AZCivic makes very reasonable points, but I think the CRV would be a better market success, mostly because it has already staked out a niche in the small suv-happy with 4 cyl crowd.

I thought one of the advantages of IMA is that it is relatively easy to tack on to just about anything ?

R2-E2, 2G Prius.
Highway/City/Husband/Wife MPG: 56.5, as of 12/2005, 26K miles

Jac Nasser, Ford President: "We are planning to launch a hybrid version of
this car [P2000] within this year [1998]. We will also make FCEV available in
2004."