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2019 Chevy Blazer Has Available Heated And Ventilated Front Seats

The all-new, 2019 Chevrolet Blazer midsize crossover has been imbued with a bit of upscale comfort, including offering a pair of heated and ventilated front-row seats in certain trims. While heated seats have been around for more than half a century, ventilated seats are a newer innovation, comparatively speaking, having first become available in a production car about two decades ago with the Saab 9-5.

Here’s what you need to know about the 2019 Chevy Blazer’s heated and ventilated front drivers and passengers seats.

Benefits

The benefits of a heated and ventilated car seat are enhanced comfort no matter the ambient air temperature. Heated seats are an absolute blessing during the colder months of the year, as anyone who’s endured a Michigan winter can attest, as they warm the seat surfaces to be more welcoming to cold derrières.

This is especially beneficial when the vehicle is being started for the first time on a cold morning, before the cabin is yet up to temp, as the electric heating coils in heated seats don’t rely on hot engine coolant for warmth, and can thus be made nice and cozy for the driver much more quickly.

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But in hot weather, the last thing a vehicle occupant wants is a hot seat, and that’s where seat ventilation comes into play. Such systems typically use two electric fans – one in the seat back, and one in the bottom – to blow air at the driver through perforations in the seat upholstery. That helps to cool and dry the driver and front passenger to maintain a comfortable temperature on hot, sticky summer days, and again, it’s able to get to work long before the air-conditioning system is producing cool air for the cabin.

Availability

The 2019 Chevy Blazer’s heated and ventilated front seats are assigned RPO code KU9, and come fitted as standard on the range-topping Premier model. They can also be had on the new Chevy Blazer RS, as part of the Enhanced Convenience and Driver Confidence II Package (RPO code ZL8), which lumps in things like Chevrolet Infotainment 3 with an 8-inch touchscreen, premium Bose audio, power tilt and telescope steering column, and a slew of active safety and convenience features like Adaptive Cruise, Forward Automatic Braking, and Lane Keep Assist.

For the latest 2019 Chevrolet Blazer news, check back regularly to GM Authority.

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Aaron Brzozowski is a writer and motoring enthusiast from Detroit with an affinity for '80s German steel. He is not active on the Twitter these days, but you may send him a courier pigeon.

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  1. Sorry, but Made in Mexico doesn’t make me want to buy it when there are so many other SUVs made in the US that support American jobs and communities. And given how many times GMA writes about this vehicle trying to sell it like a used car salesman, well, it doesn’t give me much hope it will do well. Great cars sell themselves.

    Amazing how BMW. Mercedes, Toyota, Honda all build their vehicles in the U.S. supporting American jobs and communities, but GM says it has to build vehicles in Mexico and China still. So sad…

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    1. What’s sad is that you just don’t get it. Not in the slightest. Not one bit.

      Let’s first start off by setting you real straight: GMA (GM Authority) is not “trying to sell” anything. We write about what’s informative, interesting and relevant to our readers and the world at large and don’t stand to benefit if any units of any product benefit or not from it. So you can put that nonsense out of its misery.

      In fact, it’s baffling how you feel that you can come to GM Authority to find out the latest information about GM and its products for free before it’s available anywhere else, and then decide to create some ludicrous conspiracy theories like the one you attempted to present in your comment.

      1. All of the automakers you mentioned also build outside the U.S. and import into the U.S.

      2. BMW and Mercedes-Benz are luxury brands and therefore have completely different strategic, organizational and financial structures when compared to mainstream brands like Chevrolet. So to compare them to Chevrolet is sad (and stupid). Why don’t you compare BMW and Mercedes-Benz to Cadillac. Do you know how many Cadillac models are made in the U.S.A? I’ll save you the research and tell you: it’s over 99 percent. Can you say the same about BMW or Mercedes-Benz or Audi? No, you can not.

      3. GM’s objective and goal in existing is not to create jobs, whether in North America, the United States, or otherwise. It’s objective is to make money (profit) and value for its shareholders. To that end, it makes cars where it makes the most sense from a profitability, supplier, sourcing and risk management standpoints.

      4. Are you aware of where the money (profit) is going in a foreign company that builds locally (like Toyota or Honda)? It still goes back to Japan. Meanwhile, GM keeps it mostly in the United States. And in that regard, consider this:
      – For every one blue collar job, 3 ancillary jobs are created
      – For every one white collar job, 5-6 other ancillary jobs are created

      GM has most of its white collar workforce in the U.S… how about Honda and Toyota?

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    2. Saygoo. Do you know where the computer/smartphone you used to write this comment, is made in? Made in China. For some reason all you are Ok with everything you have made in other countries but when it comes to cars it ticks you off. Ridiculous!

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  2. The stop/ start that can’t be by-passed or disconnected kills it for me.

