Rent Chevrolet TrailBlazer 2022 in Dubai

Book the Chevrolet Trailblazer 2022 for more than a long weekend and the daily mileage caps most rentals impose start to feel stingy. This one works differently: 5,000 km covers the whole rental, not a number that resets every morning, so a two-week stay with a few longer drives mixed in doesn't force you to hoard distance on the quiet days. It's the blue five-seat Trailblazer, Chevrolet's smaller crossover alongside the three-row Captiva, and we get it to your door within one to two hours of booking. This page is for anyone weighing a compact SUV with a flexible mileage pool against a bigger car with a tighter daily limit.

The 1.3 turbo, and how this one drives

Under the bonnet is a 1.3-litre turbocharged three-cylinder ECOTEC engine, making 155 hp at 5,600 rpm and 236 Nm of torque from as low as 1,600 rpm, sent to the front wheels through a CVT automatic with a seven-speed shift mode. That's a small displacement for an SUV-shaped car, but the low-rpm torque means it doesn't feel strained pulling away from a light or merging onto Sheikh Zayed Road. It isn't built for quick overtakes and you shouldn't rent it expecting sports-car pull, but for a turbocharged triple in this class, it carries the Trailblazer's weight without hesitation.

The CVT is tuned for smooth, unhurried progress rather than sharp response, which suits stop-and-go city driving better than a spirited backroad. Ground clearance sits at 178 mm, enough for Dubai's speed bumps and steep mall ramps without scraping, but this is a front-wheel-drive crossover on road tyres, not an off-roader. Keep it on tarmac. Hatta's dirt tracks and soft sand sit outside what this car, or any FWD crossover its size, is built to handle.

Boot, back seat and the daily use

The Trailblazer is a strict two-row, five-seat car, and that's worth stating plainly, because a few listings elsewhere still show a third row that doesn't exist on this generation. What you get instead is a properly sized boot for the class: about 716 litres behind the rear seats, enough for two large suitcases and a couple of soft bags without anyone repacking at the kerb. Fold the rear bench down and that grows to roughly 1,541 litres, enough for a supermarket-scale shop or a flatpack delivery run.

The back seat holds two adults in real comfort for a cross-town trip, and a third for a short hop rather than a long one, which is an honest claim for a car this size rather than one pretending to be bigger. Front seating sits higher than a hatchback, giving the kind of view over traffic that sells people on a crossover shape in the first place, while the cabin itself stays compact at 4,407 mm long and 1,808 mm wide. That pays off in a multi-storey car park or a tight residential bay, where a longer SUV starts costing you a three-point turn.

The mileage deal, fuel and cabin heat

Here's the number that actually shapes the trip: 5,000 km covers the entire rental, not a daily figure that resets and goes unused on the days you barely drive. Book the Trailblazer for a week of city errands and you'll likely use a fraction of that, leaving real room if a Friday takes you out toward Al Ain or a longer coastal loop later in the stay. Go past the 5,000 km total and extra distance is billed at AED 1.0 per kilometre, so it's worth a rough tally partway through a longer booking rather than a surprise at drop-off.

Chevrolet's own combined figure lands near 13 km/L, a lab number from mild conditions and a light foot. Run the AC hard through a Dubai summer with the usual stop-start traffic and 9 to 10 km/L is closer to what actually happens, and that still stretches the 50-litre tank to roughly a week of ordinary driving before it needs a refill. Salik tolls and any RTA fines during the rental are the renter's responsibility, the same as on every car in the fleet, and they add up faster than people expect on a daily Sheikh Zayed Road commute.

Heat is where the smaller cabin works in the Trailblazer's favor. There's less air to cool than in a bigger three-row SUV, so the front vents pull a hot parked cabin down to comfortable within a few minutes of setting off. Get it running before you climb back in on the worst afternoons and park in shade where it's on offer. It's a compact crossover's climate system, competent rather than luxurious, but it copes with July and August honestly.

Who should rent it, and who should look elsewhere

Rent the Trailblazer if you're a couple, a small family or a solo traveller on a longer Dubai stay who wants SUV height and a real boot without paying for three rows you won't use. The 5,000 km pool suits exactly this trip: a mix of quiet days around town and a handful of longer drives, without the daily-reset math a shorter rental usually forces on you.

Look elsewhere if you regularly need to seat more than three people. Chevrolet's own Captiva, with its third row, is the better booking from the same fleet. And if the plan includes Hatta's dirt roads or any real off-road driving, this isn't the car for it. It's front-wheel drive on 178 mm of clearance, built for Dubai's streets and highways, not its wadis.

The terms are simple: 5,000 km included across the whole rental, AED 1.0 for every kilometre beyond that, and you'll need to be 21 to collect the keys. We deliver to your door within one to two hours of booking. For a longer stay where the mileage needs room to breathe, the blue Trailblazer is the sensible choice.