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- Qashqai stretched!
- NISSAN is to produce a stretched version of its Qashqai to compete against seven-seat rival crossovers. The five-seat Qashqai is proving hugely popular but does not offer the seven-seat flexibility of the Citroen C-Crosser and Peugeot 4007. Now Nissan has confirmed that it is to display its new...
- Research articles 2008-04-11
- Fueling the fire for crossovers: these luxe drives couple sedan amenities with SUV capacity
- luxury consumers and carmakers alike are converging on the sweet spot of the upscale automotive market: crossovers that combine the drivability of a sedan with the roominess of a utility vehicle and are packed with the amenities that big-ticket buyers demand. Testifying to their growing appeal, sales of crossovers--also...
- Research articles 2008-01-01
- Enclave steps up the luxury ladder
- Buick Enclave is supposed to be the luxury version of the full-size crossover SUVs that General Motors also sells as the Saturn Outlook and the GMC Acadia. The Buick hit the market about four months later than the others, tagged as a 2008 model, while the...
- Research articles 2007-09-14
- Resetting the standard: the GMC Acadia just may be the best-executed GM vehicle since the corvette. Yeah, it's that good.(NEW CARS)(Product/service evaluation)(Brief article)
- Here's another in the growing legion of seven- or eight-passenger crossovers. GMC's Acadia is nearly full-size and from behind the wheel it feels only slightly smaller than a Yukon. Ah, but the driving experience--it has a smooth and supple ride combined with handling usually associated with...
- Research articles 2007-03-01
- Carlike crossover SUVs grab auto show spotlight
- DETROIT -- There's no category hotter in the auto industry than so-called crossover vehicles. And the trend is readily apparent at the auto show here. With the bloom off trucklike SUVs, automakers are seeing families turn increasingly to crossovers, vehicles that offer the ride and driving ease of a car,...
- Research articles 2007-01-11
- Dueling fuel cells.(NEWS CARS /// FIRST LOOK)
- The world's carmakers are steadily closing in on the renewable-energy holy grail. Both General Motors and Honda claim they will have hydrogen fuel cell powered family vehicles for public consumption within two years. GM will lease 110 fuel cell powered Chevrolet Equinox...
- Research articles 2007-01-01
- Road ready.(SPY REPORTS)(General Motors Corp. Buick Div.)(Brief article)
- Buick's crossover is on its way. This prototype, spied outside Detroit, looks a lot like the Enclave showcar. The rear-door glass, though, is two parts, not a single pane, which greatly alters the door's shape.
- Research articles 2007-01-01
- Crossovers offer best of two worlds.(Auto Saturday)(Women with wheels)
- Byline: Susan Frissell Partly due to rising gas prices, among other factors, consumers have steered away from buying large sport-utility-vehicles. Well, some have. There is still a large segment of folks, it seems, that gravitate toward the Escalades, Navigators and such, without concern about...
- Research articles 2006-11-11
- Slow-selling minivans ripe for discounts
- DETROIT -- Minivan shoppers are being offered more rebates and other incentives this fall as automakers attempt to stanch the flow of customers looking for alternatives to the family haulers. Minivan sales are down 12.4% for the first nine months of the year compared with the same time last year,...
- Research articles 2006-10-19
- Nissan is developing a crossover smaller than the Murano to compete with the Honda CR-V and Toyota RAV4.(Nissan Motor Company Ltd.'s P32K)(Brief article)
- 1. Nissan is developing a crossover smaller than the Murano to compete with the Honda CR-V and Toyota RAV4. Internally code-named P32K, the new five-passenger compact will come only with a four-cylinder engine and a CVT transmission. And all-wheel drive will be optional. ...
- Research articles 2006-09-01
- Crossover vehicles pass up SUVs on road to growing sales
- Correction ran 5/5/2006: Ford's Escape crossover SUV, in gasoline and gas-electric hybrid versions, outsold both Toyota RAV4 and Ford Explorer SUVs in April. The information was incomplete in a story Thursday. DETROIT -- For the first time in April, crossover vehicles made up more than 50% of the overall...
- Research articles 2006-05-04
- Running the proverbial numbers race.
- Numbers in financial markets tend to assume enormous importance, sometimes irrespective of their fundamental significance. Think of the fuss made when the Dow Jones Industrial average first passed 10,000 or when the Nasdaq passed 5000. Chartists pore over the graphs and find deep meaning...
- Research articles 2006-03-06
- Explorer's future seems up in the air
- DETROIT -- At one point, the idea that Ford Motor would close its Louisville assembly plant seemed far-fetched, if not ridiculous. That's where the automaker builds the Ford Explorer SUV, the vehicle one analyst estimates accounted for a third of Ford's profit in the fourth quarter of 1999. ...
- Research articles 2006-01-25
- Automakers show off crossover models
- DETROIT -- Meet the new family car, the crossover. No serious automaker wants to be caught without one, and the rush is on to offer a crossover in just about every size -- S, M, L and XL. They're called crossovers because they're a cross between SUVs and cars, offering...
- Research articles 2006-01-13
- Popularity of crossovers leaves SUVs in dust
- Buyers are shifting rapidly from traditional SUVs to more comfortable and more fuel-efficient crossover models. The transition had been inching along for several years but has turned into a stampede. Crossovers, adaptations of car or minivan underpinnings, outsold traditional, truck-based SUVs the past three months and should do...
- Research articles 2005-12-08
- Crossovers blend comfy ride, gas savings
- After 10 years in a rough-riding, truck-based SUV, Nancy Watanabe decided she'd had enough. This week, she's replacing her Toyota 4Runner with a Lexus RX 330, a car-based SUV. "I wanted something that was lower and drove more like a car," says the Manhattan Beach, Calif., resident and expectant...
- Research articles 2005-12-08
- Hit the road: itching to throw your business into high gear? We have everything you need to get your business fleet up to speed in our 2005 guide to commercial vehicles
- With 30 new nameplates launching in 2005 (including 11 new pickups, minivans, SUVs and crossovers), you'll have an abundance of business vehicles to choose from. Whether your company needs crew cabs with short or long beds, passenger or cargo vans, a versatile SUV with removable seats for more storage, or...
- Research articles 2004-12-01
- Chicago Tribune New Cars Column.
- By Jim Mateja, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 19--A DEFINING MOMENT WITH FREESTYLE: Couldn't understand why Chris Theodore, then head of car development at Ford, got so excited whenever talking about the crossover the automaker was developing as a companion...
- Research articles 2004-09-19
- Automakers take steps to capitalize on accelerating interest in smaller SUVs.
- By Terry Box, The Dallas Morning News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 17--Dads once drove station wagons, those typically American family-toting barges that were often slathered in fake wood. George Boedecker of Grapevine owned one in the '80s and had no ...
- Research articles 2004-07-17
- Broncos find a way to win.(Sports)
- Byline: Marty Maciaszek Daily Herald Sports Writer Barrington wasn't at the top of its game Friday afternoon. Visiting Hersey had 10 hits and runners on base in every inning against Barrington senior ace Drew O'Connell. The Broncos managed just 4...
- Research articles 2004-05-08
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