Today someone referred to my wk as a crossover, and I was sort of offended. I have always thought it to be a truck, or an suv at the least. Isn't a cross over something between a van and an suv like the bmw x6? What do you guys think?
a crossover is a small suv on a car/sedan frame. What car shares the same frame as a grand cherokee?
My wife's patriot is a crossover. Shares it's frame with a mitsubishi lancer and dodge caliber.
Thats why they make trucks.....For one thing, lumber that is too long to go inside now has to go on the roof. With the flipper glass it could go in on an angle and wouldn't even have to be tied down. The "U" in utility.
Same thing out on the beach. Without any special rod racks, you can stick a long fishing rod in through the flipper when you want to run down the beach a bit. The "S" in sport.
The Jeep does still fulfil the requirements of "V" as it is a vehicle.
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So which car platform is the Grand Cherokee based off of? Has to be the ViperIt is a crossover by definition. It has a unibody structure instead of a body-on-frame. That is all that "crossover" means.
From Wiki:
A crossover (or CUV: crossover utility vehicle) is a vehicle built on a car platform and combining, in highly variable degrees, features of a sport utility vehicle (SUV) with features from a passenger vehicle, especially those of a station wagon or hatchback.
Using the unibody construction typical of passenger vehicles instead of the body-on-frame platform used in light trucks and the original SUVs, the crossover combines SUV design features such as tall interior packaging, high H-point seating, high center of gravity, high ground-clearance or all-wheel-drive capability — with design features from an automobile such as a passenger vehicle's platform, independent rear suspension, car-like handling and superior fuel economy.
They were always Unibody.... My camaro must be a crossover also.. Or is it a truck? It has a solid rear axle but its a unibody?? LolYep, there is no denying that the GC has changed and now combines more comforts of the car such as a unibody construction and independent suspension. The removal of the solid axle is when many think it became a CUV. By definition, the JGC is a crossover but not in the way that most think.
The JGC retained much of its off-road abilities which most CUVs don't have which is why many people refuse to see it as a CUV.
I agree 100%. I'm not sure why it is so important for people to see the Jeep as something besides a crossover. It is just a definition. The Jeep is still a Jeep and can still do the same things no matter what you call it.Well monocoque/unibody seems to be generally interchangeable rightly or wrongly, but the majority of people wouldn't consider a 2.5 tonne off roader as being a 'crossover' in comparison to vehicles marketed as crossovers, no matter how the Jeep is constructed.
So whilst the letter of the law says you're right, the spirit of the law; public perception, is that a Jeep GC isn't a crossover.
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Unibody - Definition
Monocoque (French for "single shell") or unibody