It’s Canada. They asked politely and said please, so the driver really had no other option.

How can someone with so much technical and historical knowledge of cars screw up and forget there’s a difference between curb weight and gross weight? Letting me down Torch. 

You’re comparing gross weight of the Trailblazer to curb weight on the others. I can’t find a published value on the curb weight for the 2021 Trailblazer. I expect it to be close to 3k pounds, putting the power-to-weight on par with the 2006 Scion XB you compared.