Europe’s booming subcompact SUV/crossover segment has become a bright spot for brands such as Opel, Peugeot and Renault, but now their Asian rivals plan to make life tougher.
Tag Archives: SUV
Jaguar will launch all-aluminium entry-level cars, reports say
Jaguar will launch new entry level models likely to be all-aluminium, according to media reports.
BMW updates the X1
Is it that time already? It doesn’t seem too long ago that was first unveiling its smallest – and incongruously rear-wheel drive – SUV, but it’s just been revised. The top and bottom ends of the range have been made more appealing – cleaner at the one end and quicker at t’other. The sDrive20d EfficientDynamics boasts 62.8mpg and 119g/km, while a new xDrive25d develops 215bhp and can hit 62mph in just 6.8 seconds.The 25d replaces the old 23d. It’s powered by a four-cylinder 2.0-litre diesel engine, and despite its pace can still manage 51.4mpg and 145g/km.
Lamborghini finally unveils its SUV, the Urus
Yes, it’s finally happened- Lamborghini has done an SUV. Well, we say finally, but (before you swell into indignant rage) Lamborghini has made a 4×4 before, of course – the monstrous LM002 of 1986. But this one, the Urus, is a different kettle of mud entirely, built for a generation that is clamped by an apocalyptic thumbscrew, with global recession tightening on one side and impending ecological meltdown the other, yet still desperate to wrap its tortured hands around the steering wheels of ever more pointlessly profligate motors.
New Hyundai Santa Fe SUV
Hyundai has put the brand new Santa Fe on display at the New York Motor Show, giving the world its first proper look at the car after a long campaign of teaser images and CGI. Naturally it’s a much more stylish car than its predecessor, using the ‘Fluidic Sculpture’ design language that gives a coherent, swoopy look to all modern Hyundais.It’s not surprising, given Hyundai’s recent form, that the Santa Fe will be one of the best looking SUVs on the market when it goes on sale here at the end of this year. It will eschew the current Hyundai naming convention and hold onto Santa Fe, rather than adopt a number with an ‘ix’ prefix. As with the Veloster coupé, this is to distinguish it as a bit special in the context of the rest of the range.
