 2009 Chevrolet Avalanche LTZ: it’s a pickup truck, it’s an SUV, but it’s also kind of an American ute. It’s got a “midgate” that transforms the short bed into a genuinely useful full-length cargo floor, but it also delivers bankruptcy-era GM plastics, a really dumb Active Fuel Management system that you have to bypass if you want your engine to survive, and all the aesthetic appeal of a dad who wears baseball jerseys to formal events. We’ll examine why the Avalanche initially…