2002 FORD EXPLORER VS. 2002 CHEVROLET TRAILBLAZER

摘要

It's not often two head-to-head competitors arc completely redesigned from the ground up in the same model year. Usually, adversaries' products are separated by at least a year, so carmakers can wait and see the other guy's hand before showing their own cards (or to avoid comparisons like this one). But here, both manufacturers, and to some degree the marketplace itself, determined the time was right for a clean-sheet redesign of both Ford's immensely popular Explorer (along with its platformmate, the Mercury Mountaineer) and the aging GM triplets: Chevrolet Blazer (known as the TrailBlazer from the '02-model year forward), GMC Envoy (GMC dropped the Jimmy name), and the last new Olds, the Bravada.