I heard a couple of months ago that the Trailblazer was going to be axed after the '07 model. I was pretty surprised about it and haven't heard much more until today in another thread here.

Why is this happening? Is it due to those slow sales and going to be removed completely or is it going to be replaced with something else?

 

Welcome to today's newest fad...."crossover" vehicles!

Does Ford have plans to axe the Explorer? I believe the Trailblazer very recently topped Explorer in sales for the first time, which I thought was pretty significant since the Explorer has held the SUV sales title forever.

I don't think GM has made anything official, but the writing is on the wall to me. They're practically giving them away (you can regularly find $159/month lease deals on LS 2WD models) and there's no plans to update the horrendous interior or getting-dated exterior.

 

Yup the TB (about a year ago?) became the best selling SUV in the country and since there is a new floavor of the week GM is going to let there 300,000 unit/year SUV rot and distroy another GM nameplate.

Maybe they will bring back a smaller Blazer based on the short Colorado 2.0 platfom

 

I'd rather have smaller, car-based SUVs with better handling characteristics and fuel economy. Whether they're a fad or not I don't know. For a lot of drivers, crossovers make more sense than the often oversized (generally speaking and for the owner's needs) traditional SUV.

 

Yeah, I dont know if they are going to invest any more money in a next gen 360 chassis, especialy after the major investment in the 900's and the Lambda platforms.
IMO, it would be a good idea to create a more flexable NG 360 chassis, one that could make both mid sized SUV and truck.
This could give you a nice Tblazer, Envoy and a bigger H3. Everyone else gets Lambda (including GMC) crossovers, and then make a 360 midsized Colorado and Canyon. This would give a much better platform to make a real mid sized SUV and truck, carry the 5, 6 and V8 engines, and several 4WD systems from a basic system for Colorado to an advanced system for the H3. H3 could be a REAL Grand Cherokee/Pathfinder/4Runner fighter.

 

I'm just guessing here but I do think the crossover SUV market is expanding while more traditional, especially truck based, SUVs are continuing to slow.

I just (yesterday) ordered an Infinity QX56 (the full-sized SUV) and the only other vehicle I was considering was the FX45...the performance of the FX45 is pretty appealing but in the end, I wanted the room and towing capacity of the QX.

My point being, I've no doubt that a lot of people would make a comparison like that and opt for the better performing (more nimble, faster, better MPG and and usually slightly less expensive) crossover.

 

I think Chevy will do like Darth said and put out a Chevy GMT355 derivitive BOF SUV and they already have a Lambda and Theta crossovers. That part of the market gets pretty full rather quickly, and this is just GM.

 

QZ? FZ?

What's this all about?

 

Think he meant QX and FX

 

thats right beside X.

 

Well I thought about that but he did it three times in a row.

 

i always hit the T button when i want Y...most of the time i catch it but sometimes i don't. could be the same deal here.

 

Yes; the "Z" and "X" keys are a bit close.

 

You sure are a Nissan feen. Why get the QX56 instead of the all best in class Escalade, or even a Tahoe LTZ?

 

Think of who he praises alot and who just moved lots of jobs to TN, where his location is. There may be a correlation.