User:Fuzzyuno1939/sandbox

Automobiles, SUVs and light duty trucks were all built with a bodies on a full frame. At some point building automobiles with unibody construction became popular and cheaper. SUVs became popular but were expensive to build plus SUV gas mileage was not great. So manufacturers came up with the idea of putting SUV styled bodies on passenger car platforms. They filled a nitch in the market. Crossover is a term applied to SUVs built on a unibody platform like a passenger vehicle with a running gear designed more like a passenger vehicle. Crossovers can be 2 wheel drive, all wheel drive or front wheel drive. The advantage of a crossover is that they can be built cheaper than building a body on full frame as SUV's with full 4 wheel drive ability possess in addition to gettin better mileage because they are lighter. Thus the origin of the term "crossover".