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READ MORE @ www.edmunds.com During our track testing, the 2009 Mercedes-Benz ML320 Bluetec diesel reached 60 mph from a dead stop in 8.5 seconds. If you’re planning to rob a bank, the new ML320 can hold a lot of loot, but it won’t help you make a quick getaway.

www.edmunds.com Honda reckons that it once ruled the three-row crossover roost. At least back when the Pilot debuted as a 2003 model, it kind of did.

www.edmunds.com Here’s one very special thing about the 2009 Saturn Vue Green Line Two-Mode Hybrid: With seven distinct segments in its official name, it has the longest moniker in the business.

LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CHEVY TRAVERSE: www.edmunds.com If the large, traditional SUV you’re giving up represents trans fat, the 2009 Chevrolet Traverse you’re replacing it with is unsalted, organic butter churned from the milk of grass-fed cows. This is not a low-fat crossover SUV. Along with its siblings built on GM’s Lambda platform architecture, the 2009 Chevy Traverse is the longest and tallest crossover on the market. Yes, it even beats the ungainly Mercedes-Benz R-Class. It’s also longer …

www.edmunds.com Kia hasn’t put a single V8 badge on the 2009 Kia Borrego EX. The days when you could brag to great effect about the Hemi, iForce or Vortec V8 in your family SUV are over. Unless you somehow score a crossover with a plug-in hybrid drivetrain, no one wants to hear about it. And that’s probably why the V8 Borrego makes none of the usual throat-clearing racket when you start it up. Keeping quiet may not be enough, though, because the 2009 Kia Borrego isn’t even a crossover. It’s …

FOR MORE ABOUT THE VENZA: www.edmunds.com As soon as you see the 2009 Toyota Venza V6, you know what it is. So how come there are all these questions about whether it’s a crossover, a minivan in disguise, a tall wagon or a soft-riding SUV? Really, get over it. Toyota brought it to us, not aliens from another planet. Mark Cooledge knows what it is. The 34-year-old insurance network manager from Texas is finding life a little tight in his Toyota Camry with his wife and two small children. He …

LEARN MORE ABOUT CROSSOVERS: www.edmunds.com We keep a couple seven-passenger crossover SUVs in our long-term test fleet and they’re indispensable for carting around kids, terriers and lawn furniture. Of course, we still crack the obvious jokes. We’ll tell you that these are minivans with hinged doors, SUVs trail-rated for the Starbucks drive-thru, tall wagons that think they’re too good to be called tall wagons. But there’s nothing superficial or irrational about crossover SUVs like the …

MORE ABOUT THE AUDI’S DIESEL SUV: www.edmunds.com Full disclosure: The 2009 Audi Q7 3.0 TDI clean diesel we describe here doesn’t yet exist — sort of. Don’t get us wrong. Audi is committed to selling an Audi Q7 3.0 TDI with the very same fuel-efficient clean diesel powertrain, and it affirms that the vehicle will appear in showrooms during 2009. But it isn’t yet clear whether the first examples of the Audi Q7 TDI will be officially homologated as 2009 or 2010 models. Ah, technicalities….