Sentences with phrase «how utility vehicles»

One only has to look at the mainstream automotive market to understand how utility vehicles have changed the game.

We understand how a utility vehicle owner leans on their car to take them from work to the weekend.

Not exact matches

Never mind electric - vehicle range anxiety, how will power utilities and home systems handle the growing load of a burgeoning fleet of electric cars?

The bills also offer a raft of other ideas, including tax incentives for cars and car chargers, bond authority to raise money for charging infrastructure, and requiring utilities to come up with their own estimates of how many plug - in vehicles could hit roads.

-- The Editor takes his monthly «Excursion» in high performance luxury / «Aussie Utes» Australian utility vehicles — a report by Dennis Harrison / Austin Seven Restoration — Matt Vincent tells how he restored his vintage Chummy to its original tourer form.

TOKYO — It certainly won't be called the Vezel when Honda begins building the new Fit - based crossover / utility vehicle in the Mexican town of Celaya, Guanajuato, in the spring of 2014, though that's how it was unveiled at the 43rd annual motor show here.

SANTA BARBARA — Cross / utility vehicles, quasi-SUVs built on passenger - car platforms, are such a common presence it's hard to imagine how America ever got along without them.

A new test — the small overlap test — was added to assess how the vehicles perform during a front - corner collision with another vehicle or object, such as a utility pole.

When Toyota gave birth to the 4Runner back in 1985, how sport utility vehicles were conceived was pretty straightforward: Take a pickup, put in a second row of seats and cover the bed in a nice shell.

Call the Cadillac SRX what you like: a «medium luxury utility vehicle» (that's how Cadillac refers to it), a maxiwagon, or an SUV crossover.Whatever term you use, the SRX is one...

I'm not one to get excited over SUVs, regardless of how much «sport,» «utility,» and «vehicle» they claim to have.

Noting the industry - wide spike in consumer demand for utility vehicles, Margason emphasized how compact hatchbacks fill that need as crossovers get smaller and smaller.

The 2008 Mitsubishi Endeavor crossover utility vehicle is more highway cruiser than rugged off - road truck but, given how most SUV owners use their vehicles, it actually makes quite a sensible choice for families on the go.

Have you noticed how crowded the roads are becoming with spiffed up, high - dollar sport - utility vehicles?

Mercedes got a similar reaction in 1997 when it lifted the veils off its first SUV, the M - Class — and look how many sports utility vehicles of all shapes and sizes the automaker sells nowadays.

Man, was I ever shocked by how good this thing handles and the utility that this vehicle provides.

FORD ADVISES ON WEIGHT Ford Motor Co. will advise buyers of its sport - utility vehicles and pickup trucks how much weight they can safely carry in their vehicles, but it said the move was not connected to the Firestone tire recall, the New York Times reported recently.

The low - cost, high - fun OLV concept vehicle presents Hyundai's view of how to put the fun back in sport utility vehicles.

Jeep created the sport - utility vehicle, and the 1999 Grand Cherokee still defines how a true sport - utility should perform and handle - on the road and off.

Because few of the people who spend upward of 30 grand on a truck ever bother to take it off - road, we tested it in a manner more in keeping with how expensive sport - utility vehicles are used these days: We packed the Orvis with a precocious 2 1/2 - year - old, a child safety seat, a cooler and a load of toys, then set out on a long road trip.

How smart is it to introduce a sport / utility vehicle right now?

The Kochs» attack on electric vehicles raises the question of how utilities, which as an industry have often provided financial support to the Koch network of operatives, feel about the Koch network's new pivot.

It's unknown how EEI or individual utility members of ALEC responded to the anti-EV resolution, though Ford, which has a growing interest in electric vehicles, deserted ALEC a few months later.

Learn why SUV insurance is often times more expensive, the factors that lead to your expensive insurance, and finally, how to find cheap auto insurance for your sports utility vehicle.

Here's how: because they once owned (until 2011, when they sold the division to Polaris) a company called GEM, which made ugly little plastic electric cars that were used as utility vehicles on campuses and zoos and even on public roads as part of NHTSA's «Neighborhood Electric Vehicle» classification that allowed the vehicles to be used on roads with speed limits of 35 mph or less.

How else would you describe something like the new Volvo V60 Cross Country, a coupe - like wagon that has the height and road stance of a sport - utility vehicle?