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A Ford Excursion SUV next to a Toyota Camry compact. Sport utility vehicles (SUVs) have been criticized for a variety of environmental and automotive safety reasons. The rise in production and marketing of SUVs in the 2010s and 2020s by auto manufacturers has resulted in over 80% of all new car sales in the United States being SUVs or light trucks by October 2021. [1]
It Was the First SUV. Modern Jeep Wranglers feel and function like SUVs. This was not the case with Jeeps from World War II through the mid-1960s, however, when the Bronco was being conceived. The ...
He also acknowledged there are tradeoffs in design and said safety emphasis in the past has been on the people inside of vehicles. “Ultimately, there’s less we can do when someone is hit ...
“The bad part though, it is designed to be off-road and most [people] do not do that. So, you are paying for features never used. A different and cheaper SUV to stay on the highway is better.”
A crossover, crossover SUV, or crossover utility vehicle (CUV) is a type of automobile with an increased ride height that is built on unibody chassis construction shared with passenger cars, as opposed to traditional sport utility vehicles (), which are built on a body-on-frame chassis construction similar to pickup trucks.
A coupe SUV is a type of sport utility vehicle with a sloping rear roofline similar to those of fastbacks or Kammbacks.The sloping roofline is adopted to offer a styling advantage compared to its standard SUV counterpart, [1] [2] which helps increase profit margins as manufacturers are able to raise the price by marketing it as a more premium model. [3]
In contrast, the majority of passenger vehicles on U.S. roads today are SUVs or pickups," IIHS senior statistician Sam Monfort, the lead author of the study, was quoted as saying by the institute.
Audi A8 Night Vision Assistant. An automotive night vision system uses a thermographic camera to increase a driver's perception and seeing distance in darkness or poor weather beyond the reach of the vehicle's headlights. Such systems are offered as optional equipment on certain premium vehicles.