Remember the S-10 pickup truck-based Blazer from the '80s? GM dropped the S-10 prefix for the 1995 redesign, and not long after that, Chevrolet added the Trailblazer as a separate model in North ...
From the March 2006 issue of Car and Driver. On the scale of silliness, a hot-rod truck is up there with a gas-powered bar stool. Sure, you can do it, but why would you want to? If you just want to go ...
If there’s one thing the TrailBlazer wasn’t crying out for it was more power. A new interior, maybe… but not more power!To my mind, the 300-hp, 5300 Vortec V-8 offers about as much performance as the ...
The mid-size Chevrolet TrailBlazer, which went on sale in 2002, is built on a body-on-frame platform, a manufacturing method that has fallen out of favor due to its inherent high weight and trucklike ...
GM's New TyphoonRemember the GMC Syclone and Typhoon? In the early '90s, GM raised the factory hot truck concept to a new level by installing a turbocharger on the 4.3L V-6 in the compact '91 GMC ...
"Sporty truck," an oxymoron in the old days that later meant "too harsh and not useful," has now matured into this: a sport/utility that's fun to drive, comfortable as a daily driver, and still able ...
A Corvette V-8 under the hood makes Chevy's first SS sport-ute a real muscle machine, but its 395 hp can't mask the crudeness of even this specially primped TrailBlazer. The TrailBlazer SS certainly ...
The 2006 Chevrolet TrailBlazer SS landed at a moment when family SUVs were supposed to be sensible, softly sprung appliances, and it ignored that script completely. General Motors dropped a ...