General Motors reintroduced the Chevrolet Blazer nameplate as a new midsize crossover utility vehicle for the 2019 model year. One of the most eye-grabbing aspects of the new Blazer is its aggressive styling, and in particular, the highly angular, Chevrolet Camaro-esque front end. To complement the look, customers can outfit the Blazer with either a chrome grille bar, or a body-color grille bar, but the question is this – which looks better?
For reference, the current Chevrolet Blazer has offered both the chrome grille bar and the optional body-color grille bar option since the nameplate’s reintroduction for the 2019 model year. We’re now casting a spotlight on these two aesthetic choices to determine which looks better.
Chrome grille bar
Body-color grille bar
The Chevrolet Blazer’s standard exterior setup uses a chrome grille bar, which connects the two upper lighting elements and divides the large central intake with a slim upper intake section. It also adds a little extra flash to the Blazer’s front end.
By contrast, the body-color grille bar is an available extra that costs $395, and creates a slightly more cohesive look. Availability for the body-color option is limited to the following exterior paint colors (RPO codes listed in parentheses):
- Nightfall Gray Metallic (G7Q)
- Silver Ice Metallic (GAN)
- Summit White (GAZ)
- Graphite Metallic (GPA)
- Cajun Red Tintcoat (GPJ)
What’s more, the body-color grille bar is not available with the Black Grille Bar Package (PDJ), a new option added for 2020.
Chrome grille bar
Body-color grille bar
For easy comparison, we’ve provided pictures of both the standard chrome grille bar and the optional body-color grille bar, with the 2020 Chevrolet Blazer in FWD 2LT trim taking up modeling duties.
So then, dear reader – which is better? Do you prefer the Chevrolet Blazer with the standard chrome grille bar, or the body-color grille bar? Let us know by voting in the poll below, and make sure to back up your opinion by posting in the comments. And don’t forget to subscribe to GM Authority for more Chevrolet Blazer news, Chevrolet news, and around-the-clock GM news coverage.
Comments
They could color it pink if it had an SS option.
Not to hijack, but I really couldn’t care less about the color of the crossbar. The XT4 has the same platform as the XTS, but lacks the V Sport. The Blazer lacks an SS option.
Cybertruck meanwhile is getting a wagon dome. I don’t care how it looks, enough to buy that instead.
Dark Chrome*********
I like them both but that wasn’t an option.To me if you get the RS package the body color is the way to go due to the whole package being in color.The other trims get the chrome and it fits better because the wheels are silver so they have it just right.On the other hand,$395 for a painted bar is ridiculous,the vehicle has to be painted all over and I think charging that for something you’re already spraying is jumping the shark.
George,in case you have not noticed,all car companies do that with their styling.Look at every Lexus car and SUV-same freaking nose.Same with Fraud,same with Dodge/Ram with the plus sign nose and grille.Hyundai does this also so why are you singaling out Chevy?Car companies do this because of tooling.Each time a new theme comes up they have to retool the assembly lines, very expensive.Look at the cars from the 1920’s&30’s- without emblems can you tell the difference between the manufacturer?A trained car guy can tell but the average person can’t.It is just simply how car companies have done business forever.
Ever see that chrome stuff peel or bubble with rust. Don’t like the fake chrome stuff
I went for the third (Bar and Grille) option and my reasoning isn’t about preference of one over the other, it’s the fact that I hate the Chevy horizontal bar. To me it makes for a boring design and it makes no sense to hamstring your designers right from the start by forcing them to implement a horizontal bar into every brand-new design. To get away from it you have to move on to a Chevy where they didn’t hamstring the designers. Think Camaro and Corvette… Two cars that, for obvious reasons, aren’t for everyone. When I see the Chevy horizontal bar I think boring rental car; not a positive image for any brand. Your survey should have an option: Get rid of the horizontal bar!
I like body color but having two choices is the best way to be.
The Chevy design queue of this bar is down right boring. It prevents designers from getting creative since they alway have to work in this framework. At least in the passenger car line for the last twenty years, they all look the same and barely can tell the difference between models and years at least from the front end. Can anyone tell the difference between the Equinox and the Blazer looking at it from the front end only?
I once read that the Chevy bar, on a pickup truck, looks like a 2×4 nailed across the grill.
I know there are a few others that just cannot shake the design queues, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Volvo are about the worse offenders. But if you look at some of the most popular vehicles as far as sales go, most of the time it was a totally new look for the car brand. Ford seem to have the most success at it. During GM’s hey days of the sixty’s, other than an emblem or two, the entire car line did not look like each other as the big three started to offer different size vehicles.
My preference is a chrome bar and chrome grille. I like my cars and trucks with bling.To me the blacked out wheels and grill cheapen the looks of a vehicle. Just my opinion.
It looks better in a car compactor unless it’s made in America
These are only opinions. Give me the bar and grille! I’m really more of a chrome guy, but in this case I actually like the body color better. The problem is that there is just no chrome anywhere else on the car, so putting just a bar of chrome in the grille kind of looks out of place to me. Unlike on my Encore, where there seems to be just the right amount of chrome all over the outside to make it better.
Dark chrome for sure!
ITS NOT THE CHROME ITS THE ENGINE THIS CAR IS SLOWER THAN WATCHING A TURTLE ORGY ON A DIAL UP MODEM .
I bought a 2020 recently, went with the body color bar, black wheels, bowties, and emblems on cajun red. Looks much better without the chrome bar.
Why not both. Traditional buyers may like the chrome and sporty buyers like the body color look. I prefer the chrome look even though I dislike this vehicle in general. Maybe GM will actually get serious and put an actual performance engine in this like Ford does.
Fraud’s “performance engine” consists of a turbo which stands for “I can’t make a good engine without a turbo”.The current V6 is a powerful engine,308HP is no slouch in a V6.Turbos are not reliable in all types of weather,come to Arizona and find out that most turbo vehicles end up overheated.In Dubai they have turbocharged super cars almost brand new in bone yards because they cannot stand up to the heat.Fraud F150 owners are seeing that here and I always laugh at them, should have bought a Silverado.