Today consider the 2007 Dodge Nitro, a small SUV introduced last fall by Chrysler.
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Ford sold more than 29, 000 Escapes, the highest monthly total since the small SUV's introduction 13 years ago.
It has also benefited from new products, like the GLK, a small SUV, and a new generation E-class sedan.
Curiosity was built at CalTech and is the size of a small SUV.
Now, the automaker has winners in the minicar, small car, midsize car, small SUV, midsize SUV, minivan, and large pickup categories.
Next year it hopes to build on that momentum with the introduction of the X1 small SUV and a redesigned X3 SUV.
Also, Buick's new Encore small SUV is just starting to hit showrooms.
Ford, meanwhile, is rolling out a new small SUV, the EcoSport, along with a redesigned Ranger pickup and the next-generation Ford Fusion.
At last month's auto show in Detroit, Mercedes-Benz showed a vehicle called "Vision-B, " a small but tall five-door cross between a small station wagon, a small minivan and a small SUV.
Chrysler has a handful of smaller-volume hopefuls, like a redesigned Chrysler Sebring sedan, a new Chrysler Aspen SUV, a small SUV for Dodge called the Nitro and a Jeep crossover called the Patriot.
Bristling with sensors, antennas, a laser and a robotic arm, the Curiosity robot, about the size of a small SUV, is twice the length and four times the weight of any of the three prior rovers that explored Mars.
The plan is to grow the Alfa Romeo and Maserati brands globally and flesh out the Jeep lineup, including the addition of a new small SUV, while limiting the Fiat brand to derivatives of its 500 and Panda small cars and scaling back its struggling Lancia brand.
The small-SUV, tall-station-wagon, crossover segment, whatever you want to call it, is wildly popular.
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As for new parents McCorry and Koesterer, like so many of their ilk they settled on a small crossover SUV as their first bona fide family car.
Except for the drawings of molecules on its doors, the small Chevy Equinox SUV looks like an anonymous, run-of-the-mill General Motors vehicle.
Volvo, for instance, which recently added a sport utility vehicle to its lineup, will soon get a small car and another SUV.
Martenson claims that after interrogation he was held in an SUV and driven to a small airport outside of Denver instead of to the Aspen airport as he had requested.
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Renault manufactures the Pulse small car, Scala midsize car and Duster SUV at the plant, which opened in May 2010.
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Daimler cannot sell more big-margin vehicles such as the E-class, AMG E or the S-Class and SUV's in Europe unless it sells more small models that will allow the company to fall in line with E.
And this year, it will accelerate its new product introductions with the Fiesta and Focus small cars, a new super-duty pickup and a redesigned Explorer SUV.
Nissan says a bigger shift is on the horizon: it plans to move production of its two popular sport-utility vehicles to the U.S. The small Rogue crossover is scheduled to make the move this year, while the next generation of the Murano luxury SUV will follow when production is expected to begin in 2014.
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