Gilbert Smith is an automotive journalist with over five years of specialized research and writing experience. Before joining CarBuzz in 2024, he produced in-depth buyer’s guides and feature articles ...

Consumer Reports has said some of the most satisfying pickup trucks to own have unibody construction, sometimes referred to as unitized or unit body. While unibody pickups may be satisfying, full ...

There are a relative few who can race an entire season without banging up their racecar. Those people are either so good they are sailing clear at the front against outmatched competition, or so bad ...

For most mass-market vehicles, there are two methods of construction: unibody and body-on-frame (there are also monocoque vehicles, but they're rarer and don't really apply here). These two distinct ...

Once common throughout the industry on a variety of vehicle types, this method of construction is now largely limited to pickups and SUVs. As the name suggests, these vehicles use two separate ...

Most new vehicles are either unibody or body-on-frame. Both of these are essentially ways of constructing a vehicle, and both have their distinct advantages. Unibody vehicles essentially have the ...