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The Ford Bronco was a popular sport utility coupe for several years.
The Ford Bronco was a popular sport utility coupe for several years. The Ford Bronco was a Sport-utility vehicle produced from 1966 through 1996 with five distinct generations

A sport utility coupe is a smaller SUV that has a smaller backseat and only 2 doors. These kind of SUVs focused more on off-road capability than advanced features although they were often manufactured with bucket seating in the front since they were sportier than 4-door SUVs. A bucket seat is a seat contoured to hold one person distinct from Bench seats which are flat platforms designed to seat multiple people

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History

Sport utility coupes, at one time were the most common body for an SUV. However in recent years, sport utility coupes have been depreciated in favor of sport utility wagons (4-door SUVs). Which in turn, are currently being depreciated in favor of crossover SUVs. A Crossover &mdash variously called XUV or CUV, for crossover utility vehicle &mdash is a marketing term for a vehicle that derives from a car while borrowing

The Big Three

As a marketing decision, sport utility coupes made by The Big Three took names that were similar to their flagship sports cars as a marketing strategy. Chrysler LLC is an American Automobile manufacturer that has been producing Automobiles since 1925 Ford Motor Company is an American Multinational corporation and the world's fourth largest automaker based on Worldwide vehicle sales, following The respective off road and on road performance of the SUVs and the popular sports cars may have had something to do with the usage of similar terminology.

Here are the namesakes for the big three sport utility coupes:

Here are the compact brother of the Big Three's sport utility coupes:

Other sport utility coupes

See also

See also Chevrolet Blazer (disambiguation The K5 Blazer was the smallest full size SUV version of the General Motors C/K Trucks family The Chevrolet Tahoe (and very similar GMC Yukon) is a Full-size SUV from General Motors. The Dodge Ramcharger was a large Sport utility vehicle built by Dodge from 1974 to 1993 and based on a shortened-wheelbase version of the Dodge D Series The Dodge Ramcharger was a large Sport utility vehicle built by Dodge from 1974 to 1993 and based on a shortened-wheelbase version of the Dodge D Series }The first Plymouth Duster was a semi-fastback version of the Plymouth Valiant automobile produced in the US from 1970 to 1976 The Ford Bronco was a Sport-utility vehicle produced from 1966 through 1996 with five distinct generations The Ford Mustang sports coupe, manufactured by the Ford Motor Company, was initially based on the Ford Falcon The Chevrolet S-10 was a compact Pickup truck from the Chevrolet marque of General Motors. The Mitsubishi Pajero (pəˈhɛroʊ pɑˈxɛroʊ is a Sport utility vehicle manufactured by Mitsubishi Motors. The Mitsubishi Pajero (pəˈhɛroʊ pɑˈxɛroʊ is a Sport utility vehicle manufactured by Mitsubishi Motors. The Ford Bronco II was a Compact SUV sold between 1984 and 1990 See also Ford Explorer Sport Trac for the spinoff pickup truck SUV Crossover version The Ford Explorer is a mid-size Sport utility vehicle The International Harvester Scout was one of the first production American civilian off-road sport utility vehicles. The Jeep Dispatcher, or DJ, was a two-wheel-drive variant of the CJ series The Jeep Wagoneer was an early Sport utility vehicle (SUV produced under varying Marques from 1963 to 1991 The Wrangler (also known as the YJ, TJ, and JK, as explained below is an Off-road vehicle produced by American automaker The Lada Niva (Лада Нива is an Off-road vehicle built by Russian automaker AutoVAZ. The Matra Rancho is a Leisure activity vehicle created by the French engineering group Matra in cooperation with the automaker Simca to capitalize The Mazda Navajo was a 2-door SUV introduced in 1991 and Mazda's very first off-roader The Nissan Pathfinder and Terrano were originally Compact SUVs and they are now mid-size SUVs Where as the Pathfinder is sold in North America See also the Suzuki LJ and Suzuki SJ, which used the Jimny name in some markets The Suzuki Jimny is a small four wheel drive built by The Suzuki SJ-Series began production in 1982 in Hamamatsu, Japan. The Toyota Land Cruiser is a series of Four-wheel drive vehicles produced by the Japanese car maker Toyota Motor Corporation. The Toyota FJ Cruiser (FJC is a retro-style Compact SUV produced by Toyota introduced as a concept at the 2003 Chicago Auto Show and in production Sport utility truck (SUT is marketing term for a vehicle deriving from an SUV or Crossover having four doors and an open bed similar to that Compact SUV is a class of small Sport utility vehicles with a length roughly between 4
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