Chart Of The Day: Compact Crossovers In July And Year-To-Date
Domestics rule the compact crossover segment this month, with the ageless Escape standing above the crowd (albeit without weighting for fleet sales). Again, Honda and Toyota show bigger drops than...
View ArticleWhat’s Wrong With This Picture: Ford Escapes The SUV Look Edition
Ford’s outgoing Escape is neither the newest, nor the nicest compact crossover on the market, but man does it sell well. How something so relatively old and uncompetitive maintained such strong volume...
View ArticleEditorial: Event Horizon For Compact Crossovers
Normally this is something I would have saved for our “TTAC Staff” news items, but I’m the arrival of the Mercedes-Benz GLA is significant. We’ve reached the event horizon for compact crossovers and...
View ArticleCrossover Sales Soar
If you want to know why Jaguar and Lexus are introducing compact crossover concepts at the Frankfurt Auto Show this week, all you have to do is check the sales data. Crossover sales are soaring,...
View ArticleCain’s Segments: Small Premium Utilities – August 2013
We’ll confirm it. Again. America is becoming ever more hungry for small premium brand crossovers, and that’s not simply a result of there being more $40,000 German utility vehicles from which to...
View ArticleLos Angeles 2013: Lincoln MKC, Gets Brand Specific 2.3 Liter EcoBoost
There are so many automakers chasing the segment, perceived to be red hot, that one is tempted to set up a keyboard macro to type out “compact crossover”. The next step in Ford’s attempt to revive the...
View ArticleSubaru Eyes Le Mans, Has None For Compact Crossovers
If any of you were hoping for a small crossover underneath the Subaru XV Crosstrek, you may breath now. The Pleiades-bedecked automaker has no plans for such a thing, as it has its sights on the...
View ArticleAnalysis: China, USA Competing For Allocation As Luxury Crossover Sales Race...
Even though I tipped the Audi Q3 to win the compact crossover sales race, a story in Automotive News highlights another problem that Mercedes, and other luxury brands, could face: a lack of inventory....
View Article2015 Kia Soul EV Coming To US With $33K Price Tag
Looking for an EV that doesn’t cost Tesla money or resemble a jelly bean? Then Kia might just have what you need with its electrified version of the Soul when it arrives in showrooms later this year....
View ArticleParis 2014: Toyota C-HR Concept Unveiled Before Paris Debut
Want to know where Toyota might go in the near future for the crossover segment? The C-HR Concept as seen above might be a clue. According to CarScoops, the three-door concept combines “a bold new...
View ArticleVolkswagen: Golf-Based CUV May Slot Under Next-Gen Tiguan
With the Volkswagen Tiguan going bigger for the United States market in 2017, senior execs believe a smaller entry-level crossover could soon take its place. Ward’s Auto reports the new crossover...
View ArticleStudy: US Auto Sales To Rise Through 2017, Modestly Decline Through 2020
Happy days are back again for automakers selling to the United States, with auto sales projected to rise through 2017 before dipping slightly through 2020. According to The Detroit Bureau, a study by...
View Article2016 Honda HR-V Arriving May 15, Starting At $19,115
The 2016 Honda HR-V is set to hit showrooms May 15 with a beginning base price of $19,115. Three trims will be available when the five-passenger compact crossover goes on sale – LX, EX and EX-L Navi –...
View ArticleBMW X2 Green-Lit For Production
X is giving it to us again: BMW has green-lit production of the X2 crossover, slotted between the upcoming second-gen X1 and current X3. The X2 is based upon the UKL platform underpinning the X1 and 2...
View ArticleGeneral Motors Files Third Application For GMC Granite Nameplate
While General Motors dealt with trademarking issues over the Chevrolet Bolt, the automaker filed a new application last month for the GMC Granite nameplate. The application is the third to secure the...
View ArticleSsangyong Planning Jeep Wrangler Rival For US Market Debut
Mahindra & Mahindra’s Ssangyong is looking to enter the U.S. market, with a planned rival to the Jeep Wrangler leading the charge. The Wrangler fighter would be based upon the recently introduced...
View ArticleThe Mod(ular) Squad: Volvo Drops Concepts, Plans to Storm the Small Car Beaches
Two concepts just revealed by Volvo shows where the brand’s 40 Series vehicles are headed. The imaginatively-named Concept 40.1 and 40.2 were the centerpieces at today’s launch of Volvo’s global small...
View ArticleVolvo Readies Small Car Revival, Trademarks V40 Name in U.S.
Volvo is determined to make a splash in the U.S. small car market when the next-generation 40-series cars arrive, and it’s already laying the groundwork. The Swedish automaker filed a trademark...
View ArticleTTAC Subcompact Crossover Equation: Can You Find Good Deal in a Fleet of Bad...
There’s a problem with subcompacts. All sorts of subcompacts. Subcompact hamburgers. Subcompact basketball players. Subcompact beds. And especially subcompact crossovers. After years of examining...
View ArticleMini Makes a Name Misnomer with Larger Countryman
Mini continues to inflate the size of its vehicles, and the redesigned Countryman is expected to be the biggest yet. The company’s global head, Sebastian Mackensen, tells Automotive News Europe that...
