Ford’s Flex, a full-size crossover just hitting showrooms summer 2008, has created a considerable buzz among automotive journalists.
It’s both difficult and easy to understand the interest in this vehicle.
This is an American automaker rolling out a brand new vehicle which is essentially built to move lots of people that looks like a sport utility vehicle.
Does America Have Room For Another CUV?
Our question is this: Wait, isn’t the SUV dying a slow death due to high gas prices?
Sure, it’s a crossover, which results in better fuel economy, but enough to entice prospective new-car buyers to return to big?
Of course, Toyota fell into the Infiniti trap of strange names with no vowels – Scion today has three models, the xB, tc and xD.
The Malibu gets an overhaul pretty regularly for years that end with an “8” – 2008 being no different.
Infiniti was born in 1990 as Nissan’s luxury division – as Acura is for Honda, and Lexus for Toyota.
However it’s a vehicle that literally looks like a bug – not the classic Volkswagen version, either.
