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...More importantly for Detroit, Americans are pumped up enough to buy gas-guzzling trucks and sport utility vehicles, all highly profitable models....
...their vehicle line-up and focus on more profitable models such as sports utility vehicles and pick-up trucks....
...Both Ford and Fiat Chrysler have already largely abandoned passenger cars to focus on the high-profit models sought by motorists, such as sports utility vehicles and pick-up trucks....
...It has shut down one of its main engineering sites, making about 40 staff redundant, and put the V-Charge on ice....
...Within a couple of hours she was driving off in an $18,000 Chevrolet sport utility vehicle, financed with a $16,000 loan from Santander Consumer USA, the auto-loans division of Spain’s biggest bank....
...The plant is running flat out, working three shifts a day from Sunday night to Saturday, making engines for vehicles including Chevrolet’s Suburban and Tahoe sport utility vehicles, for which sales are booming...
...One factor holding back electric car sales is the price of the vehicles, which is strongly determined by the batteries that power them. These can account for about one-third of overall costs....
...On the production line in Louisville, workers rush to put together the components of their main product, the Ford Escape, a compact sport utility vehicle from the hottest section of the market....
...Surging sales of sports utility vehicles and pick-up trucks would help to boost General Motors’ profit margins and underlying earnings in 2015 compared with 2014, senior executives predicted on Wednesday...
...Two of the market’s most conspicuously fuel-hungry vehicles — General Motors’ vast Cadillac Escalade sports utility vehicles and Ford’s Mustang performance car — recorded sales more than double those for...
...It is the latest version of the Escalade, a sport utility vehicle that weighs 5,718lbs (2.59 tonnes) and is 17ft (5.18m) long....
...Automakers sold 16.5m new cars, sports utility vehicles and pick-up trucks in 2014 — 59 per cent more than in 2009, at the depth of the industry downturn, when the Obama administration was forced to put...
...Until now, Google has retrofitted existing cars, mainly Lexus sports utility vehicles, with radars, cameras and other sensors....
...a new sports utility vehicle....
...One of the reasons that scale manufacturing of the Transition and some other roadable aircraft may actually get off the ground is the US Light Sport Airplane rules, introduced in 2004, which give a more...
...Daimler is a big employer in nearby Tuscaloosa, where about 3,000 people make Mercedes-Benz sports utility vehicles. None of those workers belong to a union....
...But for the staff at America’s big car companies, it is far from clear that future consumers really will crave anything radically different from the mixture of passenger cars, sports utility vehicles and...
...Among the concept cars on show were compact sports utility vehicles from Ford’s Lincoln brand and Japan’s Honda, as well as the Atlas pick-up truck concept from the core Ford brand....
...These include Chevrolet’s Impala, Nissan’s Altima and Toyota’s Avalon, as well as sport-utility vehicles such as Hyundai’s Santa Fe....
...Opel has smaller financial losses and some promising forthcoming models in popular segments, including its Mokka small sport utility vehicle and Adam city car....
...The company shut the plant for two months in 2009 and asked employees to maintain the grounds instead of building sport utility vehicles, as it could not afford to pay a contractor....
...and heavy discounts on sport utility vehicles have encroached on margins, Merrill said....
...Mr Romano, a salami factory production manager who lives in Lodi, New Jersey, speaks lovingly of the features he chose for his X3 compact sport utility vehicle: a titanium silver exterior, with dark Vienna...
...At the Detroit auto show on Monday the Japanese carmaker showed a new Prius hybrid compact sport utility vehicle and a hybrid city car that will be sold alongside the flagship hatchback....
...Furthermore, unlike Mr Wang, they own a second car, a hybrid Toyota Highlander sport-utility vehicle. “We could accomplish a good 80 per cent of our transportation in the Leaf”, Mr Muir says....
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