Crossover is a marketing term for a vehicle that derives from a car platform Vehicle platform-sharing combined with advanced and flexible-manufacturing technology enables automakers to sharply reduce product development and changeover times, while modular design and assembly allow building a greater variety of vehicles from one basic set of engineered components. Many vendors refer to this as product or vehicle while borrowing features from a Sport Utility Vehicle A sport utility vehicle is a generic marketing term for a vehicle similar to a station wagon, but built on a light-truck chassis. Usually equipped with four-wheel drive for on or off-road ability, some SUVs include the towing capacity of a pickup truck with the passenger-carrying space of a minivan. Since SUVs are considered light trucks and often (SUV).
A crossover uses a car's monocoque Monocoque, from Greek for single and French for shell (coque), is a construction technique that supports structural load by using an object's external skin as opposed to using an internal frame or truss that is then covered with a non-load-bearing skin. Monocoque construction was first widely used in aircraft in the 1930s. Structural skin or/unibody platform construction while forgoing the body on frame Body-on-frame is an automobile construction technology. Mounting a separate body to a rigid frame which supports the drivetrain was the original method of building automobiles, and its use continues to this day. The original frames were made of wood , but steel ladder frames became common in the 1930s construction in use on most SUVs. The crossover combines, in highly variable degrees, the design features such as tall interior packaging, high H-point In vehicle design and especially automotive design, the H-point is the relative vertical location of an occupant's hip, specifically the pivot point between the torso and upper leg portions of the body, either relative to the floor of the vehicle or relative to the height above pavement level -- and pertinent to seating comfort, visibility from seating, high ground-clearance, or all-wheel-drive capability of the SUV—with design features from an automobile such as independent rear suspension Independent suspension is a broad term for any automobile suspension system that allows each wheel on the same axle to move vertically independently of each other. This is contrasted with a beam axle, live axle or deDion system in which the wheels are linked - movement on one side affects the wheel on the other side. Note that “independent”, car-like handling, interior roominess and fuel economy. Crossovers typically are designed for only light off-road capability, if any at all.[1]
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