Customers are increasingly shunning sedans in favor of SUVs and hatchbacks.
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Most are squat, ugly hatchbacks with some odd design feature or accent.
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The answer is, to a degree, segmentation: Americans don't want small hatchbacks.
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The answer is, to a degree, segmentation: Americans don't want small hatchbacks.
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He also criticized G.M. for importing Chevrolet hatchbacks from a Mexican plant.
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In fact, only a few thousand of those hatchbacks are imported from Mexico.
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That has forced makers of sedans and hatchbacks to step up buying incentives.
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Otherwise, SUVs are big boxes with four wheels, four doors, and giant hatchbacks.
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Some versions may be imported from Europe, such as the more performance-oriented hatchbacks.
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That includes younger and first-time buyers, drawn to more affordable sedans and hatchbacks.
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The trend toward SUVs and trucks and away from sedans and hatchbacks continued in August.
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The Renault Clio is one of those quintessential European hatchbacks that's been around since 1990.
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But they also acknowledge they are closely watching some of Toyota's weakest sedans, coupes and hatchbacks.
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We once called these small SUVs or large hatchbacks, but we've all grown up since then.
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U.S. consumers continued to shift from cars, including sedans and hatchbacks, to SUVs, crossovers and trucks.
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The company bucked trends, as cars, hatchbacks and wagons led to its 2.7 percent sales increase.
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Compare with these hatchbacks: Ford Focus, Mazda 3, Chevrolet Cruze, Honda Civic, Volkswagen Golf, Kia Forte.
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U.S. consumers have increasingly favored SUVs and pickup trucks over traditional cars like sedans and hatchbacks.
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There are a variety of reasons why Toyota sold just 3,180 of its Prius hatchbacks in November.
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Due to the scarcity and dwindling numbers, these German classic hatchbacks are only going up in price.
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The Chevy Bolt and a similar model GM plans to offer in Europe are functional, small hatchbacks.
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Put an electric powertrain in one of the world's most popular hatchbacks and there's just more to love.
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They were just three blokes trying to entertainingly review family hatchbacks that happened to evolve into something special.
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Most of the Civic hatchbacks built in Britain are for export to the United States rather than Europe.
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The theme is meant to signal that Mini is defying those who say it sells only two-door hatchbacks.
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"The new Ford Mondeo went on sale in Britain with a range of saloons, hatchbacks, and estates," it says here.
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Consider the number of products and parts of products made in South Korea, from Samsung flat-screens to Hyundai hatchbacks.
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First revealed at the Frankfurt Motor Show in 1975, the Volkswagen Golf GTi is one of the original hot hatchbacks.
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Ford recently announced it would be ending production on all of its traditional sedans and hatchbacks for the North American market.
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Uber rolled out its uberGo service in Lahore on Wednesday, which is the app's cheapest ride option offering chauffeur-driven hatchbacks.
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Vatican officials said then that the hatchbacks, which were adorned with small Vatican flags, had not been handpicked by the pope.
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And Zipcar has been offering a wide variety of vehicles in Portland, from hatchbacks to pickup trucks, under various names since 1998.
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At GM's Orion assembly plant, Bolts are rolling off the same final assembly line as gasoline-fueled Chevrolet Sonic sedans and hatchbacks.
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But they're still no real match for passenger cars — sedans, hatchbacks and wagons — when it comes to fuel economy and reduced emissions.
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The EV Concept has a look seemingly inspired by hatchbacks from the 70s or 15391539201s, including some of Honda's own early Civic models.
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Instead of making just two or three models they could make twice as many, including the saloons and hatchbacks that are now imported.
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Charitybuzz and the Archdiocese of New York have teamed up to auction one of the 2015 Fiat 7003 Lounge Hatchbacks provided by Chrysler.
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Traffic is light, with a mix of Cuba's famed pre-embargo 1950s American cars, newer Soviet-era hatchbacks and big, shiny tour buses.
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As consumer enthusiasm for sedans fades in favor of hatchbacks, crossovers and SUVs, the Model Y could become Tesla's (TSLA) most important car.
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Like other European auto shows, the cool hatchbacks and wagons at Frankfurt don't have much broad appeal stateside, but they are fun to admire.
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We tested everything from $16,005 hatchbacks to six-figure coupes, doing our best to cover the gamut of fresh sheet metal on sale today.
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The kitchen can fit in the majority of hatchbacks and SUVs, including the Subaru Forester, Toyota 4Runner, Honda CRV, Audi Q5, and Volvo V60.
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One reason is that the imports are, to a large degree, selling Americanized versions of sedans, coupes and hatchbacks they sell all over the world.
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In recent years, the U.S. auto market has shifted away from traditional cars, which include sedans and hatchbacks, and toward SUVs, crossover vehicles and trucks.
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Its prime rivals will likely be the Hyundai Ioniq Electric and Volkswagen e-Golf, both of which are compact hatchbacks with about 125 miles of range.
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But the automaker made that official, as it announced Wednesday it would be abandoning all of its traditional sedans and hatchbacks for the North American market.
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The president-elect also scolded General Motors for importing small Chevrolet Cruze hatchbacks from Mexico to augment its production of similar vehicles in the United States.
