Unibody vehicles like the Ford Maverick offer a lot of advantages over body-on-frame vehicles, with the big one being that they're safer. The way that a Honda Ridgeline or a Toyota Highlander ...

In the same year, Ford's unibody Maverick managed ... It's the pervasive type of car construction today. Honda was playing the ladder-frame word game, of course – the reference to a ladder ...

but rather to the design that served to strengthen the unibody. So lets deal with the ladder-frame elephant in the room. A traditional ladder frame truck features a tough metal frame that serves as ...

Car and Driver reports ... could come in the form of a unibody design. Scott says target customers in this market don't care whether the truck has a traditional frame or not, so long as it's ...

Crossovers were built on a car platform, called a unibody frame, while SUVs were constructed on what’s called a body-on-frame design used for pickup trucks. Today, crossover SUVs — also called ...

which was then followed by a unibody second generation. But unlike the rest of the pack, the third-gen Pathfinder swapped back to a body-on-frame architecture and it's stayed that way for the last ...

When it launched for model year 2001, the MDX was the first luxury-oriented three-row crossover—that is, built on a unibody architecture, rather than traditional body-on-frame construction.

is that unibody vehicles are regarded as being more expensive when it comes to body work. That is, when a ladder-frame truck suffers some body damage, it may be a matter of simply replacing the ...