Chevrolet Blazer returns to the market

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We travel to Atlanta, Georgia to see first hand an important model for Mexico, it is the Chevrolet Blazer, which will be manufactured in our country at the Ramos Arizpe Coahuila plant.

 

Blazer besides having an emblematic name has been a differentiating model of the Chevrolet range, since in its beginnings back in the seventies it dared to make fun and functional proposals, for example a pickup with completely removable roof and many 4X4 capacities . Over the years the Blazer was refined, and went from being an extreme version of a pick up to a utility vehicle with more orientation to human transport, than the cargo and thus became a medium SUV. In the Mexican market we knew her as Trail Blazer.

Well as we discussed, General Motors decides to revive the name Blazer -without the Trail-, and presents a completely new product, with an aggressive appearance and a functional design, in a vehicle with the SUV / Crossover denomination of two rows of seats for five passengers


 

During the static presentation we met two equipment options, the most visually aggressive is the so-called RS with sporty tones and black accents and large wheels that remind us of the Camaro and the Premier version that is focused more on elegance and touches of chrome.

None has the aggressive pretensions and Off Road that its predecessors had, now is focused on a market of high, spacious and comfortable vehicles, but 100% designed for use on pavement, the two versions were equipped with systems of all-wheel drive (AWD)

 

Two available engines will be in the new 2019 Blazer, a four-cylinder 2.5-liter that delivers 193 hp of force and a torque of 188 lb-ft. The second power plant is a 3.6-liter V6 that delivers 305 hp and 269 lb-ft. Both engines will be coupled to a conventional nine-speed automatic transmission.

As we commented at the beginning of this note, the Blazer will be available until 2019, and we do not know if its presentation in society in the USA. will be at the next Salon de Los Angeles, to be held in the last quarter of 2018, or in the Detroit Show that will be held in the first month of 2019, where we will surely know the final production versions.

The models we saw were preproduction, but already with the details of equipment and well-defined materials, and within the few we could know we discovered that it has the technologies on board that the customer demands, for example induction charging system for telephones, virtual board, many USB connectors, OnStar system and as we have already specified it will be manufactured in Mexico.