The European Ford Kuga Concept (which may come to the US as a rebadged Mercury. It's what the Escape should have been if it hadn't been selling so well. The Escape still is a money maker for Ford so why mess with it. Oh wait, cuz the market moves. Remember the Expedition and the Explorer?
The Pontiac Aztek. Okay so this was really ugly with that horrible Pontiac body cladding. Thank god they are moving away from that design element. I always felt this could have been a great vehicle with some minor tweaks in design.
The Isuzu Vehicross. Okay so that front fish mouth of a grill wasn't all that hot. I still see a few of these around even one at my gym. It doesn't look as dated as other SUV's of the same year or even some current SUV's.
The Toyota ABatt concept. Rumor has it that Toyota is considering this for production with a Hybrid option. Does the world need another Honda Ridgeline? Has Honda sold any Ridgelines? I've never seen any. I remember in the 1980's small pickups were pretty popular in New England where I grew up. Maybe this can go up against the Subaru Brat. I use to like those for some odd reason.
The Land Rover LRX. Another car maker who ditched vehicles with names for vehicles with a bunch of letters and numbers instead. This was a concept before Ford sold Land Rover to Tata so who knows if this is even going into production or not. It's a crossover for Land Rover. Once again, why?
I could go on and on and find so many more concept and production CUV's that just don't make much sense. All I can say is that if Hyundai does move forward with the HED-5 they may not want to try for too niche of a niche market.
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