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By Jeff Glucker
Sep 12, 2019
The Chevy Blazer is back! Chevy has revived its Blazer, but this is no real-deal SUV. The new Blazer is built on the bones of a crossover. Does that matter? Depends on who’s asking really. For the average consumer it’s fine. And the average consumer is who matters to most car makers.
So what’s this new Blazer all about? Click play and find out.
[Disclaimer: Chevy tossed us the keys to the new Blazer and included a tank of fuel.]
Jeff Glucker is the co-founder and Executive Editor of Hooniverse.com. He’s often seen getting passed as he hustles a 1991 Mitsubishi Montero up the 405 Freeway. IG: @HooniverseJeff
Kamil Kaluski
Funny, orange paint lifts the most uninteresting turd out of the gutter.
http://speedzone.hu/upload/tesztek/vaz_2109_sputnik_2.jpg
Yeah, also the Blazer looks good like that.
I think the video is off-hue. The Blazer isn’t offered in orange– only a couple of shades of red, neither of which appear orange. Looking at the RS badge in the grille (should be red, not orange) and the taillights (which appear orange as well), I’d say we’re seeing this through a warm filter.
Regardless, orange is awesome, and can potentially make any car better. I don’t think it or any color will make me think the Blazer looks good, though.
It was the overcast day and the gopros… I couldn’t capture the red
I’ve not had much color consistency either with my GoPro temperature set to automatic. I don’t use it often enough to care, nor do I use mine for any important production– just for fun. The Blazer’s color in the video is much better than either of the reds Chevy offers anyway.
Oddly, it wasn’t set to automatic. I was in Protune mode which usually works for me. Every way I tried color correcting the video, the hue just got MORE orange… this is the best I could do.
You might have done Chevy a favour and provided a good example. The colour is really what I like here. Bought my first car the same way: A 1977 orange Volvo 242 beat a 1971 burgundy 144. Because…orange.
Nothing about this Chevy is enticing, and just the first seconds make me shiver…the rearward visibility is another obvious low point in the industry. Silly! On the price, the MDX is really more interesting – yet, I’d expect less discounts at Acura.
You might have done Chevy a favour and provided a good example. The colour is really what I like here. Bought my first car the same way: A 1977 orange Volvo 242 beat a 1971 burgundy 144. Because…orange.
Nothing about this Chevy is enticing, and just the first seconds make me shiver…the rearward visibility is another obvious low point in the industry. Silly! On the price, the MDX is really more interesting – yet, I’d expect less discounts at Acura.
nope, sorry Chev, but this is the only Hugger Orange Blazer I’m interested in
http://www.rustfreeclassics.com/images/Chevy4X4/72K5_Blazer_CST_Orange/72K5_Blazer_CST_Orange%20042%20%5B800x600%5D.JPG
$51k is a lot but think of it this way. There is a $100k truck out there now. That and the payments will be low with your new 10 year/10k mile lease.
Prices for vehicles is just insane now. I’m going to go hug my Kia Soul and even then I bought it when it was a couple years old. It’s still a deal new. I just want an equivalent American vehicle in that price range.
Man I sound like when I used to bitch about their not being a cheap American motorcycle until the HD Street 500 came along.
Trucks are ridiculously overpriced cash cows, yes, and you can load up an F-450 to the mid-$90s, but at that price you’re talking about a huge vehicle with remarkable capabilities and far more electronic and tactile luxury than this Blazer. This is essentially a FWD car (Malibu) with a raised suspension and AWD. It’s like taking a Fiat Panda, giving it AWD, a lift, and the face of a Wrangler, and trying to pass the thing off as a Jeep. Wait… FCA did that already. Well, at least they didn’t try to sell them for $50k.
Domestic CUV’s aren’t typically premium offerings. Interested to see what discounts are applied.
Jeff mentioned the Murano. The Platinum trim versions are advertised for less than $33k. Whatever the Blazer is, it’s not $17k more car than a top trim Murano.
Nor is the Murano $17k more car than a base Honda Fit. That Nissan crossover ranks up there as one of the dullest drives on the road.
Agreed, personally, just waiting to see what the market consensus is. I was thinking that dullness is a virtue in this segment.
Ha!… “dullness is a virtue in this segment”. I think you’ve completely changed my perspective on crossovers with that revelation.
A top-trim Murano being double the price of a base fit doesn’t seem unreasonable.
Maybe not to many people, but if you told me I could either have a brand-new top-trim Murano or a base-model Fit plus $17k, I’d happily drive off in the Honda with the cash. Even if you offered me either car and no cash, with the stipulation that I had to keep my choice and never sell it, I would still choose the Fit.
Understood, I’m also not one who values fancy cars that much either, especially now that basic cars are so well-equipped.
The average mid-sized SUV/crossover transaction price in the U.S. is currently around $38-39K. That puts this Blazer into lofty territory for a non-luxury SUV, and I don’t think anyone can reasonably call this car luxurious. Not only that, but the Blazer Jeff drove isn’t even the most expensive. You can spec one out for $55k, if you like. I don’t even like it at $40k.
It looks like a Nisan Murano with a Lexus grille and a bowtie. Why should I care about a crossover just because its called a Blazer? At least the Ford Bronco promises to be a proper offroader like its progenitor, if Ford ever stops teasing and builds it.
No one will actually have to pay “fifty one fucking thousand dollars(!)” for one of these. There’ll be plenty of incentives for them at every single half-assed holiday. PS, Hugger Orange would look killer on this.
A lot of people got stuck on them using the hallowed Blazer name. But it seems like everyone forgot that the last 10 years of the Blazers were complete junk.
Aside from that, this thing embodies everything I can’t stand about the current state of cars. It’s a CUV available with FWD and a 4 cylinder when it shouldn’t be. It has black wheels and out of place black accents elsewhere. The roof is squat for no reason and visibility sucks. The body lines go every which way with no continuity. The grille is a throwback to the late 1960s styling in that it takes up the whole front of the car. And it’s way too expensive for what you get.