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Its an excellent question for an automotive analogy and if you accept that market pressure evolves cars similar to the process of biological evolution, then its interesting to contemplate various "family tree of car ancestors" while cars evolve into distinct and interesting niches, while at the same time there are no or very few chimera cars on the roads today that are an intermediate form between manufacturers and successful models.

Its actually very unusual in the car world, and I guess in evolution in general, for something like the SUV crossover to evolve where its basically SUV appearance on a car chassis, more or less. I think the closest biological analogy to a crossover SUV is a platypus. Although SUVs aren't nearly as cool as a platypus.




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