Sentences with phrase «of a sport utility vehicle»

In December, sales of sport utility vehicles, mini-vans and pickup trucks climbed to 47.6 percent of sales, up from 46.4 percent in December 1996.

G.M. said today that its sales rose 9.9 percent in December compared with those in December 1996, with car sales up 7.3 percent and sales of sport utility vehicles, mini-vans and pickup trucks up 13.2 percent.

Pandemonium struck when the students smashed the windscreen of a sports utility vehicle with registration number FG 23 A31, belonging the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs as it drove by.

They were pursued around the Al Wathba racing track in Abu Dubai by human operators carrying handheld radio units, in a convoy of sports utility vehicles.

If versatility is more your preference we offer a full range of sport utility vehicles including the GLC - Class, M - Class, GL - Class, and the rugged G - Class.

Previewing a sportier and more luxurious SUV than the Q7, the Q8 Concept combines the practicality of a sports utility vehicle with «the emotional lines of a coupé,» as Audi puts it.

These are our top picks among the new breed of sport utility vehicles and crossovers making a debut in New York City.

With the popularity of sport utility vehicles taking the large family vehicle market by storm, many have said the writing is on the wall for the previously well - established minivan concept.

This is the best Explorer yet, and deserves to stay at the front of the sport utility vehicle pack, where the Explorer has been since shortly after its introduction for 1991.

The Pathfinder was one of the early trailblazers in Nissan's lineup of sport utility vehicles, with off - road capability to back up its rugged styling.

«What we see now is more of the sport utility vehicle [and] crossover vehicles are built on car platforms, and they get much better vehicle economy, in fact there isn't much penalty between a midsize sedan and a compact sport utility,» Michelle Krebs, senior analyst with Autotrader, told Automotive News.

It has a black smooth dashboard, which is equipped with attractive central and floor console along with an AC unit, infotainment system and several control switches of this sports utility vehicle.

The worst - case scenario, as it were, would be affixing this badge to the back of a sport utility vehicle.

The car - truck which originated the luxury crossover hybrid subsegment over a decade ago is available in front and all - wheel drive and also ranks well on the EPA's list of sport utility vehicles.

Visit our local Jeep Dealership near you, and explore our huge selection of sports utility vehicles that we have available.

The compact SUV segment is where all the action is right now, and all automakers are rushing in with new models to bank on the market's thirst for this class of sport utility vehicles.

Let's take a closer look at both of these sport utility vehicles.

* Saturn's re-designed hybrid rated at 32 mpg highway; 585 miles on one tank of fuel * Most affordable hybrid SUV at $ 24,795 Detroit — Saturn today announced that the all - new 2008 Saturn Vue Green Line hybrid will have a fuel economy rating of 25 miles per gallon in city and 32 miles per gallon on the highway — the best highway mileage of any sport utility vehicle.

With the rise of the compact crossover SUV, the range of sport utility vehicles available right now is greater than ever, and getting the capability of an SUV comes with fewer downsides than ever before.

Meanwhile, Land Rover will offer its entire range of sport utility vehicles, including the Discovery, Range Rover and Range Rover Sport models, which offer excellent off - road performance combined with luxurious interiors.

Next to it Toyota will also unveil a new extension of its sports utility vehicle line - up into the small car segment: Toyota Urban Cruiser.

RIALTO, Calif. — Rodney King, whose videotaped beating by police led to the deadly 1992 riots in Los Angeles, was hospitalized with a broken pelvis after he lost control of his sport utility vehicle while weaving through traffic at 100 mph and crashed, police said.

This year's Discovery has all - terrain capabilities that are unrivaled by competitors aside from Land Rover's own line of sport utility vehicles.

The universe of sport utility vehicles — once rife with gas - guzzling land yachts — has expanded to include wildly popular compact and even subcompact models whose fuel economy has jumped by up to a third in less than a decade.

He won the George Polk Award for national reporting for his coverage of sport utility vehicles in 1997 and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize the same year.

