2003 Chevy Avalanche Road Test
Chevy's Avalanche turns heads wherever you go. The front end design - last year's sneak preview to 2003's full-size Chevy truck - is flanked by unique dual headlamp clusters with a wide chrome horizontal strikethrough spanning the grille opening. A slightly darker tone of thick gray plastic covers the lower front fascia, incorporating industrial size fog lamps before it reaches back along the trucks profile, cutting its wheel openings in half in the process. Gray plastic was the only theme for 2002, but now a less intimidating body color package gives the ½ ton version the 'naked' look, to coin a popular motorcycle term. This should extend the models popularity to more traditional pick-up truck buyers. Now the massive plastic covered roll bar - a feature shared with the Cadillac Escalade EXT - is probably its most controversial styling element.
