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.
