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Newswheel staff :: 29 April 2008 :: Filed under Crossover, SUV, Audi, Audi Q5
There was only so long that Audi was going to allow BMW’s X3 to coin it in the mid-sized premium SUV niche. Actually, Audi has been slow to catch on to the whole SUV game. It allowed the original BMW X5 to go uncontested for pretty much an entire model generation before releasing the monstrous Q7. The new Q5, officially unveiled this week and aimed squarely at the X3, is likewise hardly an early-doors entrant. Still, it has probably arrived just in time - popular opinion appears to be turning nasty on big beasts like the Q7…
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Newswheel staff :: 19 March 2008 :: Filed under Crossover, SUV, Volvo, Europe & UK, US,
It’s been a long time since Volvo ditched its bland and boxy design vibe for something more elegant and contemporary. But the new XC60 mid-sized crossover, revealed at the Geneva motorshow this week, is still surprisingly sexy. It might just be the most desirable vehicle in its class…
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Newswheel staff :: 26 July 2007 :: Filed under Crossover, BMW, BMW X6
BMW’s plans to build a crossover-coupe come SUV aren’t exactly news. But we’d no clear idea of what the new model will look like. Until now, that is. Those tireless, tree-dwelling snappers Brenda Priddy & Co have caught the X6, as it will be known, on the prowl in Germany.
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Newswheel staff :: 20 July 2007 :: Filed under Crossover, Ford
It may be all doom, gloom and bottom-dwelling balance sheets Stateside. But Ford Europe is soldiering on valiantly with some interesting product launches. Having injected a little pizzazz into the mainstream MPV market with the S-Max, Ford is following up with the Kuga crossover. A preview version of the final production Kuga will be shown at the Frankfurt show in September…
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Newswheel staff :: 10 May 2007 :: Filed under Crossover, Hatchback, Opel, Vauxhall, Vauxhall Signum
If you’re wondering why most car companies are so damn conservative, look no further than the Vauxhall / Opel Signum. GM’s Euro subsidiary was happily cranking out the usual conventional and anonymous fare when some bright spark had the great idea to build a cheap executive car that was built for passenger comfort, not street cruising cred. Well, it didn’t work – the Signum hasn’t sold well and it dies next year…
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Newswheel staff :: 07 September 2006 :: Filed under Crossover, Hatchback, SUV, Nissan, Nissan Qashqai, Europe & UK
“There’s change in the air. As consumers, we are no longer prepared to put up with the dull or the conventional. We want something new, something different…thanks to the Nissan QASHQAI something different has arrived. You need never drive a boring car again.” So, says Nissan about its new compact crossover, designed and built in the UK. Uh huh…
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Newswheel staff :: 23 August 2006 :: Filed under Crossover, SUV, Mercedes Benz, Mercedes Benz R-Class, Europe & UK, US
Ponder, if you will, the current Mercedes-Benz SUV model range: the old-timer G-Class, revamped M-Class and the crazy-big new GL-Class. Suffice to say, M-B has plenty of SUV metal on its books. So, where exactly does that leave the six-seater, all-wheel-drive R-Class? Somewhere spanning the amorphous “crossover” divide between an upper-segment family, executive or estate car and an SUV or an MPV, that’s where. But precisely what kind of customer is supposed to offload the significant sum of £74,115 on the new range-topping R, the R63? It isn’t exactly obvious…
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Newswheel staff :: 26 April 2006 :: Filed under Crossover, SUV, Mercedes Benz, US
Mercedes' R-Class SUV/MPV crossover has only been on sale for months.
But it’s quickly heading for poo-creek-but-no-paddle status. Far from
creating a lucrative new model niche, disappointing sales in the US
have forced parent company DaimlerChrysler to offer dealers $5,000
incentives to shift the apparently unwanted barge. Making matters
worse, the car is reported to have been plagued by technical issues…
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Newswheel staff :: 14 April 2006 :: Filed under Crossover, SUV, Mazda, Mazda CX-9, US
Is the bottom about to fall out of the market for full-sized SUV / crossover-type cars? The sheer weight of launches into the sector over the past 18 months certainly gives us the fear. You just know when every manufacturer in town piles in, the ship is going down. Mixed metaphors aside, there is one thing we’re very confident about. The new Mazda CX-9 seven-seater crossover SUV is a zero sum model. It won’t be adding to the overall sales in the sector, just pinching a few off other brands…
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Newswheel staff :: 09 February 2006 :: Filed under Crossover, SUV, Mercedes Benz, Mercedes Benz AMG, Europe & UK, Trade shows, US
How to drop a big, V8-powered bomb on the Chicago auto show? Simply bolt a 6.3-litre, 510bhp V8 into a couple of existing models. M-B is preparing to wheel out the R63 and ML63 AMG as the Chicago show kicks off.
