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The Full Size Blazer was from 1969 - 1994, in 1995 the name changed to Tahoe The Small S-10 Blazer was made from 1982-2005 The Mid sized TRAIL BLAZER became it's own model in 2002 and survived until 2009. (This by far was the best of the smaller blazers. The re-badged Holden Colorado 7 (not to be confused with the Colorado Truck) was sold in Brazil as a Chevrolet (Holden) Trail Blazer from 2012-?. To confuse matters more there is talk of bringing back the "TrailBlazer" name... which would be smaller yet to be between the Trax and Equinox. (makes no sense to me honestly)

I think your quite mistaken in your Ford prices. You can find new 2018 Mustang GT for around $30-35K all day long, even seen a few below $30K with the V8, but they are the base GT model. Granted, if you wanted the Performance pack 2, with Leather and all the goodies, you are getting to the $50K mark on the sticker. Bang for the buck the Mustang is a better deal, but the Camaro is a better car, if you can stand the awful seats and the view out of the camaro. The thing about the $50K next to the bottom Pickup is they are giving huge huge discounts on those, I just had a friend pick up a F150 XLT which stickered for $52K for $38K new off the lot. It is a pricing game with Ford, they over inflate their sticker price and give you a huge discount to let you think you are getting a deal. My friend has buyers remorse, wishes he got the GMC with Leather for about $4K more, even with the Chevy/GMC "frame shake" people are complaining about.

Is it just a short Traverse? Not my cup of tea, I wish it was based on the light truck, not some FWD thing. Not a Blazer. I will keep my Rainier V8 with 210,000 miles.

Not only that, a 4cyl 400hp turbo is not nearly as fun to drive as a 400 V8 NA... HP & all other things being equal, the V8 will always out perform a 4 cyl with the same HP.

I do not think that is completely true. In the 50's and 60's GM would redesign a car about every 3-5 years... some cases in point, the 55, 56, 57 Chevy, the 63, 64, 65 Riviera, 67, 68, 69 Camaro/Firebird, 66-70 Riviera, They started stretching things out to save on costs, in the 70's & 80's 70-81 F-body, 82-92 F-body, 79-85 Riviera etc... The 80's and 90's were the same... They would have continued the 4th gen F-body for a few more years if the car was crash worthy, they dropped the 4th gen not because of any other reason that they dropped the last generation Eldorado... it was no longer "safe" by 2003 standards. In many cases they simply redesign sheet metal, to make it look different, but with no actual change to the car, like the 97-07 Chevy minivan, from the Venture to whatever they called the last 3 years. You look back in the 1950's and body styling changed drastically every year... Anyone can tell the differences between a 55, 56 and 57 Chevy from year to year, without much help. The more frequent changes have to do more with the improvement with rapid prototyping, and the changes the Govt has mandated on crash, fuel economy, etc.... Did you know that there is a regulation that the seats in any car have to weigh so much? It has nothing to do with safety, but is strictly based on the weight... Stupid regulations like this hurt the industry, and slow it down...