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Detroit Report: Ford Predicts Explosive CUV Growth

The SUV is dead. Long live the SUV. Sales of traditional, truck-based sport utility vehicles have declined by double digits - 13.5 percent overall, dropping by 400,000 units for 2005. The numbers are worse for large SUVs as sales of Ford Expeditions, Chevy Tahoes and Suburbans, GMC Yukons, Toyota Sequoias, Nissan Armadas and Dodge Durangos have plunged an average of 18 percent, dropping from 1 million units in 2004 to about 800,000 today.

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Detroit Report: Ford Predicts Explosive CUV Growth

The SUV is dead. Long live the SUV. Sales of traditional, truck-based sport utility vehicles have declined by double digits - 13.5 percent overall, dropping by 400,000 units for 2005. The numbers are worse for large SUVs as sales of Ford Expeditions, Chevy Tahoes and Suburbans, GMC Yukons, Toyota Sequoias, Nissan Armadas and Dodge Durangos have plunged an average of 18 percent, dropping from 1 million units in 2004 to about 800,000 today.