The point stands though. There is no sacrilege with using the name Blazer on a 4 door vehicle, if that was sacrilege, that's a sacrilege GM committed almost 30 years ago. There is no sacrilege committed by making this vehicle a smaller vehicle, again that sacrilege was committed 30 years ago. The argument about it being unibody is a different argument, that would have a valid point.

A company can't insult the heritage of a vehicle by giving the new version of it characteristics they gave a vehicle by that name 30 years ago. It makes no sense.

This is what you said:



These statements are wrong, because the differentiation you were making between "Blazer" and "Trail Blazer" was not correct, and you forgot the existence of the 4 Door S10 Blazer and subsequent 4 door 5 passenger Blazers from the 1990s, clearly when you said the S10 Blazer was 2 door. Just admit that, its very clear by your own statements.

Correct, the "K5" was an internal code that was used to differentiate the bigger Blazer from the smaller Blazer when the smaller vehicle came out.

 

Add to that. Every S-10 Blazer design as well as the 1995 Blazer design offered 2 door versions of the mid size design. So in fact, every Blazer whether it was K, S10 or just Blazer offered two door models.

If there was, it happened in the mid 1990s when they dropped the K5 Blazer and went to Tahoe. I think that change to Tahoe is a bigger insult. It would be like if all Land Cruiser models were changed to Sequoia and then 4Runner were changed to Land Cruisers and Rav4s were changed to 4Runners.

 

Correct, there was NEVER a S10 Blazer that was only available in 2 doors.

 

No--this is not correct:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_S-10_Blazer

 

I stand corrected, I didn't realize that.

See Mike, that wasn't so hard.

 

 

The S10 Blazer was made for a long time just as a 2 door before it was also released in a 4 Door. I had said the opposite, thats what he was rightfully correcting.

S10 Blazer came out in 1983 as a 2 door only, 4 door came in 1991.

 

 

See, we can be wrong! Aint the end of the world!

 

Nobody here is throwing rocks either way, Steve......or at least, should not be. That's not the purpose of these Car Chat threads.

 

That is incorrect. The K5 designation dates all the way back to the original Blazer in 1969, which was spun off from Chevrolet's C/K line of trucks. It is not a an internal code, but a model line designation.

The K5 fender emblem shows up on older full size Blazers and is part of a large aftermarket industry supplying restorers. Why would Chevy want to use K5 to differentiate the big Blazer from the baby Blazer when people could obviously see the difference in front of their eyes?

 

Before this thread went off kilter, did you mean originally to say that full size Chevy Blazers were two doors from 1969 to 1989? That's what I thought. And we haven't even talked about two door Chevy Tahoes have we, lol.

 

If that's the case then I stand corrected again.

 

Yes, correct. I went to high school with the first Blazers, in 1969. I At the time, they were brought out (in a somewhat larger size) in response to Ford's success in the mid-late 1960s with the smaller but notoriously tipsy two-door Bronco. Back then, SUVs were strictly off-road vehicles, used mostly by farmers, ranchers, hunters, and back-woods folks. You didn't see many of them on dry pavement, as it could be a PITA to lock/unlock the front wheel hubs manually and use the hand-shift transfer case. And, because of driveline-binding, you couldn't use the part-time 4WD system on hard pavement....the more flexible, center-differential AWD systems from AMC, Subaru, and Audi were still a good ten years or more in the future. As I remember, only one kid in our whole school drove a Blazer...and he worked a part-time job after school where he hauled some things.

Exactly when the last full-size two-door Blazers were built is somewhat unclear because the basic platform was renamed the Tahoe in 1994, and some sources indicate that two-door Blazers (and two-door Tahoes) were in production for another 5 years, until 1999. I won't vouch for the accuracy of any of those sources....and which is which. Besides, as you noted, the whole thread got off kilter (me included)....the real question is if the new Blazer will sell.

 

Happy to be of service.