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Article: Volvo's V70 goes Cross Country in style.(Auto Weekend)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- May 11, 2001
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When Chrysler introduced the first minivan back in 1984, the auto world was taken by storm. Chrysler caught the other automakers flat-footed.
As a result, many manufacturers were forced to offer warmed-over cargo vans until they had time to produce the real deal. Eventually, the popularity of the breed made for far more competition and far better product, demanded by increasingly sophisticated buyers.
As with minivans, so too with SUVs. The sustaining popularity of sport utes has spawned some interesting variations - good and bad. Some were quickly exposed as charlatans: poseurs in plastic cladding. Others, though, proved to be genuine and welcome ...