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Originally posted by flatfoot:

Most car companies take a good thing, and then try to civilize and womanize it, to hope for more sales.
Ironically, that's how some people feel about the 2nd Gen X. Though "womanize" isn't accurate in the X's case, they did abandon the original X concept. In keeping with a "family of vehicles" strategy, they made the X into a mini-Pathfinder. They only kept the stepped roof and tailgate hump as styling cues for marketing purposes.