A few thoughts:
- This is more of a change in nomenclature than a change in what they are producing. Most of the small crossover SUV's are really just a standard station wagon but it's still not cool to drive a station wagon, so they call the a crossover. I have a friend who bought a suburu SUV and it bottoms out just going into her driveway. She lives in a freaking subdivision and "SUV" can't get into the drive?
- SUV's are held to different standards in regard to CAFE fuel efficiency standards. They can give their customer what they want without having to jump thru as many hoops with the the feds.
- Ford still has their car lines in production for overseas markets so if the market changes and they need to sell cars in the USA, they can have them back in a heartbeat.
