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Editorial: Event Horizon For Compact Crossovers

Normally this is something I would have saved for our “TTAC Staff” news items, but I’m the arrival of the Mercedes-Benz GLA is significant. We’ve reached the event horizon for compact crossovers and...

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New York 2014: BMW X4 Photos, Specs Revealed

Ahead of its debut at the 2014 New York Auto Show, BMW has revealed photos and specs of their X4 crossover. Automotive News reports the X4, underpinned by a slightly longer and lower X3 architecture —...

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Cain’s Segments, Small Luxury Crossovers: July 2014

For the most part, their bigger and more expensive brethren sell more often. But this group of small luxury crossovers is gaining a smaller subset as we speak, one which will see the declining BMW X1...

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More Evidence That The Macan Is Taking Over Porsche

You’ve closely tracked the Porsche Cayenne’s success by scanning parking lots outside fancy restaurants. You understand that the Cayenne’s omnipresence in Orange County translates directly to the mere...

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September 2014 Sales: Now Even The SRX Is Slowing Cadillac Down

Cadillac sales in the United States rose to a six-year high in 2013. Yet in five of 2014’s nine months, sales have declined. Through three-quarters, Cadillac volume is down 4%. Overall new vehicle...

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Surging Small Luxury SUVs Aren’t The Major Players Yet

The rise of the small luxury crossover is undeniable, not just based on the most recent evidence available. U.S. sales of premium brand small utility vehicles rose 17.9% to 23,776 units in November...

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Peak MKC? Lincoln’s MKC Sales Growth Finally Suspended In November

After increasing sales of the brand’s new Escape-related small crossover in five consecutive months, Lincoln MKC volume levelled off in November 2014 at 2152 units. This represents a 2% drop from the...

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What Can The Second Q7 Do For Audi In America?

Sales of the Audi Q7 in 2014 rose to a seven-year high in the United States. That’s a meaningful bit of information right there, given that the Q7 at your local Audi dealer now is basically the Q7 that...

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Lexus Tops 2014’s U.S. Luxury SUV/Crossover Race With 137,000 Sales

Curious fact: America’s two best-selling premium brands and one of the two fastest-growing premium brands are the three premium brands which rely the least upon SUVs and crossovers in the U.S. market....

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U.S. Sales: The Lexus NX Isn’t Hampering The Lexus RX

Up to this point, the arrival of a potential familial rival has not hindered the success of the Lexus RX, America’s favourite premium brand utility vehicle. The RX, still a relatively affordable...

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Cain’s Segments: Small Luxury Crossover Sales In The United States – February...

Sales of small luxury crossovers jumped 40% in February 2015 and so far this year are up 40% compared with the first two months of 2014. Subtract the newcomers from that equation and the continuing...

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Lincoln MKC Inventory Rising, But U.S. Sales Have Levelled Off

With November’s sales results in hand, we asked four months ago whether Ford Motor Company’s Lincoln division had reached “Peak MKC.” Initial evidence suggested the Escape-related small crossover...

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Shock, Horror: U.S. BMW X4 Sales Are Rising Higher

It’s only been on sale ten months. But those who hoped BMW wouldn’t be able to repeat the X6’s moderate levels of success will be disappointed to hear the BMW X4 just recorded its best U.S. sales...

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2016 BMW X1 Hitting US Showrooms This Fall

Coming to showrooms this fall, the 2016 BMW X1 aims to build upon the success of the outgoing first-gen crossover. The sole model available at launch in the U.S. market will be the X1 xDrive28i, with...

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Chart Of The Day: NX Boosting Lexus In The Time Of The RX’s Need

Conventionally pretty, it is not. But the Lexus NX is a hit. The NX200t and NX300h combined to generate 4,014 U.S. sales in May 2015, the best month yet for the six-month-old NX line. Year-to-date,...

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Infiniti QX50 Is Selling Like It’s 2008, You So 2000 And Late

The tiny, centre-mounted screen is controlled by a wheel and a mound of buttons. Controls for power seat memory protrude from the driver’s door, demanding the attention that protruding things tend to...

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The Premium Plunge: Sales of the Most Popular Luxury Cars in America Are...

America’s record-breaking new vehicle sales volume in calendar year 2015 was powered in part by better-than-average growth from premium automakers. Yet after BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Acura, and Cadillac all...

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TTAC Reverse Bump: Record Audi Q3 Sales In May After Our April Critique

TTAC is the American car buyer’s influencer of choice. We render verdicts, and the masses abide by our verdicts. Why do Americans buy more than 400,000 Toyota Camrys per year? Because TTAC’s Jack...

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While BMW USA Sales Fade, the Most and Least BMW-like Models Are Bright Spots

Forget last year’s record sales achievements in BMW USA’s showrooms. Through the first six months of 2016, sales at the BMW Group’s BMW brand are down 9 percent in the United States, a first-half pace...

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XT5 is Proof Cadillac’s Broken Product-Planning Clock is Right At Least Twice...

In 1999, GM altered the front fascia and slightly upgraded the interior of the GMC Yukon Denali to introduce the Cadillac Escalade. Although Cadillac was late to the Lincoln Navigator’s game, the...

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2017 Acura MDX Review – More Than 800,000 Served

With remarkable consistency, the Acura MDX has remained exceptionally popular for more than 15 years, through three generations, and in the face of increasing competition. Vital to the fortunes of...

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2017 Infiniti QX30 AWD Review – The British-German Luxury Crossover

Look familiar? The 2017 Infiniti QX30, launched in the United States in late August, is the product of a now tenuous partnership between the Renault-Nissan Alliance and Daimler. There’ll be more such...

