At first SUVs were considered a vehicle that combined the towing capacity of a full-sized truck with the passenger and storage capacity of a minivan, but times have changed and today a typical SUV includes seating for five to seven, high seating and road positioning, roomy interior, non-dedicated trunk space, high engine capacity and 4 wheel drive capacity.
2010 Land Rover LR4
The target launch date for this SUV is scheduled for fall of 2009. Some of the features on this SUV are antilock brakes, traction control, antiskid system, front side airbags, and curtain side airbags. Seating capacity for the 2010 Land Rover LR4 is 7. The new 2010 Land Rover uses an all-new 5.0L, direct-injection V-8. The engine has more power this year with 375 horsepower and 375 lb-ft of torque. The new engine has uses variable camshaft timing, which improves the engine response. The V-8 also boasts lower fuel consumption, reduced C02 emission, and is ULEV2-compliant. The new LR has more than 1,300 parts. Land Rover explained that the engineers did as much as possible without creating an all-new platform.
2010 Lincoln Navigator
The 2010 Lincoln Navigator has some unique features, which include heated and cooled front seats, PowerFold-60/40 third-row fold-flat bench seat, and Advance Trac with Roll Stability Control. This SUV has a chrome grille with body-color hood accent. It also features solar glass windshield and first row windows; privacy glass second, third and lift gate windows, power lift gate, power rear quarter windows, wipers that are front speed sensitive, rain-sensing intermittent, and rear intermittent with washer and defroster. 2010 Lincoln Navigator has fixed running boards with power deployable running boards. The interior has colored-keyed carpet with scuff plates at each opening, assist handles for the first row, two in the second row and 1 at the lift gate. The Lincoln Navigator also features dual-zone electronic automatic temperature control. The MSRP Prices range for the 2010 Lincoln Navigator is $54,400 – $57,300.
2010 Toyota Sequoia 4-Door SR5 SUV
The New 2010 Toyota Sequioa 4-Door SR5 SUV has a MSRP New Car Kelly Blue Book of $39,330.00. The Toyota Sequoia SR5 has the capability of holding 8 passengers. It can seat three adults comfortably in the third row seats. This full-sized SUV can quickly convert into a flat-floored cargo holder that can take in any lengthy cargo, and a strengthened frame with integral hitch receiver, which allows it to tow trailers up to 10,000 pounds. The Toyota Sequioa SUV comes in exterior colors that are beach-sandy, spruce-mica, blue-nautical metallic, cassis-pearl, pyrite-mica, silver-sky metallic, slate-metallic, and black. There are two interior colors choices, which are beige and graphite. You can get 14 miles per gallon of gas in city driving and 19 miles per gallon of gas in highway driving. The Toyota Sequioa SUV 2-wheel drive’s transmission has a V8 engine and a 5-speed with overdrive. The horsepower is 310 @ 5400 RPM and the torque is 327 @ 3400 RPM. This SUV features anti lock breaks, roof rails, alloy wheels, privacy glass, front and rear air conditioning, cruise control, AM/FM radio with compact disc, port for a DVD/Video Entertainment System, power locks, power mirrors, power outlets, power steering, power windows, power seat, folding rear seat, moon roof, rear window defroster, tilt wheel, and tachometer. The SUV also includes standard airbags, child door locks, engine immobilizer, and traction control. This vehicle has a rollover rating of 4 stars. There are no other tests planned at this time. The basic standard warranty for this vehicle is 3 years or 36,000 miles.
2010 GMC Terrain 4-door SLE Sport Utility
The standard MSRP New Kelly Blue Book price for the 2010 GMC Terrain 4-door SLE Sport Utility Vehicle is $24,995.00 for its base model with destination charge. The exterior colors of the GMC SUV are white-summit, quicksilver-metallic, gold mist-metallic, merlot-jewel metallic, mocha-steel metallic, blue-Atlantic metallic, gray-cyber metallic, and black-onyx. If you would like the black-carbon metallic color, there is an additional charge of $195.00 MSRP. The interior colors for this SUV are titanium-light or black-jet. This GMC Terrain SUV has a gas mileage of 22 miles per gallon for city driving and 32 mile per gallon for highway driving. This 2-wheel drive SUV is a 4-cylinder, 2.4-liter engine. The transmission is automatic and has 6 speeds with overdrive. The SUV is capable of holding 5 passengers. The horsepower is 182 @ 6200 RPM and the torque is 174 @ 5100 RPM. The vehicle holds 18 gallons of fuel and is 66.3 inches tall and 72.8 inches in width. This SUV has standard anti lock brakes with chrome wheels and privacy glass. It has front air conditioning, cruise control, AM/FM stereo, power locks, power mirrors, power outlets, power steering, power windows, power seat, folding rear seat, rear window defrosting, tilt wheel, and tachometer. The GMC Terrain SUV has standard airbags, child door locks and traction control. The crash test results are not in, but will be due soon on the Kelly Blue Book. The basic warranty is 3 years or 356,000 miles.
2010 MDX Acura SUVThe 2010 MDX SUV has the capability of holding 7 passengers. The 2010 has a new front grille and many new trim enhancements. The MDX SUV has more of a refined 3.7L V6 engine along with a 6-speed automatic transmission. The interior has Milano leather and a new thicker sport steering wheel with racing-inspired paddle shifters and new gauges. The SUV has a 3.7 liter VTEC V6 engine that has 300 horsepower and 160 lb-ft of torque. The SUV gets 16 miles per gallon for city and 21 mile per gallon for highway driving.
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