and few people seemed to care whether their sport utilities were built on the underpinnings of a truck or a car, Subaru came up with a rugged-looking version of its Legacy.
Both the Odyssey and the Acura MDX sport utility are built at a plant in Alliston, Ontario, that is at full capacity.
But once a sport utility is built on a pickup-truck base, particularly a base designed for another vehicle, it is extremely difficult to make it as stable as a well-designed car-based model, most auto engineers say.
A utility is built into Windows that can enable/disable task bar programs and processes from automatically loading with Windows.
The implementation of Industrialised Building Systems (IBS), for which utility components are built offsite, has the potential of promoting sustainability deliverables.
A set of utility methods are built on top of the parser and allow for conversion, for example, of ontology IDs to labels for tab-delimited columns of IDs.
Today, some 30 light-duty vehicle models -- sedans, station wagons, mini-vans, pickups and sport utility vehicles -- are built to run solely on some alternative fuel, usually natural gas or propane.
The Bush administration is considering changes to fuel economy regulations that would encourage manufacturers to offer more large cars, station wagons and smaller sport utility vehicles that are built more like cars.
The S.U.V.'s are almost entirely what the auto industry refers to as crossover utility vehicles, which are built on car platforms instead of the heavier pickup truck underbodies that Detroit relied on in the 1980s and '90s.
The original plan was to produce it in VW's new assembly plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, but a controversy over unionisation, which the firm's management supported, may make it reconsider those plans.Mr Horn, for his part, just wants the new utility vehicles, whether they are built in Tennessee or a plant in Mexico, where the new Golf is now rolling off the assembly line.
