With customers continuing to show interest in ever more capable off-road SUVs and pickups, automakers are racing to get traditional, body-on-frame options on the market. Nissan and Mitsubishi have a few models on the horizon, including the Xterra and Montero, and Hyundai announced its plans for a pickup by showing an SUV. Kia has seemed well-positioned to join the conventional SUV fray using the Tasman, but a Kia executive says that’s probably not going to happen. However, that doesn’t mean Kia can’t or won’t enter the segment a different way.
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