crossover SUV

Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America

by Angie Schmitt  · 26 Aug 2020  · 274pp  · 63,679 words

—crossover vehicles—that have experienced huge growth since the introduction of the first model, the Toyota RAV4, to the United States in 1996. In 2018, crossover SUVs topped cars (sedans) as the top-selling US vehicle type.5 It is hard to overemphasize just how suddenly and completely crossovers have come to

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safe one. In fact, U.S. News and World Report ranked it the cheapest car to insure in 2009.10 Riding High For buyers of crossover SUVs, being higher off the ground is a big selling point. In a 2014 article for the Atlantic, Alexis Madrigal wrote that in the 2010s, buyers

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about two and a half feet high. A minivan, meanwhile—a Chrysler Town and Country—was a little bit higher: closer to three feet. Some crossover SUVs—a Ford Escape and a Buick Encore—are just a bit higher than that: slightly more than three feet. But there is a wide range

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it in perspective, the top of the front end of a Ford Focus would hit me, at five foot six, in the upper thigh. A crossover SUV, meanwhile, would strike me just above the waist. The top of the front end of the Sierra and Expedition would strike me right in the

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noses of SUVs that kill pedestrians also sell cars—and at a big markup for automakers. In 2017, the average selling price for a midsized crossover SUV was $37,800, according to a Kelley Blue Book analysis—or about $13,000 more than the average midsized sedan. The selling price for small

The Elements of Power: A Story of War, Technology, and the Dirtiest Supply Chain on Earth

by Nicolas Niarchos  · 20 Jan 2026  · 654pp  · 170,150 words

King Kong and Godzilla lifted vehicles onto conveyors. The factory is meant to produce the body of a Tesla Model Y, the company’s compact crossover SUV, every forty-five seconds. The production line moved like a river along the factory floor, with workers rushing up to cars and going to town

Fall; Or, Dodge in Hell

by Neal Stephenson  · 3 Jun 2019  · 993pp  · 318,161 words

-time and she wouldn’t; it had just developed along those lines. Under a pseudonym, she had maintained, for three years, a blog called “Luxury Crossover SUV as Prosthesis” in which she reimagined the elite-mom lifestyle as a centaurlike existence in which one’s body, and hence identity, effectively merged with

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peak, but they had a tendency to age out as their kids got into their teens. Anyway, the era of the awesomely huge gleaming luxury crossover SUV was coming to an end. Like Tolkien’s elves fading away and going into the west, they were dissolving into the used market as many

Faster, Higher, Farther: How One of the World's Largest Automakers Committed a Massive and Stunning Fraud

by Jack Ewing  · 22 May 2017  · 434pp  · 114,583 words

that. But he made it clear that Volkswagen was not ready to give up on the United States. The company planned to produce a new crossover SUV at its factory in Chattanooga, addressing the American fondness for four-wheel drive vehicles. “Volkswagen is staying in the driver’s seat,” Winterkorn said. FOUR

The Best Interface Is No Interface: The Simple Path to Brilliant Technology (Voices That Matter)

by Golden Krishna  · 10 Feb 2015  · 271pp  · 62,538 words

heavy object again. Not too good news for our app makers. I didn’t make the observation. The Ford Escape design team did. In the “crossover SUV market awash with new models,” Ford was hoping to create something that would distinguish its SUV from the others.6 Did they make an app

Economic Gangsters: Corruption, Violence, and the Poverty of Nations

by Raymond Fisman and Edward Miguel  · 14 Apr 2008

in the bone-dry Sahel. Niger is home to the pastoralist Tuareg ethnic group. The car company Volkswagen appropriated their name for a highly successful crossover SUV, but the tribe itself hasn’t been so lucky. Their herds were devastated by a series of ever deeper droughts in the 1970s and 1980s

Frenemies: The Epic Disruption of the Ad Business

by Ken Auletta  · 4 Jun 2018  · 379pp  · 109,223 words

technology that allows it becomes part of the creative recipe. By way of illustration, she recounted how Lexus launched a new Lexus NX model, a crossover SUV, in a thirty-second ad for the 2015 Super Bowl, and also made this part of a larger campaign by creating unique video ads targeted

The Crux

by Richard Rumelt  · 27 Apr 2022  · 363pp  · 109,834 words

rethinking the logic of scale economies that drives so much of the industry. Among traditional marquees, it continues to do well with full-size trucks, crossover SUVs, and Cadillac brands. Its new focus is on all-electric vehicles, which Barra sees as the growth market of the future. INERTIA AND SIZE Mass

The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future

by Keach Hagey  · 19 May 2025  · 439pp  · 125,379 words

context.) In 2013, she joined Tesla, where she worked on the Model S, Tesla’s four-door sedan, and the Model X, the company’s crossover SUV, serving as product manager of the latter overseeing manufacturing, sales, design, engineering, hardware, and software. While she was working on the Model X, Tesla released