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Honestly Land Cruiser whatever it will be a brand, sub-brand or model they always need to be stiff BOF SUV
Honestly Land Cruiser whatever it will be a brand, sub-brand or model they always need to be stiff BOF SUV
There's a lot of papers and documents that talks about stiffness of the ladder frame chassis in compare to the unibody frame
I would like to have a complete engineering report regarding unibody vs body-on-frame vs integrated body-on-frame vs whatever else, to know what is truly better for a car like Land Cruiser 200, without all the accounting and marketing bullsh*t. There are a lot of misconceptions, and off course for the Land Cruiser I want the best.
I think Mike Sweer said in an interview that unibody can certainly be engineered to achieve similar strength as a frame, at least for light-to-mid size pick-up trucks. But it would kill all the weight benefit due to the amount of strengthening required. The ride quality advantage will stay, but BOF trucks can be engineered to have a smooth ride as well.
The conclusion is like this: if the manufacturer doesn't have any BOF experience, then it's better to do strengthened unibody (aka Honda Ridgeline); if it has been making BOF for decades, then it's better to figure out how to improve ride quality. Either way works and the effort is similar, so there is no absolute answer to this. But for full-size trucks with a lot of payload rating, a frame is unbeatable (so at least Tundra will stay BOF).
The final name will be LF1.
LF-A —> LFA
Rolls-Royce Motors Cars PressClub said:One final feature brings Rolls-Royce’s ultimate level of luxury to this configuration of Cullinan, creating the first truly “three-box” SUV. Inspired by the age when one never travelled with one’s luggage, a glass partition isolates the passenger cabin from the luggage compartment, creating an inner ecosystem for the occupants. In addition to enhanced and class-leading silence within the cabin, a further benefit becomes clear in the hottest and coldest of environments. Thanks to the sealed cabin created by the glass partition wall, the occupants can remain in the optimum temperature even when the luggage compartment stands open.
Will the LF-1 be a 3-box 4 seat luxury grand touring crossover? It better be because that is exactly what I feel it should when looking at it and imagining its purpose.
The 2-box layout allows that extra versatility.
2 rows high performance SUV is growing rapidly
and honestly it doesn't means to be 3 rows
Lexus already have RX-L as 3 rows, plus at least one of either GX & LX if they even choose one of the 2 names to be the production version of it
Could be called LA (Luxury All-Purpose Vehicle), which it basically is: style of LC, luxury of LS, practicality of LX.
It seems that the right answer is "none of the above".I like that! :thumbsup:
Other possibilities along those lines are LM (Luxury Multipurpose) and LT (Luxury Touring).