That’s all true and fine. No need to waste the Blazer name, then. Car and Driver have reported that GMC will be releasing a new ‘Jimmy’ to compete with the Bronco. (BoF, 4x4, etc). Why not save the Blazer name for the stablemate? It makes no sense to use it on this thing.

Body-on-frame 4x4 with available locking diff.

I hope the designers flatly refused to put any of that in this disappointment. It doesn’t deserve anything to imply it is related to the real Blazer of yore.

I can’t wait to see what they do with the Chevelle, Bel-Air, and Nova CUVs of slightly different sizes.

$5k? These are going to be the (generally) same guys asking $15k over list for the Veloster N. These will be staples of the lobby for whatever dealers get them.

Satire?

I actually got a response, they’re now calling it a “pricing error”:

Seems predatory. This same dealership will likely work out financing at 120 months to “get the payment where you need it”. They’re counting on a person without the wherewithal to understand what the price is supposed to be. Likely mentally compromised, to be honest. 

In what super-recession, post-apocalypse universe is the MSRP 50k on a Veloster?

Hyundai/KIA dealers have been oddly prone to this crap in my experience. When I bought my Genesis Coupe (as soon as they got off the first boat), I had to drive 10hrs to a dealership that wasn’t trying to cash in on $6k+ markups. These same dealerships had the same cars available 6 months later at MSRP, which is still…

“the Motor Trend Network, which used to be Velocity...”, which used to be SpeedVision, which used to be The Speed Channel.

It might be nationalist, but I always take a hard pass on a German that’s traveled 150k+. 

Cynically reading between the lines: It’s going to grow in both size and price, on the same platform, to grab that fat pickup profit margin. I had hope at the point the article said it would be on the same platform (good, lower cost), until the size increase. They’ll probably still be the cheapest, but it won’t be…

I’d light a 2-stroke scented candle if I had one. Love the smell of pre-mix in the air.

“just want to go rip around for a few hours”

I think I see what David likes about it:

“Ghosn left the Renault board on Wednesday... replaced by former head of Daimler’s Smart brand Annette Winkler.”

I’m glad this car exists, and applaud the builder’s vision.

“Gee, I sure am glad that this AD autoplays before the video autoplays when I click on the post.” – Nobody.