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October 28, 2014

The SUV is back, this time as a global star

  • Shrinking the SUV — and making it more fuel efficient — was the key to saving it.
    • By DEE-ANN DURBIN
    AP Auto Writer

    DETROIT — Once a hulking symbol of American excess, sport utility vehicles are quickly becoming the world's favorite way to get around.

    It's a surprising rebirth for a vehicle that was the subject of obituaries when gas prices spiked in 2008. Automakers won back customers by making smaller, more fuel-efficient SUVs that also appealed to newly wealthy buyers in Asia and South America and former skeptics in Europe.


     
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