1987 Chevy Blazer XT-1

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Warm_Resource_4229@reddit

That things pretty fucking cool. And WAYYYY more stylish than the cybercuck. Too bad this didn't happen

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Hack-Morris@reddit

The interior has like 50 buttons all over the place for all types of different options. We sure like putting a lot of buttons in car interiors back in the 80’s-90’s haha

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rifraft13@reddit

Check out the movie tango, and Cash. They used a version of this in that movie.

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bordogger@reddit

I worked on that vehicle as an engineer in 1987! I was finishing my last year at GMI (General Motors Institute) and was part of the group that wrote the software for the four wheel steering.

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Crazy_Struggle9657@reddit

If they reintroduced this concept they would make a killing

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FactHole@reddit

Look at all those buttons....glorious buttons!

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Baboonslayer323@reddit

Reminds me of the truck from Tango & Cash

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muricabrb@reddit

Holy shit I loved that movie as a kid. Time for a rewatch to see if it still holds up!

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flaron@reddit

I’ve been looking for this movie for like 30 years! I was starting to think it was some weird fever dream from my early childhood.

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muricabrb@reddit

To be fair the whole movie felt like a fever dream lol

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Plump_Apparatus@reddit

Don't do it man. It's not gonna hold up

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JayKaboogy@reddit

Holy leaf packs!—Rattle your teeth out on the road and then cushion your drop off a cliff

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delebojr@reddit

*Original Hummer. It crabwalks just like it

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Specialist-Basis-995@reddit

Is this AI? Was this van ever in production? CHEVY could not have made such a machine just as a concept vehicle.

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DefMech@reddit

This thing is SICK. Look at what they kept from us.

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willieyobslayer@reddit (OP)

Do you remember the Chevy Lumina Van? We literally used to call them Dustbusters.

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FesteringNeonDistrac@reddit

They even came in a creamy just off white color.

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D_Robb@reddit

https://old.reddit.com/r/WeirdWheels/comments/1hpexcr/pontiac_trans_sport/

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FesteringNeonDistrac@reddit

Yeah I just don't have the money or space for another project. I have a big list of "project cars I'd do if I hit the lottery"

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barukatang@reddit

The 2 tone black needs to be flat so when they drop the bombs the pilot doesn't get blinded by the reflection

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It makes me so sad to think somewhere out there is a parallel universe where we did get this and we did not get the pt cruiser. If I were in a sliders situation and I landed in that universe I would consider staying.

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Plump_Apparatus@reddit

It looks like the concept for the Pontiac space van. But with the grill off a Astro.

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VEC7OR@reddit

Isn't that what became Lumina APV?

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Plump_Apparatus@reddit

It became the production Tran Sport. It was sold as the Lumina APV and Olds Silhouette as well.

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Poenicus@reddit

I remember the Trans Sport concept! I went to an auto show as 5 year old and thought that the concept was pretty awesome; shame that what we got was a little too toned-down, slabbier on the sides, and featured the indented, stripe trim that would be present on cars from the brand for the entirety of the '90s.

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Chance_Fishing_9681@reddit

Pontiac and the Aztec would like a word

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Starfire013@reddit

This looks really cool but the colour scheme makes me think of a roll of Kodak film.

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piantanida@reddit

It’s a real shame they can’t just keep all the tooling for older vehicles and de rereleases.

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NachoNachoDan@reddit

We were robbed. This is bad ass.

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firehawk210@reddit

And this one did the crab walk before the current Humvee EV. Watch the video, GM already had this technology available but just recently started to use it.

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VokshodSpecialist@reddit

looks like a souped up version of Toyota Delica

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bobwasnthere99999@reddit

What in God's name...

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slowkums@reddit

I thought this concept was so cool back in the day

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SuperKyle1616@reddit

I would buy it

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daves_not__here@reddit

What all them buttons do?

