Short for sport utility vehicle, the SUV earned its name by its ability to transport people and their gear to outdoor recreation areas. While the SUV has been available to drivers in the United States since the end of World War II, its immense...

A sport utility vehicle, or SUV, is a passenger vehicle which combines the towing capacity of a pickup truck with the passenger-carrying space of a minivan or station wagon together with on or off road ability. Most SUVs are designed with a roughly...

The company that developed one of the first mid-sized sport utility vehicles and brought you an ad campaign with a fibbing salesman says it will stop selling new passenger vehicles in North America.Isuzu Motors Ltd. said Wednesday it will end distribution of its sport utility...

A laid-off funeral home worker was arrested for allegedly arranging phony funerals that included carrying caskets in a sport utility vehicle and having his girlfriend act as a priest.John Peffer had arranged two burials and two cremations for which the families paid him over $22,000...

Mazda Motor Corp., Japan's fourth biggest automaker, posted a 24 percent jump in profit for its fourth fiscal quarter and record annual earnings for the third straight year amid strong U.S. demand for a new sport utility vehicle and other models.Mazda, which is 33.4 percent...

Kia Motors Corp., South Korea's second-biggest automaker, on Friday reported a 36 percent rise in net profit for the second quarter on cost-cutting and strong domestic sales of the large-size Opirus sedan.For the three months through June, Kia, an affiliate of Hyundai Motor Co., posted...