Volkswagen's SUV is a five-door model built with a tight unibody structure. It's sleek in style, large in scale for the mid-size wagon class and provides a big cabin with seats for five and luxurious appointments. Touareg employs VW's four-wheel-drive (4WD) traction device labeled 4XMotion, which provides uncanny stick-it-down traction for all wheels, plus optional locking rear differential and an air suspension.

Description: Minivan Base MSRP Range: $23,425 – $37,695 Invoice Price Range: $21,082 – $33,556 Where built: USA Toyota’s made-in-America minivan scored a new extended platform for 2004 and repeats in 2005 with power controls added to the front passenger seat for XLE and deluxe Limited models. In all, there are four trim grades with CE, LE, XLE and Limited. Each ... Read More »

Description: Full-Size Pickup Truck Base MSRP Range: $32,570 – $45,060 Invoice Price Range: $28,896 – $39,887 Where built: USA Super-size Sequoia shares a structure with the Tundra truck forward of the cabin’s second pillars, yet the wagon differs in composition behind those pillars as it’s a vast space organized with three rows of seats for as many as eight passengers ... Read More »

Description: Full-Size Pickup Truck Base MSRP Range: $16,055 – $33,175 Invoice Price Range: $14,529 – $30,021 Where built: USA Toyota’s big trucks include the two-door Regular Cab and extended Access Cab plus a four-door Double Cab. Tundra Double Cab is bigger due to a wheelbase stretch plus inches added to the rear track and width and height. It comes with ... Read More »

Suzuki's front-wheel-drive (FWD) flagship sedan fits in the mid-size class and supports a spacious five-seat cabin loaded with features of convenience and luxury. Verona shows sleek exterior styling in the manner of premium European touring sedans with fog lamps in the bumper and twin-light halogen headlamps.

xB looks like a box on wheels as contemporary homage to a panel van but in slammed stance. Built on a platform used for the bB wagon sold strictly in Japan, this low-slung and boxy panel van resembles a cool California surfer's custom-crafted wagon.

This unusual Subaru crossover is part car, part truck and part SUV. It looks like both a car and truck -- the car up front and truck in back. Baja's front half comes from Outback and Legacy with a four-door cabin containing front buckets and a back bench.

With stylish exterior shapes and a comfortable cabin that accommodates five, mid-size Murano is a fun-to-drive wagon that looks like a SUV but behaves more like a sports car. It rides on the front-wheel-drive (FWD) chassis of a car. Pushing wheels to edges of the chassis brings stability to the stance and enhances Murano's agility when cornering.

Nissan's compact-class Frontier pops up in 2005 on a new boxed-rail platform that stretches the wheelbase and forges a bigger body. The new models mark a third generation of designs for Frontier, with sheetmetal that incorporates styling points from the larger Titan, such as angled struts in the grille, crimped overhangs fore and aft plus fender flares in bold geometric patterns.

Nissan's big truck stands high and stretches long, with a big box in back drawn out for six feet and seven inches. Power stems from the Endurance V8, Titan's all-aluminum engine displacing 5.6-liters and producing 305-hp plus truck-hauling torque.