Sentences with phrase «sport ute»

The STS resembles the smaller CTS sedan, which is not surprising: The cars are built on the same platform, along with the Cadillac SRX sport ute.

Foreign brands also trotted out their share of sport utes.

Hard to imagine that GMC has been using the Denali name on premium sport utes for eight model years now, but it's true, and the Denali family keeps growing: For 2005, there &... Read more

Chrysler may share derivatives of the Dodge minivan and Durango sport ute with Mitsubishi dealers, according to Automotive News.

Most of the news at Mitsubishi is in the SUV arena — there's a new small sport ute called the Outlander, powered by a 140 - horsepower four - cylinder from the Lancer, and designed to compete with the Toyota RAV4, Honda CR - V and Ford Escape.

The Touareg sport ute gets some new features and a styling update.

Lincoln: The big Navigator sport ute gets a mild exterior makeover for 2003, but there are a lot of changes under the body, including a power rear hatch and a power folding third - row seat, plus a new front and rear suspension.

Infiniti also has the FX45 coming — it's a car - based sport ute powered by a 4.5 - liter V - 8 engine with more than 300 horsepower.

This Bentayga carves corners with the best premium sport utes and offers unheard of levels of interior finishes.

The mid-sized Kia is one of the most comprehensively equipped sport utes on the market today.

The Armada is Nissan's first full - sized sport ute, and it's based on the upcoming Titan pickup truck, both of which will be built at Nissan's new plant in Mississippi.

The regular Civic models are also carry - overs from 2002, as are the S2000 sports car, Odyssey minivan and CR - V sport ute.

Inside, the Ascender is nearly as roomy as a full - sized SUV, rather than a midsized sport ute, which puts it up next to vehicles such as the Ford Expedition and Toyota Sequoia.

If, however, your Overland would be driven almost exclusively on road, as are most sport utes, know this: The package includes a heavy duty «Up Country» suspension, and Jeep does mean «heavy.»

Based on the same platform as the CTS sedan, the SRX is one of the most - comfortable, best - handling sport utes available at any price.

EXECUTIVE EDITOR ROGER HART: The Pathfinder has long been one of my favorite sport utes from Nissan.

Ford has opted to call its upcoming sedan / sport ute crossover the Freestyle rather than the Cross Trainer, as originally proposed, because in consumer clinics, folks gave Cross Trainer a thumbs - down and Freestyle a thumbs - up, insiders said.

Well, so has Mitsubishi, which decided that for 2008, its compact Outlander sport ute needed a four - cylinder engine to go along with a 3.0 - liter, 220 - horsepower V - 6 that used to be the only powerplant offered.

Overall length is 200.7 inches, which is about 20 inches longer than the current Saturn Vue sport ute and just 1.3 inches shorter than a Chevrolet Tahoe.

New offerings from General Motors for the»05 model year look a tad like vans, but much more like sport utes, and because they're different they've prompted another entry on the list of automotive jargon — crossover sport vans, or CSVs.

Mitsubishi will unveil its new sport ute, the Endeavor, which replaces the Montero.

For the 2001 model year, Acura brought out the high - priced MDX sport ute, and for 2003 Honda brings out the lower - priced Pilot, which comes with optional leather.

This 5 - passenger sport ute hauls plenty of gear along with its occupants, but even if the cargo hold is stuffed to the roof, the SUV's standard backup camera will help improve safety.

2007 Mazda CX - 9: The larger sibling of the Mazda CX - 7, which was unveiled at Detroit, the CX - 9 is a seven - passenger sport ute powered by a 3.5 - liter V - 6 with a six - speed automatic transmission.

My guess would be busy cranking out RX sport utes as fast as it can — that's the Lexus model with the biggest sales increase so far in 2013 over last year.

The 2008 Lancer is another pleasant surprise, but it was not entirely unexpected — Mitsubishi's excellent Outlander sport ute shares a basic chassis with the Lancer, so after driving a few Outlanders, I expected a competent Lancer.

Lexus and Toyota have gone sport ute crazy, offering a total of eight SUVs between the two companies.

That concept was supposedly powered by a hydrogen fuel cell — technology that is a decade or two away — but its exterior styling was pleasantly swoopy and purposeful for a big sport ute.

HERE»S AN INTERESTING experiment: Gather up a BMW sport ute, a Toyota Highlander and a Lincoln Navigator.

The Colorado is all - new and will be powered by four - and five - cylinder versions of the inline 4.2 - liter six - cylinder engine introduced in the 2002 sport ute triplets, the Chevrolet TrailBlazer, Oldsmobile Bravada and GMC Envoy.

When is the last time we said that about a GM sport ute?

Again, like the CR - V, an Element equipped with that system can be loosely called a four - wheel - drive sport ute, but these two vehicles are more car than truck, and are not designed for heavy - duty off - road use.

One of the most competitive market segments in all of automotive - dom is in the compact, car - based sport ute segment, where every vehicle offered is a pretty good one.

The publication reports that the Magellan, which will share a platform with the upcoming Porsche and VW sport utes, should reach the market by 2005.

The engine has the proper credentials — double overhead camshafts, 24 valves, alloy heads — but while it seems fine in the Sorrento sport ute, it's a little unsophisticated for this car, though the transmission does all it can to help.

Volvo also displayed a 408 - horsepower XC70 sport ute that looked ready to take on a Hummer.

If you need the room of an SUV, but don't need a third - row seat (and if you do, Mitsubishi will happily point you toward its top - of - the - line Outlander XLS, which does have a fold - up third - row seat suitable for people up to 63 inches tall, the company says, but they won't be happy back there), the ES is a solid sport ute for the money.

But it will debut as a regular sport ute, and then as a pickup, as the concept illustrates.

The CSVs were designed to look like sport utility vehicles because the public, it appears, finds sport utes fashionable and minivans frumpy.

Land Rover's new LR3, the replacement for the Discovery sport ute, will start at $ 44,995, including shipping fees.

The I35 and QX4 sport ute get only minor changes.

Actyon Like all 2010 model SsangYong vehicles, the Actyon Sports Ute is exclusively diesel powered with the XDi 2.0 - litre turbocharged engine generating maximum power of 104kW at 4000rpm and maximum torque of 310Nm / 1800rpm making it ideal as a tough workhorse or a smooth and quiet everyday drive.

Still, a 415 - horse sport ute is impressive, and a little scary — Jeep says it is faster than the Porsche Cayenne Turbo.

So why isn't it being used in a variety of other Ford products, instead of just the Volvo XC90 sport ute?

The all - new Mitsubishi Outlander is a nice entry - level sport ute.

This is a better car than I was expecting, especially since the Galant's platform is shared with the much heavier Endeavor sport ute.

Cadillac will show the production version of the SRX, its car - based sport ute built on the CTS platform.