Car enthusiasts wonder what happened with the automotive landscape in the past two decades. In the past, streets were full of low-slung sedans and sporty hatchbacks, and SUVs were real off-road machines, or at least made for heavy-duty stuff like towing and hauling. Then, the launch of the first-gen RAV4 and several other compact crossovers that followed started the crossover craze — a high-riding vehicle with unibody construction, a mishmash of a hatchback, and an SUV. But people love
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