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Unlike their taller cousins, hatchbacks typically aren't available with all-wheel drive — a feature that could prove invaluable for grads who end up in the Snow Belt.
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Auction site Charitybuzz just sold one of the Fiat 500 Lounge hatchbacks that Pope Francis cruised around in during his trip to NYC and D.C. last year.
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BlueSG's cars feature two-door hatchbacks that carry four people running on lithium-metal polymer batteries that drive up to 200 kilometers (124.27 miles) on a full charge.
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Ford, meanwhile, is phasing out all of its sedans, coupes and hatchbacks except for the Mustang, and company officials acknowledge that move has hurt sales in recent months.
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Last month, Ford stunned the automotive world when it officially stated that it would be abandoning all of its traditional sedans and hatchbacks for the North American market.
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Most houses in the area have hatchbacks and family cars parked outside and in front a small yard more often than not strewn with toys and children's bicycles.
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The Zica will be followed over the next three years by more hatchbacks and sport utility vehicles, plugging gaps in Tata's line-up, said chief engineer Tim Leverton.
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While Astra hatchbacks are produced at Ellesmere Port, some of the 60,000 sold in Britain last year were imported from Poland, leaving potential scope for more UK production.
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It's a tale that takes in hatchbacks, bongs, isolation, and the importance of those early experiences in parts of the world where everything seems stuck in the past.
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General Motors hasn't said it will abandon the car market, but it is killing off several money-losing sedans and hatchbacks, including the plug-in hybrid Chevrolet Volt.
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Top U.S. automakers reported another month of rises in sales of sports utility vehicles and pick-up trucks on Thursday as American consumers continued to shun sedans and hatchbacks.
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The ride-hailing operator has signed an agreement with Nissan to introduce a fleet of 2,000 of the Japanese automaker's Leaf hatchbacks for drivers using its app in Britain.
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Drivers looking to shed their gas-fueled guilt and go electric can choose from a plethora of compact hatchbacks, sedans, SUVs, and sports cars at a variety of costs.
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Compact sedans are less than four metres in length placing them in a favourable tax category, encouraging automakers to add models in a market long dominated by ultra-cheap hatchbacks.
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Despite employing more than 50,000 hourly workers in the U.S., the automaker has been criticized by President-elect Trump for importing Chevy Cruze hatchbacks from an assembly plant in Mexico.
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Black-suited North Korean security officers dashed into a line of black Toyota hatchbacks, a few of them jumping through the doors of cars that had already begun to roll.
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The maker of popular hatchbacks such as Swift and Baleno reduced production in August and September to cope with the slowdown and in August cut the number of its temporary workers.
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In the past few years and especially as gasoline prices have remained low, GM and other automakers have experienced greater consumer demand for pickup trucks and SUVs than sedans and hatchbacks.
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Most of the test vehicles are VW Golf hatchbacks, which speaks to AID's key role as the urban autonomous driving technology supplier for all Volkswagen Group brands like VW, Audi, and Porsche.
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The restructuring, which will reportedly save the company $6 billion by 2020, will take the company's focus off sedans, which have increasingly fallen out of favor in comparison to SUVs and hatchbacks.
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The recall extends to Central and South America, Africa, the Near and Middle East and Singapore, and also includes the Hilux pick-up truck and the Etios line of sedans and hatchbacks.
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In neighboring India, Nissan markets its Datsun Go series of compact hatchbacks and people-carriers, while it launched its new Cross compact crossover sport utility vehicle (SUV) in Indonesia earlier this year.
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Separately, Kia'a President Han-Woo Park told reporters at the event that the carmaker would focus on launching SUVs and hatchbacks in India and was also looking at introducing a compact electric vehicle.
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The two modular platforms, to be introduced in 2018, will carry different powertrains including hybrid and electric, and a wide range of different body designs including hatchbacks, crossovers and sport-utility vehicles (SUVs).
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G.M. officials declined to comment on Mr. Trump's Twitter attack, other than to say in a statement that only a "small number" of Cruze hatchbacks were built in Mexico for the American market.
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The German automaker recalled 44 models including its 116i and 118i hatchbacks and the 320i sedan to replace passenger-side air bags made by the parts maker, according to a filing to Japan's transport ministry.
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Mr. Trump also renewed his episodic campaign to persuade American companies to expand domestic manufacturing, criticizing General Motors via Twitter on Tuesday morning for making in Mexico some of the Chevrolet Cruze hatchbacks it sells domestically.
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GM officials stressed that the decision dates back as early as 235, long before Trump got involved and threatened a "big border tax" for the company because it imports several thousand hatchbacks to the U.S. from Mexico.
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The sedans, coupes, crossovers, and hatchbacks of the next decade are already on the drawing board, but they can't go much further without designers knowing the mileage rules that will be in place several years in advance.
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While higher-riding SUVs are on a relative upswing, compact hatchbacks such as the Clio and 2208 are still Europe's biggest vehicle category by volume, accounting for 23008 million annual sales for an 25008 percent market share.