View ArticleAlfa Romeo SUV Will Arrive in America with Baggage
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles will introduce its all-new Alfa Romeo SUV at the Los Angeles Auto Show to a crowd of interested enthusiasts and wary prospective buyers. It’s called the Stelvio and while the...
View ArticleHonda Keeps Intro Humble to Avoid Shooting Itself in the Foot
The coming out party for Honda’s new CR-V has been distinctly lacking in fanfare. The compact crossover debutante hasn’t skipped the ball entirely, but she is certainly being a bit of a wallflower....
View ArticleMazda Flashes Us a Little Leg With Its Redesigned 2017 CX-5
Everyone assumed that the next incarnation of the Mazda CX-5 wouldn’t make an appearance until next year, so it was a bit of a surprise to see Mazda showing off carefully lit photos of its...
View ArticleMini’s Biggest Gets the John Cooper Works Treatment, Becomes Brand’s Most...
Mini’s largest model is about to get the most powerful engine currently available to the brand from its parent company, BMW. The company will offer up its 2018 Countryman as the latest John Cooper...
View ArticleJaguar Makes Good on Sport Utility Promise with Pint-sized E-Pace
Jaguar is giving the F-Pace a baby brother and, unfortunately, it is going to continue the company’s terrible SUV-naming trend and dub it the E-Pace — a moniker it probably should have reserved for the...
View ArticleChicago 2017: The 2018 Toyota RAV4 ‘Adventure’ is Code for RAV4 ‘Towing Package’
No longer worried about being eaten by wolves, humans have developed a desire to carefully reintroduce a little excitement into their lives now and again. Sometimes, just the illusion of excitement is...
View Article2017 Honda CR-V Touring AWD Review – Effective And Efficient, If Not...
We’re all supposed to enjoy, or endure, an Alfa Romeo ownership experience at some point in our lives. The 2017 Honda CR-V is diametrically opposed to everything the Alfa Romeo SZ stands for. You’re...
View ArticleNYIAS 2017: You Won’t Believe What They’ve Done With the 2018 Mitsubishi...
Sit back and place a nitroglycerine pill under your tongue. It’s product announcement time. As it revamps its utility vehicle lineup, Mitsubishi isn’t letting the looming introduction of the poorly...
View Article2017 Volkswagen Tiguan Limited Priced From $22,895; Old New Tiguan Costs...
The old new Volkswagen Tiguan will cost $3,350 less than the new new 2018 Volkswagen Tiguan. Known now as the Tiguan Limited, a basic 2017 model rides on 16-inch steel wheels with no cargo cover,...
View ArticleVolkswagen T-Roc Debut Reveals a More Traditional Crossover
Opening with a query as to whether or not the audience was, “Ready to Roc” or not, Volkswagen showcased the production version of the T-Roc today in Italy. However, the model that arrived on stage...
View Article2018 Volkswagen Tiguan SEL Premium 4Motion Review – Perky and Peppy Gives Way...
It took Volkswagen forever. But finally, in 2008, more than a decade after the compact SUV craze began, the first-generation Tiguan landed on U.S. shores. The Tiguan was more premium-priced than it...
View ArticleVolvo XC40: Swedish Style and Substance in a Small SUV
Volvo’s Compact Modular Architecture is turning out to be a little sexier than one might have imagined. With the arrival of the XC40 we were expecting something akin to a baby X90, but we ended up...
View ArticleWe Still Don’t Know When the Mazda CX-5 Diesel Will Arrive in America
The potential for success is limited, but Mazda nevertheless announced in Los Angeles in November 2016 that the revamped 2017 Mazda CX-5 would be available with a 2.2-liter diesel torque monster....
View ArticleVolkswagen Gives Tiguan a Price Haircut as Sales Soar
Volkswagen’s pre-dieselgate “take over the world” scheme appears to have returned in a smaller, more manageable form. Now, VW’s plan is simply to plunder the compact crossover segment — not an easy...
View ArticleToyota Teases the 2019 RAV4’s Manlier Silhouette
Toyota is updating the insanely popular RAV4 for the 2019 model year, which means it may be able to leave the shadow of the much newer Honda CR-V. That’s not a knock against Toyota, as the company...
View ArticleVolkswagen Bringing New ‘Volks-SUV’ to United States, Asia
We were a little disappointed that Volkswagen decided to keep the T-Roc in Europe — not because we were clamoring for another subcompact crossover but because this one actually seemed sort of...
View ArticleLatest IIHS Crash Tests: Throwing Small Crossovers at the Wall, Seeing What...
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) has released new ratings for seven small utility vehicles. For the most part, the pint-sized crossovers performed amicably. However, none of the models...
View ArticleUpmarket Mazda: 2019 CX-3 Adds Standard Equipment for Not Much Extra Dough
Mazda has released pricing details for the 2019 CX-3. Refreshed for the upcoming model year, the subcompact crossover doesn’t change its already handsome looks all that much, but it does include more...
View Article2019 Kia Sportage Receives Mild-hybrid Diesel, Even Milder Visual Refresh
While it seems a little early for Kia’s Sportage to gain a visual refresh, the manufacturer apparently didn’t feel its new engine option should arrive unaccompanied. The automaker is launching a...
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