Thursday, June 02, 2005

Three Seat Crossover Comparison

This month marks the formal release of the Subaru B9 Tribeca, a crossover SUV with three rows of seats. I put together an Edmunds.com comparison of similar vehicles. What stands out is the tremendous price advantage held by the Ford Freestyle, about $6,000 in this set-up. The Ford has a lower horsepower engine, but according to multiple sources, it is anything but slow thanks to an innovative CVT transmission. With 0-60 coming in at under 9 seconds even with AWD, the Freestyle can get out of its own way. When the Freestyle was first introduced, I called it the "style fee" due to generic SUV styling. In all fairness, the styling is neither better nor worse than average for this class of vehicle.

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