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Joining Toyota's Venza in the tall wagon/midsize crossover/urban utility vehicle crowd will be - officially, ya'here - Subaru's Exiga. It's hard to classify this type of transportation, but take it as the modern reincarnation of Grand Marquis and Caprice wagons. Ford's Taurus X and the Chrysler Pacifica are recent domestic alternatives that haven't succeeded.
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- Midsize Car Sales In Canada - April 2010
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- Top 10 Best-selling Cars In America - April 2010
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FUTURE SUBARU AND TOYOTA TALL WAGONS
Joining Toyota's Venza in the tall wagon/midsize crossover/urban utility vehicle crowd will be - officially, ya'here - Subaru's Exiga. It's hard to classify this type of transportation, but take it as the modern reincarnation of Grand Marquis and Caprice wagons. Ford's Taurus X and the Chrysler Pacifica are recent domestic alternatives that haven't succeeded.
Toyota and Fuji Heavy Industries, a company in which Toyota holds stakes, will attempt to take the competition to a higher playing field. The Venza and Exiga debuted as concepts with dinner plates representative of their nameplates. Toyota shows an economical 4-cylinder and 268bhp V6 from the Camry, while the Subaru featured all-wheel drive and a turbocharged boxer-four.
Both flatter the large family with seating in three rows. Both provide lofty driving positions, something ex-SUV drivers don't like to let go. Indeed, fuel economy for both would theoretically improve when contrasted with their SUVesque brethren; vehicles like the Tribeca, Highlander and 4Runner. Albeit, complaints are beginning to surface that these supposed car-like crossovers aren't always the efficient runabouts their EPA numbers suggest. Even the Venza and Exiga make use of huge frontal areas, which, despite possibly decent drag coefficients, won't help economy.Â
Compromise is the true point of the Exiga and Venza. Not as heavy as a large SUV; but almost as capable. Not as car-like or efficient as a small wagon; but tall and practical like a large SUV. Whether you get the point or not; Toyota and Subaru suspect enough buyers will.
- Tokyo '09: Subaru Exiga 2.0gt Turbo 7-seater Mpv Tuned By Sti
There are very few things one can do to make Subaru's crossover-MPV-station wagon-thingamajig more pleasing to the eye. It's not that it's horrifically ugly or anything, it's just that it's boring to the point of being annoying......
- Subaru Exiga 7-seater Minivan Officially Unveiled
The Exiga is Subaru’s proposition in the (Japanese & European) mid-size minivan segment. In typical Subaru style, the Exiga looks more like a station-wagon with a higher roofline rather than a typical MPV. And as with many other products from...
- Toyota Venza Discontinued - The Full Gcbc Sales Analysis
A Camry wagon sounds ideal. On paper. But Toyota’s announcement that the Venza will be discontinued follows U.S. sales declines in four of the last five years. Venza volume peaked in the model’s first full year at 54,410 units. Two years...
- Midsize Car Sales In Canada - April 2010
To save space and to recognize the achievements of a couple hot-selling wagons, The Good Car Guy began (in this Graph only, not in Best Sellers lists) to link the Toyota Venza with the Toyota Camry and the Subaru Outback with the Subaru Legacy. It makes...
- Top 10 Best-selling Cars In America - April 2010
It's a naming thing, pure and simple. Officially, the Toyota Matrix is a Toyota Corolla Matrix. As a result, added to the U.S. sales total of the Toyota Corolla is the Toyota Matrix. Granted, the Matrix isn't a huge seller in the United States;...