The 2022 Chevy Blazer will no longer offer the 3.6L LGX V6 engine in conjunction with the 2LT trim level, GM Authority can confirm.
For the 2021MY, the Chevy Blazer 2LT was offered as standard with the turbocharged 2.0L LSY four-cylinder engine, while the 3.6L LGX V6 was available for a price premium. This will change on the 2022 Chevy Blazer 2LT, however, which will drop the 3.6L LGX V6 engine option and only offer the 2.0L LSY.
From the 2022MY onward, the 3.6L LGX V6 engine will only be available with the RS, 3LT and Premier trims. The V6 engine will come standard on the RS and will be available to order in place of the standard 2.0L LSY with the 3LT and Premier.
The 3.6L LGX V6 engine is rated at 308 horsepower and 270 pound-feet of torque in the 2021 Chevy Blazer, where it is paired with a GM nine-speed automatic transmission and standard front-wheel drive. AWD is available as an option for a $2,000 price premium. The turbocharged 2.0L LSY base engine, meanwhile, is rated 228 horsepower and 258 pound-feet of torque. Like the V6, it is also only offered with a GM nine-speed automatic and comes standard with front-wheel drive.
GM will introduce a number of small changes and updates for the 2022 Chevy Blazer. This will include a new two-tone black roof paint option, revised exterior styling for the range-topping Premier trim, standard Chevy Safety Assist and increased towing capacity for 2.0L models from 1,500 pounds to 3,500 pounds. The 2022 Blazer will also ditch two paint options, Bright Blue Metallic and Midnight Blue Metallic, which will be indirectly replaced by two new exterior paint color options. Additionally, GM has decided to drop the base L and 1LT trim levels from the Blazer’s order books for 2022, while the Cargo Floor Rail System will no longer be offered, either.
Production of the mildly updated 2022 Chevy Blazer is set to begin on August 9th, 2021 at the GM Ramos Arizpe plant in Mexico.
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Wtf are they doing up there in GM head quarters…
They are doing exactly what they said they were going to do months ago. They are focusing on high margin products. That means the lower trims go away, remaining trim lines are simplified and stratified, and customers are forced to spend more to get higher features they want. Average transaction price goes up and dealers and GM make more profit. They would rather sell fewer high margin products than flood the lots with lower trim models that have less profit built in and then require tons of incentives to sell.
The automakers have tasted what it is like to have lower dealer inventory and higher profit, and they are working to preserve it. The days of dealers having 100+ cars in inventory are coming to an end. The chip shortage is today’s excuse. Tomorrow it will be something else. The truth is the market is changing and we just need to get used to it.
Actually there’s an easy way to crash this greed party at GM & other automakers.
Bring back 10%+ Interest rates. Let’s see how that high margin high priced limited inventory game works out when nobody can finance a car.
Putting GM out of business
Cry me a river.
Could of been worse they could of installed the 1.5 turbo like they did in the terrain all trim levels .
That still might happen. -Watch carefully now…
Just pull the plug on the V-6 already GM as it’s obvious that’s where you are ultimately heading.
It’s not that the six cylinder will die, it’s that the naturally aspirated ones will die, and that transverse mounted engined vehicles no longer need six cylinders when everything is turbocharged. The 2.7 produces 320 hp already, so….
^ Honda worker
No V6 No GM
Wow just wow.
This is either GM being GM and allowing the Beancounters too mush power or this is them trying to save as much money as possible for their EV Future. But man I think this is a bad way to save money. I personally do not know the actual sales figures so this is just my thought…..I am assuming they sold quite a few Blazers with the V6 but I do not actually know.
“Wow just wow”
Snowflake identified!
Got that Prius washed & waxed? LOL
@Bob
You ok Boomer?
You have an issue with someone saying wow. Just wow?
You got triggered over a saying that badly and felt you needed to make a response about it and you’re calling me a snowflake? Oh the Irony of snowflakes that do not realize that they are the snowflake. Pretty comical actually. And no I do not drive a Prius, I like Speed and Tech too much.
GM’s marketing strategies are obviously run by idiots. They base “discontinuation” on sales, not performance or any other factor. Terrible marketing on the SS (most, if not all NON Chevy enthusiasts never even knew the car existed) as it was not even advertised – Solution? Discontinue!
When I purchased my 2020 Equinox, I originally road tested the Midnight Edition with the 1.5T. Completely unsatisfied, I was ready to leave the dealership, but they had one with a 2.0T only not in the color I wanted. I road tested it and was pleased by the extra kick that it gave over the 1.5T. The dealer located one for me and I was very happy with my purchase. My point is the dealerships are overloaded with the 1.5Ts, and the only way they can sell one is to push them, and since they outnumber the 2.0Ts by large numbers, of course the better figures goto the 1.5 sales. WELL DUH!!! So GM discontinues the better engine due to false metrics?!?! They went from one of the most powerful 4cyl engines “in its class” to bottom of the board with 170HP. Sorry, sales will drop this year and I’m predicting they may drop the Equinox entirely. Too obvious!
Now they are doing the same with the Blazer by limiting powertrain choices, and forcing the consumer to love it or hate it. Why not just do that to the Camaro too?!?! Some fool will say drop all the v8 options and we’ll sell it as an Ecomaro. People will love that, right? LOL
@Dwayne Mui
Yup totally agree. Dealerships are not great. They sell what they want to sell to the untrained Car Customer.
Then you have manufacturers not understanding the wants of the actual customer because they only look at Data.
General Motors in their unrelenting arrogance has always tried dictate what the consumer is going to buy instead of building what the consumer wants.
No l and 1lt means 2lt is now the 1lt and base trim. So, 1lt, 2lt, rs, premier. And the v6 is available on 3 trims. Why is everyone crying, seems like no one wanted the stripper models with the 2.5. I thought everyone wanted gm to quit selling to rental fleets? Which is it? I don’t even care for gm but you gm guys don’t like gm if they do right or wrong, so why keep buying from them then complain?
It’s a mix of not selling less profitable models and forcing you to buy the next model up. In other words: want a 2.0 Equinox?, get a 2.0 Blazer, wanna bigger Blazer? Traverse or want a Traverse with more capacity?, Tahoe..
Making it an even bigger mexican made POS
Who cares, the trail blazer looks like a equinox, that looks like a traverse, which looks like a blazer. That is GMs problem. Make it easy do you want xsmall, small, medium,large and xlarge. Just ask what color.
gm’s marketing department is smoking something. This is another classic gm screw up. I was considering the V6 Blazer since they dropped the 2.0T Equinox. The LT3 is out of my price range so it is a non starter. I like the looks of the Trailblazer but with that dinky little engine, Sorry. Time to look at a RAV4. Stupid marketing.