2015 is the end of the road for Honda's offbeat Crosstour - Digital Trends
Honda has announced plans to deep-six the offbeat Crosstour crossover at the end of the current model year. Née Accord Crosstour, Honda’s segment-defying crossover was introduced in late 2009 as a 2010 model. About two years into the production run, Honda gave the crossover a facelift, added a more efficient 2. 4-liter four-cylinder engine to the lineup, reduced the MSRP by about $500 and called it simply Crosstour in a bid to differentiate it from the... However, the updates were too little, too late, and the Crosstour never lived up to Honda’s expectations. Honda openly admits that retiring the Crosstour will free up much-needed production capacity in its East Liberty, Ohio, factory. It goes without saying that Honda is not planning on launching a successor to the Crosstour in the near future. The Acura ZDX – essentially a re-badged Crosstour – was axed at the end of the 2013 model year, and rival Toyota recently came to a similar conclusion about the half-wagon, half-crossover segment when it announced that it would stop selling the... Source: www.digitaltrends.com
