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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 :: 21 April 2008 :: Filed under SUV, Porsche Cayenne
Portly, awkward, VW-derived and philosophically dubious for a car with
a Porsche badge. It isn’t hard to think of excuses to deride Porsche’s
money-spinning ute. But a lack of power doesn’t really factor. That’s
especially true with the environmental lobby tightening the noose. So
kudos to Porsche for metaphorically flicking the bird to good sense and
delivering unto us the new uprated Cayenne Turbo S…
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Newswheel staff :: 09 April 2008 :: Filed under SUV, Land Rover, Land Rover Range Rover
Most of the speculation regarding Tata’s recent bagging of Jaguar and Land Rover has focused on the implications of the deal for the big cat. But what about our favourite purveyor of all-terrain vehicles? Well, the latest scuttlebutt from the camera-happy sleuths at Brenda Priddy & Co is that A V12 Range Rover is currently undergoing winter testing…
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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 :: 14 August 2007 :: Filed under SUV, Audi, Audi Q7
Love it or loathe it, you’re going to have to lump it. Audi has confirmed that a production version of the Q7 V12 TDI is scheduled to hit showrooms in the second half of ’08. Lest you have forgotten, we’re talking 500+ blown diesel ponies and around 737lb/ft of twistage…
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Newswheel staff :: 06 December 2006 :: Filed under SUV, Porsche, Porsche Cayenne, Europe & UK
The Cayenne SUV. Not known for its beauty, perhaps, but still recognisably Porsche. Or at least it was until yesterday when the Stuttgart-based sports car specialist wheeled out this face-lifted model, four years after the original mud-plugging Porker hit the road…
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24 November 2006 :: Filed under SUV, Volkswagen Toureg, Europe & UK
Transparent publicity stunt alert? Yup, but it does communicate the torque-tastic capability of the Toureg’s V10 diesel lump rather nicely. Earlier this week, a VW Toureg V10 TDI repeatedly dragged a 155 tonne 747-200 passenger jet down a runway at Dunsfold Aerodrome, 40 miles south west of London. Neither the Toureg nor the 747 achieved escape velocity…
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Newswheel staff :: 31 October 2006 :: Filed under SUV, Peugeot 4007, Europe & UK
Feeling tired and listless? Simply can’t be bothered to engineer your own mid-sized SUV? Then come on down to Mistsubishi Motors, we’ll do the job for you…This, allegedly, is the process that has brought us the new Peugeot 4007. It’s little more than a Mitsubishi Outlander with a nose job…
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Newswheel staff :: 04 October 2006 :: Filed under Mini MPV / People carrier, SUV, Great Wall, Landwind, Europe & UK, Trade shows, US
Thought that chintzy Chinese companies with faintly comical
brand names were the preserve of Ł25 DVD players with piracy-friendly DivX
support? Well, think again. At the Paris
show, the Chinese are out in force and some of their products look pretty damn
plausible…
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Newswheel staff :: 02 October 2006 :: Filed under Coupe, Estate/Wagon, Hatchback, Saloon, SUV, BMW, BMW 3 Series, Ford, Ford Mondeo, Mini, Europe & UK, Trade shows, US
How well does Ford’s Kinetic Design hang together on the new Mondeo? Is BMW’s 3 Series coupe individual enough? And how the hell do you identify the latest BMW Mini? Answers to these questions and more within…
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Newswheel staff :: 13 September 2006 :: Filed under SUV, Audi, Audi Q7, Europe & UK
It’s exactly what the world has been waiting for. A five-metre, 2.5-tonne SUV powered by a V12 production diesel engine pumping out precisely 493bhp and 737lb/ft. This, friends, is the new Audi Q7 V12 TDI…
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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 :: 07 September 2006 :: Filed under SUV, Honda, Honda CR-V, Europe & UK
After last month’s picture leakage comes the official outpouring of images and tech specs for the new Honda CR-V. The Japanese outfit reckons the refreshed compact SUV offers a driving experience as good as a D-sector saloon car as well as improved off-road capabilities…
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Newswheel staff :: 04 September 2006 :: Filed under Coupe, Saloon, SUV, BMW, BMW 3 Series, BMW 7 Series, BMW M6, Europe & UK
Bloody Germans. While Jaguar takes a painfully public pasting and the British car industry in general heads for an icy, infinite oblivion, the evil Hun goes from strength to strength. Enter BMW’s multi-pronged September salvo of new hardware for the UK - three new models, including the delectable E92 3 Series coupe, a tarted up X3 entry-level SUV and the pimped out M6 cabrio, plus no less than 30 new derivatives…
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Newswheel staff :: 23 August 2006 :: Filed under Four wheel drive, SUV, Land Rover, Land Rover Defender, Land Rover Range Rover Sport, Europe & UK, US
Land Rover has dropped Ford’s impressive new oil burning bent eight lump into Range Rover Sport to create the Sport TDV8. Compared with the existing TDV6 (which lives on) the new engine cranks out around 40 per cent more power and torque and still returns just about bearable fuel economy – 25.5mpg for the combined cycle. Meanwhile, the crusty but lovable Defender has once again received a minor makeover…
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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 Ł74,115 on the new range-topping R, the R63? It isn’t exactly obvious…
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Newswheel staff :: 22 August 2006 :: Filed under SUV, Honda, Honda CR-V, Europe & UK, US
No technical details have been released as yet. But in the mean time point your peepers at these first leaked images of Honda’s next CR-V mid-sized SUV. The most significant styling cue is probably the slopping side window, no doubt designed to give the car a more dynamic profile. However, there’s also more than a hint of Volvo XC-90 in them there tail lights…
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Newswheel staff :: 21 August 2006 :: Filed under SUV, Porsche, Porsche Cayenne, US
Porsche’s US sales division has opted not to bother with a 2007 model year update for the Cayenne SUV. Dealers will continue to sell the 2006 variant until the facelifted 2008 Cayenne arrives early next year. Of course, this probably says as much about the rather contrived model year system in the US as it does about flagging Cayenne sales…
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Neville Contractor :: 14 August 2006 :: Filed under SUV, Land Rover, Land Rover Defender, Europe & UK
Ford Motor Company’s balance sheet may be boring its way inexorably to the earth’s core. But the Blue Oval does have one brand that’s still pulling in a few pounds: Land Rover. The launch of the second-gen Freelander, the new Rangie Sport HST and new, more powerful diesel engines in the Range Rover prove that the boys from Solihull are busy. Now they have turned to the elderly Land Rover Defender, which is in desperate need of a mojo injection…
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Newswheel staff :: 09 August 2006 :: Filed under SUV, BMW, BMW X5, Europe & UK, US
Like it or loathe it, BMW’s X5 was the original driver-friendly antidote to the usual slack-at-the-tiller land yacht SUVs. In fact, the first X5 is so good that the new model, unveiled by BMW today, will need to be technological tour de force to stand a chance of seriously improving on it. Which is handy…
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