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tigerskin_8@reddit

I remember this from popular mechanics magazines, at that time it was so futuristic. Well, still kinda it is some retro futurism

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Drzhivago138@reddit

It's a U-body minivan with a W/T pickup front grille.

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Verusauxilium@reddit

We have cybertruck at home

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Eduhudtwalcker@reddit

Looks awesome, funny how in 87 they already had this futuristic design and it only took 26 years to actually make a commercial vehicle similar to this (Hyundai Staria 2023)

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vonroyale@reddit

Ok this thing is sick! We still don't get dashs like that. I want one.

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HeavyMetalMoose44@reddit

The Blazer legacy deserves so much better. Bring back a respectable full size.

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FesteringNeonDistrac@reddit

The S10 based Blazer was good too. It's not the size that's the issue.

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flappy-doodles@reddit

Agreed. The current Blazer is unfortunately another boring addition to midsize SUVs.

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_plays_in_traffic_@reddit

as someone who used to own a first gen 2 door s10 blazer i kinda like the new two door blazer body style. i still wouldnt buy anything gm again but it looks nice.

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HeavyMetalMoose44@reddit

I had a ’78. To me they were born to be in the truck family.

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Old-Revolution-9650@reddit

Looks like a minivan

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4TheOutdoors@reddit

Looks more capable than the cybertruck

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Dorwyn@reddit

I had a '72 VW Rabbit more capable than a cybertruck.

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135wiring@reddit

That's interesting considering that a '72 rabbit doesn't exist

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Dorwyn@reddit

Maybe it was an '82? I bought it in '98, so it was old when I bought it. I thought it was a '72. It's long gone, so I can check. It had leaf springs, about a foot of clearance and pizza cutter thin tires. It went through snow like it wasn't even there, I loved that little car.

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135wiring@reddit

82 manes a lot more sense, I have an 86 soft top. Didn't realize the earlier ones had rear leafs

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Poenicus@reddit

So I know that the readout and the yoke wheel are 100% due to Knight Rider. The display of engine and seemingly extensive info about the vehicle's status were definitely ahead of their time—I think that it only started becoming a thing on vehicles from the 2nd gen of the Toyota Prius. Interestingly enough, the general shape of it combined with the 4WD kind of make it a Previa equipped with the All-Trac AWD, but the addition of the 4-wheel steering is a pretty cool trick that the Previa didn't do. Between this, the Pontiac Trans Sport concept, Pontiac Stinger, and others, it seems like GM was thinking of some really wild ideas in the late '80s to early '90s.

Honestly this thing is very close to a factory-built version of something that might be posted on r/battlecars—and that actually makes it more awesome than most S.U.V.s and crossover S.U.V.s that we've been getting.

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WhitePantherXP@reddit

I need to see that dash, my eyes can't believe this actually worked well 37 years ago but in the video it looks very impressive for the time.

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1leggeddog@reddit

4 wheel steering hell yes

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whytawhy@reddit

So even in the 80s, when everyone was zooted off coke.... the cybertruck was a bad idea.

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TommyGun1986@reddit

I love it!!

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VEC7OR@reddit

/r/cassettefuturism

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underthebug@reddit

We did get the GMC Safari AWD. I know it's not much to look at.

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willieyobslayer@reddit (OP)

I would definitely drive a Safari.

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underthebug@reddit

The downside of a Safari is that it's top heavy. In the 80s the car audio shop I worked at had a 2 wheel drive Astro van no interior just a cool paint job. We used it to bring to bring equipment to sound-offs. It was empty and fast. Sketchy as hell on a washboard off ramp and if it was wet out or windy you would be sweating any maneuver at highway speeds. A coworker had a 2000 Safari AWD and flipped it with his family in it in the exact same spot I totaled my 95 W/T 1500 a month earlier. I hit 2 cars that were actively crashing into each other and the cop that extracted me from my truck sed he totaled a cop car in the same spot a year earlier. Morris road Whitpain Township Montgomery County PA. 40.158127, -75.248439

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