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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...
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What’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...
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Editorial: 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...
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Crossover 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,...
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Cain’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...
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Los 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...
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Subaru 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...
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Analysis: 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....
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2015 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....
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Paris 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...
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Volkswagen: 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...
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Study: 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...
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2016 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 –...
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BMW 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...
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General 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...
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Ssangyong 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...
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