Originally Posted by YoGeorge

They have to get weight off somehow. The article says that the bed and cab will still be separate and besides Jeep Cherokees and Grand Cherokees, this is reminiscent of GM full size vans before 1996, all Dodge full size vans, which were unibodies. These vans could be done as cutaways with stub frames on the back for attachment of different boxes and the like. Building the cab as a unibody would also allow better crash protection for driver and passengers; the cab and frame would be easier to design as a safety capsule kind of structure.

Conceptual drawings never give a good idea of how a vehicle is gonna look; they look far more like spaceships in artist's renderings.

One disappointment for me is that the redesigned unibody Explorer has reduced weight--with the actual reduction being about 100 lbs or something. Sure ain't much of a reduction.

Should be interesting,
George