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In our November 1992 cover report, we called sport-utility vehicles "upwardly mobile descendants of the cranky World War II Jeep." They accounted for one in 13 new vehicles sold in 1991. SUVs "were once the province of park rangers," we added, but "nowadays you're as likely to find business-suited executives navigating them through the canyons of Manhattan."

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