As America's current appetite for SUVs is seemingly insatiable (climbing from 900,000 sales in '91 to over 3 million by the close of '99), the competitive nature of this market segment is fiercer than ...

Think back more than a decade ago and try to remember the very first time you laid eyes on the then-brand-new '90 Ford Explorer. At the time, you may have thought, "Wow, that sure is a good-looking ...