New Compact SUV To Replace Toyota's RAV4

The Toyota stand at the 2008 Geneva Auto Show gave a clear insight into company's model planning strategy for the near future  including this cute little SUV concept called the Urban Cruiser.
It's a design preview of a new model scheduled for European release in the first half of 2009; there on plans at present, however, to bring it to South Africa.
The Urban Cruiser will compete in the compact SUV market, a segment that has virtually doubled in size in Europe since 2002; it's aimed at satisfying consumer needs for an SUV-type vehicle with low fuel bills and low emissions.
It's the latest in a long line of Toyota compact SUVs, going back to the original RAV4 of 1994, and will fill the gap left when the three-door RAV4 was discontinued.
The Urban Cruiser has five doors but Toyota hopes its compact dimensions (3.93m long, 1.725m wide and 1.54m high), efficient packaging, practicality, and all-wheel drive transmission will endear it to buyers looking to replace the three-door RAV4.
The styling follows Toyota's Vibrant Clarity design philosophy, a design language based on the perfect imbalance of proportions, that it says gives the Urban Cruiser "an athletic stance on the road combined with urban sophistication.”