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Old 02-25-2009, 02:14 AM
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Yep, sorry, well off topic.

Getting back to monocoque vs body-on-frame, aside from Land Rover with its Discovery 3 and Range Rover Sport, no-one has really put much development money into body-on-frame tech in recent years. And LR paid the price in weight trying to achieve a best of both worlds result, ie., monocoque stiffness with separate-chassis practicality. All the recent big-money development has been with monocoque and that's where things are going and have been for quite a while.
There's no real off-road benefit in terms of capability with separate chassis designs although they offer protection of vitals and general robustness. It's also somewhere to hang frontal protection, long range fuel tanks etc.
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