Represented a major U.S. - based automobile manufacturer in connection with claims arising from the rollover of a sport utility vehicle.

LA may be known for convertible top - down cruising, but these days what dominates the road — and the auto selection — is a sea of sports utility vehicles.

These blend the cargo capacity of a sport utility vehicle with the comfort of a sedan — ideal for carrying a load of passengers.

Not exact matches

Motor vehicles sales in Western Australia for the year to November are down 8.5 per cent on the same period last year, with sports utility vehicles the only part of the market that held up.

Back in 2000, when more than a 100 people died in Ford Explorers, many of them equipped with Firestone tires, there was a national debate over large sport - utility vehicles and whether they were prone to rollover.

New CEO Jim Hackett has been trying to convince investors that betting on a Ford turnaround is worth the wager by laying out a plan to get rid of slow - selling, low - margin car models and refocus the company on more lucrative sport utility vehicles and pickups.

The automaker said will introduce an electric version of its Kona small sport utility vehicle (SUV) with a driving range of 390 km in the first half of next year.

The ST edition of the Edge sport utility vehicle that Ford introduces Thursday in advance of the Detroit auto show is powered by a 335 - horsepower twin - turbo V - 6 engine, engineered on the track and styled to look «sinister,» said its designer Steve Gilmore.

Uber to buy 24,000 sport utility vehicles from Volvo to form a fleet of driverless autos.

«It is not the biggest issue, but it is an issue,» he said recently while giving reporters a tour of a Louisville plant that has started making two aluminum - bodied sport - utility vehicles.

When Ford informed Trump it would not shift production of a Lincoln sport utility vehicle to Mexico from Kentucky, he took to Twitter to say he saved the plant, although the company had never considered moving the whole factory south of the border.

The car would help Mercedes catch up to Volkswagen AG's U.K. car brand Bentley, whose $ 229,000 Bentayga is part of a money - spinning trend for high - seated models that's prompted even Ferrari and Rolls - Royce to add sport - utility vehicles to their line - ups.

One of the vehicles was a Mercedes sport utility vehicle the brothers carjacked earlier that night, he said.

Part of the partnership was the joint development of an electric RAV4 sport utility vehicle, where Tesla supplied Toyota with the batteries.

At the same time, it encountered a new hitch — a drop in sales of its two established products, the Model S sedan and Model X sport - utility vehicle.

Full details are still forthcoming surrounding the death on Sunday night of pedestrian Elaine Herzberg after she was struck by Uber's test vehicle, a Volvo SC 90 sport utility vehicle, operating in autonomous mode..

Tesla is also coming out with its Model X sport - utility vehicle later this year and a more affordable Model 3 sedan in 2017, with an expected starting price of $ 35,000.

Wholesale deliveries, including multipurpose and sport utility vehicles, gained 16 percent to 1.28 million units last month, the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers said in a statement today.

For the last few months, sales of cars, sport utility vehicles, mini-vans and pickup trucks hovered around the seasonally adjusted annual rate of 15 million, but December sales jumped to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 16.2 million.

More than 75 % of Detroit's sales are trucks or sport - utility vehicles, and those typically have been sourced to local plants.

The new driverless car service here also coincided with the debut of the XC90 self - driving car, a Volvo sport utility vehicle outfitted with lidar — a kind of radar based on laser beams, wireless technology and seven cameras.

On Thursday, Uber said that it would begin testing self - driving cars in Pittsburgh in a matter of weeks, allowing people in the city to hail modified versions of Volvo sport utility vehicles to get around the city.

Earlier this month, Hyundai cut the price of two sport - utility vehicle (SUV) models in China by as much as 11.8 percent, while Kia slashed the price of two SUVs by up to 30 percent.

The innovative hybrid between a truck and a passenger car has its roots back in World War II, and it is often considered the forerunner of modern sport utility vehicles.

The college bettor speaks the language of the trade — juice, vig, teaser, parlay, quarter ($ 25), dollar ($ 100), push — and sometimes deals in amounts that would buy sport - utility vehicles.