Designer Shows What the 2021 Blazer Would Look Like if it Wasn’t Designed by a Focus Group
When the Ford came out with the 2021 Bronco, it got an amazing reception. In fact, the negative comments were kind of hard to find on social media. Tell me about another time where there wasn’t much negative to say about a vehicle release. I’m sure that there were some other very positively received cars but there is usually a wider variety of naysayers.
In fact, people like the Bronco so much that it almost immediately stirred up talks of what happened with the Bronco’s most immediate competitor in the Chevrolet Blazer. For all intents and purposes, the new Blazer feels like an attempted cash grab. I don’t think that anybody is fooled into thinking that there was very much passion dumped into paying homage to the original. In fact, you could slap the nameplate from any generic crossover on the Blazer and most people probably wouldn’t even notice the difference.
However, when push comes to shove in the automotive market, none of that really matters. We, as automotive enthusiasts, are powered by passion. However, for brands like Ford and Chevrolet, everything comes down to pleasing the shareholders. In other words, it all depends on if consumers will put their money where their mouth is to buy something cool.
That isn’t to say that passion has to be incredibly foregone in favor of making everything about money. However, if products don’t make a profit, the company isn’t doing its job, no matter how great a car or truck might be. This is why there is so much “bland and boring” driving around on the roads these days.
If our powers of observation tell us anything, good looking and performing cars probably aren’t as profitable as the cars that focus more on being economical.
Time will truly tell if the Bronco is able to be a bigger success than the Blazer. All early indications seem to infer that a gambling man would have to be a fool to put any sort of money on the Blazer. Even if we’re not talking about success on a monetary level, I think that most people would also agree that Ford paid homage to their classic while Chevrolet sucked the soul out of the Blazer.
This time, though, a YouTube graphic designer by the name of TheSketchMonkey took it upon himself to change that. In the video below, we watch as the modern Blazer is redesigned into something that travels down a road that’s a bit more aggressive than the super bland, focus group approved Blazer that we have in the year 2020.