The right product at the right time...about that price however...

The Traverse is looking pretty good against the Blazer from a price point...but that will change as Blazer incentives kick up.

This should be a hit, and should be followed by Buick (Enspire?) and GMC (Envoy?) versions.









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The right product at the right time...about that price however...

The Traverse is looking pretty good against the Blazer from a price point...but that will change as Blazer incentives kick up.

If someone can walk into a Chevy dealer & feel comfortable for a Blazer & pay $48K, then they have more money than sense.

 

Looks sharp in in the metal. I’ll have to check one out!

 

more power to Mexican manufacturing and economy!

 

very sad, the new blazer is just plain fake, shame on gm for this, you are losing your own fans.
#firemarybarra

 

LOL, welp another Meh SUV. Looks okay, just could've have did something better.

 

Sharp looking ride! Hope it sells well.

 

$38,500.00 would be selling them like hotcakes though. $50k get a used Cayenne or Macan.

 

$38,500.00 would be selling them like hotcakes though. $50k get a used Cayman

Gotta pay for those electric and autonomous vehicles.

 

Get 20% off MSRP and this thing will really move.

 

Saw a few videos posed by dealers on Youtube. Pretty decent looking except I didn't like it in white, darker colors look much better.

Can't say I wouldn't consider one. Interior looks nice and the trunk looks very XT5 with the cargo manager.



I agree. Price is a little high, especially when you move up the trim level ladder.

 

I had the opportunity to sit in one of these at the annual Indy car show this past weekend. I actually made a point to sit in this immediately after a Jeep GC to compare the insides, since I get the feeling that is the target market for this thing.

Without pulling up any internal measurements on either vehicle, the Jeep felt bigger inside. More usable space. The layout felt more new to me, but maybe because we only own GM products and the Blazer felt a lot like my wife's '15 Equinox.

Given the capabilities you get with the Jeep, this was an easy "pass" for me in pursuit of my wife's next vehicle. The Blazer costs too much, has too many good features locked in with stuff I don't want, and just to option it similar to my wife's Equinox would put it near $43K (her Nox was $37K new). I'm usually pretty good on pricing until it gets north of $40K. At that level, there had better be something special about the vehicle that allows me to justify the price. The Blazer is just too vanilla to justify its pricing. To me anyway.

 

Not bad looking for what it is. CUVs all look pretty much the same to me. Side view looks good, rear a bit too much like the Equinox. The front looked better in the pictures I've seen of the Blazer in red. With black, I'm not too impressed. Interior looks decent.

$48K is a lot. Big range though I'm sure. My '14 Cherokee Trailhawk stickered close to $37K, but could option up close to $50K even five years ago.

 

$48K is a lot. Big range though I'm sure. My '14 Cherokee Trailhawk stickered close to $37K, but could option up close to $50K even five years ago.

$48K will buy a pretty nice Cadillac Luxury trim XT5.

 

For the price, it needs to have a better engine than the 3.6L. I mean seriously its pretty expensive.

 

I don't really think $48K is out of line.

But like I said above, my 2014 Cherokee stickered close to $37K. (The electronic 4wd knob is really similar to the Cherokee's.) Even five years ago, if I had added on the various crash avoidance and safety stuff as well as some other options, the sticker would have been about $50K And that was five years ago. I'd think this Blazer is a pretty comparable vehicles to the Cherokee.

Blazers at this dealership run from $36,380 to $48,500.

Looks like a Chevrolet Cherokee. Makes sense. Jeep has Renegade, Compass, Cherokee, Grand Cherokee. Chevy has Trax, Equinox, Blazer, Traverse. I think the Renegade and Grand Cherokee are the better products, but Equinox is at least as good as Compass. We'll see about Cherokee vs. Blazer.

 

$48k ?!?!?!?!?!?!

You can buy a REALLY nice Grand Cherokee for that price.

 

Why? have you not seen the competition with 4 cylinders well over 40 to 50 to 60k. yes they are luxury by name only. Luxury is not exclusive to those brands anymore. This can probably do a lot more than any of those luxury brands can do. Also people quit complaining about them using the Blazer name. People don't use vehicles like half the people on this forum think. Less than 10% of jeeps ever go offroad or tow anything. I bet less than 10 percent of the people buying SUV's with towing ever use the towing feature.

 

That black makes it look really nice. I still don't like the front end and the way they chose to do the lighting. Prices,
trims and options are another real big let down even if the so called "chest thumpers" say it is sorta comparative.

 

I'm not sure what a "chest thumper" is. But this sure looks like it's designed to compete with Jeep Cherokee. The pricing looks inline with that. Starts under $30K, goes up to $50K. Cherokee has been rather successful.

 

If that's $48.000 in US, it will be a total fail in Canada. That will be roughly $65.000 CAD - at this price point you have options, I mean OPTIONS. A Q5 starts at 45, a Q7 at 66. A QX60 at 48...a Lexus RX at 48...and the list goes on.
I know maybe the above are not that loaded, but f$%k me, 65k?
Man, sometimes I wonder if they really hire people that should be working in the automotive industry or just allow the accountants to run the company?
Barra dear, it seems you managed to bring Mickey Mouse to GM with you !

