What the Hell Is a Crossover Vehicle?

[m2kewl]

It's a friggin station wagon!...ya moron!

sheesh

 

[Arkitech]

Originally posted by: m2kewl
It's a friggin station wagon!...ya moron!

sheesh

doh, I thought it was a car with exceptional ball handling skills

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: m2kewl
It's a friggin station wagon!...ya moron!

sheesh

i've been saying that for years

 

[randomlinh]

the mazda5 is considered a crossover? hah... it's a freakin 3 w/ an extra row of seats and ugly rear lights. I honestly would like to drive one w/ a full load of passengers and see how they geared it... my 3 fully loaded ... yeah, it's not fun to drive.

 

[JulesMaximus]

It's a term made up by the auto industry to get the consumer to warm up to the idea of buying station wagons again.

 

[clickynext]

Anything that they have trouble classifying, I suppose.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: m2kewl
It's a friggin station wagon!...ya moron!

sheesh

Station wagons are cars. "Crossover" SUVs sit a little higher than a car and have higher roofs than cars.

Edit: OK, I was referring to vehicles like the Rav4, which is the first one they mentioned. [edit: and vehicles like the CR-V, Ford Escape, etc] Pontiac Aztek? No...

Really, I consider Rav4/CR-V/Escape/etc to be compact SUVs. They don't have a truck frame and they're not made for off-road driving, but who really uses SUVs for going off-road anyway? They have a little more ground clearance than a car, they usually have 4WD as an option, etc. They're closer to SUVs than they are to cars.

 

[Skunkwourk]

what was the Vehicross?

 

[FeuerFrei]

Originally posted by: Arkitech

Originally posted by: m2kewl
It's a friggin station wagon!...ya moron!

sheesh

doh, I thought it was a car with exceptional ball handling skills

How would you know?? :Q

 

[DVK916]

A Crossover Vehicle is an SUV.

 

[FeuerFrei]

Originally posted by: Eghck
what was the Vehicross?

Don't make me google for a pic. It's an Isuzu. It's body panels required expensive ceramic dies to shape, and so it got discontinued. That, and it didn't sell so well.

 

[RU482]

crossover is not a sedan, not and SUV, not a minivan, but has characteristics of all three to some degree

 

[Howard]

A car that gets a makeover by a Thai designer.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: redly1
crossover is not a sedan, not and SUV, not a minivan, but has characteristics of all three to some degree

Face it. It has the characteristics of a station wagon. Paint it puke greean and slap some faux wood panels on the side and it's the Griswold's family truckster.

 

[RU482]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus

Originally posted by: redly1
crossover is not a sedan, not and SUV, not a minivan, but has characteristics of all three to some degree

Face it. It has the characteristics of a station wagon. Paint it puke greean and slap some faux wood panels on the side and it's the Griswold's family truckster.

I think you and I rode in different station wagons back in the day

 

[Rubycon]

I thought it was a truck that had the radiator behind the tailgate.

 

[JinLien]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: m2kewl
It's a friggin station wagon!...ya moron!

sheesh

Station wagons are cars. "Crossover" SUVs sit a little higher than a car and have higher roofs than cars.

Edit: OK, I was referring to vehicles like the Rav4, which is the first one they mentioned. [edit: and vehicles like the CR-V, Ford Escape, etc] Pontiac Aztek? No...

Really, I consider Rav4/CR-V/Escape/etc to be compact SUVs. They don't have a truck frame and they're not made for off-road driving, but who really uses SUVs for going off-road anyway? They have a little more ground clearance than a car, they usually have 4WD as an option, etc. They're closer to SUVs than they are to cars.

Don't you mean Crossover are Van++Wagon or Vanagon.

Either way they are just about as crappy looking as the VW Vanagon.

 

[DVK916]

Crossover are SUV. Some crossovers. Look at them. They look like SUVs
http://www.jkqcw.cn/tpk%5CLexus%5CRX330_1.jpg
http://www.edmunds.com/media/advice/spe...reports/hybrid/05.lexus.rx400h.500.jpg
http://forums.autoweek.com/servlet/Jive.../download/11-16337-352268-10768/fx.jpg

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: DVK916
Crossover are SUV. Some crossovers. Look at them. They look like SUVs
http://www.jkqcw.cn/tpk%5CLexus%5CRX330_1.jpg
http://www.edmunds.com/media/advice/spe...reports/hybrid/05.lexus.rx400h.500.jpg
http://forums.autoweek.com/servlet/Jive.../download/11-16337-352268-10768/fx.jpg

SUVs have wagon bodies, truck frames and are RWD (or 4WD)
station wagons are, historically, cars with wagon bodies.
'crossovers' have wagon bodies and car frames, and usually are FWD or front biased AWD.
therefore, they are merely the newest revision of the station wagon, something that car makers have been selling for decades.

 

[AdamK47]

A crossover vehicle isn't quite this and not quite that, but man!

 

[LordUnum]

^

"So, to answer your question, I don't know."

 

[toekramp]

RAV4 != station wagon

 

[Dualist]

It's more like a SUV.

 

[acemcmac]

Originally posted by: toekramp
RAV4 != station wagon

It's a compact SUV

The Subaru Baja is not a station wagon, but it is a crossover.

 

[GeneValgene]

Originally posted by: Arkitech

Originally posted by: m2kewl
It's a friggin station wagon!...ya moron!

sheesh

doh, I thought it was a car with exceptional ball handling skills

ROFL