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  3. Kind of one-sided here. The other major OEMs you mentioned all manufacture their vehicles in various countries. GM makes the Blazer in Mexico not because it is cheaper (logistics for shipping kind of negate that) but because the other facilities that make Chi-platform vehicles are at capacity (Spring Hill). This is a vehicle primarily sold in the U.S., so it would make more sense to build it here, but it isnt economically feasible at this time, especially with commodity costs from elevated trade tensions wiping around 1 billion in profit off of a single fiscal quarter. This is a global industry, where many OEMs (including GM) sell more cars in foreign countries than their own. I guess you’d have a point if GM ONLY made vehicles in Mexico but the large majority of the them (K2/T1 trucks, Traverse/Enclave/etc) are made here. The Envision is made in China…why? Because they sell a large quantity of them their and Buick is popular amongst the chinese. But hey, what do I know.

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    1. There is plenty of capacity in the USA or Canada to build the Blazer where it will be purchased. GM has made a serious mistake by choosing to build it in Mexico. They will regret it.

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      1. “There is plenty of capacity in the USA or Canada to build the Blazer”.

        Is there now? I assume that you have done a complete analysis of the matter and have considered all the various factors.

        Since I really doubt you’ve done that, I will say this: there is NOT enough capacity in the U.S. or Canada to build the Blazer. Prove me wrong.

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        1. Well supposedly, isn’t GM closing the Lordstown, Ohio plant? That plant is huge, why can’t they build it there?

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  4. It makes sense that small cars be made outside the US with lower labor costs and these models are also sold world-wide. But mid size SUV’s are mainly sold in the US. It’s also a glaring issue allowing Lordstown to operate at such a low volume. Leave Malibu in Mexico as sales slump, but all the new mid-size SUV’s: Blazer and XT6 should be domestic products. I would also hope the new Encore/Trax/Granite be built in North America along with Korea.

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  5. Unfortunaely, I think the Blazer will turn out to be an unsuccessful effort. A nostalgic name and not sufficient differentiation between where it’s intended to slot in Chevy’s lineup won’t have potential buyers lining up at the door.

    Example: The difference between a Traxx and an Equinox is quite obvious – even just by comparing them from looking at pictures in a sales brochure. The same goes for the differences between an Equinox and the Traverse as well as the Traverse and Tahoe / Suburban.

    What exactly does the Blazer offer that sets it so drastically apart from both the Equinox and Traverse?

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    1. The Blazer is much larger than the equinox. It’s essentially a Chevy variant of the Cadillac XT5, on a wider track. It also looks about an order of magnitude better and is available with features that are unavailable on the equinox such as the rear camera mirror and those featured in this article.

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    2. If the difference between the Trax and Equinox is obvious to you, then the difference between the Equinox and Blazer should be as well.

      It’s called size… the longest-standing bastion of product differentiation across nearly all industries.

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  6. So does an Equinox for $7k less!

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    1. The same can be said for countless other lower-priced vehicles, if the race you’re trying to win is to have the lowest price possible.

      Put the two side by side. The Equinox looks like it’s worth $10K less than the Blazer.

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  7. That may well be. However, the general buying public isn’t going to let go of an extra $10k so they can have a “better looking” vehicle. Instead, they will probably look at other models or even other brands – especially with interest rates slated for an increase again in the very near future.

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    1. 1. Looks/styling/design is the #1 reason that customers will part with more money. Sit in on a clinic once in a while and you’ll see this very clearly.

      2. Outside of #1, the Blazer is a full size class larger than the Equinox. There is a reason the Nissan Murano, Ford Edge, Hyundai Santa Fe (Sport) and other midsize crossover models exist and make a profit. It’s called size and space.

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  8. Many billybobs mad that the new Blazer isnt a big-greasy-4bbl, 150 hp, 454cid , 5mpg, $10k, rustbucket to “go muddin” and a modern, efficient CUV that will actually make GM money and use “it’s Mexican-made” as a copout that didn’t stop the Avalanche and Escalade EXT buyers from wanting one during thier peak and the Blazer is coming from the same factory.

    Wake-up, Chevy still make an full-size, full-frame Blazer, it’s called Tahoe.

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  9. It sorta bothers me that Alex didn’t mention customer satisfaction, it’s all stockholders. If it wasn’t for the customers, your stockholders would be screaming. My husband and I were very faithful and hard working GM workers and took very much pride in our jobs for GM, now we’re retired and very thankful for our retiree benefits and hope they don’t forget about us after our working hard for them. And further more, ever since we started working for GM, we have been loyal GM customers even as retirees.

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    1. Sharon – I couldn’t have possibly listed all possible things GM should be focused on. Instead, I simply focused on bottom-line items. Customer Satisfaction is not a bottom-line consideration, though it definitely contributes to the bottom line.

      That said, there is an entire department within GM for Customer Satisfaction that has permeated across the organization. Obviously, GM is focused on this.

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  10. I really like the new Blazer and knowing now it is not made in the USA. I will buy one i wont buy made in America as long as Trump is there………….

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    1. Oh my Laverne! You don’t like the bath water so you also throw out the baby and everything in it. I guess you won’t be buying much of anything!!

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      1. And your right not buying much from the USA…Its your baby not mine…

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  11. I have a question, if I decide to finance my new vehicle, which I just ordered, through GMAC, do I get a certain percent off of my new vehicle?

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