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Newswheel staff :: 08 February 2006 :: Filed under Crossover, SUV, Dodge, Dodge Caliber, Dodge Nitro, Europe & UK, US
By US standards, the Caliber is little more than a slightly fancier-than-average econobox with crossover pretensions. It’s effectively Chrysler’s replacement for the competent but dreary Neon and starts at just $14,000 Stateside. But with 300bhp from a turboed-up 2.4-litre four, it’ll be interesting to see what impact the SRT-4 model will make when it arrives in the UK in early 2007.
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Newswheel staff :: 07 February 2006 :: Filed under Crossover, Hybrid, SUV, Renault, Toyota, Europe & UK, Trade shows, US
The more premature the, er, pre-Geneva PR launch, the more we suspect the manufacturer in question is fearful a given car / concept would struggle to be heard above the cacophony of new kit at the show proper. Does that sentence make any sense? We have no idea. So, simply know this: Toyota and Renault have jumped the gun with a trio of Geneva-bound concepts.
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Newswheel staff :: 02 February 2006 :: Filed under Crossover, Lotus, Europe & UK, Trade shows, US
Lotus knocks up a crossover vehicle? Yup, but don’t whip out the oriental disembowelling cutlass just yet. The British sportscar maker hasn’t sold out à la Porsche Cayenne. The APX is a client-wooing exercise for Lotus Engineering, designed to show off the merits of its VVA architecture and a new engine. And very definitely not a vehicle that has any chance of seeing production with a Lotus badge on the front.
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Newswheel staff :: 27 January 2006 :: Filed under Crossover, Front engine sportscar, Saloon, Audi, Audi S8, BMW, BMW Z4, Mercedes Benz
Great news for well-heeled fanciers of premium-priced German automobiles. UK prices for a fleet of high end models from Germany’s big three have been announced.
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Newswheel staff :: 25 January 2006 :: Filed under Crossover, MPV / People carrier, Skoda, Skoda Roomster, Europe & UK
Skoda’s quirky Roomster concept has made it into production. The show car was first shown at the Frankfurt show in 2003, so that’s an impressive two and half year concept-to-reality turn around.
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Newswheel staff :: 09 January 2006 :: Filed under Crossover, Audi, Audi Roadjet, Europe & UK, Trade shows, US,
Everybody who’s absolutely anybody has a crossover vehicle on their stand at Detroit this year. Audi’s take on the automotive industry’s latest cash cow is the Roadjet concept. It’s billed as a pure show car, but Audi has confirmed that a “similar vehicle” will be in series production “soon”. Do not, therefore, spray your cornflakes all over the breakfast table if a near-identical production car appears in your morning paper in the next 18 months.
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Newswheel staff :: 08 January 2006 :: Filed under Crossover, SUV, Ford, Ford Edge, Trade shows, US
First, get one thing straight. The new Ford Edge is not an SUV. It’s a CUV – a crossover utility vehicle. The sort of car that tacitly concedes most SUV owners never stray from the hard black stuff in their big, beastly all-wheel drive vehicles. Think BMW X5 – chunky off-road style and that raised driving position the ladies go crazy for, coupled with car-like road manners and perhaps a dash of slightly-sane fuel economy.
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News :: 14 December 2005 :: Filed under Crossover, Four wheel drive, MPV / People carrier, SUV, Mazda, Mazda CX-7, Europe & UK, US
It’s not often that a great looking concept survives the transition to production without the combined kill-joys of corporate bean counters and safety regulations reducing it to a feeble simulcrum of the original. But Mazda has released the first pictures and details of the MX-7 crossover vehicle. And it’s near-as-dammit identical to the MX-Crossport concept shown at the Detroit show in January.
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Newswheel staff :: 27 April 2005 :: Filed under Crossover, Estate/Wagon, Hatchback, Audi, Audi A3, US,
Compact European hatchbacks do not have an illustrious history in the US. Can Audi buck the trend with the classy A3?
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