RE:news from FIAT/SUVs etc.

["Nick Koleszar" <npk@domain.elided>]

The Panda 4x4 was a 4wd car, not so much an SUV. Certainly wouldn't want to
insult the poor Panda like that. It's only recently that the lines between
car-based and truck/van-based SUV have really been blurred. Back then, you
had cars, vans and trucks.

The Lada Niva appeared in 1978. I think Subaru probably owns the "first
compact SUV" award from 1973, if we are talking about car-based. However, I
think SUV is actually an evolution of MPV. Mazda may have created the MPV
(1982?), it certainly named it.

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> Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 12:40:09 -0400
> From: Joe Elliott <jee@domain.elided>
> Subject: re: news from FIAT
>
> Didn't FIAT introduce *the* first-ever compact (car-based)
> sport-utility almost two decades ago?
>
> http://www.4wdonline.com/Fiat/PiCs37/Panda1989.jpg
> http://planeta.clix.pt/panda4x4/fotos/fotos/p36.jpg
> http://planeta.clix.pt/panda4x4/fotos/fotos/p44.jpg
> http://planeta.clix.pt/panda4x4/fotos/fotos/p48.jpg
>
> At 10:36 AM -0400 4/15/02, alfa-digest wrote:
> >The internal documents also show that Fiat intends to launch its
> first-ever
> >compact sport-utility in 2004
>
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