Reinvented Chevy K5 Blazer Off-Road SUV Reaches Imagination Land With Zero Emissions

According to a recent report from GM Authority, the canceled project of a GMC Jimmy mid-size off-road SUV revival was touted around 2017 as a potential candidate for Wrangler and Bronco-level greatness. The GMC Jimmy was initially introduced in 1970 and was discontinued two decades later, in 1991, as the current Yukon family replaced it.

However, sometime around 2017, General Motors allowed a small team of engineers and designers to brainstorm for a direct successor that could mitigate the clear and present danger of the Jeep Wrangler plus the upcoming (at the time) revival of the Ford Bronco nameplate. It's well known that, in the end, the project met its demise in its infancy, but only now have surfaced some of its cooler secrets – such as the fact that GM contemplated placing a powerful V8 under the hood.

Well, that ultimately proved to be a huge missed opportunity as Jeep ultimately gave the Wrangler a V8 engine, and Ford also has a very successful Bronco on its hands – including a Bronco Raptor with more than 400 ponies on tap! Of course, this also means that people are (just as much) craving for Jimmy's sibling, the Chevrolet K5 Blazer – both in the real world and also across the imaginative realm of digital car content creators.

Speaking of the latter, the Halo oto channel on YouTube usually provides fresh automotive info that is corroborated with their virtual designs; now, there are some new CGI takes on a Chevy K5 Blazer revival – albeit with an EV twist. Their source of inspiration is quite simple – GM's Design Center recently shared a couple of ideation sketches penned by lady designer Darby (who also happens to be a drift S13 with LS3 and time attack MX-5 Miata owner), that "dynamic and sporty" yet decidedly rugged all-electric Chevrolet SUV was a three-door model unlike anything in the automaker's current lineup.

Naturally, the channel's resident pixel master took the idea and expanded upon it with something that could function either as a three- or five-door model and modified some subtle details, like the LED light bar-style taillights, all to suit the modern Chevy trends better. It also looks a lot more production-ready than GM Design's sketchy concept. And as always, the video feature also includes a few possible color changes.

So, do we give it our CGI hall pass because it was time someone stood up and asked for a Chevy K5 Blazer revival? Or is the EV powertrain a deal breaker? Frankly, I think the latter is not the case – look at the Rivian R1S off-road EV SUV and then imagine a smaller Chevy K5 Blazer successor with EV power from GM's Ultium technology. That would be cool, right?