 

Don’t forget that GM chose to build the new Blazer in Mexico - where the labor costs are extremely low, when compared to the US or Canada.

GM is not passing-on the labor savings to the consumer.

 

WOW $48,500!!!? This should have the LT1 from the Camaro and brakes and so on for that money. Why do these CUV cost so much when they have far less tech and performance goodies compared to the Camaro? They can build a base 1SS Camaro in the $30's but can't make a LT1 Performance version of a CUV for around that much money? Does the extra metal for the bigger back seat and bigger trunk really cost that much more?

 

Still needs an engine above the 3.6 V6. The 3.0TT would make the RS worth the price.

 

GM Path to An Automobile Sharing Industry (A project manager's take)

Step 1. stop making many cars and use smoke and mirrors to say to the world that people just like CUVs [Done]
Step 2. Create an artificial demand for said CUVs to increase the demand for them by decreasing the incentives in purchasing cars instead of CUVs--car margins high, CUV margins low [Done]
Step 3. Once artificial demand for CUVs realized, Gen2 versions of CUV's will have increased prices to match the margins of the remaining cars [almost there]
Step 4. GM marketing machine will kick into gear again to force another series of price increase waves for CUVs (probably some gov't program--that always seems to work, labor costs in China or Mexico, etc.). [not quite there]
Step 5. GM will expand its monthly rental business (something like BOOK from Cadillac or similar) allowing consumers the ability to leverage the use of a vehicle at "lower" monthly rates or create their own Lyft/Uber style taxi business [into the future]

Blazer is just a cog in that wheel...

 

Yet as of today, Chevrolet still doesn't have the 'build and price' on their own website...and the vehicle is still listed under "upcoming" vehicles....

How can vehicles be at dealerships...yet something as easy as updating a website still hasn't been updated with this basic information/feature???

My guess is they are holding off on this so people don't get 'sticker shock' at how expensive it is for how they build it....I still can't get over how high the pricing is. That is probably the thing that is keeping us away when we get our next new vehicle in the next month or two.(and no, I'm not going to 'wait around' for the incentives or play the game that come with timing them.)

 

As has already been mentioned, lots of choices for $48K.

 

Eh..she's not a pretty girl is she?

Is it too much to ask to add a couple of extra inches onto the back of old girl? To balance out that heavy snout

CUV's these days remind me of Kate Upton;a whole bunch up front (in the CUV's case,nose) and nothing out back.

 

It's not that attractive to me, and not much of a value.

I could buy a base Volvo XC90 for the price of a loaded Blazer.

 

I don't like the split headlight look that seems to be the big trend these days, but this is one of the best implementations I've seen, especially in a darker color. The large chrome area between the upper lights and grille looks a tad odd.

The interior doesn't look all that special. Unfortunately at the Miami show a few months ago, the one example they had there was locked/behind a stand so I couldn't get seat time in it. At least they seemed to finally move on from the incredibly cheap 90s looking gauges seen in several other models in the Chevy/GMC lineup.

 

I don't like the split headlight look that seems to be the big trend these days, but this is one of the best implementations I've seen, especially in a darker color. The large chrome area between the upper lights and grille looks a tad odd.

Maybe it's the dark color, but that back end shot looks like the Equinox. And that chrome strip on the grill looks much worse then the shots of the red or white models on the street.

GM always over prices the new released models at first. I guess they try to get the suckers who want to be the first on the block to have one.

I don't think you'll ever see the 2.5L models. I guess I gotta hope for the Trax/Encore/Granite for better configurations and pricing.

 

As said many times before about the pricing, who, other than early buyers, is going to pay full price? This is like going into Kohls, the first day is full price and by day two there will be nice big discounts.

 

Kohl’s uses the “on sale + a %off coupon” as a marketing strategy. Their receipts show the “money saved” - which their cashiers are required to circle. The list price is outrageous and often much higher than the identical item in another store that doesn’t run that type of repeated sales.

I often believe GM uses a similar tactic (other than on certain limited model vehicles such as the Corvettes and V-Series) - “Employee pricing for all” and “20% off sticker” - etc. They often have multiple “offers” and discounts, which add-up to 15-20% off the MSRP. That “sale” price is the true base value of the vehicle - not the inflated MSRP. You can set your watch to the cycles that GM uses to market their sales. Anyone who can’t get a significant amount off of new GM vehicles MSRP (other than a few select models) is not trying and is just a saleperson’s dream.

This fall, the Blazer will be part of the massive GM discount programs advertised.

 

Absolutely Zero interest in this thing.

Cramped Interior by Tupperware, very overpriced with a mediocre drivetrain.

Honda makes CR-V's, Nissan makes a great one in the Rouge, Toyota a RAV4 and Jeep makes the Compass, every one a better buy.

And yes, I have seen one and sat in it.

 

Does anyone know if the materials on the upper dash and upper door sills are soft touch ?

 

I hear they are the softest in the segment.

 

I really, really want to like this, but I can see that they've used that same gross plastic all the way through the interior. I've seen it in the new Camaro, new trucks, and the new Acadias. A magazine described it as the same plastic they would use for fender well liners. Totally nailed it. It's really hard to look past that, as it's what you have to live with most of the time.