However,
none of those vehicles are on this list of Canada’s ten-best-selling SUVs/crossovers from calendar-year 2020. Sure, even in this illustrious company, there is plenty of evidence that 2020 was a rough year on the auto industry. Just about every industry experienced significant downturns in the first full year of the pandemic, and overall auto sales dropped 20 per cent,
despite marked recovery in the fourth quarter of the year.
Yet while sales of the rapidly-declining passenger-car market plunged 37 per cent in 2020, utility vehicles experienced a better-than-average drop of roughly 17 per cent. It’s not an easy pill to swallow, but every automaker knows it could have been much, much worse, were it not for summer and fall demand for utility vehicles.
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Nonetheless, the green credentials go to the Jeep. Its turbocharged 3.0-litre turbodiesel V6, scrubbed clean with diesel exhaust fluid, showed an impressive 7.7 L/100 kilometres for this highway portion of the drive not bad for a 2,206-kilogram truck with the aerodynamics of a tool shed. The less fuel burned, the less CO2 emitted, and that’s inarguable logic. Conversely, fire-breathing dragons spew gawd-knows-what into the atmosphere once they get going. And as a bonus, the Jeep’s surprising fleetness, thanks to a tsunami-like 442 pound-feet of torque from 1,400 rpm, would have the dragon raising an eyebrow. Or three.
Primitive Designs is owned and run by Ron Dacey and his partner, Rhonda Cook. Ron is a youthful-looking 69 years old, sporting long blond surfer-dude hair and the vibe of someone who has indeed spent the past 50 years or so of his life scouring the far reaches of the globe, building up relationships with artists, communities, and suppliers.