Gadgetory

Monday isn't something interesting here with this Santa Cruz concept bringing in sort of equal parts of Subaru Brat Chevy Avalanche and transformers what they're looking at here is trying to blend the utility of something with a bed with the popularity of a crossover SUV and aim it at Millennials of course that's where your growth market is especially for a popularly priced vehicle line now what's interesting about the bed is that it's very short as you can see but it extends there's a drawer like apparatus that kind of gives it momentary extra length when you need to pick up something large but normally don't need even a midsize pickup truck inside of course you see the cab is a two row apparatus you've got a crew cab if you will and there are little stubby mini doors behind the main doors that are quite large those little side rear doors are actually rear hinged we used to call those suicide doors but car makers don't like that up in the very front we're looking at a 2-liter turbo diesel engine nothing too cutting-edge about that though it's not that common in the US but it seems like a very smart choice for a vehicle that could really benefit from that kind of torque but also that kind of small displacement efficiency now noting production about this they're putting this out as a feeler to see what the industry and of course the market thinks about it but they seem to have struck a very interesting note between crossover and pickup this probably won't make it to production but notice around the wheel arches in particular they've got anchor points where you can strap on various sorts of things that will hold your gear down seems like it would raise hell with the paint but we'll see