Why not just build an SUV out of a pickup truck chassis?

There are many reasons why you don't directly use a pickup truck chassis to build an SUV, so let's briefly talk about some of them.

The first reason is that the chassis of the pickup truck is relatively high, and directly using the chassis of the pickup truck to build an SUV will make the center of gravity of the SUV vehicle high, and the safety hazards will be greater when driving the vehicle. We all know that in addition to being able to pull people, pickup trucks also have a practical function, that is, to pull goods, because many owners need to drive pickup trucks to transport goods in the field, in order to improve the passability of the vehicle, so its chassis is designed to be relatively high. However, because pickup trucks can carry a large amount of cargo, the center of gravity of the vehicle will be lowered, and the body will be more stable at high speeds.

Whether the SUV is a five-seater or a seven-seater, its load capacity is very limited, and it cannot reach the ability to lower the center of gravity, and the potential safety hazards are relatively large when driving Zhihui.

The second reason is that although the chassis of the pickup truck is very strong, its shock absorption ability is poor, and if it is used directly as an SUV chassis, it will reduce the driving experience of the vehicle and greatly affect the comfort of the vehicle. After all, pickup trucks are positioned as trucks, and many people buy pickup trucks to transport goods, so they have relatively high requirements for the hardness of the vehicle's site, and they don't care much about its shock absorption ability. The SUV is positioned as a bus, and the most local shock absorption capacity and comfort have higher requirements.

If you directly use the chassis of a pickup truck to build an SUV, it will be more bumpy to drive, and it will definitely not give people a good driving experience.

The three reasons for renting fierce socks are that many people give up sedans and choose SUVs, the main reason is that its interior space is larger and more spacious, and directly using the chassis of pickup trucks to build SUVs will compress its internal driving space, so that it has no obvious space advantage with sedans. In fact, many people think that the space of the sedan is too small, so they buy the SUV now, and because the chassis of the pickup truck is higher, it will greatly encroach on the driving space inside the SUV, and the car company can not reduce the SUV design as high as the minibus in order to obtain the driving space, so it can only learn from the chassis of the pickup truck and redesign the chassis of the SUV.

Because the chassis shock absorption effect of the pickup truck is not very good, the bottom only track disc is also very high, which is not very safe to open, and the stability performance is poor, which will affect the space inside the car, and the driving experience will also deteriorate.

Because the use of pickup truck chassis will make the center of gravity of the SUV vehicle high, which will make the car have potential safety hazards and affect the comfort of the car.

Because the pickup truck is solid, if the SUV is directly lowered, it is likely to be very bad, and it is difficult to manufacture.

<> "Why Are Pickup Trucks Restricted in China?"

Pickup truck is a noun transliterated from English pick-up, and this kind of car is also called a car truck. The name car can be as the name suggests, since the sedan is also a truck, that is, the kind of car that we can occasionally see or see in American movies and television that can carry goods in the front cab and behind.

First of all, let's talk about the characteristics of this type of pickup truck. The front and cab of the sedan used in the pickup truck with its open truck compartment give it an American freedom and wildness. The pickup truck itself has the comfort of a sedan while driving, and at the same time can maintain strong power, which adds a lot of points to it.

Being able to have a spacious cargo space is a major feature that pickup trucks can not ignore, which is compared to the sedan at the expense of the rear seat and get the space, is designed for not needing so much interior space and can pay attention to one or two people when driving can drive more things.

In addition, it has to be said that the structural characteristics of the pickup truck itself can also adapt to different adverse road conditions, so you don't have to worry about the goods or large components behind being bumped. As a result, pickup trucks are widely loved in many places and regions, and are not only sought after by many enthusiasts and modding enthusiasts.

So after talking about the pickup trucks themselves, let's take a look at why pickup trucks are restricted in China?

Dong Tang, executive vice president of China Automobile Association of China Automobile News, explained why it is difficult for pickup trucks to enter the city.

In fact, China's "Road Traffic Law" does not strictly prohibit pickup trucks from entering the city, but grants local traffic management departments the right to manage pickup trucks. Therefore, the transportation departments of various localities have the right not to allow trucks to enter the city.

In view of the difficulty of managing trucks, many cities, especially large cities, have directly banned trucks, including pickup trucks into the city. Among China's provincial capitals, only a few cities, Fuzhou, Lhasa, Xining, and Guangzhou, have a slight lax management of trucks, and other major cities are resisting trucks.

Many people ask why pickup trucks are restricted even when you can see trucks in your city. Trucks and trucks can naturally be strictly managed in accordance with their own corresponding management regulations, but pickup trucks can meet the cargo conditions while meeting personal use.

