Production Of The New Chevrolet Trailblazer Begins In Korea
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Two weeks after its official launch, General Motors held the production ceremony of the all-new Chevrolet Trailblazer in South Korea. The event formally marks the series production start of Chevy’s new global SUV at the GM Bupyeong plant, which will supply both the domestic market and dozens of export markets worldwide.
As such, the 2021 Chevrolet Trailblazer is a highly strategic model for the Bow Tie brand and for GM Korea. The company states that the new “subcompact-plus” sized SUV, which fills the empty space that existed between the Trax in the Equinox in Chevrolet’s utility vehicle line, will establish itself in a segment that will accumulate the largest volume of global automotive sales within the next few years.
“Trailblazer will enhance the Chevrolet SUV line, with a stylish design that defines consumers’ individuality and expands their experiences,” said GM Korea President and CEO, Kaher Kazem, in a statement. “This new Chevrolet global SUV, proudly developed and manufactured in Korea, is the next-generation core model that will lead the brand’s future.”
Today’s ceremony was attended by more than 100 specialized employees who played a leading role in the development of the all-new Chevrolet Trailblazer, as well as in the setup for its production at the Bupyeong plant. The team was led by Mr. Kazem, the President of the GM Korea Technical Center, Roberto Rempel, and the General Manager of the Workers’ Union, Sung-Gap Kim.
In addition, all executives and employees who participated in the start-up ceremony of the new Trailblazer have committed to high product quality before beginning deliveries to customers. In this regard, GM Korea established a stricter quality control system to ensure impeccable manufacturing quality that exceeds the expectations of national and international customers.
Deliveries of the all-new Chevrolet Trailblazer will begin as soon as next week in the South Korean market, where the first batch of 2020 model-year units was pre-sold online in just 15 days. Meanwhile, the first shipments to North America and the rest of the global regions are also expected to begin in the month of February.
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The new GM, build it in Korea ship it to USA. No thanks………………
GM just pissed off a lot of Americans, by taking away their jobs and then want us to buy from another country 😠. As far as I am concerned GM and Korea can kiss my ass, after what they took from the American people blood, sweat and tears and then they have the nerve to want us to buy a fake trailblazer, no I don’t think so 😠
Well go ahead and give your money to Hyundai or Toyota and that will not support any American people. Why can’t we buy from American companies, GM and ford are doing a better job at building new vehicles than these import companies and we still think that imports are better. Buy in reality it’s not true their cars are not better, it’s just a misperception. Our American companies built better vehicles that any of these import companies; Honda ,Nissan,Toyota,Volkswagen etc. I haven’t gone back to Toyota and Honda since the 1999 when bought my 2000 Silverado and 2000 expedition. Both vehicles gave me over 200,000 miles and good equity when I sold them, thank you GM and Ford for making the best vehicles in North America.
Unfortunately, economics play into why things are built elsewhere. I too would have rather it be built in the USA but it is what it is, and is better to support an American company than a Korean or Japanese company.
So David, since all of these three off shore Foreign countries GM plants pay their employees about one tenth of the hourly rate in North America why are the retail prices equal to or higher then building right here in the U.S. or Canada under the new NAFTA free trade deal signed by President Trump to support North American build and buy efforts and North American jobs First or plain greed ?
It’s called staying alive and being profitable and being able to spend money on future designs such as the new wave of battery powered vehicles coming out.
Most viable business’s would keep their available product range of saleable products likes Impala , Sonic, Cruze untill you have viable priced ,high mileage range, cold adaptable models, charging facilities, and an available range of new EV models built and ready for sale “To offset the income loss” of the products being discontinued ,it only good business practice to not cut off your nose to spite your face David !
You may think so but that is not the way it is going with several manufactures following this same strategy with some saying Ford being more drastic with their discontinuations.
The new 2021 Kia Seltos looks to be direct competition to the Encore GX and Trailblazer and is getting high praise and reviews in the Far East ,it’s probably only one of the vehicles out to steal GM lunch in an already crowded field of CUV’s ,the Two GM 3-bangers are our last best hope of success , till new era EV’s are introduced in volume in a few years !
David Re: STAYING ALIVE COMMENT these are almost the same GM management words used by Detroit Management to close the Canadian Oshawa Assembly Plant just before Christmas ,Then they proceed to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to have shovels in the ground to build a electric vehicle test track in the back yard of our newly closed 8 million sq.ft.plant ?
Korea ,China and Mexico sure weren’t offering help like the U.S. and Canadian governments during bankruptcy proceedings in 2008-9 ,now they get the new models and work and they close Lordstown and Oshawa Assembly award winning plants known for Quality,work ethics, and loyalty really bitter sweet Thanks ,then turnaround ask us to maintain loyalty to these imports ,which I thinks is a bridge too far for many retirees and former GM customers and Possibly just retribution
The UAW is a big part of the blame when discussing outsourcing of production. I don’t know the exact figure but the labor involved with all the benefits to build in the US is something like $5,000 per car, something that the Japanese and Korean car manufactures that build in the US don’t quite absorb.
This is the best SUV in this Segment and I will buy it!
So if it’s the Big bad old UAW or UNIFOR in Canada’s driving new build off shore ,so why are all of the non GM vehicles built in these nations so closely priced to the same retail prices of GM vehicles built in Fort Wayne or Ingersol l Ontario ,your theory doesn’t meet the smell test the biggest vehicle cost is materials always has been along with indirect cost of the product build !
You are asking the same question a second time. Read my response to you above where you mentioned the NAFTA.
will this be built in right hand drive?
Why doesent GM offshore its management? Get better management at a lower cost. This is a move I would like to see!
I don’t see GM’s dedication to S. Korea, other then being in bed with LG for future batteries. Since Korea has high union costs, why weren’t trailblazers and encore GX’s rolling out of the Lordstown plant? Selling it to a competitor making EV trucks makes no sense. Workhorse was only going to re-hire a few hundred of the thousand plus UAW workers. Workhorse doesn’t have a chance to survive with GM, Ford and Tesla al working on their own EV pickups.
Just who is going to buy all these GM foreign cars , people from Lordstown, Flint, Pontiac , Detroit , Lansing , folks laid off in Canada ? You can’t keep treating your workers like expendable machines and think they will buy imported cars with old nameplates .
Just a sidebar,,,,, I know people that look at the ” Point of Assembly ” now before checking out the MSRP .
Cool! I will buy the same soon when do more money with the help of a bitcoin trading bot
Thank you for the news!
I like such cars 🙂
So what is better? That one that built in Korea?
Thank you for the news! Is it right hand drive??
cool