The truck hit a pickup truck and a sports-utility vehicle.

Steve Torok, a sales analyst for Chrysler, said the company was doing particularly well in its sports-utility vehicles, currently a hot segment.

Chrysler, at the same time, urgently needed an entry in the rapidly growing and highly profitable market for sports-utility vehicles with four-wheel drive.

She often drives a sports-utility vehicle or a minivan, carries snacks and orange juice for the kids, sometimes takes along extra lawn chairs.

At day's end at Lakeside, there is noise on the soccer field and the sound of sports-utility vehicles being started and driven away.

Another problem, and one that seems endemic to sports-utility vehicles, stems from the Montero's height and huge tires.

In sun, it defies anything but four-by-four sports-utility vehicles and challenges the strongest-nerved driver.

Both will be in Britain within the next 14 months, and the firm is planning further UK launches, including a smaller sports-utility vehicle.

As hundreds of residents watched, the American convoy of a half-dozen white sports-utility vehicles arrived at the abandoned governor's office.

Sitting in the passenger's seat of a sports-utility vehicle?