New 2007 Chevrolet TrailBlazer Safety Review [ 2009 , 2008 ]
Chevrolet TrailBlazer Safety Review
Safety - 8.4 (Very Good)
The TrailBlazer is well-equipped with safety features, more so this year than ever. Road and Travel reports, "Safety gets added attention for 2007, with GM's StabiliTrak that maintains control during sudden driving maneuvers now standard on all Trailblazer models." Despite these additions, the TrailBlazer underperforms most competitors in government crash tests.
Accident Avoidance
Standard on all TrailBlazers are anti-lock brakes, a tire-pressure monitoring system and an anti-skid system with rollover sensors. Also standard is StabiliTrak, which, as New Car Test Drive explains, "uses a full range of motion and control sensors, coupled to actuators on the throttle and individual wheel brakes to sense and mitigate any unintended changes in vehicle direction."
Crash Protection
TrailBlazers are equipped with front air bags. Side-curtain and head-curtain air bags are optional on all trim levels. The front air bags will deploy at different speeds depending on the severity of impact, while the SUV's rollover sensing system will signal the side-curtain air bags and seatbelt tensioners. In government crash tests, the TrailBlazer received three out of five stars for driver-side protection in frontal impacts and four of five stars for passenger-side protection in frontal impacts. In side-impact tests, it receives five out of five stars. In rollover tests, the two-wheel drive TrailBlazer gets three stars and the four-wheel drive version gets four stars. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has not yet tested the 2007 TrailBlazer, but gave the 2004 model a rating of just "marginal," which is the second worst in a four-grade scale, in frontal offset tests.
