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• Insurance crash study is critical of head restraints

  - 2007-07-03

  WASHINGTON -- Head restraints in dozens of sport utility vehicles, pickup trucks and minivans provided only poor or marginal protection from neck injuries in simulated crashes conducted by the insurance industry. The test results released Tuesday found several SUVs had improved protections against whiplash injuries but gave poor...

  Tags: Ford Motor Co., insurance, minivan, restraint, SUV, Toyota Motor Corp.

• A look at the driving forces for 2004

  - 2003-12-15

  Fuel-sipping gas-electric hybrid vehicles are likely to be next year's big buzz as Honda adds another, Ford fields its first and Toyota starts expanding to most of its fleet. Meantime, your dad's Oldsmobile disappears at last from General Motors' lineup after fading for years. Cadillac -- who'd have thought? --...

  Tags: car, Ford Motor Co., minivan, Porsche AG, SUV, Toyota Motor Corp.

• North American International Auto Show Roundup.

  - 2003-01-16

  By Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 16--The 2003 North American International Auto Show runs through 7 p.m. Monday, so there's not much time left to see one of the most amazing collections of new cars and trucks...

  Tags: BMW AG, car, minivan, Nissan Motor Co. Ltd., pickup, SUV, Toyota Motor Corp.

• Favorite Cars of June 2002

  - 2002-07-25

  Business Editors/Automotive Writers PALO ALTO, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--July 25, 2002 Dealix Corporation, the home of InvoiceDealers, released the favorite cars, trucks, SUVs and minivans of its online shoppers. June 2002 Results: The Ford F-Series topped all vehicles as the Overall Favorite Vehicle in June. It also continued...

  Tags: car, Ford Motor Co., Honda Motor Co., minivan, SUV, Toyota Motor Corp.

• San Antonio Express-News On the Road Column.

  - 2002-04-12

  By G. Chambers Williams III, San Antonio Express-News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 12--Sport utility vehicles have become the mom-mobiles of the new millennium, and as such, they have become much more gentrified than in the mid- to late '80s and the early '90s....

  Tags: minivan, SUV, Toyota Motor Corp.

• U.S. Carmakers Likely to Have Big Operating Losses in 2002.

  - 2002-01-06

  By Rick Popely, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 6--Zero-interest financing lured auto buyers to dealerships in huge numbers last year, helping the U.S. auto industry post its second-best sales performance ever. But as domestic automakers look forward to the year ahead, they...

  Tags: Chrysler LLC, Ford Motor Co., General Motors Corp., Honda Motor Co., incentive, minivan, pickup, SALES, SUV, Toyota Motor Corp., U.S.

• Third-row seats become must-have for SUVs.(sport utility vehicles)(Brief Article)

  - 2000-10-30

  It seems a sport-utility these days isn't worthy of consideration for many buyers unless it offers a third-row seat. Ford Motor Co. offers three-row seating in its Ford Expedition and Excursion and its Lincoln Navigator, as does General Motors Corp. in its Chevrolet Suburban and Tahoe...

  Tags: Chevrolet, Explorer, Ford Motor Co., General Motors Corp., minivan, SUV, Toyota Motor Corp.

• Third-row seating grabs must-have status in SUVs .

  - 2000-10-30

  It seems a sport-utility isn't worthy of consideration by many buyers unless it offers a third-row seat. Ford Motor Co. offers three-row seating in its Ford Expedition and Excursion and its Lincoln Navigator, as does General Motors Corp. in its Chevrolet Suburban and Tahoe and its...

  Tags: Chevrolet, Ford Motor Co., General Motors Corp., minivan, SUV, Toyota Motor Corp.

• Indiana is Trucking.(truck manufacturing facilities in Indiana)

  - 2000-03-01

  What's the latest from the state's four assembly plants? The country's fastest-growing automotive segment is light trucks. That's good news for Indiana. Vehicle sales at the end of last year were 42 percent higher than at the beginning of the current economic...

  Tags: General Motors Corp., Hummer, Indiana, manufacturing, minivan, Passport, pickup, SUV, Toyota Motor Corp.