The large SUV segment is one of the smallest in Europe with fewer than 53,000 sales in 2017, down 4%. Compare that to the US where almost 2 million of these vehicles were sold last year, up 9.4% and surpassing sales of midsized sedans for the first time.
Unlike the midsized crossover segment, where some models are also available as 7-seaters, there are not a lot of new entrants to this segment in Europe, but brands are actually withdrawing their slow selling models, like Nissan which no longer sells the Murano and Pathfinder and Mazda which never really sold the CX-9 in significant quantities, as opposed to the US. Then again, Ford entered the segment in 2016 by bringing the Edge over from the States.
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