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As U.S. drivers continue to gravitate toward larger pick-up trucks and SUVs over sedans and hatchbacks, Toyota, best known for its Camry and Corolla sedans, has been scrambling to shift more production from cars to trucks.
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Those compact crossovers are mighty handy, but their popularity has a side benefit: Since buyers prefer S.U.V.s these days, great deals can be had on hatchbacks, which offer much of the same utility at a lower ride height.
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This major restructuring of the company means GM will stop making sedans the car-buying public no longer wants -- like the Chevrolet Volt, Impala and Cruze and the Buick LaCrosse -- and focus on SUVs, hatchbacks, crossovers and trucks.
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These highly skilled craftspeople, who build some of the most sought-after cars in the world, ride to work on bicycles or motorbikes, or drive there in cars such as base Fiat 2500 hatchbacks — aging Fiats at that.
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Its more ambitious B500 program, though, is on ice because of muted demand for some small and mid-sized hatchbacks and sedans in India and China, where SUVs and "crossovers" combining the hatchback and SUV have proved increasingly popular.
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But instead of the bigger plan for the key markets of India and China, Ford will focus on updating existing models and develop and build more SUVs and crossovers, moving away from sedans and hatchbacks, the U.S. sources said.
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Shown Tuesday at the International Motor Show in Frankfurt, the Urban EV Concept is an adorable homage to some of Honda's first small cars, such as the diminutive Civic hatchbacks of the 1970s, and about the size of a Fiat 500e.
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Most people are driving vastly more car than they need, and that's likely never been more apparent than now with the wave of trucks and SUVs that have been displacing traditional sedans and hatchbacks on the new car sales charts.
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Toyota builds the current generation of Auris hatchbacks at its Burnaston plant in central England, with the run due to end in around 2021, but firms make model decisions up to three years in advance partly to organize supply chains.
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Our fascination with crossovers is curious considering that Americans largely eschew station wagons and hatchbacks (I'll argue that S.U.V.s are pumped-up variations of those.) The X1's flexible packaging, nimbleness, refinement and compact form shine brightly in congested cities.
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Ford's new sedans and hatchbacks are to hit a Chinese marketplace where consumers have been clamoring for crossover sport-utility vehicles (SUVs), which along with multi-purpose vehicles such as minivans now account for nearly one half of China's demand for passenger vehicles.
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Like many of its Japanese rivals, Mazda has been struggling to sell sedan models in the United States as drivers continue to favor larger SUVs and trucks over sedans and hatchbacks, just as overall sales continue to retreat from 2016 record highs.
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Ms. Kwade, born in 1979, has won international attention in the last few years for her tricky, look-and-look-again sculptures making use of double-sided mirrors, carefully bent copper, and, in one case, a pair of nearly identical Nissan hatchbacks.
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The platforms will enable Tata Motors to widen its product range, taking it into market segments where it has previously not been, the company said, adding that it has seen a shift in demand towards premium hatchbacks and SUVs and away from saloon cars.
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With the wheels pushed out nearly to the ends of the car and the dense battery pack under the floor, the EMotion is certainly a packaging improvement over the Karma, which was notoriously large on the outside, but had less space inside than most small hatchbacks.
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But consumers are also overwhelmingly going from typical sedans and hatchbacks to SUVs and trucks, and not just in the US. That's in part because these larger vehicles now offer similar features to cars with added practicality and less of a penalty on comfort and efficiency.
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While that Frankfurt show car recalled some of the earliest Honda hatchbacks from the 1970s, the Sports EV is meant to go back even further to the first cars Honda produced, including the S600 and S800 coupes that competed with MGs and Triumph sports cars of the 1960s.
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Meanwhile, demand for cheap small sedans and hatchbacks is shrinking fast in favor of larger, more versatile crossovers and sport-utility vehicles, and more automakers are dropping them altogether from their US lineups, creating fewer options for budget-minded buyers looking for new cars priced around $20,000 or less.
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"As crossovers become more fuel efficient, the demand is accelerating in Western Europe, just not to the same level as in the U.S." Hatchbacks and wagons have always been popular choices overseas, and it can be argued those are close cousins to crossovers when it comes to usability and practicality.
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A General Motors spokesperson told PolitiFact it sells about 2202 percent of Mexican-made hatchbacks in America, with the rest manufactured in the U.S. And statements from the company since the tweet show that it doesn't expect to change its business plans based on Trump's tweets and threats for import tariffs.
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All Cruze sedans sold in the U.S. are made at a factory in the state, GM notes, and while some Chevrolet Cruze hatchbacks designed for the global market are sold stateside, and are in fact made in Mexico, the vast majority of those vehicles are destined for export to other international markets.
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Our designated drivers at the ready, we piled into our convoy of hatchbacks, heading back to our parents places once more to carry on smoking skunk like it was going out of fashion and listening to more D&B tapes but now at a really low volume so as to not wake anyone in the house up.
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And it will be fascinating to watch what GM ultimately does in response to Trump's tweet Tuesday slamming the company's practice of selling some Chevy Cruze hatchbacks in the US that have been produced in Mexico, especially since GM recently announced plans to lay off potentially 1,200 workers from its Lordstown, Ohio, production line, where the sedan version of the Cruze is manufactured.
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