Farewell…
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Say goodbye to the Chevrolet Trailblazer, the Saab 9-7X and the GMC Envoy.
These 3 truck based SUV were supposed to be produced until 2010, but GM announced plant will be closing in late December 2008.
This is the beginning of the end for most truck based SUV. And they will not be missed.
Horrible gas mileage and a trucky ride aren’t what most people want anymore.
Good riddance
They wont be missed by YOU.
’bout time. Dinosaurs anyway.
Merry Christmas to the GM workers losing their jobs a year early. 🙁
The writing was on the wall though if you think about it.. the upcoming Saab 9-4x, GMC Terrain and redesigned Chevy Equinox crossovers will effectively fill this same space in the companies’ respective lineups.
This is nothing new.. Ford will be replacing the similarly configured Explorer SUV with a reskinned Taurus X crossover in about 18 months as well.
No surprise here. I’m sure you can get a great deal on them nowadays though.
It was bound to happen sooner or later.
There will probably be more SUV’s due for the chop down the track as well.
Weren’t the Enclave/Acadia/Traverse/Outlook origionally designed as replacements for them anyway? I was suprised they hung around as long as they did; given that the Enclave et al. group set a standard that not even Toyota/Lexus, MB, honda/Acura or Nissan/Infinity seem able to reach.
I never cared about them in the first place, so I couldn’t care less about their demise.
But it is kinda funny.
That’s what happens when you continue to make big, heavy, automobiles.
You can say what you want, but when the trailblazer was in its prime, it made a lot of money for GM, and it was what the public wanted, at the time. I agree that it has past its prime and it needs to go away, but i am still the proud owner of one. The trailblazer was a very good SUV!
I thought they already killed them or that all of them rattled apart.
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Good riddance, these gas guzzling wastes of space should have been written off years ago. GM has 4 Lambda based equivalents out now, some of which are 2 years old already and GM STILL produces these???? I have no sympathy for GM, they have put themselves in the postition they are in. I was a GM devotee, they can go bankrupt for all I care.
“You can say what you want, but when the trailblazer was in its prime, it made a lot of money for GM, and it was what the public wanted, at the time. I agree that it has past its prime and it needs to go away, but i am still the proud owner of one. The trailblazer was a very good SUV!”
Ummm they are problem plagued pieces of junk. Check Consumer Reports or any other magazine that reviewed any of the iterations (sans Saab) of this vehicle. They were universally hated.
“You can say what you want, but when the trailblazer was in its prime, it made a lot of money for GM, and it was what the public wanted, at the time. I agree that it has past its prime and it needs to go away, but i am still the proud owner of one. The trailblazer was a very good SUV!”
“Ummm they are problem plagued pieces of junk. Check Consumer Reports or any other magazine that reviewed any of the iterations (sans Saab) of this vehicle. They were universally hated”
I must have bought a good one. a 2003 with 50,000 miles and no problems at all. 23 mpg on the open road. I don’t think the Arcadia based vehicle is such great vehicle. It is over weight and does not have the greatest of fuel milage.
I’m more concerned about what will become of the Atlas engine. Great fives and sixes squandered in blahmobiles.
“I must have bought a good one. a 2003 with 50,000 miles and no problems at all. 23 mpg on the open road. I don’t think the Arcadia based vehicle is such great vehicle. It is over weight and does not have the greatest of fuel milage.”
It is a million times more refined, has worlds better fit and finish, and the quality isn’t even in the same league as the Trailblazer.
They really were terrible vehicles, but I am glad that you got a good one.
It is the last of the GM junk…Oh wait…Impala is it…Is the Grand Prix finally dead this year?