Many car enthusiasts do not use pickup trucks as trucks, but only as a fun personal travel tool, but at the same time, many people are convenient to use pickup trucks for cargo loading and transportation. This has caused the urban management of pickup trucks to be very difficult, and the unspeakable concealment of banning pickup trucks has increased in some cities like tricycles and motorcycles.

Pickup. The English name is "pickup truck", and there are also abbreviated as "pickup", but even if you look up the dictionary, I am afraid you will not find the true meaning of this word. Up to now, as people have begun to pursue the trend of leisure and entertainment, the modified pickup truck also has the same shape as the SUV, but it is still fundamentally different from the real SUV.

Specifically, the characteristics of the pickup modified SUV are:

One of the modifications was to convert the space that had been a rear cargo box into a rear seat. The original design of the chassis of the pickup truck was to sit in the front row, and the rear box was smiling and pulling goods. In order to strengthen and stabilize the bearing of the rear cargo compartment, the position of the chassis under the cargo compartment must be raised accordingly.

Therefore, the modified SUV using the pickup truck chassis has a rear seat that is more than ten centimeters higher than the driver's seat in front of the family, which is obviously different from the regular SUV. At the same time, in order to solve the problem of rear occupant headroom, the rear top space of these cars has to be increased accordingly, so such modified cars appear in a tall and bloated shape, which is extremely incongruous, and the comfort is naturally greatly reduced.

And with the current market orthodox SUV model - Mitsubishi Pajero.

The Sport model, for example, not only has a spacious interior, but the multifunctional front and rear seats can also be completely reversed, making it look like a comfortable bed that has been purpose-built. In addition, many of them are ergonomic.

design, such as cockpit, steering wheel.

Interior facilities such as seats and handles are also the best embodiment of the SUV's leisure and comfort characteristics.

Pickup trucks are indeed durable, and can go up the mountain, down the river, and run on bad roads, because of this, many common cars on the construction site are pickups, the rear body can decorate something, but also over the mountains and mountains, the cost is not high. In terms of pickup trucks, Great Wall Motors has done quite well, and both the Fengjun and the current guns occupy half of the sales volume. Since the chassis of a pickup truck is so durable and can conquer bad roads, is it not good to use it to build an SUV?

In fact, many hard-core off-road trucks are indeed transformed from pickup trucks, such as Haval H5, this car shares the chassis with Fengjun 5, and in off-road vehicles, Haval H5 is deeply loved by some consumers with its ultra-high price-performance ratio. This type of car is characterized by a non-load-bearing body, with girders, rear-wheel drive, most rear integral axles non-independent suspension, leaf springs, plus time-sharing four-wheel drive.

In addition to the Haval H5, the domestic car is built from the pickup truck chassis, and there are many other models, such as Yusheng S350, which is built from the Jiangling Yuhu 7 pickup, and the two cars share the chassis and share the front face. There is also Jiangxi Isuzu MU-X Ranger, the chassis is derived from Jiangxi Isuzu pickup D-MAX, the front face of these two cars adopts nesting doll mode, put together without looking at the back, it is estimated that you can't tell which is an SUV and which is a pickup.

Since the pickup truck chassis can also be used to create SUVs, why don't many manufacturers choose pickup truck chassis for SUVs? In fact, although the performance of the pickup truck chassis is not inferior to the ordinary SUV, and even more suitable for off-road than the ordinary SUV, but the pickup chassis is born for off-road and load, the biggest flaw is that the comfort is obviously insufficient, the pickup cargo compartment and the compartment are separated, the general rear seat is a little higher than the front driver's seat, and the comfort is far less than that of ordinary SUVs.

Ordinary SUVs are mainly used to drive on paved roads, the weight of the body is lighter than that of the hard off-road, and there are no girders, they are all load-bearing bodies, the rear suspension is generally multi-link, and they are all front-wheel drive vehicles, the ride comfort is better, and the fuel consumption is better than the hard off-road performance. In fact, the chassis of ordinary SUVs is based on the chassis of sedans.

With the lifting of the ban on pickup trucks and the development of pickup trucks, many passenger pickup trucks have now been derived, with spacious rear space and rich configurations, such as the Great Wall's cannon pickup, the ride comfort is also good, and there is one more option to buy a car for places that need a lottery. Perhaps in the future, with the lifting of the ban on pickup trucks, many people will choose pickup trucks as household cars in the future, which can run bad roads, take into account comfort performance, and can also pull goods, and people may face the dilemma of buying a hard-core off-road or buying a pickup truck.

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