The 2023 Chevy Trailblazer is the third model year for the third-generation nameplate, introducing a few changes and updates over the preceding 2022 model year. Now, GM Authority has learned that the 2023 Chevy Trailblazer will adopt a port consensus order model, determining the way in which dealers order the vehicle.
In order to understand what the port consensus order model is, we should first cover how dealers typically order vehicles, i.e. the regular “consensus” model. In the regular consensus model, dealers request the vehicle they want from the factory at regular intervals, also known as order cycles or DOSP. GM makes recommendations on which vehicles to order based on market conditions, while the dealer can use these recommendations as it sees fit. GM can then fulfill the dealer request or modify it, depending on things like availability and constraints. Once a consensus between the dealer and GM has been reached, the vehicles are then produced and delivered. This model applies to vehicle inventory, and is different from sold retail orders.
By comparison, the “port consensus” model set for use with the 2023 Chevy Trailblazer involves GM building the vehicles which it thinks are needed, as defined within existing constraints. The vehicles are then sent to port, with dealers choosing the models they want for inventory once the vehicles arrive. The big difference is that dealers have more say in which vehicles are built and delivered in the regular consensus model, as compared to the latter port consensus model.
As GM Authority covered previously, GM recently changed the way in which dealers order the 2022 Chevy Trailblazer and 2022 Chevy Trax, adopting a port consensus model. Now, that change has been extended for the entirety of the 2023 Chevy Trailblazer as well.
As a reminder, the 2023 Chevy Trailblazer is offered with two engine options, including the turbocharged 1.2L I3 LIH gasoline engine and the turbocharged 1.3L I3 L3T gasoline engine, while under the skin is the GM VSS-F vehicle set. Production for the North American market takes place at the GM Bupyeong plant in South Korea.
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Port consensus model: “Yoo vil take vat ve ship to yoo, und yoo vill LIKE it!!!”
Fortunately that’s not going to last with this recession.
Automakers are in for a world of hurt and it’s well deserved. Hopefully several Automakers are forced into Chapter 7 liquidation.
You really want to see your country face that kind of economic hardship? Some folks depend on the automotive business for their livelihood. You really want to see families wiped out financially. Be careful what you wish for.
Yes.
Only financial ruin will teach a large chunk of Americans to quit being cultist keeping up with the jones buyers & investors.
Cryptocurrency and all the stupid hype over it.
Paying over sticker on a vehicle then bragging about it on social media.
Buying a big gas guzzling lifted truck or SUV then whiny about it being nearly $200 a week to fill that oversized TDS compensating monstrosity.
Continuing to buy non-essential goods even when they are in short supply thereby continuing the inflation spiral we are in now.
Buying stock on Margin en mass & making wildly speculative Wall Street bets and corrupting the market.
Companies continuing to lie about their forward guidance, produce low quality crap and then the gullible consumer buys it & enables the lower quality products.
I could go on but the point is made.
Reason doesn’t work with Americans. The Covid pandemic & everything else in the past 2 years proved it.
Only pain & suffering gets through to Americans and teaches them.
Evan I am assuming that you have nothing but a grocery cart to lose and that is why you think that way or you need to wear a helmet 24 7. Biden doesn’t need any help destroying the economy.
I hope for nothing of the kind. I see no reason to put Joe Wrench and Jane Forklift out of work due to the bumbling that can be avoided.
For you to wish such a thing shows either short-sightedness, or you are quite selfish.
Yet when Joe Wrench is unemployed you won’t be seeing him preaching about how Elon will save us all or that everyone must buy crypto.
Funny that the Crypto cultist have been VERY quiet these past 2 weeks.
Next up is the EV cultists.
i AM GUESSING YOUR MOTHER NEVER HAD YOU TESTED
So in other words if you want certain things you may not be able to have them because the dealers think otherwise ???
Not the dealers. They have no say so in the matter. GM ships the dealer what they want them to have. Dealers don’t like it either but it beats having nothing to sell.
Just think that – way back before computers – my mother ordered a new 1962 Pontiac Tempest. 4-cylinder with 4 barrel carburetor, high compression, 3.90:1 axle, four on the floor, convertible. A highly odd order; it was delivered in eight weeks.
The following year, my brother ordered a 1963 Studebaker Lark, also an odd build with the R2 motor and other special order goodies. It arrived in about seven weeks.
All accomplished with tick-the-box order forms, envelopes, and postage stamps.
Things have not advanced in 59 and 60 years respectively.
Also remember they made a whole lot more makes and models in the late 50s and early 60s, not just 4-5 models, 3-4 lines across 5-6 models, 2 door, 4 door, hard tops and convertibles, plus station wagon models for each line. I recently saw a dealer movie from Ford about selling the Edsel, (1958) and it points out they were going to have 58 different models…
Sounds like the old Chrysler sales bank of the 1970s.