Tag Archives: SUVs

Used car values dropped 0.7% in January as dealers saw lower retail demand for vehicles priced over £12,000. The drop was larger than the seasonal trend, where over the last five years the movement in Black Book Live for January was an average of -0.4%. A downward trend was seen for all mainstream sectors, but MPVs and SUVs were worst ...

Dealers are offering bigger discounts on large SUVs to keep the metal moving. That’s the conclusion of the latest quarterly Target Price from What Car? which found that discounts in the large SUV segment rose by 6% in the three months to August. The most discounted large SUV was the Mitsubishi Outlander, followed by the Ford Kuga, Honda CR-V, volvo ...

In a move that some industry pundits may have seen coming – but not really believed would happen – Ford has announced that it intends to stop production of saloons (sedans, of course) in North America. This means that such well-known names as Fiesta and Focus (and related C-MAX), together with less familiar names such as Taurus and Fusion will ...

The all-new Grandland X completes Vauxhall’s SUV line-up and as a C-segment SUV finally gives the brand’s dealers an opportunity to compete in the fastest growing sector of the new car market. The Grandland X is the third and biggest member of Vauxhall’s X-family of SUVs with the revamped Mokka X and recently launched Crossland X both covering the B-segment; ...

Volkswagen dealers are preparing for a new SUV offensive beginning with the all-new T-Roc model which will compete head-on against the newly facelifted Nissan Qashqai. The new compact crossover will go on sale in the UK before the end of 2017 with prices expect to start from around £19,000. The T-Roc will sit alongside the existing Tiguan as a more ...

Seat dealers will start selling the brand’s first ever SUV from 9 September when the all-new Ateca makes its showroom debut. The brand has confirmed the model is the first of four new models to be launched in the next 18 months following a €3.3bn investment in the brand before by the Volkswagen Group. Prices start from £17,990 with the ...

SsangYong dealers will be selling a larger version of its popular Tivoli compact SUV from this summer. The Tivoli XLV was first shown as the XLV Air concept at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September 2015 and follows last year’s launch of the well-received standard Tivoli. The five-seater, for which UK prices and full specifications have yet to be announced, ...

Ford dealers will be able to compete in the fast growing mid-SUV sector from this summer with the launch of the all-new Edge. With prices starting at £29,995 Ford will pitch the Edge as its flagship model and already claims class-leading space and levels of refinement to challenge premium rivals such as BMW’s X3 and the Audi Q5 and offer ...

Rolls-Royce has confirmed that it is will launch its first SUV. No timescale has been set for the unnamed car coming to market but industry sources suggest it could appear in 2017. Plans for the brand to follow the example of its direct rival Bentley, which launches its Bentayga SUV later this year, were confirmed in an open letter released ...

SUVs are some of the fastest selling used cars on UK forecourts, according to Glass’s. Top of the charts is the Nissan Qashqai, which is taking 25.3 days to sell...