Chevrolet Blazer

 

Embodying what a full-size vehicle should be Chevrolet came out with the Blazer and everyone liked what they saw. It was a vehicle that even from its interiors you can see that it is built to last. Together with its sibling the GMC Jimmy, both vehicles were to have names that resounded with power, full-size, durability, dependability and reliability. Back then the Sport Utility vehicle tag wasn’t a byword yet. In their release in 1969, Chevrolet once again showed that their engineers know what they are doing.

The Chevrolet Blazer was based on the full-size Chevrolet C/K pickup truck chassis. With its proven quality already, the platform could only get better. At the start, The Chevrolet Blazer sported a removable hardtop as well as the GMC Jimmy. But it was only until 1976, when a half-cab body style was introduced. The Full-size Chevrolet Blazer sported a big engine and every acclamation about it was justifiably backed up. It could almost do anything, haul cargo, tow big and heavy objects such as trailers and boats, traverse any trail, it epitomized what a sport utility vehicle should be. But by the eighties, a clamoring for smaller SUV’s was putting a strain to the Chevrolet Blazer sales and they soon provided a smaller version. The S10 Blazer was soon born. Smaller in size but it still provided the same power and capabilities as well as the toughness of the original Blazer.

As time went by many configurations were changed to cope up with the competition and to welcome the new technology in automobile engineering. This only made the Chevrolet Blazer bigger and stronger. But because the Chevrolet Blazer was already twenty-five years running, the new generation of SUV enthusiasts wanted something that could be their own. Not something that their dads used. So after its 1994 production, the Chevrolet Blazer Badge for the full-size SUV was dropped and replaced with the Chevrolet Tahoe.