When the frame and body are one piece, the car yields better handling and ride comfort. However, Americans also swoon over comfort and their wallets.Ĭrossovers solve this problem by trading in the body-on-top-of-frame design of SUVs for the uni-body construction of a car. They were seen as vehicles of adventure and exploration, two themes that Americans swoon over. SUVs were seen as a romantic vehicle for people who travelled to locations so exotic that a car just wouldn’t cut it. This goes back to the 1990s and 2000s when people began to love the look and size of SUVs, but disliked their inefficiency and harsh ride quality. What many people call SUVs are, in fact, crossovers. It’s basically a car that looks like an SUV. Manufacturers, journalists and advertisers all use the word however they want, so there’s bound to be some confusion.īased on our research, however, a crossover is a vehicle that has a frame and body in a single uni-body structure, has higher ground clearance than a car, and has some off-road capability. The word is still being defined by the marketplace. A crossover doesn’t have an established definition like “wheel” or “apple” or “dragon.” The trick is that there is no single authority that we can quote on this. We’ve been seeing crossover used in a lot of different ways so we thought that we’d define what exactly a crossover is. If you’ve been researching a car lately, you might have come across the term “crossover.” It’s used to describe types of vehicles just like fellow descriptors sedan, truck, coupe, van, convertible, etc.
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