Compact SUVs and hybrids for the city.
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The Indonesian-market first-gen CR-V got a face-to-face third-row bench, turning it into a 7-seater purely to qualify for local tax rules.
In the Philippines, this CR-V was squeezed into a 10-seat layout — not for carpooling, but because 10 seats legally counted as a tax-exempt 'mass transport van'.
Honda moved the CR-V's spare tire from the tailgate to underneath the car for this generation, ending a decade of side-hinged doors.
The original HR-V's four-wheel-drive system came straight off the CR-V, Honda's Real Time 4WD, shared between an SUV and this odd little three-door coupe-crossover.
A hydrogen fuel-cell test version of this Tucson covered 4,300 miles on the 2008 Hydrogen Road Tour.
The 1997 Sportage was the world's first production vehicle with a knee airbag, and from 1995 to 1998 Karmann built Europe's cars in Germany.
Fans of the original complained that this Hyundai-based Sportage was much bigger and had none of the old one's off-road ability.
In India this Forester was sold as the Chevrolet Forester, the first Chevrolet-badged model ever released there.
The first Forester's center of gravity was so low it didn't legally need the "risk of rollover" warning label most SUVs carried.
Subaru built a 2.5XT for the National Ski Patrol with a diamond-plate floor, a 9,500-pound winch and a toboggan on the roof.
The original RAV4 briefly offered something almost unheard of before or since: a genuine soft-top, three-door convertible SUV.
This RAV4 generation quietly offered a third row for two extra passengers — a rarity in compact crossovers, and only in North America and Japan.
Survey data from 2003-2004 found the second-gen RAV4 had the highest share of female owners of nearly any vehicle on sale in the US, rivaled only by the VW New Beetle.
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VerifiedFIRST · WORLDWIDEFIRST PRINTONLY ONE IN VANCOUVERThe first Forester's center of gravity was so low it didn't legally need the "risk of rollover" warning label most SUVs carried.
VerifiedFIRST PRINTONLY ONE IN VANCOUVERPROHonda moved the CR-V's spare tire from the tailgate to underneath the car for this generation, ending a decade of side-hinged doors.
