Crossovers

Developing and building cars costs money. Lots of it. The Spyker Group, new owners of Saab, are facing a $39.9 million shortfall this year due in part to the acquisition of the Swedish marque, and a new reports says production forecasts for the company have been cut accordingly. Building some Saabs...

UPDATE: The sketch above isn't actually a design concept for the rumored X4. It's a design concept sketch of the X3, as little as it may resemble the final product. For now, we're filing the X4 in the "probable, but not yet confirmed" bin. ------------------- The idea of a "sports activity coupe"...

The 2011 MINI Cooper Countryman will carry a base price of $22,350 including destination charges when it goes on sale at the end of this year. Automotive News reports from this week's media launch of the Countryman, that the MSRP begins only $550 below that of the three-door MINI Cooper Clubman...

BMW outlined the U.S. specs of its 2011 X3 crossover earlier this month, and at the 2010 Paris auto show, it displayed the new South Carolina-built SUV for the first time in public. The new creases and folds do good things for the X3's sheetmetal. The ute loses some of the slab-sided appearance of...

What began life as the LRX concept is now official: the 2012 Land Rover Range Rover Evoque is headed for production, after a world debut at the 2010 Paris Auto Show. The crossover vehicle takes the heritage of Land Rover's rugged off-roaders and translates it to compact, two-door size. The $45,000...

The details on the 2012 Range Rover Evoque are out, with more to come at the 2010 Paris Auto Show debut. Best of all, we have plenty of info on the U.S. version of the smallest Range Rover, including a ballpark starting price. At "around $45,000" the Evoque won't be the most affordable compact...

Today is a good day for rumors, it seems. The latest: Range Rover's new "baby" Evoque will get a Ford-supplied 2.0-liter EcoBoost turbocharged four-cylinder engine under its hood. Though completely unsubstantiated at this point, the move would make a certain kind of sense. Tata Motors, the...

It's part road rally, part charity drive--and this week for nearly 3000 MINI Cooper derivatives and their dedicated owners and fans, it's a chance to let MINI rule the road. While you're tussling with Excel spreadsheets or being micromanaged into insanity, thousands of MINI maniacs are heading...

A few years back BMW was reportedly working on a sporty crossover model based on its X3 platform and designed along the same lines as the X6, however, the vehicle, tipped to be called the X4, quickly fell off the radar once the global financial crisis hit. With BMW now cruising into the top selling...

The Ford Edge might not be the first name in sporty crossovers, but it's trying to be.

Chevrolet stated early last year that it would bring a production version of 2008’s Orlando concept vehicle to North American markets sometime in 2011, however, just weeks after revealing the updated Volt MPV5 concept, itself a new iteration of the Orlando design, the automaker has reversed...

We've seen the spy shots and the official teasers, but to date we've been left to speculate on the details of the 2011 BMW X3. Some of the mystery may be clearing away, however, thanks to statements from an anonymous BMW insider. The report from Autocar quotes the insider as saying there will be...

Reports are surfacing that Cadillac will build a version of the Buick Enclave.

The somewhat ungainly proportions of BMW's not-a-sedan, not-an-SUV X6 have been the subject of intense debate. It's not ugly in the traditional sense, but it's not especially attractive either. AC Schnitzer has nevertheless decided to take on the challenge of tuning the X6, focusing its efforts on...

In August of last year Buick released a teaser of a compact crossover that was essentially a rebadged version of the Saturn Vue. The only major difference between the two was a Buick-style waterfall grille, and that rubbed consumers, dealers and many in the media the wrong way and subsequently...

Ford’s new EcoBoost engine technology is heralded by the company as the key to finding a balance between power and economy, and having seen the performance in cars like the Lincoln MKS and Ford Flex we can only agree. EcoBoost is essentially the addition of separate direct injection, variable cam...

Nissan is crossover happy: there's the Rogue compact, the Murano, and now there's the 2011 Nissan Juke. A small five-door with muscular styling and a small turbocharged four-cylinder engine, the Juke made its North American debut at the 2010 New York Auto Show. It arrived wearing a hint at a base...

The Mercedes-Benz R-Class hits a different split for its crossover mixup: part SUV, part minivan, it's not really either one. And until this latest facelift, it wasn't really easy on the eyes, either. It's still not as attractive as the rest of the Mercedes lineup, but it's definitely much improved...

As we have been reporting for the past couple of years, the future of Mercury is in limbo. An aging fleet, poor sales and lack of image is causing the brand to slowly wither away. However, Ford CEO Alan Mulally seems defiant the brand will survive, but fails to mention how it will manage to do so...

The wraps have come off MINI's new crossover model, which we can finally confirm will go on sale early next year as the 2011 MINI Countryman following a world debut at March's 2010 Geneva Motor Show. Images for the new crossover were leaked online yesterday but now we have all the tasty details and...