Defining the automotive experience for a digital world
Monocoque designs originated in aircraft construction, and they first appeared in the automotive industry in the 1920s, but body-on-frame continued to dominate for decades. Today, a modified type of monocoque construction, known as unibody, is dominant.
In simplest terms, a chassis is “everything but the body” in a vehicle that utilizes body-on-frame construction techniques, but it is a little more complex than that.
Body-on-frame construction has been around since before the automobile itself, and it isn’t going anywhere soon.
