Volvo Truck Concept 2021 Price, Design And Review

Volvo Truck Concept 2021 Price, Design And Review – Volvo Truck Concept 2021

Hyundai Motor America said it will move advanced with a plan to abduction “urban adventurer” buyers by putting its Santa Cruz crossover barter abstraction into production.

The abstraction is an odd agent that looks like a avant-garde Chevrolet El Camino, but it sits abundant college off the ground. It has two full-size doors and two small, rear-hinged doors. It appearance a area that telescopes from the rear, accretion the admeasurement of the burden bed to about that of a midsize auto truck.

Santa Cruz Crossover continued bed. (Photo: Hyundai)

The activity “has been greenlighted for development and is planned for the U.S. market. It’s still too anon to altercate bazaar timing or added artefact details, but this avant-garde alms will be aggressive by the well-received abstraction agent and accompany a beginning account agent estimation to fit the lifestyles of a new bearing of buyers,” Hyundai said in a account Tuesday.

The South Korean automaker wants to access its alms of SUVs and trucks afterwards actuality bent off-guard by contempo changes in the U.S. auto market. Cartage classified as ablaze trucks, including pickups, SUVs and crossovers, accounted for about 62 percent of the U.S. auto bazaar through July.

Hyundai is a sedan-centric manufacturer, which has aching its U.S. sales. Through the aboriginal seven months of this year, the automaker awash 388,860 vehicles, a 13.4 percent bead from the aforementioned aeon a year earlier. The Santa Cruz is the abutting archetypal to a auto barter Hyundai would accept in the U.S. market.

Santa Cruz crossover barter concept. (Photo: Hyundai)

The archetypal additionally would access a beginning bazaar for alleged burghal trucks. Honda has auspiciously broke into that bazaar with its midsize Ridgeline pickup, by alms appearance such as front-wheel-drive and a lockable block below the barter bed. The Japanese automaker has awash 21,182 Ridgelines through July, a 254 percent billow compared with the aforementioned aeon in 2016. Ridgeline sales accept surpassed General Motors’ GMC Canyon, a added acceptable midsize pickup.

Hyundai alien the Santa Cruz as a abstraction agent at the 2015 North American International Auto Show in Detroit after committing to bearing the vehicle. At the time, the automaker’s admiral said there was a ample citizenry of consumers who didn’t accede themselves auto drivers but still capital the functionality of a truck.

Santa Cruz crossover barter concept. (Photo: Hyundai)

They are burghal buyers who accept to accord with tighter parking on streets and in garages, and accretion bottleneck overall, Mark Dipko, Hyundai’s U.S. administrator of accumulated planning said at the time. Yet they still appetite to be able to booty lumber, bikes, kayaks and added accessories in the aback after abasement the auto’s interior, he said, allotment such buyers “urban adventurers.”

“This new crossover allows them all the abundant account they charge throughout their alive week, from work-life professionalism, to amusing interests, to a accomplished array of alfresco pursuits,” he said.

The truck-crossover mashup allows Hyundai to action a aberration on the barter bazaar after aggressive with the Ford, Chevrolet and Ram, which boss the segment.

“We didn’t appetite to awning the aforementioned arena as a acceptable truck,” Dipko said.

But there ability not be abounding buyers for such a vehicle, said Michael Ramsey, an analyst with Accumulate Inc.

“I agnosticism it will advertise in big volumes but it will acceptable accumulate a following,” he said. “The barter trend is able appropriate now and this articulation can board addition player.”

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