"Your Detroit-bureau editors both live about 11 miles north of our lovely river-view offices, and in the dead of winter, while dodging various major freeway reconstruction projects, that's plenty far enough to learn what a vehicle is like to live after a few days of slogging back and forth. One recent week we just happened to have three fairly comparable crossover SUVs in our own parking garage, so we've staged a little commuter comparo. There was no lavish road trip, no exotic destination, no expense-reportable dining or carousing; we just sampled what each vehicle was like to live with over a two-week stay.The threesome included Ford's cool new Edge, GMC's Acadia, and the Suzuki XL7. Although our as-tested prices show a $13,465 price spread, it's possible to order an all-wheel-drive version of each priced within a couple monthly payments of $30,000, though that requires loading the 'Zuki to the gills, picking the topline Edge, with no options, and going with a bare-bones GMC (its Saturn Outlook sibling, which arrived to replace our GMC just days after this drive, starts out about $2000 less, providing identical performance, ride, and handling)."
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