Comparison: Three-Row Crossover SUVs - MotorTrend Magazine
This might seem the absolute worst question for a six-way SUV comparison test to pose in the opening paragraph, but here we are. But could it be that this is the absolute best question to be asking in the year 2011. If it were 1998, one could simply answer, " Jeep Cherokee ," and get back to buying shares of pets. Today the Scout and Cherokee are long dead (RIP), and the Nissan Juke and Murano CrossCabriolet technically qualify as SUVs. The first is that an SUV is a vehicle short on compromises and high on versatility. But this version of SUV can also take you and your (large) family somewhere. An SUV can tow that. An SUV, then, is the automotive equivalent of a Leatherman. It goes something like: SUVs are for people too vain to drive a minivan and too stupid to drive a station wagon. They look like trucks-even though they're mostly car-based-because the poseurs buying them need to frighten and intimidate others. SUVs waste resources, pollute the earth, and can't stop clubbing baby seals. Like most things, the truth is buried somewhere in the middle. The newly mature midsize-SUV segment features one of the most closely matched sets of vehicles we've ever seen. Each SUV tested has a V-6. The smallest is 3. 5 liters, the largest is 3. 7 liters. Source: www.motortrend.com
