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Old 09-21-2015, 02:27 PM   #14
Obababoy
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Originally Posted by Sid03SVT View Post
The body on frame love is coming from people that likely use trucks and SUV's as trucks and SUV's, not from people that use trucks and SUV's as passenger vehicles.
Now that is generalizing a bit...a pickup truck...Sure, body on frame all day. An SUV IS a passenger vehicle good for adventures. The Jeep Grand cherokee is a great example of a unibody design that performs excellent offroad and incredible on road. This new ford looks to be similar and would be a perfect candidate for the much improved unibody. There are systems out there like lateral load leveling and such that provide a very similar experience to having solid axles. The air/hydaulic systems are connected to all four wheels and if say left front needs to compress and right front needs to extend, the air/fluid will be free to move between each other providing great articulation without sway bars and the like restricting that...

Then when you want to handle well on road the suspension will close the system off providing individual response and lower body roll.. It is a win win. We just need companies to be innovative like Jeep to make it good on and off road like an SUV should be. If you want something you can put 36 inch tires on just stick with an old clunking body on frame vehicle.
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