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Range Rover Casts a Wider Sales Net With Its Midsized Velar SUV

Eager to fill a price gap in its Range Rover lineup, Land Rover has come out with a new midsize offering — the Velar. Positioned between the smaller Evoque and larger Range Rover Sport, the Velar is a...

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Suddenly, It’s Abundantly Clear – The Acura MDX Sport Hybrid is the MDX to Have

At American Honda’s upmarket division, the Acura MDX is the lifeblood; the premium crossover that keeps Acura’s trains running on time. In 8 of the last 10 years — including each of the last 7 — the...

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No More Niches: German Luxury Lineups Likely To Shrink, Not Expand

Choice is good for car buyers. But in the never-ending quest to produce incremental volume gains, the planet’s largest premium auto brands agree that certain niches are quickly becoming untenable....

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2017 Audi Q3 Quattro Review – At What Cost?

Some cars genuinely suck. There is essentially no price at which, for instance, wooden ride quality and inept handling and nonexistent acceleration and uncomfortable seats and disappointing fuel...

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Did Anybody Believe The Lexus NX Would Be This Popular?

Pretty? No. Popular? Most definitely. In fact, the Lexus NX is twice as popular as Lexus anticipated. The Lexus NX, a crossover you must never confuse with the Nissan NX, is marketed in the United...

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BMW’s SUV Lineup Will Be Thoroughly Revamped And Expanded By Early 2019

Little more than 18 months from now, BMW’s utility vehicle lineup will be dramatically altered, primed to absorb rising SUV demand in an increasingly anti-car market. According to Australia’s Motoring,...

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Toyota Prepares October 2017 Unveiling of Three-Row 2018 Lexus RX

The Lexus RX is, by a massive margin, America’s top-selling luxury utility vehicle. Through the first five months of 2017, Lexus had already sold 38,329 copies of the RX350 and RX450h in the United...

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The Third-generation BMW X3 Absolutely Must Be the Best-Selling Small Luxury...

“We created that segment,” BMW CEO says of the sector in which the BMW X3 arrived before Acura, Audi, Infiniti, Lexus, Lincoln, Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, and Volvo. “The No.1 approach and target I...

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The $39,595 2018 Jaguar E-Pace Takes the Fight to the BMW X1 in January

Not to be confused with the electric Jaguar I-Pace crossover, the 2018 Jaguar E-Pace was unveiled July 13 with a blend of F-Type and F-Pace styling cues. Set to challenge the BMW X1, Mercedes-Benz GLA,...

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Volvo XC40 Will Be Fresh, Creative, and Distinctive – Unlike Its Competitors,...

There’s no denying the Volvo 40.1 concept that previewed this fall’s production XC40 appears both to be sufficiently Volvo-like and sufficiently unlike anything else. If the actual Volvo XC40 maintains...

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2017 Buick Envision Preferred AWD Review – The Buick Tri-Shield Badge Premium...

General Motors apparently believes you’ll pay a genuinely lofty price for the 2017 Buick Envision precisely because it’s a Buick. A basic 2017 Buick Envision, upgraded with Preferred trim in order to...

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Nearly Half of the Vehicles Sold by Porsche in August Weren’t SUVs

Porsche revealed a new, third-generation Cayenne on a new platform late last month, but the U.S. arrival of the third version of Porsche’s original SUV won’t take place until the second half of 2018....

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What’s the Volvo XC40 Getting Into? America’s Subcompact Luxury Crossover...

Of the 1.4 million new vehicles sold in the United States of America each month, premium auto brands account for slightly more than one out of every ten new vehicle acquisitions. More than 55 percent...

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The Infiniti QX50 Goes on Hiatus While Infiniti Kills Off the QX60 Hybrid

As Infiniti prepares to launch the replacement for the Infiniti QX50 next year, quite likely fitted with a unique new turbocharged engine with continuously altered cylinder compression ratios, the...

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2018 BMW X3 Is Supposed to Become the Segment Sales Leader, but It’s Priced...

Munich HQ has huge expectations for the third-generation BMW X3. The X3, after all, was the vehicle that ignited the compact luxury SUV craze, the vehicle that spawned competitors such as the Audi Q5,...

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Playing the Long Game: Cadillac Softens on Project Pinnacle After Sales...

Project Pinnacle hasn’t been incredibly popular with dealerships. Low approval ratings required multiple revisions of the plan, and dealers still found themselves irritated with the final version....

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2019 Acura RDX Shows Some Leg Ahead of Detroit Debut

This week, Acura teased the prototype of its third-generation RDX ahead of its world debut at the 2018 North American International Auto Show in Detroit. Claiming its to be the “most extensive Acura...

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Mercedes-Maybach Premieres Ultimate Luxury SUV With Perplexing Three-box Design

Mercedes-Maybach gently teased its new “Ultimate Luxury” concept before its official debut at the Beijing Motor Show, but one outlet’s itchy trigger finger resulted in every official image of it being...

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Reporting for Flagship Duty: Audi Unveils Q8 ‘Four-door Luxury Coupé’

Audi finally revealed its latest entry in the increasingly popular luxury SUV segment: the Q8. Think of it as a more contemporary take on the Q7. The automaker calls it an expressive new design that...

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Double Check: 2019 Porsche Macan Facelift Revealed, Good Luck Spotting the...

When you think about Porsche, you’re probably thinking of the 911. However, you really should be thinking about the Macan. It may have started out as a supplementary model for families interested in...

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