Compact SUVs and hybrids for the city.
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In China, this RAV4 generation doesn't even wear the RAV4 name — GAC Toyota sells it as the Toyota Wildlander instead, with its own front-end styling.
This CR-V generation did the unthinkable: in the first half of 2026 it outsold the Ford F-Series to become the best-selling vehicle in America.
This Crosstrek broke a decades-long pattern: for the first time, Subaru builds the 2.5-liter Sport and Limited trims in the US, in Lafayette, Indiana, instead of shipping them all from Japan.
The SK Forester's hybrid battery doesn't hide under the floor like most hybrids' — Subaru mounted it above the rear axle specifically to improve the car's front/rear weight balance.
Mazda promised a US diesel CX-5 for 2017 — it didn't actually arrive until 2019, and only for a single model year on the top Signature trim.
The redesigned Trax is physically bigger than GM's own Trailblazer, yet reportedly sells for about $5,000 less on average — a crossover upsized without the usual price hike.
Holden badged this Trax the Trax TJ while Chevrolet sold the same Korean-built crossover as the Tracker in South America.
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 fifth-gen CR-V's 2020 refresh made Honda's full driver-assist safety suite standard on every trim - even the cheapest CR-V got adaptive cruise control and automatic crash prevention.
This CR-V borrowed its engine and CVT combo straight from Honda's flagship Accord sedan — premium-sedan drivetrain tech trickling down to a compact crossover.
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.
For this generation, Honda split the HR-V nameplate in two: the rest of the world got the Vezel-based original, while North America and China got a completely different, larger HR-V built on the Civic platform.
This HR-V started life as a concept literally called Urban SUV, and Honda sold it as the Vezel everywhere that mattered at home.
The LM was drawn in Germany, at Hyundai's Rüsselsheim studio, by Cha Il-Hoei working under former BMW designer Thomas Bürkle.
A hydrogen fuel-cell test version of this Tucson covered 4,300 miles on the 2008 Hydrogen Road Tour.
This generation killed off the ix35 badge everywhere, reverting Hyundai's whole global lineup back to the Tucson name.
This Tucson isn’t one car worldwide — Hyundai builds it on two different wheelbases so different regions get different amounts of room.
Its roof had to hold three times the car's weight against a federal rule of just 1.5 times, and it still earned Top Safety Pick.
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.
This Sportage generation isn't one car — Kia built two different body lengths and wheelbases for different world markets under the same name.
Kia said the QL's mix of sharp edges and smooth surfaces was inspired by modern fighter jets.
Fans of the original complained that this Hyundai-based Sportage was much bigger and had none of the old one's off-road ability.
Mazda made the CX-5 75mm longer between the wheels for 2026, and threw out its own infotainment for Google's instead.
IIHS only crash-tests the driver's corner; tested on the passenger side instead, the CX-5 showed far worse intrusion.
Subaru built the Crosstrek by lifting an Impreza hatchback 8.7 inches off the ground and calling it done.
The second Crosstrek switched to the Subaru Global Platform, the same architecture underpinning the Ascent and Impreza.
From the 2026 model year the Forester is built in Lafayette, Indiana as well as Japan, Subaru's first US-built Forester.
Crashed on the passenger side instead of the driver's, the 2014 Forester showed far more intrusion and would have rated Marginal with the IIHS.
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.
The fourth-gen RAV4 broke two long traditions at once: it swapped the side-hinged rear door and spare-tire mount for a plain liftgate, and dropped the V6 option entirely, going four-cylinder only.
The sixth-generation RAV4 drops the pure-gas engine entirely, the first RAV4 sold only as a hybrid or plug-in hybrid.
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 PRINTNIGHTPROCrashed on the passenger side instead of the driver's, the 2014 Forester showed far more intrusion and would have rated Marginal with the IIHS.
VerifiedFIRST PRINTONLY ONE IN VANCOUVERPROCrashed on the passenger side instead of the driver's, the 2014 Forester showed far more intrusion and would have rated Marginal with the IIHS.
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.
