The Tribute and Escape are the first of a new wave of cute utes that are slightly larger and more substantial.

That pushes this cute ute into the territory of some entry-luxury automobiles, although Saturn is currently offering $2,000 discounts.

We're driving this cute ute every day for the next six months.

It offers an optional third-row seat, which is becoming the price of admission even among the compact utility wagons once known as cute utes.

Ten years later, the 2007 CR-V finds itself in a competitive free-for-all, with 20 or so cute utes wrestling for customers.

The Outlander joins a crowded field of "cute utes" - small utility vehicles usually based on existing sedans.

- were dubbed "cute utes."

It was among the first of the small, perky, youth-oriented vehicles called cute utes.

Jeep, the war-tested workhorse of off-road vehicles, resisted the move to what became derisively known as "cute utes" for more than a decade.

Though we've been won over by this cute 'ute, it took a couple months to work the kinks out, and there are some we simply can't get past.